We are pleased to share that DIGI4ECO partners, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (UPC), Institute of Marine Science (ICM-CSIC), Stazione Anton Dhorn (SZN) and Atlantic Technological University (ATU) have proceeded to a new achievement within the context of DIGI4ECO project.
The article “Enhancing fish community monitoring at a cabled observatoryby combining environmental DNA and imaging analysis” has been published at the “Journal of the Fish Biology”.
The authors of the article are: Maddalena Tibone, Marco Francescangeli, Sergio Stefanni, Jacopo Aguzzi, Bernadette O’Neill, Joaquin Del Rio, Daniel Mihai Toma, Luca Mirimin and its respective DOI is the following: https://doi.org/10.1111/jfb.70096
The abstract of the publication can be found below:
Abstract:
Cabled multiparametric observatories are sustaining ecological monitoring by collecting long-term real-time biological and environmental data. Here, we investigated fish communities by sampling environmental DNA (eDNA) over 4 days near the multiparametric cabled video-observatory OBSEA (Northwestern Mediterranean Sea). The multi-marker eDNA metabarcoding approach resulted in an increased species detection and helped provide a more comprehensive view of the local fish community when combined with imaging data. These results underline the potential of omics methods in long-term monitoring of economically and ecologically important fish species.
You can reach the full article following this link: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/jfb.70096