Cooperative Fish and Wildlife Research Units Program: Oklahoma
Education, Research and Technical Assistance for Managing Our Natural Resources

Oklahoma Project

Using environmental DNA (eDNA) to assess the presence of cave-fish and crayfish populations in caves of the Ozark Highlands

October 2014 - December 2018

Personnel

Participating Agencies

  • USFWS

The goal of the project is to use eDNA to verify presence of cave organisms while developing the foundation for monitoring methods that may be used in the future to documenting abundance. The proposed project will support recovery and monitoring efforts of the FWS and various conservation partners and help inform conservation decisions.

Research Publications Publication Date

Mouser, J. B., J. Johnston, M. L. Niemiller, and S. K. Brewer. 2023. A Fisherman’s Tale: An Unusual Observation of the Ozark Cavefish Troglicthys rosae (Eigenmann, 1898). Southeastern Naturalist https://api.semanticscholar.org/CorpusID:258062974 		April 2023