The CALeDNA program: Citizen scientists and researchers inventory California's biodiversity
| Autor: | Gaurav S. Kandlikar, Lenore Pipes, Tiara Moore, Jason P. Sexton, Emily E. Curd, Kimberly M. Ballare, Harris A. Lewin, N. Dean Pentcheff, Beth Shapiro, Teia M. Schweizer, Adam Wall, Jordan Moberg Parker, Robert K. Wayne, Sabrina Shirazi, Nathan J. B. Kraft, Emma L. Aronson, Regina Wetzer, Chloe Orland, Amanda C. Freise, Miroslava N. Munguia Ramos, Jeffrey D. Wall, Maura Palacios Mejia, Paul H. Barber, Zachary Gold, Anna Worth, Ana E. Garcia-Vedrenne, Rachel S. Meyer, Meixi Lin, Rasmus Nielsen, Dannise Ruiz Ramos, Eric Beraut, Wai-Yin Kwan |
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| Rok vydání: | 2021 |
| Předmět: |
0106 biological sciences
0301 basic medicine Environmental change Ecology (disciplines) Biodiversity spatial variation microbiome 010603 evolutionary biology 01 natural sciences lcsh:Agriculture 03 medical and health sciences community science citizen science Citizen science Environmental DNA lcsh:Agriculture (General) species diversity business.industry Environmental resource management lcsh:S General Engineering lcsh:S1-972 Natural resource biodiversity ecology natural resources 030104 developmental biology Environmental education Geography Habitat environmental education earth and environmental sciences soil business |
| Zdroj: | California Agriculture, Vol 75, Iss 01, Pp 20-32 (2021) |
| ISSN: | 0008-0845 |
| Popis: | Climate change is leading to habitat shifts that threaten species persistence throughout California's unique ecosystems. Baseline biodiversity data would provide opportunities for habitats to be managed under short-term and long-term environmental change. Aiming to provide biodiversity data, the UC Conservation Genomics Consortium launched the California Environmental DNA (CALeDNA) program to be a citizen and community science biomonitoring initiative that uses environmental DNA (eDNA, DNA shed from organisms such as from fur, feces, spores, pollen or leaves). Now with results from 1,000 samples shared online, California biodiversity patterns are discoverable. Soil, sediment and water collected by researchers, undergraduates and the public reveal a new catalog of thousands of organisms that only slightly overlap with traditional survey bioinventories. The CALeDNA website lets users explore the taxonomic diversity in different ways, and researchers have created tools to help people new to eDNA to analyze community ecology patterns. Although eDNA results are not always precise, the program team is making progress to fit it into California's biodiversity management toolbox, such as for monitoring ecosystem recovery after invasive species removal or wildfire. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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