DNA is the essence of life and the original big data. New technologies are allowing scientists to access and make sense of this information like never before, and they are using it to solve the worlds greatest environmental challenges.
Applied Environmental Genomics synthesises the latest and most exciting uses of genomic technologies for environmental science and management. With an emphasis on diversity of applications and real-world demonstrations, leading researchers have contributed detailed chapters on innovative approaches to obtaining critical management-relevant information about the natural world. These chapters are complemented by perspective sections written by environmental managers who describe their experiences using genomics to support evidence-based decisions.
Ideal for students, researchers and professionals working in natural resource management and policy, Applied Environmental Genomics is a comprehensive introduction to a fast-moving field that is transforming the practice of environmental management, with profound relevance to industry, government and the public.
This book synthesises uses of genomic technologies for environmental science and management. With an emphasis on diversity of applications and real-world demonstrations, leading researchers have contributed chapters on innovative approaches to obtaining critical management-relevant information about the natural world.
Section A: Biodiversity
1. Design considerations for eDNA metabarcoding
surveys
2. Measuring biodiversity with eDNA metabarcoding
3. Perspective
eDNA and metagenomics: a story of a disruptive technology for biodiversity
monitoring
4. Revealing animal diet and food webs through DNA metabarcoding
5. Approaching ecological questions using DNA barcodes Section B: Life
history and population biology
6. Lifespan estimation from genomic analysis
7. Development of epigenetic clocks
8. Molecular sex identification for
applications in conservation, industry and veterinary medicine
9. Perspective
Whole genome assemblies, devils and disease
10. Genetic-based inventories
of wildlife abundance
11. The practical magic of close-kin mark-recapture
12.
Perspective Genomics and bear management
13. How can we use genomics to
predict and improve population viability? Section C: Adaptation and change
14. Adaptive responses to the environment and environmental change
15.
Perspective The power of genomics for guiding reintroductions
16. Palaeo-
and museo-genomics: perspectives on modern species
17. Perspective Genomics
and the prioritisation of taxa and populations for conservation Section D:
Environmental molecular physiology
18. Applied epigenomics in a rapidly
changing world
19. DNA-based microbial bioindication of environmental state
20. Perspective The promise of ecotoxicogenomics for assessing aquatic
health Section E: Spatial genomics
21. Unravelling plant-pollinator
interactions through pollen DNA analysis
22. Genomic approaches to study
dispersal in wild animal populations: implications for wildlife management
23. Conservation prioritisation based on evolutionary distinctiveness of
communities Section F: Biosecurity and disease monitoring
24. Invasive
species detection and management using genomic methods
25. Genomic
identification and surveillance of infectious diseases in natural systems
26.
Management of vertebrate pests using genetic control techniques
27.
Perspective The E in RD&E and the application of genomics for
environmental and biosecurity risk management
Oliver F. Berry is Director of the Environomics Future Science Platform at CSIRO. His career has featured a diversity of genomics techniques from population genomics to environmental DNA, and he has worked in application domains from conservation biology to invasive species management.
Clare E. Holleley is a Principal Research Scientist at National Research Collections Australia (CSIRO). She is an expert in vertebrate sex determination and an innovator in the field of historical epigenomics. Her work characterises rates of evolutionary change in ecological, reproductive and disease research.
Simon N. Jarman is Professor of Environmental Genomics at Curtin University. He is an expert in analysis of animal age and life cycles with genomic methods, and environmental DNA analyses of species diversity.
