eDNA provides facts about the effects of water power plants
Fish fauna upstream and downstream Spjutmo water power plant in Dalarna was investigated using aquatic eDNA and metabarcoding. The survey was made by AquaBiota on behalf of Fortum Sweden. The results ...
Read more »Municipal marine spatial planning in Kävlinge
On behalf of Kävlinge, AquaBiota has produced background data for planning purposes as part of a regional marine spatial planning project in Öresund. Usage of the sea is increasing. Fishing, recrea...
Read more »Introduced species might cause major costs to society
Alien species can have a negative effect on the functioning of ecosystems, and thereby deteriorate the ecosystem services provided by nature. Deep sediments cover large parts of the Baltic Sea. The...
Read more »Footprints in the snow – new DNA method for mammal inventories
DNA has been isolated from footprints left in the snow by three otters in Northern Sweden. Scientists at AquaBiota in Stockholm, Sweden, managed to retrieve large amounts of high quality DNA from snow...
Read more »eDNA detects 84 fish-populations in ten Swedish coastal watercourses
In February 2017 AquaBiota monitored fish-communities in ten coastward discharging rivers in northern Sweden, by using eDNA (environmental DNA metabarcoding). From each waterbody a few litres of wate...
Read more »Are microplastic pollution really as harmful as we think?
Abstract New scientific article: Microplastic pollution is currently perceived as an environmental hazard, and adverse effects have been reported at various levels of biological organization. However...
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