Optimising sampling and analysis protocols in environmental DNA studies

Abstract Ecological surveys risk incurring false negative and false positive detections of the target species. With indirect survey methods, such as environmental DNA, such error can occur at two stages: sample collection and laboratory analysis. Here we analyse a large qPCR based eDNA data set usin...

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Main Authors: Andrew Buxton, Eleni Matechou, Jim Griffin, Alex Diana, Richard A. Griffiths
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Nature Publishing Group 2021-06-01
Series:Scientific Reports
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-021-91166-7