Applications of environmental DNA (eDNA) in ecology and conservation: opportunities, challenges and prospects

KC Beng, RT Corlett - Biodiversity and conservation, 2020 - Springer
Conserving biodiversity in the face of ever-increasing human pressure is hampered by our
lack of basic information on species occurrence, distribution, abundance, habitat …

Predicting the fate of eDNA in the environment and implications for studying biodiversity

JB Harrison, JM Sunday… - Proceedings of the …, 2019 - royalsocietypublishing.org
Environmental DNA (eDNA) applications are transforming the standard of characterizing
aquatic biodiversity via the presence, location and abundance of DNA collected from …

Freshwater environments as reservoirs of antibiotic resistant bacteria and their role in the dissemination of antibiotic resistance genes

CF Nnadozie, ON Odume - Environmental pollution, 2019 - Elsevier
Freshwater environments are susceptible to possible contamination by residual antibiotics
that are released through different sources, such as agricultural runoffs, sewage discharges …

Environmental DNA from seawater samples correlate with trawl catches of subarctic, deepwater fishes

PF Thomsen, PR Møller, EE Sigsgaard, SW Knudsen… - PloS one, 2016 - journals.plos.org
Remote polar and deepwater fish faunas are under pressure from ongoing climate change
and increasing fishing effort. However, these fish communities are difficult to monitor for …

Concentrations of environmental DNA (eDNA) reflect spawning salmon abundance at fine spatial and temporal scales

MD Tillotson, RP Kelly, JJ Duda, M Hoy, J Kralj… - Biological …, 2018 - Elsevier
Develo** fast, cost-effective assessments of wild animal abundance is an important goal
for many researchers, and environmental DNA (eDNA) holds much promise for this purpose …

Controls on eDNA movement in streams: Transport, retention, and resuspension

AJ Shogren, JL Tank, E Andruszkiewicz, B Olds… - Scientific reports, 2017 - nature.com
Advances in detection of genetic material from species in aquatic ecosystems, including
environmental DNA (eDNA), have improved species monitoring and management. eDNA …

Microplastic deposition velocity in streams follows patterns for naturally occurring allochthonous particles

TJ Hoellein, AJ Shogren, JL Tank, P Risteca, JJ Kelly - Scientific reports, 2019 - nature.com
Accumulation of plastic litter is accelerating worldwide. Rivers are a source of microplastic
(ie, particles< 5 mm) to oceans, but few measurements of microplastic retention in rivers …

Acidity promotes degradation of multi-species environmental DNA in lotic mesocosms

M Seymour, I Durance, BJ Cosby… - Communications …, 2018 - nature.com
Accurate quantification of biodiversity is fundamental to understanding ecosystem function
and for environmental assessment. Molecular methods using environmental DNA (eDNA) …

Can we manage fisheries with the inherent uncertainty from eDNA?

CL Jerde - Journal of fish biology, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Environmental (e) DNA, as a general approach in aquatic systems, seeks to connect the
presence of species' genetic material in the water and hence to infer the species' physical …

Environmental DNA and environmental RNA: Current and prospective applications for biological monitoring

HD Veilleux, MD Misutka, CN Glover - Science of the Total Environment, 2021 - Elsevier
Traditional environmental biomonitoring approaches have limitations in terms of species
detectability and their capacity to account for spatial and temporal variation. Furthermore, as …