The importance of standardization for biodiversity comparisons: A case study using autonomous reef monitoring structures (ARMS) and metabarcoding to measure cryptic diversity on Mo’orea coral reefs, French Polynesia

• Emma Ransome ,

  * E-mail: RansomeE@si.edu

  Affiliation Department of Invertebrate Zoology, Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History, Washington DC, United States of America

  http://orcid.org/0000-0003-2327-7654

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• Jonathan B. Geller,

  Affiliation Moss Landing Marine Labs, Moss Landing, California, United States of America

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• Molly Timmers,

  Affiliations Joint Institute for Marine and Atmospheric Research, University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa, Honolulu, Hawaii, United States of America, Ecosystem Sciences Division Pacific Islands Fisheries Science Center, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Honolulu, Hawaii, United States of America

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• Matthieu Leray,

  Affiliation Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute, Panama, Republica de Panama

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• Angka Mahardini,

  Affiliation Indonesian Biodiversity Research Center, Denpasar, Bali, Indonesia

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• Andrianus Sembiring,

  Affiliations Indonesian Biodiversity Research Center, Denpasar, Bali, Indonesia, Department of Environmental Sciences, Udayana University, Denpasar, Bali, Indonesia

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• Allen G. Collins,

  Affiliations Department of Invertebrate Zoology, Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History, Washington DC, United States of America, National Systematics Laboratory, National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS), Washington DC, United States of America

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• Christopher P. Meyer

  Affiliation Department of Invertebrate Zoology, Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History, Washington DC, United States of America

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