Environmental DNA analysis confirms extant populations of the cryptic Irwin’s turtle within its historical range
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Applications of Environmental DNA and RNA in Ecology
In the face of global change, greater knowledge of the planet's past and present ecosystems is more important than ever to manage biodiversity loss and set conservation priorities. A deeper understanding is also necessary to manage ecosystem services and prevent the spread of harmful pathogens worldwide. Fuelled by recent technological advances, DNA and RNA from environmental samples (eDNA/eRNA) are increasingly being used to help meet this need for knowledge. The application of eDNA/eRNA methods helps us evaluate community composition and answer various ecological questions.
The collection will consider manuscripts that use eDNA/eRNA approaches to:
● Analyse past and present biodiversity
● Monitor ecosystem health and dynamics
● Analyse diet and trophic interactions, along with other symbioses
● Detect endangered, rare or cryptic species
● Support SDG15: Life on Land and/or SDG14: Life Below Water
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Associate Professor Luke Jacobus
Luke Jacobus is an Associate Professor of Biology at Indiana University Purdue University Columbus. Luke investigates various topics in environmental science, especially those related to freshwater insects and ecological sustainability. Freshwater insects have proven valuable for the analysis of environmental change in space & time, the application of phylogenetic models to problems in environmental toxicology, and the development of new identification systems, such as DNA barcoding.
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Associate Professor Luisa Orsini
Dr Luisa Orsini is an Associate Professor in Biosystems and Environmental Change at the University of Birmingham, UK. She uses multidisciplinary science to understand evolutionary processes and mechanisms that enable freshwater communities to persist in the face of human impact. Orsini applies high throughput sequencing technologies (genomics, transcriptomic, metabolomics, environmental DNA) to sedimentary archives of inland waters, which have the unique advantage of preserving biological and environmental signals temporally.
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Associate Professor Cyprian Katongo
Dr Cyrpian Katongo is an Associate Professor at the University of Zambia. His research interests are in systematics, evolutionary biology, ecology, nutrition, breeding, conservation and sustainable resource management. Dr Katongo is currently undertaking a study of the fish diversity of the lower Zambezi escarpment using barcoding and eDNA methods.
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Biomonitoring via DNA metabarcoding and light microscopy of bee pollen in rainforest transformation landscapes of Sumatra
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The gut microbiome as an indicator of habitat disturbance in a Critically Endangered lemur
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Airborne environmental DNA metabarcoding detects more diversity, with less sampling effort, than a traditional plant community survey
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Using environmental DNA methods to improve detectability in an endangered sturgeon (Acipenser sinensis) monitoring program
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Seeing through sedimented waters: environmental DNA reduces the phantom diversity of sharks and rays in turbid marine habitats
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Diversity of dinoflagellate assemblages in coastal temperate and offshore tropical waters of Australia
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