ArticleJournal of fish biology2021
At Palmyra Atoll, the fish-community environmental DNA signal changes across habitats but not with tides.
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- Spatial Complexity and Rare-Taxon Turnover Structures Benthic Coral Reef eDNA Communities.Molecular ecology · 2026Article
- Navigating uncertainty in environmental DNA detection of a nuisance marine macroalga.PloS one · 2025Article
- Environmental DNA recovers fish composition turnover of the coral reefs of West Indian Ocean islands.Ecology and evolution · 2024Article
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- Effects of forest cover on richness of threatened fish species in Japan.Conservation biology : the journal of the Society for Conservation Biology · 2022Article
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- Environmental DNA from Marine Waters and Substrates: Protocols for Sampling and eDNA Extraction.Methods in molecular biology (Clifton, N.J.) · 2022Article
- What do you mean by false positive.Environmental DNA (Hoboken, N.J.) · 2020Article
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Abstract
At Palmyra Atoll, the environmental DNA (eDNA) signal on tidal sand flats was associated with fish biomass density and captured 98%-100% of the expected species diversity there. Although eDNA spilled over across habitats, species associated with reef habitat contributed more eDNA to reef sites than to sand-flat sites, and species associated with sand-flat habitat contributed more eDNA to sand-flat sites than to reef sites. Tides did not disrupt the sand-flat habitat signal. At least 25 samples give a coverage >97.5% at this diverse, tropical, marine system.
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