Environmental DNA as a complementary tool for biodiversity monitoring: A multi-technique and multi-trophic approach to investigate cetacean distribution and feeding ecology

• Luís Afonso,

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

  Affiliations CIIMAR–Interdisciplinary Centre of Marine and Environmental Research, University of Porto, Matosinhos, Portugal, Department of Biology, UA–University of Aveiro, Campus Universitário de Santiago, Aveiro, Portugal

  https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3978-1388

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• Joana Costa,

  Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation CIIMAR–Interdisciplinary Centre of Marine and Environmental Research, University of Porto, Matosinhos, Portugal

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4023-7681

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• Ana Mafalda Correia,

  Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations CIIMAR–Interdisciplinary Centre of Marine and Environmental Research, University of Porto, Matosinhos, Portugal, Department of Biology, FCUP–Faculty of Sciences of the University of Porto, Porto, Portugal

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• Raul Valente,

  Roles Formal analysis, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations CIIMAR–Interdisciplinary Centre of Marine and Environmental Research, University of Porto, Matosinhos, Portugal, Department of Biology, FCUP–Faculty of Sciences of the University of Porto, Porto, Portugal

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• Eva Lopes,

  Roles Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations CIIMAR–Interdisciplinary Centre of Marine and Environmental Research, University of Porto, Matosinhos, Portugal, Department of Biology, FCUP–Faculty of Sciences of the University of Porto, Porto, Portugal

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• Maria Paola Tomasino,

  Roles Conceptualization, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation CIIMAR–Interdisciplinary Centre of Marine and Environmental Research, University of Porto, Matosinhos, Portugal

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• Ágatha Gil,

  Roles Visualization, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations CIIMAR–Interdisciplinary Centre of Marine and Environmental Research, University of Porto, Matosinhos, Portugal, Department of Biology and Environment, CITAB–Centre for the Research and Technology of Agro-Environmental and Biological Sciences, University of Trás-os-Montes and Alto Douro (UTAD), Vila Real, Portugal, IIM-CSIC–Institute of Marine Research of the Spanish National Research Council, Vigo, Pontevedra, Spain

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• Cláudia Oliveira-Rodrigues,

  Roles Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations CIIMAR–Interdisciplinary Centre of Marine and Environmental Research, University of Porto, Matosinhos, Portugal, Department of Biology, FCUP–Faculty of Sciences of the University of Porto, Porto, Portugal

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• Isabel Sousa Pino,

  Roles Funding acquisition, Resources, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations CIIMAR–Interdisciplinary Centre of Marine and Environmental Research, University of Porto, Matosinhos, Portugal, Department of Biology, FCUP–Faculty of Sciences of the University of Porto, Porto, Portugal

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• Alfredo López,

  Roles Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Department of Biology, UA–University of Aveiro, Campus Universitário de Santiago, Aveiro, Portugal, CESAM–Centre for Environmental and Marine Studies, University of Aveiro, Aveiro, Portugal, CEMMA–Coordinator for the Study of Marine Mammals, Nigrán, Spain

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• Paula Suarez-Bregua,

  Roles Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation IEO-CSIC–Spanish Institute of Oceanography of the Spanish National Research Council, Vigo, Pontevedra, Spain

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5303-1447

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• Catarina Magalhães

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

  * E-mail: cmagalhaes@ciimar.up.pt

  Affiliations CIIMAR–Interdisciplinary Centre of Marine and Environmental Research, University of Porto, Matosinhos, Portugal, Department of Biology, FCUP–Faculty of Sciences of the University of Porto, Porto, Portugal

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