Quantifying relative fish abundance with eDNA: a promising tool for fisheries management

Journal of Applied Ecology

Volumn 53, Issue 4, 2016, Pages 1148-1157

  Lacoursière Roussel, Anaïs ^a   Côté, Guillaume ^a   Leclerc, Véronique ^b   Bernatchez, Louis ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ LAVAL   (Canada)

^b Direction des Territoires Fauniques Structures et de la Gestion Integree des Ressources   (Canada)

Author keywords

conservation genetics; gillnetting; monitoring; quantitative PCR; salmonid; species specific detection; water sampling

Indexed keywords

ABUNDANCE; BIOMASS; CATCH PER UNIT EFFORT; CONSERVATION GENETICS; DISSOLVED OXYGEN; DNA; FISHERY MANAGEMENT; GILLNET; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SALMONID; SAMPLING; SPATIAL VARIATION; STRATIFICATION;

SALMONIDAE; SALVELINUS NAMAYCUSH;

EID: 84957837907     PISSN: 00218901     EISSN: 13652664     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/1365-2664.12598     Document Type: Article

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