Marine water environmental DNA metabarcoding provides a comprehensive fish diversity assessment and reveals spatial patterns in a large oceanic area

Abstract Current methods for monitoring marine fish (including bony fishes and elasmobranchs) diversity mostly rely on trawling surveys, which are invasive, costly, and time‐consuming. Moreover, these methods are selective, targeting a subset of species at the time, and can be inaccessible to certai...

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Main Authors: Natalia Fraija‐Fernández, Marie‐Catherine Bouquieaux, Anaïs Rey, Iñaki Mendibil, Unai Cotano, Xabier Irigoien, María Santos, Naiara Rodríguez‐Ezpeleta
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Wiley 2020-07-01
Series:Ecology and Evolution
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Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1002/ece3.6482