• Influence of preservation methods, sample medium and sampling time on eDNA recovery in a neotropical river 

      Sales, Naiara Guimaraes; Wangensteen Fuentes, Owen Simon; Carvalho, Daniel C.; Mariani, Stefano (Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2019-05-31)
      Environmental DNA (eDNA) has rapidly emerged as a promising biodiversity monitoring technique, proving to be a sensitive and cost‐effective method for species detection. Despite the increasing popularity of eDNA, several questions regarding its limitations remain to be addressed. We investigated the effect of sampling medium and time, and preservation methods, on fish detection performance based on ...
    • Space-time dynamics in monitoring neotropical fish communities using eDNA metabarcoding 

      Sales, Naiara Guimaraes; Wangensteen Fuentes, Owen Simon; Carvalho, Daniel C.; Deiner, Kristy; Præbel, Kim; Coscia, Ilaria; McDevitt, Allan D; Mariani, Stefano (Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2021-09-01)
      The biodiverse Neotropical ecoregion remains insufficiently assessed, poorly managed, and threatened by unregulated human activities. Novel, rapid and cost-effective DNA-based approaches are valuable to improve understanding of the biological communities and for biomonitoring in remote areas. Here, we evaluate the potential of environmental DNA (eDNA) metabarcoding for assessing the structure and ...