A systematic approach to evaluate the influence of environmental conditions on eDNA detection success in aquatic ecosystems

Bernhard C. Stoeckle; Sebastian Beggel; Alexander F. Cerwenka; Elena Motivans; Ralph Kuehn; Juergen Geist

doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0189119

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A systematic approach to evaluate the influence of environmental conditions on eDNA detection success in aquatic ecosystems

Bernhard C. Stoeckle ,

Contributed equally to this work with: Bernhard C. Stoeckle, Sebastian Beggel, Alexander F. Cerwenka, Elena Motivans

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Aquatic Systems Biology Unit, Department of Ecology and Ecosystem Management, Technical University of Munich, Freising, Germany
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Sebastian Beggel ,

Contributed equally to this work with: Bernhard C. Stoeckle, Sebastian Beggel, Alexander F. Cerwenka, Elena Motivans

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Aquatic Systems Biology Unit, Department of Ecology and Ecosystem Management, Technical University of Munich, Freising, Germany
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Alexander F. Cerwenka ,

Contributed equally to this work with: Bernhard C. Stoeckle, Sebastian Beggel, Alexander F. Cerwenka, Elena Motivans

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Validation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation SNSB-Bavarian State Collection of Zoology (ZSM), Munich, Germany
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Elena Motivans ,

Contributed equally to this work with: Bernhard C. Stoeckle, Sebastian Beggel, Alexander F. Cerwenka, Elena Motivans

Roles Data curation, Investigation, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Aquatic Systems Biology Unit, Department of Ecology and Ecosystem Management, Technical University of Munich, Freising, Germany
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Ralph Kuehn,

Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Resources, Software, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Unit of Molecular Zoology, Chair of Zoology, Department of Animal Sciences, Technical University of Munich, Freising, Germany, Department of Fish, Wildlife and Conservation Ecology, New Mexico State University, Las Cruces, New Mexico, United States of America
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Juergen Geist

Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

* E-mail: geist@wzw.tum.de

Affiliation Aquatic Systems Biology Unit, Department of Ecology and Ecosystem Management, Technical University of Munich, Freising, Germany

http://orcid.org/0000-0001-7698-3443

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A systematic approach to evaluate the influence of environmental conditions on eDNA detection success in aquatic ecosystems

Bernhard C. Stoeckle,
Sebastian Beggel,
Alexander F. Cerwenka,
Elena Motivans,
Ralph Kuehn,
Juergen Geist

Published: December 8, 2017
https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0189119

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