Effectiveness assessment of using riverine water eDNA to simultaneously monitor the riverine and riparian biodiversity information.

ABSTRACT: Both aquatic and terrestrial biodiversity information can be detected in riverine water environmental DNA (eDNA). However, the effectiveness of using riverine water eDNA to simultaneously monitor the riverine and terrestrial biodiversity information remains unidentified. Here, we proposed that the monitoring effectiveness could be approximated by the transportation effectiveness of land-to-river and upstream-to-downstream biodiversity information flows and described by three new indicators. Subsequently, we conducted a case study in a watershed on the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau. The results demonstrated that there was higher monitoring effectiveness on summer or autumn rainy days than in other seasons and weather conditions. The monitoring of the bacterial biodiversity information was more effi

SUBMITTER: Yang H 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8688430 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature