Deiner Lab

Research focus

ERC Starting Grant · 2019

Global measure of biodiversity by understanding biogeochemical cycling of environmental DNA in lakes

The global loss and redistribution of biodiversity is a hallmark of the Anthropocene. Our challenge is to generate information about how altered biodiversity influences ecosystems and use this information to change our impact on the biosphere. To meet this challenge, we must know where species are, how their distributions change in time and why. However, current methods for determining species distributions is expensive, time intensive and hard to do for multiple species and large geographic regions- rendering global trend analysis near infeasible. We therefore need a paradigm shift. I will utilize the biotechnology of the fourth industrial revolution (i.e., inexpensive sequencing and…

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