Environmental DNA (eDNA) for monitoring marine mammals: Challenges and opportunities
9 pages, 1 figure, 1 table.-- This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY) Monitoring marine mammal populations is essential to permit assessment of population status as required by both national and international legislation. Traditi...
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ftcsic:oai:digital.csic.es:10261/282283 2024-02-11T10:05:43+01:00 Environmental DNA (eDNA) for monitoring marine mammals: Challenges and opportunities Suárez-Bregua, Paula Álvarez González, Miguel Parsons, Kim M. Rotllant, Josep Pierce, Graham J. Saavedra, Camilo Ministerio de Transición Ecológica (España) 2022 http://hdl.handle.net/10261/282283 https://doi.org/10.3389/fmars.2022.987774 en eng Frontiers Media Publisher's version https://doi.org/10.3389/fmars.2022.987774 Sí Frontiers in Marine Science 9: 987774 (2022) 2296-7745 http://hdl.handle.net/10261/282283 doi:10.3389/fmars.2022.987774 open Environmental DNA eDNA Marine mammals Monitoring Assessment Conservation artículo 2022 ftcsic https://doi.org/10.3389/fmars.2022.987774 2024-01-16T11:30:36Z 9 pages, 1 figure, 1 table.-- This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY) Monitoring marine mammal populations is essential to permit assessment of population status as required by both national and international legislation. Traditional monitoring methods often rely on visual and/or acoustic detections from vessels and aircraft, but limitations including cost, errors in the detection of some species and dependence on taxonomic expertise, as well as good weather and visibility conditions often limit the temporal and spatial scale of effective, long-term monitoring programs. In recent years, environmental DNA (eDNA) has emerged as a revolutionary tool for cost-effective, sensitive, non-invasive species monitoring in both terrestrial and aquatic realms. eDNA is a rapidly developing field and a growing number of studies have successfully implemented this approach for the detection and identification of marine mammals. Here, we review 21 studies published between 2012 and 2021 that employed eDNA for marine mammal monitoring including single species detection, biodiversity assessment and genetic characterization. eDNA has successfully been used to infer species presence (especially useful for rare, elusive or threatened species) and to characterize the population genetic structure, although additional research is needed to support the interpretation of non-detections. Finally, we discuss the challenges and the opportunities that eDNA could bring to marine mammal monitoring as a complementary tool to support visual and acoustic methods This work was supported by the Biodiversity Foundation project (NuTEC - BM2019/40) and Spanish Ministry for the Ecological Transition and the Demographic challenge, (MITECO) through the Commission [28-5307] for “Technical Scientific Advice for the Protection of the Marine Environment: Assessment and Monitoring of Marine Strategies, Monitoring of Marine Protected Areas of State Competence (2018-2021)”. PS-B was ... Article in Journal/Newspaper Marine Mammal Monitoring Digital.CSIC (Spanish National Research Council) Frontiers in Marine Science 9 |
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9 pages, 1 figure, 1 table.-- This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY) Monitoring marine mammal populations is essential to permit assessment of population status as required by both national and international legislation. Traditional monitoring methods often rely on visual and/or acoustic detections from vessels and aircraft, but limitations including cost, errors in the detection of some species and dependence on taxonomic expertise, as well as good weather and visibility conditions often limit the temporal and spatial scale of effective, long-term monitoring programs. In recent years, environmental DNA (eDNA) has emerged as a revolutionary tool for cost-effective, sensitive, non-invasive species monitoring in both terrestrial and aquatic realms. eDNA is a rapidly developing field and a growing number of studies have successfully implemented this approach for the detection and identification of marine mammals. Here, we review 21 studies published between 2012 and 2021 that employed eDNA for marine mammal monitoring including single species detection, biodiversity assessment and genetic characterization. eDNA has successfully been used to infer species presence (especially useful for rare, elusive or threatened species) and to characterize the population genetic structure, although additional research is needed to support the interpretation of non-detections. Finally, we discuss the challenges and the opportunities that eDNA could bring to marine mammal monitoring as a complementary tool to support visual and acoustic methods This work was supported by the Biodiversity Foundation project (NuTEC - BM2019/40) and Spanish Ministry for the Ecological Transition and the Demographic challenge, (MITECO) through the Commission [28-5307] for “Technical Scientific Advice for the Protection of the Marine Environment: Assessment and Monitoring of Marine Strategies, Monitoring of Marine Protected Areas of State Competence (2018-2021)”. PS-B was ... |
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Environmental DNA (eDNA) for monitoring marine mammals: Challenges and opportunities |
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Environmental DNA (eDNA) for monitoring marine mammals: Challenges and opportunities |
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