Making eDNA Count

Speaker: Dr. Ryan Kelly
Associate Director, School of Marine and Environmental Affairs, University of Washington & Director of the eDNA Collaborative

Resource management often requires quantitative estimates of abundance for species of interest. Consequently it is important to understand and communicate the ways in which environmental DNA (eDNA) observations do — and do not — relate to underlying abundance.

Here Dr. Ryan Kelly will highlight ongoing quantitative work in both single-species and multi-species contexts and at a range of spatial scales, with particular emphasis on eDNA being used for practical management purposes. As eDNA analyses become more common and more sophisticated, it is increasingly tractable to know more precisely what we’re measuring.

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