Fish Ecology Lab

Tina Berry has just had her paper ‘A 3-year plankton DNA metabarcoding survey reveals marine biodiversity patterns in Australian coastal waters’ published in Diversity and Distributions. Congratulations Tina! Tina’s research used bulk eDNA samples to detect seasonal patterns in zooplankton diversity across 3 years from sites around Australia, and linked these patterns with concurrent abiotic data collected as part of Australia's Integrated Marine Observing System (IMOS) programme. The research was conducted through the TrEnD lab at Curtin University.
Thank you to all of the collaborators involved, including co-authors Megan Coghlan, Ben Saunders, Anthony Richardson, Matthew Power, Euan Harvey, Simon Jarman, Oliver Berry, Claire Davies, and Michael Bunce.

A 3‐year plankton DNA metabarcoding survey reveals marine biodiversity patterns in Australian coastal waters Aim To use a long-term collection of bulk plankton samples to test the capacity of DNA metabarcoding to characterize the spatial and seasonal patterns found within a range of zooplankton communities...

We have had a new paper published today with Alethea Inglis from University of Aberdeen as the lead author. The research compares the functional diversity of fish assemblages in the vicinity of oil and gas pipelines at Thevenard Island, North Western Australia to nearby natural reef and soft sediment habitats.

Thanks to Travis Elsdon and Michael Marnane from Chevron and Karl Schramm and Euan Harvey from Curtin University for coauthoring the paper.
You can read the research at the link below.

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Comparing environmental DNA collection methods for sampling community composition on marine infrastructure Broad scale monitoring of marine diversity is challenging, with many techniques limited to sampling only a small portion of the actual diversity prese…