Quantification by droplet digital PCR and species identification by metabarcoding of environmental (e)DNA from Blainville’s beaked whales, with assisted localization from an acoustic array

• Charles Scott Baker ,

  Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Methodology, Writing – original draft

  * E-mail: scott.baker@oregonstate.edu

  Affiliation Marine Mammal Institute, Hatfield Marine Science Center, Oregon State University, Newport, OR, United States of America

  https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2183-2036

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• Diane Claridge,

  Roles Data curation, Investigation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Bahamas Marine Mammal Research Organisation, Sandy Point, Abaco, The Bahamas

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• Charlotte Dunn,

  Roles Data curation, Investigation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Bahamas Marine Mammal Research Organisation, Sandy Point, Abaco, The Bahamas

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• Thomas Fetherston,

  Roles Investigation, Methodology, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Naval Undersea Warfare Center, Newport, RI, United States of America

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• Dorothy Nevé Baker,

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

  Affiliation Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of California, Santa Cruz, CA, United States of America

  https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8915-4927

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• Holger Klinck,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Funding acquisition, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Marine Mammal Institute, Hatfield Marine Science Center, Oregon State University, Newport, OR, United States of America, Center for Conservation Bioacoustics Cornell Lab of Ornithology, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, United States of America

  https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1078-7268

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• Debbie Steel

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Validation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Marine Mammal Institute, Hatfield Marine Science Center, Oregon State University, Newport, OR, United States of America

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