ArticleProceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America2024
Combining environmental DNA and visual surveys can inform conservation planning for coral reefs.
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- Surveying Biodiverse Coral Reef Ecosystems Across the Tree of Life With Environmental DNA.Molecular ecology resources · 2026Article
- Using Community Science and eDNA to Inform a State-Designed Marine Protected Area Monitoring Program: A Case Study from Malibu, California.bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology · 2026Article
- From environmental DNA into actionable biodiversity data: Towards the implementation of the Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework.The Journal of heredity · 2026Review
- Integrating active and passive environmental DNA sampling into coral reef monitoring: implications for community-based stewardship in Hawai i.Research square · 2026Article
- Environmental DNA reveals hidden eukaryotic diversity and fine-scale community patterns across seascape areas in the Northern Red Sea.Scientific reports · 2026Article
- Shifts in Small Fish Community Caused by Coral Cover Variation at a Remote Reef in the South China Sea.Ecology and evolution · 2026Article
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- eDNA surveys substantially expand known geographic and ecological niche boundaries of marine fishes.PLoS biology · 2025Article
- Gaps and Data Ambiguities in DNA Reference Libraries: A Limiting Factor for Molecular-Based Biodiversity Assessments Using Annelids as a Case Study.Ecology and evolution · 2025Article
- Combining environmental DNA and visual surveys can inform conservation planning for coral reefs.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2024Article
- Progress and promise for science in Indonesia.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2024Article
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Abstract
Environmental DNA (eDNA) metabarcoding has the potential to revolutionize conservation planning by providing spatially and taxonomically comprehensive data on biodiversity and ecosystem conditions, but its utility to inform the design of protected areas remains untested. Here, we quantify whether and how identifying conservation priority areas within coral reef ecosystems differs when biodiversity information is collected via eDNA analyses or traditional visual census records. We focus on 147 coral reefs in Indonesia's hyper-diverse Wallacea region and show large discrepancies in the allocation and spatial design of conservation priority areas when coral reef species were surveyed with underwater visual techniques (fishes, corals, and algae) or eDNA metabarcoding (eukaryotes and metazoans). Specifically, incidental protection occurred for 55% of eDNA species when targets were set for species detected by visual surveys and 71% vice versa. This finding is supported by generally low overlap in detection between visual census and eDNA methods at species level, with more overlap at higher taxonomic ranks. Incomplete taxonomic reference databases for the highly diverse Wallacea reefs, and the complementary detection of species by the two methods, underscore the current need to combine different biodiversity data sources to maximize species representation in conservation planning.
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