Environmental DNA metabarcoding for biodiversity monitoring of a highly-diverse tropical fish community in a coral-reef lagoon: Estimation of species richness and detection of habitat segregation

• Published in: bioRxiv
• Main Authors: Oka, Shin-Ichiro, Doi, Hideyuki, Miyamoto, Kei, Hanahara, Nozomi, Sado, Tetsuya, Miya, Masaki
• Format: Paper
• Language: English
• Published: Cold Spring Harbor Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press 10.05.2020; Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory
• Edition: 1.1
• Subjects: Aquatic ecosystems; Biodiversity; Coral reefs; Deoxyribonucleic acid; DNA; Ecology; Environmental DNA; Fish; Lagoons; Species diversity; Species richness; seagrass bed; western North Pacific; MiFish primer; biodiversity monitoring; marine fish; reef edge

An environmental DNA (eDNA) metabarcoding approach has been widely used for biodiversity monitoring of fishes, although it has rarely been applied to tropical and subtropical aquatic ecosystems, where species diversity is remarkably high. This study examined the extent to which species richness can...