Research and analysis

Assessing river nutrients using diatom DNA: further development of an operational method

This project has improved a DNA based method to monitor and assess the make-up of diatom communities in rivers.

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Assessing river nutrients using diatom DNA: further development of an operational method: report

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This project has improved a DNA based method developed earlier (SC140024/R) to monitor and assess the make-up of diatom communities (a type of microscopic algae) that we use to assess nutrient enrichment in rivers.

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Published 18 February 2020

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