The Mycoflora of drystone walls & use of ONA metabarcoding

摘要

The use of environmental DNA is increasingly seen as an important technique in the study of natural history. It has moved beyond the determination of the presence or absence of great crested newts in ponds to the identification of a wide range of other taxa (Tang et al, 2018). For example, the technique has been used for entomological recording at Potteric Carr (Horsfall, 2019) and the study of the fish communities of the River Frome (Naturemetrics, 2018).