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Airborne environmental DNA for terrestrial vertebrate community monitoring
Biodiversity monitoring at the community scale is a critical element of assessing and studying species distributions, ecology, diversity, and movements, and it is key to understanding and tracking environmental and anthropogenic effects on natural ecosystems.1, 2, 3, 4 Vertebrates in terrestrial eco...
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2022
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8837273/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34995490 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.cub.2021.12.014 |
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author | Lynggaard, Christina Bertelsen, Mads Frost Jensen, Casper V. Johnson, Matthew S. Frøslev, Tobias Guldberg Olsen, Morten Tange Bohmann, Kristine |
author_facet | Lynggaard, Christina Bertelsen, Mads Frost Jensen, Casper V. Johnson, Matthew S. Frøslev, Tobias Guldberg Olsen, Morten Tange Bohmann, Kristine |
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description | Biodiversity monitoring at the community scale is a critical element of assessing and studying species distributions, ecology, diversity, and movements, and it is key to understanding and tracking environmental and anthropogenic effects on natural ecosystems.1, 2, 3, 4 Vertebrates in terrestrial ecosystems are experiencing extinctions and declines in both population numbers and sizes due to increasing threats from human activities and environmental change.5, 6, 7, 8 Terrestrial vertebrate monitoring using existing methods is generally costly and laborious, and although environmental DNA (eDNA) is becoming the tool of choice to assess biodiversity, few sample types effectively capture terrestrial vertebrate diversity. We hypothesized that eDNA captured from air could allow straightforward collection and characterization of terrestrial vertebrate communities. We filtered air at three localities in the Copenhagen Zoo: a stable, outside between the outdoor enclosures, and in the Rainforest House. Through metabarcoding of airborne eDNA, we detected 49 vertebrate species spanning 26 orders and 37 families: 30 mammal, 13 bird, 4 fish, 1 amphibian, and 1 reptile species. These spanned animals kept at the zoo, species occurring in the zoo surroundings, and species used as feed in the zoo. The detected species comprise a range of taxonomic orders and families, sizes, behaviors, and abundances. We found shorter distance to the air sampling device and higher animal biomass to increase the probability of detection. We hereby show that airborne eDNA can offer a fundamentally new way of studying and monitoring terrestrial communities. |
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spelling | pubmed-88372732022-02-14 Airborne environmental DNA for terrestrial vertebrate community monitoring Lynggaard, Christina Bertelsen, Mads Frost Jensen, Casper V. Johnson, Matthew S. Frøslev, Tobias Guldberg Olsen, Morten Tange Bohmann, Kristine Curr Biol Report Biodiversity monitoring at the community scale is a critical element of assessing and studying species distributions, ecology, diversity, and movements, and it is key to understanding and tracking environmental and anthropogenic effects on natural ecosystems.1, 2, 3, 4 Vertebrates in terrestrial ecosystems are experiencing extinctions and declines in both population numbers and sizes due to increasing threats from human activities and environmental change.5, 6, 7, 8 Terrestrial vertebrate monitoring using existing methods is generally costly and laborious, and although environmental DNA (eDNA) is becoming the tool of choice to assess biodiversity, few sample types effectively capture terrestrial vertebrate diversity. We hypothesized that eDNA captured from air could allow straightforward collection and characterization of terrestrial vertebrate communities. We filtered air at three localities in the Copenhagen Zoo: a stable, outside between the outdoor enclosures, and in the Rainforest House. Through metabarcoding of airborne eDNA, we detected 49 vertebrate species spanning 26 orders and 37 families: 30 mammal, 13 bird, 4 fish, 1 amphibian, and 1 reptile species. These spanned animals kept at the zoo, species occurring in the zoo surroundings, and species used as feed in the zoo. The detected species comprise a range of taxonomic orders and families, sizes, behaviors, and abundances. We found shorter distance to the air sampling device and higher animal biomass to increase the probability of detection. We hereby show that airborne eDNA can offer a fundamentally new way of studying and monitoring terrestrial communities. Cell Press 2022-02-07 /pmc/articles/PMC8837273/ /pubmed/34995490 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.cub.2021.12.014 Text en © 2021 The Author(s) https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/This is an open access article under the CC BY-NC-ND license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/). |
spellingShingle | Report Lynggaard, Christina Bertelsen, Mads Frost Jensen, Casper V. Johnson, Matthew S. Frøslev, Tobias Guldberg Olsen, Morten Tange Bohmann, Kristine Airborne environmental DNA for terrestrial vertebrate community monitoring |
title | Airborne environmental DNA for terrestrial vertebrate community monitoring |
title_full | Airborne environmental DNA for terrestrial vertebrate community monitoring |
title_fullStr | Airborne environmental DNA for terrestrial vertebrate community monitoring |
title_full_unstemmed | Airborne environmental DNA for terrestrial vertebrate community monitoring |
title_short | Airborne environmental DNA for terrestrial vertebrate community monitoring |
title_sort | airborne environmental dna for terrestrial vertebrate community monitoring |
topic | Report |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8837273/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34995490 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.cub.2021.12.014 |
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