Quantitative monitoring of diverse fish communities on a large
scale combining eDNA metabarcoding and qPCR
Running title: Fish communities eDNA quantitative monitoring
Didier Pont1, Paul Meulenbroek1,2,
Vincenz Bammer3, Tony Dejean4, Tibor
Erős5, Pauline Jean4, Mirjana
Lenhardt6, Christoffer Nagel7,
Ladislav Pekarik8, Michael
Schabuss9, Bernhard C. Stoeckle7,
Elena Stoica10, Horst Zornig9,
Alexander Weigand11, Alice
Valentini4
1 University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences,
Vienna, Institute of Hydrobiology and Aquatic Ecosystem Management,
Gregor-Mendel-Straße 33, 1180 Vienna, Austria. 2WasserCluster Lunz -Biologische Station GmbH, Dr. Carl Kupelwieser
Promenade 5, 3293 Lunz am See, Austria. 3 Bundesamt
für Wasserwirtschaft, Institut für Gewässerökologie und
Fischereiwirtschaft, Abteilung Gewässerökologie, Scharfling 18, 5310
Mondsee, Austria. 4 SPYGEN, 17, rue du Lac
Saint-André, Savoie Technolac, BP 274, 73375Le Bourget du Lac, France.5 Balaton Limnological Research Institute, Eötvös
Lor´and Research Network (ELKH), Klebelsberg Kuno u. 3, Tihany, Hungary.6 Institute for Multidisciplinary Research, Institute
for Biological Research “Siniša Stanković”, National Institute of
Republic of Serbia, University of Belgrade, Despota Stefana 142,
Belgrade, 11000, Serbia. 7 Technical University of
Munich, Chair of Aquatic Systems Biology, D-85350
Freising-Weihenstephan, Germany. 8 Trnava University,
Faculty of Education, Priemyselná 4, 917 01 Trnava, Slovakia.9 PRO FISCH OG Ecological Consultants, Hörlgasse
6/2/13, 1090 Vienna, Austria. 10 National Institute
for Marine Research and Development “Grigore Antipa”, Blvd. Mamaia no.
300, 900581, Constanţa, România. 11 National Museum of
Natural History, 25 Rue Münster, 2160 Luxembourg. Correspondence and
requests for materials should be addressed to D.P
(didier.pont@boku.ac.at).