Environmental DNA gives comparable results to morphology-based indices of macroinvertebrates in a large-scale ecological assessment

Jeanine Brantschen; Rosetta C. Blackman; Jean-Claude Walser; Florian Altermatt

doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0257510

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Environmental DNA gives comparable results to morphology-based indices of macroinvertebrates in a large-scale ecological assessment

Jeanine Brantschen ,

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

* E-mail: Jeanine.Brantschen@eawag.ch (JB); Florian.Altermatt@ieu.uzh.ch (FA)

Affiliations Department of Aquatic Ecology, Eawag, Swiss Federal Institute of Aquatic Science and Technology, Duebendorf, Zurich, Switzerland, Faculty of Science, Department of Evolutionary Biology and Environmental Studies, University of Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland

https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2945-3607

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Rosetta C. Blackman,

Roles Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Department of Aquatic Ecology, Eawag, Swiss Federal Institute of Aquatic Science and Technology, Duebendorf, Zurich, Switzerland, Faculty of Science, Department of Evolutionary Biology and Environmental Studies, University of Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland, Research Priority Programme Global Change and Biodiversity (URPP GCB), University of Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland
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Jean-Claude Walser,

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

Affiliation Department of Environmental Systems Science, Genetic Diversity Center, Federal Institute of Technology, Zurich, Switzerland
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Florian Altermatt

Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

* E-mail: Jeanine.Brantschen@eawag.ch (JB); Florian.Altermatt@ieu.uzh.ch (FA)

Affiliations Department of Aquatic Ecology, Eawag, Swiss Federal Institute of Aquatic Science and Technology, Duebendorf, Zurich, Switzerland, Faculty of Science, Department of Evolutionary Biology and Environmental Studies, University of Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland, Research Priority Programme Global Change and Biodiversity (URPP GCB), University of Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland
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Environmental DNA gives comparable results to morphology-based indices of macroinvertebrates in a large-scale ecological assessment

Jeanine Brantschen,
Rosetta C. Blackman,
Jean-Claude Walser,
Florian Altermatt

Published: September 21, 2021
https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0257510

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