Monitoring fish communities through environmental DNA metabarcoding in the fish pass system of the second largest hydropower plant in the world
G. Dal Pont, C. D. Ritter, A. Olivotto Agostinis, P. Valeska Stika, A. Horodesky, N. Cozer, E. Balsanelli, O. S. Mader Netto, C. Henn, A. Ostrensky, M. R. Pie
The paper evaluates environmental DNA metabarcoding for monitoring fish communities around a hydropower dam and finds it effective despite challenges in reference databases.
bioRxiv · Aug 17, 2021Ecology