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Effects Of Depth, Distance To Shore, And Water Velocity On Organismal And Extra-Organismal Environmental Dna Concentrations In A Large River, Dylan Keel
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Environmental DNA (eDNA) is a sensitive tool for detection of aquatic species and concentrations of eDNA in water samples have been useful for estimating abundance. This study evaluated the effects of depth, distance to shore, and water velocity on the concentration of organismal and extra-organismal eDNA concentrations in the Klamath River, California (basin area ≅ 40,000 km2). At each of six river cross sections 32 water samples were collected, including surface samples and depth samples evenly distributed across the cross section, and eDNA concentrations were determined for the parasite Ceratonova shasta and Chinook salmon, Oncorhynchus tshawytscha, using …