{"id":2,"date":"2020-06-24T15:04:51","date_gmt":"2020-06-24T19:04:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.yorku.ca\/professor-eclare\/?page_id=2"},"modified":"2026-01-13T11:14:17","modified_gmt":"2026-01-13T16:14:17","slug":"home","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.yorku.ca\/professor\/eclare\/","title":{"rendered":"Welcome to the Clare Lab"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Here's what we do<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n
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The ecological challenge of our time is to rapidly measure biodiversity and assess the effects of environmental change on species interactions. The biodiversity crisis coupled with climate change is producing rapid environmental alterations that threaten every aspect of life for every organism on the planet.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In our research group we are developing and applying novel technological approaches to monitor biodiversity, identify species interactions, and assess ecosystem level responses to changes so that effective predictions can be made about future events.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

We've used eDNA in water to monitor fish, iDNA in leeches to monitor vertebrates and DNA in faeces to work out predator-prey and seed dispersal relationships. We have developed a mobile laboratory to sequence DNA in a Belize jungle. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Check out this amazing art installation by Joseph Gregory Rossano<\/a> depicting eDNA<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Want to see what we do in the wild?<\/strong> <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Check out this amazing documentary on our field trips to Belize as part of \"bat-a-thon\" from CBC's The Nature of things it's \"Empire of Bats\"!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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