Nip in the bud- eDNA for early detection of deadly infectious disease
New article. eDNA detects schistostomiasis (snail fever), the second largest cause of death in the world after malaria. The article presents a paradigm shift in moving from disease control to eliminat...
Read more »State-of the-art methods to increase knowledge of response to climate change in the Baltic Sea
A new study integrates experimental data and distribution models to predict species patterns under future climate conditions. Predictive species distribution models are mostly based on statisti...
Read more »Conservation and nested targets within marine protected areas in Sweden
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 Mana...
Read more »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 resea...
Read more »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 (SWa...
Read more »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 ...
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