By Wendy Morgado Gamero, McGill University and Orianne Tournayre, Université de Montpellier As climate change and human activity threaten freshwater ecosystems like lakes and rivers, it’s more important than ever to know how the species who inhabit them are being impacted. But traditional methods of monitoring species, such as catching animals, are challenging to implement and can miss rapid changes. What if we could track life without capturing or directly observing individual animals? It turns out we can, by reading […]
THE CONVERSATION: How environmental RNA can give us a real-time picture of freshwater biodiversity
