Next Thursday 22 February 2024 12:00 am on the Seminar Room - SS6 (Institutes building floor -1), Prof Dr Sofie Derycke (Flanders research institute for agriculture, fisheries and food (Belgium)) will give a Seminar on "Automatic monitoring of biodiversity in the North Sea using eDNA"
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Automatic monitoring of biodiversity in the North Sea using eDNA
WHO?: Prof Dr Sofie Derycke
Flanders research institute for agriculture, fisheries and food (Belgium)
LANGUAGE?: English
WHEN?: Thursday 22/02/2024 - 12:00 am.
WHERE?: Seminar Room - SS6 (Institutes building floor -1)
ABSTRACT:
Environmental DNA (eDNA) metabarcoding is a powerful tool to capture spatial patterns in fish and invertebrate communities, even at small spatial scales. When analysed at three consecutive time points with roughly six months interval, eDNA metabarcoding consistently detected more fish species and had a finer spatiotemporal resolution than beam trawl data. However, many epibenthos species found in the beam trawl were not recovered with eDNA, indicating that further improvement in the methodology is needed. This study opens important perspectives for autonomous monitoring of marine biodiversity with zero impact on the habitat or its organisms.
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