Water samples can reveal which species use a restored habitat. What eDNA can and cannot tell you.
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Organisms shed DNA into the water. Filtering a few litres and sequencing what is captured can detect fish and invertebrates without seeing them — useful at restored sites where visual surveys miss shy or rare species.
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