Environmental DNA (eDNA) research holds great promise for improving biodiversity science
and conservation efforts by enabling worldwide species censuses in near real-time. Current …

Groundwater is an essential source of freshwater that supports surface ecosystems as well
as organisms adapted to living underground. The impacts of anthropogenic climate change …

The need for widespread occurrence data to inform species conservation has prompted
interest in large, national‐scale environmental DNA (eDNA) monitoring strategies. However …

Diet analysis is a vital tool for understanding trophic interactions and is frequently used to
inform conservation and management. Molecular approaches can identify diet items that are …

Many studies have shown that environmental DNA (eDNA) sampling can be more sensitive
than traditional sampling. For instance, past studies found a specific qPCR probe of a water …

Frequently occurring jellyfish blooms have severe impacts on the socioeconomics of coastal
areas, which stress the importance of early detection and assessments of blooming jellyfish …

Zooplankton and ichthyoplankton community assessments depend on species diagnostics,
yet morphological identifications are time-consuming, require taxonomic expertise, and are …

Currently, common fecal source identification methods in water environments are based on
the detection of host-specific gene markers, such as 16S rRNA gene fractions of …

The management of biodiversity on arid landscapes can be challenging: Arid landscapes
are often highly vulnerable to environmental and land-use changes. Moreover, these …

As the largest lake in South China, Wanlv Lake is also an important drinking water source for
Guangdong and Hong Kong and is responsible for water supplying of more than 40 million …