Wetland Genomics Project
Categories: DNA
Status: In Progress
About the Project
Advances in the field of environmental genomics offer some exciting new opportunities for the future of biodiversity monitoring. In collaboration with InnoTech Alberta and Ducks Unlimited Canada, the ABMI successfully led a funding proposal to the Alberta Innovates Water Innovation Program in 2022/23 to examine the effects of agriculture and climate change on aquatic invertebrates and waterfowl in prairie pothole wetlands.
Fieldwork was initiated this spring, and over the next four years this project will help to expand the ABMI’s understanding of the cumulative effects of intensive agriculture and climate change in aquatic ecosystems while expanding the use of new techniques in environmental genomics to support large-scale monitoring of aquatic invertebrates and plants.
Project Collaborators
A wetland ecosystem in a parkland ecosystem
This project will help to expand the ABMI’s understanding of the cumulative effects of intensive agriculture and climate change in aquatic ecosystems while expanding the use of new techniques in environmental genomics to support large-scale monitoring of aquatic invertebrates and plants.
See more of our projects and ongoing work.
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eDNA Amphibian Pilot
In the spring of 2020, the ABMI initiated a pilot project with Innotech Alberta to explore the effectiveness of environmental DNA (eDNA) technology for monitoring amphibians in wetland habitats.
The Peltigera Project
The Peltigera project aims to expand our understanding of Peltigera lichen diversity in Alberta through genetic markers. Building on the research done by global Peltigera experts, we hope to use genetic data to both verify our identifications and detect new species to the province.
Cumulative Effects Assessment for Biodiversity
The Peltigera project aims to expand our understanding of Peltigera lichen diversity in Alberta through genetic markers. Building on the research done by global Peltigera experts, we hope to use genetic data to both verify our identifications and detect new species to the province.
