Articles | Volume 25, issue 2
https://doi.org/10.5194/hess-25-735-2021
https://doi.org/10.5194/hess-25-735-2021
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

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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

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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.