Conservation in a cup of water: Estimating biodiversity and population abundance from environmental DNA

Molecular Ecology

Volumn 21, Issue 11, 2012, Pages 2555-2558

  Lodge, David M ^a   Turner, Cameron R ^a   Jerde, Christopher L ^a   Barnes, Matthew A ^a   Chadderton, Lindsay ^b   Egan, Scott P ^a   Feder, Jeffrey L ^a   Mahon, Andrew R ^a,c   Pfrender, Michael E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NOTRE DAME   (United States)

^b THE NATURE CONSERVANCY   (United States)

^c CENTRAL MICHIGAN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

biodiversity assessment; biosecurity; eDNA; invasive species; natural resource management; pyrosequencing; qPCR

Indexed keywords

DNA;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; ENDANGERED SPECIES; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; METHODOLOGY;

ANIMALS; DNA; ENDANGERED SPECIES; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING;

AMPHIBIA; INVERTEBRATA; MAMMALIA;

EID: 84861537650     PISSN: 09621083     EISSN: 1365294X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-294X.2012.05600.x     Document Type: Article

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