Airborne eDNA for northern bettongs. The northern bettong is a small kangaroo-relative and one of the top 20 Australian mammals at greatest extinction risk. With feral threats driving their decline, l

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Airborne eDNA for northern bettongs. The northern bettong is a small kangaroo-relative and one of the top 20 Australian mammals at greatest extinction risk. With feral threats driving their decline, less than 1500 are believed to remain, and data deficiencies hamper their conservation. Airborne eDNA promises an efficient way to bridge evidence gaps about this and other threatened species but approaches to estimate distribution, occurrence and abundance from this technique do not yet exist. By developing those methods and assessing them against camera-trapping for the northern bettong, this project expects to provide partners with crucial information on the species and its feral threats, and significantly advance the application of airborne eDNA for terrestrial biomonitoring.. Scheme: Linkage Projects. Field: 4104 - Environmental Management. Lead: Dr Celine Frere