Effectiveness assessment of using water environmental microHI to predict the health status of wild fish.

ABSTRACT: Aquatic wildlife health assessment is critically important for aquatic wildlife conservation. However, the health assessment of aquatic wildlife (especially aquatic wild animals) is difficult and often accompanied by invasive survey activities and delayed observability. As there is growing evidence that aquatic environmental microbiota could impact the health status of aquatic animals by influencing their symbiotic microbiota, we propose a non-invasive method to monitor the health status of wild aquatic animals using the environmental microbiota health index (microHI). However, it is unknown whether this method is effective for different ecotype groups of aquatic wild animals. To answer this question, we took a case study in the middle Yangtze River and studied the water environmental micr

SUBMITTER: Yang H 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10808811 | biostudies-literature | 2023

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature