Benthic invertebrates in Svalbard fjords—when metabarcoding does not outperform traditional biodiversity assessment

To protect and restore ecosystems and biodiversity is one of the 10 challenges identified by the United Nations’s Decade of the Ocean Science. In this study we used eDNA from sediments collected in two fjords of the Svalbard archipelago and compared the taxonomic composition with traditional methods...

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Main Authors: Endre Willassen, Jon-Ivar Westgaard, Jon Anders Kongsrud, Tanja Hanebrekke, Pål Buhl-Mortensen, Børge Holte
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: PeerJ Inc. 2022-11-01
Series:PeerJ
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Online Access:https://peerj.com/articles/14321.pdf