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BellingenNSW<p>Monitoring Australia’s endangered species<br>while logging their habitats</p><p>Scent dogs are being replaced by cost-effective biomonitoring of threatened species. Technology will detection chemical signals of wildlife assemblages in the environment. " Little did we know that traces of wildlife presence float in the air and can be detected through traces of DNA."</p><p>Will the air sampling techniques operate with the pollution of heavy logging machinery to detect the scent of a koala or a glider? Will it cut through the thick smoke from (bush) fires that follow? Will traffic pollution allow allow the technology to pick up the airborne eDNA?<br>&gt;&gt;<br>Frère, C., et.al (2023). Koalas, friends, and foes -- the application of airborne edna for the biomonitoring of threatened species.<br><a href="https://besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/1365-2664.14784" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">besjournals.onlinelibrary.wile</span><span class="invisible">y.com/doi/10.1111/1365-2664.14784</span></a><br><a href="https://mastodon.au/tags/Koalas" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Koalas</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.au/tags/glider" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>glider</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.au/tags/platypus" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>platypus</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.au/tags/wildlife" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>wildlife</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.au/tags/conservation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>conservation</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.au/tags/BioMonitoring" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>BioMonitoring</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.au/tags/dogs" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>dogs</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.au/tags/ScentDogs" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ScentDogs</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.au/tags/UAVs" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>UAVs</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.au/tags/eDNA" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>eDNA</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.au/tags/technosphere" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>technosphere</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.au/tags/olfaction" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>olfaction</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.au/tags/MoreData" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>MoreData</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.au/tags/NSWLogging" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>NSWLogging</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.au/tags/IndustrialLogging" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>IndustrialLogging</span></a></p>
Denis - The COVID info guy -<p>New research suggests that scent dogs may provide a faster and more efficient way to detect COVID-19.</p><p><a href="https://aus.social/tags/COVID19" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>COVID19</span></a> <a href="https://aus.social/tags/ScentDogs" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ScentDogs</span></a> <span class="h-card"><a href="https://a.gup.pe/u/auscovid19" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>auscovid19</span></a></span> </p><p>Source: <a href="https://www.news-medical.net/news/20230717/Scent-dogs-may-be-a-cheaper-faster-and-more-effective-way-to-detect-COVID-19.aspx" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">news-medical.net/news/20230717</span><span class="invisible">/Scent-dogs-may-be-a-cheaper-faster-and-more-effective-way-to-detect-COVID-19.aspx</span></a></p>