Environmental DNA analysis of river herring in Chesapeake Bay: A powerful tool for monitoring threatened keystone species

• Louis V. Plough ,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Resources, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: lplough@umces.edu

  Affiliation Horn Point Laboratory, University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science, Cambridge, Maryland, United States of America

  http://orcid.org/0000-0001-5572-9649

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• Matthew B. Ogburn,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Funding acquisition, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Smithsonian Environmental Research Center, Edgewater, Maryland, United States of America

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• Catherine L. Fitzgerald,

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology

  Affiliation Horn Point Laboratory, University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science, Cambridge, Maryland, United States of America

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• Rose Geranio,

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology

  Affiliation Horn Point Laboratory, University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science, Cambridge, Maryland, United States of America

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• Gabriella A. Marafino,

  Roles Data curation, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Smithsonian Environmental Research Center, Edgewater, Maryland, United States of America

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• Kimberly D. Richie

  Roles Data curation, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Smithsonian Environmental Research Center, Edgewater, Maryland, United States of America

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