Environmental DNA as a Tool for the Management and Conservation of Natural Resources
A special issue of Animals (ISSN 2076-2615). This special issue belongs to the section "Ecology and Conservation".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 15 August 2024 | Viewed by 812
Special Issue Editors
Interests: population genetics; conservation genetics; endangered species; phylogenetics
Interests: eDNA; marine conservation; cetaceans; elasmobranchii
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Over the past two decades, it has become increasingly clear that environmental DNA (eDNA) studies are of growing utility in providing knowledge about species distributions and community ecology. The combination of its high efficiency and sensitivity, coupled with the advantages of non-destructive sampling, makes eDNA an ideal tool for monitoring species composition and distribution in near real time. Obtaining information of species, populations, and communities by retrieving DNA from environmental samples appears to be a promising tool in the current scenario of biodiversity loss and altered ecosystem functions due to global change and anthropogenic activities.
This Special Issue will provide a collection of articles that display how eDNA analysis can allow us to probe species composition, reveal biodiversity trends, detect endangered or invasive species, detect and evaluate species of commercial interest, and ultimately improve our understanding of ecosystem-level processes. We will mainly focus on eDNA from macroorganisms (animals, plants, and fungi), as they are the key targets in conservation.
As Guest Editors of this Special Issue, we, Trinidad Pérez, Laura Miralles, and Sara Fernández, invite you to submit research and review articles that focus on the use of environmental DNA as a tool for the monitoring and conservation of macroorganisms. Research areas may include (but are not limited to) the following:
Biodiversity, surveillance, monitoring, bioassessment, metabarcoding, macroorganisms, invasive species, endangered species, and commercial interest species.
Prof. Dr. Trinidad Pérez
Dr. Laura Miralles
Dr. Sara Fernández
Guest Editors
Manuscript Submission Information
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Keywords
- biodiversity
- surveillance
- monitoring
- bioassessment
- metabarcoding
- macroorganisms
- invasive species
- endangered species
- commercial interest species