Territory Stories
Environmental DNA for fish community assessment, desert waterholes of Central Australia
Details:
Title
Environmental DNA for fish community assessment, desert waterholes of Central Australia,
Creator
Northern Territory, Department of Lands, Planning and Environment. Water Resources Division,
Collection
E-Publications,
E-Books,
PublicationNT,
Report No. 44/2025,
Date
2025-09-25,
Location
Finke River,
Kati Thanda-Lake Eyre,
Abstract
This report evaluates the effectiveness of environmental DNA (eDNA) techniques to identify individual fish species in the Finke River, a key monitoring region in the Kati Thanda - Lake Eyre Basin. Since 2012, the Lake Eyre Basin Rivers Assessment (LEBRA) has employed standardised methods to monitor fish communities in this ecologically significant area. With recent advances in eDNA technology, this study explores the value of two types of eDNA methods (metabarcoding and qPCR) to detect species presence in addition to the existing methods used in the LEBRA program.,
Notes
Made available by via Publications (Legal Deposit) Act 2004 (NT),
Table of contents
1. Summary -- 2. Introduction -- 3. Methods -- 4. Results -- 5. Discussion -- 6. Conclusion -- 7. Reference -- Appendix 1: Reference material for Finke River qPCR assay development,
Language
English,
Subject
Finke River,
Metabarcoding,
Fish species,
Lake Eyre Basin Rivers Assessment (LEBRA),
qPCR,
Kati Thanda-Lake Eyre,
Publisher name
Northern Territory Government,
Place of publication
Palmerston (NT),
Series
Report No. 44/2025,
Format
13 pages : colour map ; 30 cm,
File type
application/pdf,
Use
Attribution International 4.0 (CC BY 4.0),
Copyright owner
Northern Territory Government,
License
https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ ,
Parent handle
https://hdl.handle.net/10070/1013853 ,
Territory Stories
Environmental DNA for fish community assessment, desert waterholes of Central Australia
Details:
Title
Environmental DNA for fish community assessment, desert waterholes of Central Australia,
Creator
Northern Territory, Department of Lands, Planning and Environment. Water Resources Division,
Collection
E-Publications,
E-Books,
PublicationNT,
Report No. 44/2025,
Date
2025-09-25,
Location
Finke River,
Kati Thanda-Lake Eyre,
Abstract
This report evaluates the effectiveness of environmental DNA (eDNA) techniques to identify individual fish species in the Finke River, a key monitoring region in the Kati Thanda - Lake Eyre Basin. Since 2012, the Lake Eyre Basin Rivers Assessment (LEBRA) has employed standardised methods to monitor fish communities in this ecologically significant area. With recent advances in eDNA technology, this study explores the value of two types of eDNA methods (metabarcoding and qPCR) to detect species presence in addition to the existing methods used in the LEBRA program.,
Notes
Made available by via Publications (Legal Deposit) Act 2004 (NT),
Table of contents
1. Summary -- 2. Introduction -- 3. Methods -- 4. Results -- 5. Discussion -- 6. Conclusion -- 7. Reference -- Appendix 1: Reference material for Finke River qPCR assay development,
Language
English,
Subject
Finke River,
Metabarcoding,
Fish species,
Lake Eyre Basin Rivers Assessment (LEBRA),
qPCR,
Kati Thanda-Lake Eyre,
Publisher name
Northern Territory Government,
Place of publication
Palmerston (NT),
Series
Report No. 44/2025,
Format
13 pages : colour map ; 30 cm,
File type
application/pdf,
Use
Attribution International 4.0 (CC BY 4.0),
Copyright owner
Northern Territory Government,
License
https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ ,
Parent handle
https://hdl.handle.net/10070/1013853 ,