What do dolphins, toadfishes, and snapping shrimp have in common? They all go quiet when disaster strikes. We show that historic rainfalls in South Texas silenced an otherwise noisy estuary for several months, suggesting a sustained loss of ecosystem functioning.
👉 link.springer.com/article/10.1...
Additionally, a lot of my work explores the utility of eDNA as a bio monitoring tool across various habitats and species of interests
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PhD students Hannah Rempel and Christina Marconi filter seawater to sample environmental DNA and record water quality data on the Texas Coast.
The Casey Lab team at the University of Texas Marine Science Institute spent a beautiful day on the Texas coast sampling for environmental DNA in our own "backyard"! 🧬🌊
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