• Fishing for mammals: Landscape‐level monitoring of terrestrial and semi‐aquatic communities using eDNA from riverine systems 

      Sales, Naiara Guimaraes; McKenzie, Maisie B.; Drake, Joseph; Harper, Lynsey R.; Browett, Samuel S.; Coscia, Ilaria; Wangensteen Fuentes, Owen Simon; Baillie, Charles; Bryce, Emma; Dawson, Deborah A.; Ochu, Erinma; Hänfling, Bernd; Lawson Handley, Lori; Mariani, Stefano; Lambin, Xavier; Sutherland, Christopher; McDevitt, Allan D (Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2020-03-10)
      1: Environmental DNA (eDNA) metabarcoding has revolutionized biomonitoring in both marine and freshwater ecosystems. However, for semi‐aquatic and terrestrial animals, the application of this technique remains relatively untested.<p> <p>2: We first assess the efficiency of eDNA metabarcoding in detecting semi‐aquatic and terrestrial mammals in natural lotic ecosystems in the UK by comparing ...
    • Resource competition drives an invasion-replacement event among shrew species on an island 

      Browett, Samuel S.; Synnott, Rebecca; O'Meara, Denise B.; Antwis, Rachael E.; Browett, Stephen S.; Bown, Kevin J.; Wangensteen, Owen S.; Dawson, Deborah A.; Searle, Jeremy B.; Yearsley, Jon M.; McDevitt, Allan D. (Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2023-01-08)
      Invasive mammals are responsible for the majority of native species extinctions on islands. While most of these extinction events will be due to novel interactions between species (e.g. exotic predators and naive prey), it is more unusual to find incidences where a newly invasive species causes the decline/extinction of a native species on an island when they normally coexist elsewhere in their ...