STREAM: Combining DNA and people power for healthy freshwater ecosystems

The STREAM project combines DNA metabarcoding with community-based monitoring.

By Chloe Robinson and Mehrdad Hajibabaei

Published Spring 2021

Chloe Robinson is a postdoctoral fellow at the University of Guelph. Mehrdad Hajibabaei is an associate professor with the Centre for Biodiversity Genomics and the Department of Integrative Biology at the University of Guelph.

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