Dr Lori Lawson Handley's Projects (12)

eDNA monitoring of restoration effects on the River Severn - (Phase III) Oct 24, 2023 - Jul 31, 2024

Big Windermere Survey: eDNA pilot Apr 1, 2023 - Sep 30, 2025
The Big Windermere Survey is a Citizen Science project run by the Freshwater Biological Association (FBA) and Lancaster University, which aims to assess the health of England’s largest lake. Volunteers collect water samples from 100 different locatio... Read More about Big Windermere Survey: eDNA pilot.

Investigating temporal impacts of reintroduced beavers at Cropton Forest on biodiversity using environmental DNA (eDNA) metabarcoding. Apr 1, 2022 - Oct 1, 2025
Organisms release DNA into the environment via shed cells, waste material or decaying matter. Environmental DNA (eDNA) can then be captured by sampling water, soil, or air, without disturbing wildlife. eDNA metabarcoding is a rapidly emerging techniq... Read More about Investigating temporal impacts of reintroduced beavers at Cropton Forest on biodiversity using environmental DNA (eDNA) metabarcoding..

The missing link: do impacts of beavers traverse aquatic-terrestrial boundaries? Sep 26, 2021 - Oct 31, 2022
Reintroduction of keystone species such as beavers is considered part of the solution to the freshwater biodiversity crisis. A primary motivation for reintroducing beavers is to create heterogeneous habitats that support novel communities of animals... Read More about The missing link: do impacts of beavers traverse aquatic-terrestrial boundaries?.

Optimizing eDNA sampling strategies for the monitoring of water voles Aug 23, 2021 - Dec 31, 2021
This is a small project which has been agreed with the funder without a written proposal.

The work will involve the processing of 45 water samples collected at three different occasion using the eDNA metabarcoding work flow, data analysis and r... Read More about Optimizing eDNA sampling strategies for the monitoring of water voles.

Understanding the spatial and temporal dynamics of environmental DNA for monitoring and management of priority invasive species Sep 16, 2019 - Jan 31, 2025
Invasive non-native species (INNS) are one of the five global drivers of biodiversity loss and the rate of biological invasions is increasing. Dreissenid mussels (zebra mussels Dreissena polymorpha and quagga mussels D. rostriformis bugensis) are INN... Read More about Understanding the spatial and temporal dynamics of environmental DNA for monitoring and management of priority invasive species.

Life-DNAquatics Jan 1, 2020 - Dec 31, 2022

Bioinformatics and training of PDRI’s in eDNA metabarcoding of freshwater fish – Phases 1 &2 Jan 1, 2019 - Dec 31, 2022
This is a collaboration with the Institute fro Hydrobiology, Biology Centre of the Czech Academy of Sciences. The project has been funded through the Czech Science Foundation and we have been named as collaborators to train Czech PDRA's and carry ou... Read More about Bioinformatics and training of PDRI’s in eDNA metabarcoding of freshwater fish – Phases 1 &2.

Creation of eDNA metabarcoding dataset for freshwater invertebrates Jun 1, 2016 - Mar 31, 2017

Pond biodiversity assessment with environmental DNA: laying the foundations for testing fundamental ecological hypotheses Jun 1, 2016 - Aug 31, 2017
Traditional taxonomic methods are costly, time consuming and require expert knowledge and skill – particularly for lower taxonomic groups. In the last decade, molecular techniques have advanced understanding of relatedness and interactions between sp... Read More about Pond biodiversity assessment with environmental DNA: laying the foundations for testing fundamental ecological hypotheses.

Environmental DNA – a non-invasive method for target taxa: passive vs targeted detection Feb 1, 2017 - Mar 31, 2020
Traditional taxonomic methods are costly, time consuming and require expert knowledge and skill – particularly for lower taxonomic groups. In the last decade, molecular techniques have advanced understanding of relatedness and interactions between sp... Read More about Environmental DNA – a non-invasive method for target taxa: passive vs targeted detection.