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 world's 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.
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The authors have cleverly set out to capture a greater diversity of genomic applications than typically are included in advanced texts, by including applications sourced through scientific journal literature. [ ...]Applied Environmental Genomics will swiftly become a useful go to resource for those involved in natural resource management, and conservation, including wildlife researchers, ecologists and students."(Wildlife Health Australia)
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List of contributors
Introduction to applied environmental genomics
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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
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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.
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.
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.
