Environmental DNA metabarcoding: Transforming how we survey animal and plant communities

K Deiner, HM Bik, E Mächler, M Seymour… - Molecular …, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
The genomic revolution has fundamentally changed how we survey biodiversity on earth.
High‐throughput sequencing (“HTS”) platforms now enable the rapid sequencing of DNA …

Critical considerations for the application of environmental DNA methods to detect aquatic species

CS Goldberg, CR Turner, K Deiner… - Methods in ecology …, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
Species detection using environmental DNA (eDNA) has tremendous potential for
contributing to the understanding of the ecology and conservation of aquatic species …

Environmental DNA shedding and decay rates from diverse animal forms and thermal regimes

E Andruszkiewicz Allan, WG Zhang… - Environmental …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Environmental DNA (eDNA) analysis from water samples is a promising new method to
identify both targeted species and whole communities of aquatic organisms. However, the …

Next‐generation monitoring of aquatic biodiversity using environmental DNA metabarcoding

A Valentini, P Taberlet, C Miaud, R Civade… - Molecular …, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
Global biodiversity in freshwater and the oceans is declining at high rates. Reliable tools for
assessing and monitoring aquatic biodiversity, especially for rare and secretive species, are …

The ecology of environmental DNA and implications for conservation genetics

MA Barnes, CR Turner - Conservation genetics, 2016 - Springer
Environmental DNA (eDNA) refers to the genetic material that can be extracted from bulk
environmental samples such as soil, water, and even air. The rapidly expanding study of …

[HTML][HTML] Environmental DNA–An emerging tool in conservation for monitoring past and present biodiversity

PF Thomsen, E Willerslev - Biological conservation, 2015 - Elsevier
The continuous decline in Earth's biodiversity represents a major crisis and challenge for the
21st century, and there is international political agreement to slow down or halt this decline …

Uses and misuses of environmental DNA in biodiversity science and conservation

ME Cristescu, PDN Hebert - Annual Review of Ecology …, 2018 - annualreviews.org
The study of environmental DNA (eDNA) has the potential to revolutionize biodiversity
science and conservation action by enabling the census of species on a global scale in near …

Replication levels, false presences and the estimation of the presence/absence from eDNA metabarcoding data

GF Ficetola, J Pansu, A Bonin… - Molecular ecology …, 2015 - Wiley Online Library
Environmental DNA (eDNA) metabarcoding is increasingly used to study the present and
past biodiversity. eDNA analyses often rely on amplification of very small quantities or …

Using eDNA to develop a national citizen science-based monitoring programme for the great crested newt (Triturus cristatus)

J Biggs, N Ewald, A Valentini, C Gaboriaud… - Biological …, 2015 - Elsevier
The use of environmental DNA (eDNA) is rapidly emerging as a potentially valuable survey
technique for rare or hard to survey freshwater organisms. For the great crested newt …

[HTML][HTML] Fish environmental DNA is more concentrated in aquatic sediments than surface water

CR Turner, KL Uy, RC Everhart - Biological Conservation, 2015 - Elsevier
Genetic identification of aqueous environmental DNA (eDNA) provides site occupancy
inferences for rare aquatic macrofauna that are often easier to obtain than direct …