Validating metabarcoding-based biodiversity assessments with multi-species occupancy models: A case study using coastal marine eDNA.

Environmental DNA (eDNA) metabarcoding is an increasingly popular method for rapid biodiversity assessment. As with any ecological survey, false negatives can arise during sampling and, if unaccounted for, lead to biased results and potentially misdiagnosed environmental assessments. We developed a...

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Main Authors: Beverly McClenaghan, Zacchaeus G Compson, Mehrdad Hajibabaei
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2020-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0224119