Bernard Ball

University College Dublin — Ireland

Environmental Science · Physical Sciences

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Research Topics

Environmental DNA in Biodiversity Studies(7), Identification and Quantification in Food(6), Fish Ecology and Management Studies(4), Marine Biology and Ecology Research(4), Reservoir Engineering and Simulation Methods(3)

Publications26 total

Ancient sedimentary DNA reveals a more biodiverse ancient Ireland.
2025Open Access
Environmental drivers and cryptic biodiversity hotspots define endophytes in Earth’s largest terrestrial biome
Current Biology·2024· 8 citedOpen Access
A tale of two tubeworms: taxonomy of vestimentiferans (Annelida: Siboglinidae) from the Mid-Cayman Spreading Centre
Invertebrate Systematics·2023· 2 citedOpen Access
Environmental Drivers and Cryptic Biodiversity Hotspots Define Fungal Endophyte Communities of the Boreal Biome
SSRN Electronic Journal·2023· 1 citedOpen Access
Development of an environmental DNA assay and field validation for the detection of invasive pink salmon <i>Oncorhynchus gorbuscha</i>
Environmental DNA·2021· 7 citedOpen Access
Methane Seeps on the US Atlantic Margin and Their Potential Importance to Populations of the Commercially Valuable Deep-Sea Red Crab, Chaceon quinquedens
Frontiers in Marine Science·2020· 27 citedOpen Access
An inspection-based assessment of obstacles to salmon, trout, eel and lamprey migration and river channel connectivity in Ireland
The Science of The Total Environment·2020· 24 citedOpen Access
Field application of an eDNA assay for the threatened white-clawed crayfish <i>Austropotamobius pallipes</i>
Freshwater Science·2019· 14 cited
The application of CRISPR‐Cas for single species identification from environmental DNA
Molecular Ecology Resources·2019· 123 citedOpen Access
Environmental (e)DNA detection of the invasive pink salmon <i>Oncorhynchus gorbuscha</i> during the 2017 Norwegian invasion
2019· 1 citedOpen Access
Amplicon sequencing of 42 nuclear loci supports directional gene flow between South Pacific populations of a hydrothermal vent limpet
Ecology and Evolution·2019· 15 citedOpen Access
The value of a desk study for building a national river obstacle inventory
River Research and Applications·2018· 14 cited
A quantitative PCR‐based environmental DNA assay for detecting Atlantic salmon ( <scp> <i>Salmo salar</i> </scp> L.)
Aquatic Conservation Marine and Freshwater Ecosystems·2018· 34 cited
A quantitative PCR based environmental DNA assay for detecting Atlantic salmon ( <i>Salmo salar</i> L.)
2017Open Access
<i>Hyalinoecia artifex</i>: Field notes on a charismatic and abundant epifaunal polychaete on the US Atlantic continental margin
Invertebrate Biology·2016· 13 cited
SeepC: Preliminary Characterization of Atlantic Margin Seep Ecosystems from Norfolk Canyon to New England Seep Sites.
AGU Fall Meeting Abstracts·2015
Exploring Kick’em Jenny Submarine Volcano and the Barbados Cold Seep Province, Southern Lesser Antilles [in special issue: New Frontiers in Ocean Exploration: The E/V Nautilus 2014 Gulf of Mexico and Caribbean Field Season]
ePrints Soton (University of Southampton)·2015· 3 cited
Exploring Kick’em Jenny submarine volcano and the Barbados cold seep province, Southern Lesser Antilles
2015· 4 cited
Phylogenetic placement, species delimitation, and cyanobiont identity of endangered aquatic <i>Peltigera</i> species (lichen‐forming Ascomycota, Lecanoromycetes)
American Journal of Botany·2014· 42 citedOpen Access
Exploration of the Mid-Cayman Rise
ePrints Soton (University of Southampton)·2014· 4 cited
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Frequent Co-authors

Jens Carlsson(8), Cindy Lee Van Dover(6), Siobhán Atkinson(5), Mary Kelly‐Quinn(5), Cliff Cunningham(4), Jeanette E. L. Carlsson(4), Diva J. Amon(4), Jolanta Miądlikowska(3), François Lutzoni(3), Phillip J. Turner(3), Leigh Marsh(3), Clara Smart(3), Robert D. Ballard(3), Jerome C. Regier(2), Jeffrey W. Shultz(2), Andreas Zwick(2), April Hussey(2), Joel W. Martin(2), Douglas J. Emlen(2), Jennifer Marangelo(2)