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

• Beverly McClenaghan,

  Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Methodology, Writing – original draft

  Affiliation Centre for Environmental Genomics Applications, eDNAtec Inc., St. John’s, NL, Canada

  http://orcid.org/0000-0002-2804-7906

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• Zacchaeus G. Compson,

  Roles Validation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Centre for Environmental Genomics Applications, eDNAtec Inc., St. John’s, NL, Canada

  http://orcid.org/0000-0003-2015-3015

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• Mehrdad Hajibabaei

  Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: hajibabaei@gmail.com

  Affiliations Centre for Environmental Genomics Applications, eDNAtec Inc., St. John’s, NL, Canada, Department of Integrative Biology, University of Guelph, Guelph, ON, Canada, Centre for Biodiversity Genomics, University of Guelph, Guelph, ON, Canada

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