Outputs (18)

Coupling remote sensing and eDNA to monitor environmental impact: A pilot to quantify the environmental benefits of sustainable agriculture in the Brazilian Amazon (2024)
Journal Article
Dyson, K., Nicolau, A. P., Tenneson, K., Francesconi, W., Daniels, A., Andrich, G., …Saah, D. (in press). Coupling remote sensing and eDNA to monitor environmental impact: A pilot to quantify the environmental benefits of sustainable agriculture in the Brazilian Amazon. PloS one, 19(2), e0289437. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0289437

Monitoring is essential to ensure that environmental goals are being achieved, including those of sustainable agriculture. Growing interest in environmental monitoring provides an opportunity to improve monitoring practices. Approaches that directly... Read More about Coupling remote sensing and eDNA to monitor environmental impact: A pilot to quantify the environmental benefits of sustainable agriculture in the Brazilian Amazon.

Investigating the Efficiency of Environmental DNA (eDNA) for Detecting Terrestrial and Semi-aquatic Mammals (2024)
Thesis
Broadhurst, H. (2024). Investigating the Efficiency of Environmental DNA (eDNA) for Detecting Terrestrial and Semi-aquatic Mammals. (Thesis). University of Salford

The global decline of terrestrial and semi-aquatic mammals creates an urgent need for accurate information on species distributions for effective conservation efforts. Environmental DNA (eDNA) has emerged as a reliable, non-invasive, and novel approa... Read More about Investigating the Efficiency of Environmental DNA (eDNA) for Detecting Terrestrial and Semi-aquatic Mammals.

Environmental and Invertebrate-Derived DNA: A Powerful Approach for Surveying and Monitoring Biodiversity (2023)
Book Chapter
Guimaraes Sales, N. (2023). Environmental and Invertebrate-Derived DNA: A Powerful Approach for Surveying and Monitoring Biodiversity. In P. M. Galetti Jr. (Ed.), Conservation Genetics in the Neotropics. (1). Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-34854-9

To know the organisms that surround us has always seemed a fascinating idea and a necessity to characterize an area and estimate its natural values. However, performing complete surveys of the organisms is not always an easy task, because some of the... Read More about Environmental and Invertebrate-Derived DNA: A Powerful Approach for Surveying and Monitoring Biodiversity.

DNA metabarcoding of mock communities highlights potential biases when assessing Neotropical fish diversity (2023)
Journal Article
Hilário, H. O., Hilario, H., Mendes, I. S., GuimarãesSales, N., & Carvalho, D. C. (2023). DNA metabarcoding of mock communities highlights potential biases when assessing Neotropical fish diversity. Environmental DNA, https://doi.org/10.1002/edn3.456

Despite the increasing popularity of DNA metabarcoding in the assessment of aquatic ecosystems using fish eDNA or ichthyoplankton, challenges have hampered its broader application in the Neotropical freshwaters. Using five mock communities composed o... Read More about DNA metabarcoding of mock communities highlights potential biases when assessing Neotropical fish diversity.

Shark‐dust: Application of high‐throughput DNA sequencing of processing residues for trade monitoring of threatened sharks and rays (2023)
Journal Article
Prasetyo, A. P., Murray, J. M., Kurniawan, M. F. A. K., Sales, N. G., McDevitt, A. D., & Mariani, S. (in press). Shark‐dust: Application of high‐throughput DNA sequencing of processing residues for trade monitoring of threatened sharks and rays. Conservation Letters, 16(5), https://doi.org/10.1111/conl.12971

Illegal fishing, unregulated bycatch, and market demand for certain products (e.g., fins) are largely responsible for the rapid global decline of shark and ray populations. Controlling trade of endangered species remains difficult due to product vari... Read More about Shark‐dust: Application of high‐throughput DNA sequencing of processing residues for trade monitoring of threatened sharks and rays.

Amazonian ichthyoplankton assessment via DNA metabarcoding: A baseline for detecting spawning sites of migratory fishes (2023)
Journal Article
Silva, L. E., Domingues, R. R., Sales, N. G., Villela, P. M., Silva, C. B., & Hilsdorf, A. W. (2023). Amazonian ichthyoplankton assessment via DNA metabarcoding: A baseline for detecting spawning sites of migratory fishes. Biological Conservation, 284, 110180. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.biocon.2023.110180

The Neotropical fish fauna comprises approximately 6080 species, of which almost 3000 inhabit the Amazon River basin. However, the construction of hydroelectric dams has threatened this biodiversity by habitat fragmentation. To uncover the putative e... Read More about Amazonian ichthyoplankton assessment via DNA metabarcoding: A baseline for detecting spawning sites of migratory fishes.

NEOTROPICAL FRESHWATER FISHES: A dataset of occurrence and abundance of freshwater fishes in the Neotropics (2022)
Journal Article
Tonella, L. H., Ruaro, R., Daga, V. S., Garcia, D. A. Z., Vitorino, O. B., Lobato‐de Magalhães, T., …de Lucena, Z. M. S. (2023). NEOTROPICAL FRESHWATER FISHES: A dataset of occurrence and abundance of freshwater fishes in the Neotropics. Ecology, 104(4), https://doi.org/10.1002/ecy.3713

The Neotropical region hosts 4225 freshwater fish species, ranking first among the world's most diverse regions for freshwater fishes. Our NEOTROPICAL FRESHWATER FISHES data set is the first to produce a large-scale Neotropical freshwater fish invent... Read More about NEOTROPICAL FRESHWATER FISHES: A dataset of occurrence and abundance of freshwater fishes in the Neotropics.

Mapping differences in mammalian distributions and diversity using environmental DNA from rivers (2021)
Journal Article
Broadhurst, H., Gregory, L., Bleakley, E., Perkins, J., Lavin, J., Bolton, P., …McDevitt, A. (2021). Mapping differences in mammalian distributions and diversity using environmental DNA from rivers. Science of the Total Environment, 801, 149724. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2021.149724

Finding more efficient ways to monitor and estimate the diversity of mammalian communities is a major step towards their management and conservation. Environmental DNA (eDNA) from river water has recently been shown to be a viable method for biomonit... Read More about Mapping differences in mammalian distributions and diversity using environmental DNA from rivers.

Primer biases in the molecular assessment of diet in multiple insectivorous mammals (2021)
Journal Article
Browett, S., Curran, T., O’Meara, D., Harrington, A., Guimaraes Sales, N., Antwis, R., …McDevitt, A. (2021). Primer biases in the molecular assessment of diet in multiple insectivorous mammals. Mammalian Biology, 101(3), 293-304. https://doi.org/10.1007/s42991-021-00115-4

Our understanding of trophic interactions of small insectivorous mammals has been drastically improved with the advent of DNA metabarcoding. The technique has continued to be optimised over the years, with primer choice repeatedly being a vital facto... Read More about Primer biases in the molecular assessment of diet in multiple insectivorous mammals.

eDNA in a bottleneck : obstacles to fish metabarcoding studies in megadiverse freshwater systems (2021)
Journal Article
Jackman, J., Benvenuto, C., Coscia, I., Carvalho, C., Ready, J., Boubli, J., …Sales, N. (2021). eDNA in a bottleneck : obstacles to fish metabarcoding studies in megadiverse freshwater systems. Environmental DNA, 3(4), 837-849. https://doi.org/10.1002/edn3.191

The current capacity of environmental DNA (eDNA) to provide accurate insights into the biodiversity of megadiverse regions (e.g., the Neotropics) requires further evaluation to ensure its reliability for long‐term monitoring. In this study, we first... Read More about eDNA in a bottleneck : obstacles to fish metabarcoding studies in megadiverse freshwater systems.