AquaBiota did an analysis of spatial information for different Natura 2000 habitats and, conservation- and nested targets. The analysis is meant to support the Swedish Agency for Marine and Water Management investigation regarding the ecological functionality, connectivity and representativeness of the network of Marine Protected Areas (MPA) in Sweden. Within Swedish marine areas there are […]
Archives for December 2018
New research project on aquatic eDNA: Life-DNAquatic!
The Swedish Environmental Protection Agency has decided to finance the new research project Life-DNAquatic with approx. 500 000 € for three years (2019-2021). AquaBiota is the main applicant and researchers at Nature Metrics (UK), University of Hull (UK), MoRe Research (SE), Swedish Agricultural University (SE) and INBO (BE) will also participate in the project. The […]
Analyses of close to 1400 dropvideo films are completed
During this summer, AquaBiota surveyed the Baltic Proper’s bottoms with dropvideo in no less than 1382 stations. The surveys was commissioned by the Swedish Agency for Marine and Water Management (SWaM) and the county administrative board of Gävleborg for the purpose of producing maps of biological components for the entire Swedish coast. The Gävleborg survey […]
Grayling and European chub found on the northern Baltic coast
In May 2018, AquaBiota carried out inventories of coastal fish communities along the northern Baltic coast with the help of eDNA. A total of 27 fish species were detected, which reflected the coastal non-pelagic fish fauna. Grayling was detected at a station and European chub in another. European chub are very rarely occurring that far […]
eDNA-technology detected 18 fish species including sheatfish in lake Båven
In August 2018, AquaBiota performed an eDNA inventory of fish species in lake Båven (surface area 64,2 km²) in the county of Sörmland, commissioned by the water management association in Nyköping (Nyköpingsåarnas Vattenvårdsförbund). Eighteen fish species were found in the lake, including the threatened sheatfish (Silurus glanis) that during the time of sampling had sought out […]