Tracking abundance, diversity of fish in urban river (IMAGE)

Programme for the Human Environment, The Rockefeller University

Tracking abundance, diversity of fish in urban river

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Fish and wildlife leave environmental DNA traces in water by shedding skin cells, waste, or other biological traces. Thanks to advances in sequencing technology, researchers can now use these waterborne DNA traces to identify species and estimate their relative abundance, among other insights

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Mark Stoeckle / Jesse Ausubel

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