Sedimentary DNA is a promising indicator of the abundance of marine benthos: Insights from the burrowing decapod Upogebia major

• Kyosuke Kitabatake ,

  Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – original draft

  * E-mail: kyosuke.kitabatake@gmail.com

  Affiliations Graduate School of Science, Toho University, Funabashi, Chiba, Japan, Faculty and Graduate School of Education, Chiba University, Chiba, Japan, Department of Science, Tokyo Bay Ecosystem Research Center, Toho University, Funabashi, Chiba, Japan

  https://orcid.org/0009-0006-4150-9622

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• Kentaro Izumi,

  Roles Funding acquisition, Investigation

  Affiliation Faculty and Graduate School of Education, Chiba University, Chiba, Japan

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• Natsuko Ito-Kondo,

  Roles Formal analysis, Methodology

  Affiliation Biodiversity Division, National Institute for Environmental Studies, Tsukuba, Ibaraki, Japan

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• Kenji Okoshi

  Roles Investigation, Supervision

  Affiliations Graduate School of Science, Toho University, Funabashi, Chiba, Japan, Department of Science, Tokyo Bay Ecosystem Research Center, Toho University, Funabashi, Chiba, Japan

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