Amphibians rediscovered thanks to environmental DNA

January 18, 2021

A novel approach to biodiversity monitoring is the use of environmental DNA (eDNA) to detect species that were once present but have apparently disappeared. Lopes et al. (2020) searched for 30 species at six sites (for example, Estacao Biol Boracia, Parque Nac Itatiaia) in the Atlantic Forest and…