title: The future of environmental DNA in ecology.
abstract: The contributions of environmental DNA to ecology are reviewed, focusing on diet, trophic interactions, species distributions and biodiversity assessment. Environmental DNA has the potential to dramatically improve quantitative studies in these fields. Achieving this, however, will require large investments of time and money into developing the relevant databases, models, and software.
authors.affiliation: Department of Arctic and Marine Biology, University of Tromsø, N-9037 Tromsø, Norway. nigel.yoccoz@uit.no
authors.forename: Nigel G
authors.initials: NG
authors.lastname: Yoccoz
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D044822:Biodiversity; D019295:Computational Biology / Q000379:methods*; D004247:DNA / Q000032:analysis*; D058893:DNA Barcoding, Taxonomic / Q000379:methods*; D004032:Diet; D004463:Ecology / Q000379:methods*; D004777:Environment; D020387:Food Chain; D006801:Humans; D017422:Sequence Analysis, DNA
chemical_list: D004247:DNA