Research and analysis

Using DNA to understand river diatom communities

Applies recent developments in DNA data analysis to aide our understanding of river diatom communities.

From:
Environment Agency
Published
10 November 2023

Applies to England

Documents

Using DNA to understand river diatom communities - summary

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Using DNA to understand river diatom communities - report

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Details

This project applied recent developments in DNA data analysis to an existing dataset to see if improvements could be made in the match between ecological classifications obtained using light microscopy and those from DNA, and to explore the potential to extract additional information from the DNA data.

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Published 10 November 2023

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