Efficacy of natural marine sponges as a passive environmental DNA sampler for freshwater fish diversity monitoring
Ryohei Nakao, Manami Inaba, Seiji Miyazono, Minoru Saito, Keita Maruyama, Fumiko Imamura, Yoshihisa AKAMATSU
This study evaluates the effectiveness of sponge skeletons as passive eDNA samplers for freshwater fish diversity, finding comparable species richness and community structure to water filtration.
Landscape and Ecological Engineering · Jul 20, 2026Peer-reviewedEcology