Predicting provenance of forensic soil samples: soil DNA predicts habitat and environmental properties
C. Flojgaard, T. G. Froslev, A. K. Brunbjerg, H. H. Bruun, J. Moeslund, A. J. Hansen, R. Ejrnaes
The paper uses soil eDNA to predict environmental conditions, habitat types, and geographic regions, showing high accuracy for some variables but limitations in others.
bioRxiv · Aug 13, 2018Ecology