Wetland Genomics Project

Categories: DNA
Status: In Progress
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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.

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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.
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