Environmental DNA simultaneously informs hydrological and biodiversity characterization of an Alpine catchment

Mächler, Elvira; Salyani, Anham; Walser, Jean-Claude; Larsen, Annegret; Schaefli, Bettina; Altermatt, Florian; Ceperley, Natalie

doi:https://doi.org/10.5194/hess-25-735-2021

Articles | Volume 25, issue 2

https://doi.org/10.5194/hess-25-735-2021

© Author(s) 2021. This work is distributed under
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https://doi.org/10.5194/hess-25-735-2021

© Author(s) 2021. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.

Articles | Volume 25, issue 2

Research article

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18 Feb 2021

Research article |

| 18 Feb 2021

Environmental DNA simultaneously informs hydrological and biodiversity characterization of an Alpine catchment

Elvira Mächler, Anham Salyani, Jean-Claude Walser, Annegret Larsen, Bettina Schaefli, Florian Altermatt, and Natalie Ceperley

Supplement

https://doi.org/10.5194/hess-25-735-2021-supplement

Data sets

Isotopes and related data associated with water tracing with environmental DNA in a high-Alpine catchment N. Ceperley, A. Michelon, H. Beria, A. Salyani, R. Ba, A. Larsen, E. Mächler, F. Altermatt, B. Schaefli, and T. W. Vennemann https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.3515062

Environmental DNA simultaneously informs hydrological and biodiversity characterization of an Alpine catchment Eawag https://www.ebi.ac.uk/ena/browser/view/PRJEB32569

Short summary

In this study, we collected water from an Alpine catchment in Switzerland and compared the genetic information of eukaryotic organisms conveyed by eDNA with the hydrologic information conveyed by naturally occurring hydrologic tracers. At the intersection of two disciplines, our study provides complementary knowledge gains and identifies the next steps to be addressed for using eDNA to achieve complementary insights into Alpine water sources.