image: Romoser taking a water sample adjacent to Ilhas das Onças near the city of Belém.
Credit: Kaitlyn Romoser, CC-BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/)
The vulnerable Amazonian manatee is most often found where human activity is low, with a new eDNA-based method most commonly detecting the freshwater mammal in the remote western Amazon
Article URL: https://plos.io/4pYyIZW
Article title: Survey of vulnerable Amazonian manatees using environmental DNA (eDNA): A method for survey in remote field settings
Author countries: U.S., Brazil
Funding: Donation to the International Sportfish Fund from the estate of George and Carolyn Kelso (KR and KOW), and a productivity research fellowship from the Brazilian National and Technological Development Council—CNPq: IPF (CNPq #316531/2023-5), and TH (CNPq #316532/2023-1).
Journal
PLOS One
Article Title
Survey of vulnerable Amazonian manatees using environmental DNA (eDNA): A method for survey in remote field settings
Article Publication Date
4-Feb-2026
COI Statement
The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.