Megan Shaffer

The paper uses eDNA metabarcoding and generalized additive models to model cetacean distribution along the Washington coast, finding spatial patterns consistent with historical records.

The paper combines qPCR and metabarcoding to estimate eDNA quantities for multiple fish species, creating spatial maps that align with known ecological niches and identify biodiversity hotspots.

The paper tracks the decay of multiple environmental nucleic acid components from a cetacean in seawater, finding distinct degradation rates and suggesting their use as a molecular clock for eNA age estimation.

The paper estimates organism abundance from eDNA metabarcoding data by analyzing haplotype frequency deviations within samples.