Environmental DNA, or eDNA, is a research field that has been developed during the last 10 years and is now ready to be used as method in many types of surveys of the aquatic environment. Less than a liter of water, collected from a lake, bay or river, is enough to detect the presence of […]
Archives for December 2016
Knowledge building program for deep reef habitats
On behalf of the Swedish Agency for Marine and Water Management (SwAM) AquaBiota will compile a knowledge building program for deep reef habitats in marine Atlantic region/ the North Sea. The deep reef habitats include the habitat type 1170 reefs, and the OSPAR habitats Deep-sea sponge aggregations, Lophelia pertusa reefs and Coral gardens. In these […]
Feeding habitat of Long-tailed ducks
A new publication in the journal Wildfowl shows a strong coupling between Long-tailed Ducks and the density of their food, blue mussels, in the southern Baltic Sea (Hanö bight). The study shows that although Long-tailed Ducks tend to aggregate in areas of overall high food density, patchiness of the resource also plays a significant role. […]
New article from the research project PlantFish
A new article from the research project PlantFish shows quantitative relationships between organism size and biomass, for a number of invertebrates in the shallow coastal zone of the Baltic Sea. Organism biomass is an important variable in many ecological studies. Biomass estimates is however a time consuming and expensive procedure requiring lab time, since the […]