Molecular detection techniques are powerful tools used in ecological applications ranging from diet analyses to pathogen surveillance. Research partnerships that use these tools often involve collaboration among professionals with expertise in field biology, laboratory techniques, quantitative modeling, wildlife disease, and natural resource management. However, in many cases, each of these collaborators lacks specific knowledge about the approaches, decisions, methods, and terminology used by their research partners, which can impede effective communication and act as a barrier to the efficient use of molecular data for ecological inferences and subsequent conservation decision making. We outline a collaborative framework to assist colleagues with diverse types of expertise to effectively translate their scientific and management needs to research partners from other specialties. The molecular techniques used to detect organisms will continue to advance both in sophistication and in the breadth of ecological applications. Our objective is to enable ecologists to harness the full utility of these methods by developing effective collaborative partnerships.

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成功的分子检测研究需要不同研究伙伴之间的清晰沟通

分子检测技术是从饮食分析到病原体监测等生态应用中使用的强大工具。使用这些工具的研究合作伙伴关系通常涉及在领域生物学，实验室技术，定量建模，野生动物疾病和自然资源管理方面具有专业知识的专业人员之间的合作。但是，在许多情况下，这些合作者中的每一个都缺乏有关其研究合作伙伴所使用的方法，决策，方法和术语的专门知识，这可能会阻碍有效的交流，并成为有效利用分子数据进行生态推断和分析的障碍。随后的保护决策。我们概述了一个协作框架，以协助具有各种专业知识的同事有效地将其科学和管理需求转化为其他专业的研究合作伙伴。用于检测生物的分子技术在复杂性和生态应用范围方面都将继续发展。我们的目标是通过建立有效的合作伙伴关系，使生态学家能够充分利用这些方法。