Abstract:Environmental DNA (eDNA) metabarcoding is transforming biodiversity monitoring in aquatic environments where the method has repeatedly shown comparable or better performance than conventional approaches to fish monitoring. This method has been developed and deployed, primarily using shoreline sampling during the winter months, across 101 lakes in Great Britain alone, covering a wide spectrum of lake types and ecological quality. Previous analyses on a subset of these lakes indicated that 20 water samples per l… Show more
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