Using environmental DNA methods to survey for rare groundwater fauna: Detection of an endangered endemic cave crayfish in northern Alabama

• Spencer H. Boyd,

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

  Affiliation Department of Biological Sciences, The University of Alabama in Huntsville, Huntsville, AL, United States of America

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• K. Denise Kendall Niemiller,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Investigation, Methodology, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Biological Sciences, The University of Alabama in Huntsville, Huntsville, AL, United States of America

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• Katherine E. Dooley,

  Roles Data curation, Investigation, Methodology, Validation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Biological Sciences, The University of Alabama in Huntsville, Huntsville, AL, United States of America

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4198-4304

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• Jennifer Nix,

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

  Affiliation Department of Biological Sciences, The University of Alabama in Huntsville, Huntsville, AL, United States of America

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• Matthew L. Niemiller

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

  * E-mail: matthew.niemiller@uah.edu

  Affiliation Department of Biological Sciences, The University of Alabama in Huntsville, Huntsville, AL, United States of America

  https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6353-8797

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