肯尼亚北部的干旱草原上，干季的烈日炙烤着龟裂的土地。为对抗愈演愈烈的生态退化，当地社区在连绵的浅丘间筑起上千道弧形土埂——这些被称为“水土保持埂”（water bunds）的半圆形结构，如同大地张开的臂弯，试图捕捉每一滴转瞬即逝的雨水。它们承载着一个质朴的愿景：用蓄住的水分唤醒沉睡的生机，让黄沙重新染上绿意。然而，土地是否真正在复苏？消失的羚羊与金合欢是否悄然归来？ 在过去，人们难以真正回答这些问 ...

In times of exacerbating biodiversity loss, reliable data on species occurrence are essential, in order for prompt and adequate conservation actions to be initiated. This is especially true for ...

As we move through the world, we leave behind invisible traces of ourselves encased in the hair, skin, and other bodily matter we shed. These tiny pieces of DNA—known as environmental DNA or eDNA—have ...

A new paper published in the journal Proceedings of the Royal Society B used environmental DNA (eDNA) metabarcoding to analyze fish and zooplankton communities. The study found that the movement of ...

In times of exacerbating biodiversity loss, reliable data on species occurrence are essential. Environmental DNA (eDNA) - DNA released from organisms into the water - is increasingly used to detect ...

Tree-climbing, cranes, chemical knockdown—collecting samples from the canopies used to be very time-consuming. Scientists from the UDE's working group "Aquatic Ecosystem Research" led by Prof. Dr.

Researchers have uncovered new evidence of western pygmy possums interacting with native flowers, providing an eDNA study to simultaneously detect mammal, insect and bird DNA on flowers. Curtin ...

Elasmobranchs are threatened and eDNA metabarcoding is a powerful tool that can help efforts to better understand and conserve them. Nevertheless, the inter-calibration between optimal methodological ...