Taxonomy-free approach overcomes the gaps in ecological knowledge: The case of foraminiferal metabarcoding applied to environmental impact assessment

• Vincent M. P. Bouchet ,

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

  * E-mail: vincent.bouchet@univ-lille.fr

  Affiliation Univ. Lille, CNRS, Univ. Littoral Côte d’Opale, IRD, UMR 8187, LOG, Laboratoire d’Océanologie et de Géosciences, Station Marine de Wimereux, Lille, France

  https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5458-1638

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• Fabio Francescangeli,

  Roles Formal analysis, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Geosciences, University of Fribourg, Fribourg, Switzerland

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• Silvia H. M. Sousa,

  Roles Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Instituto Oceanográfico, Universidade de São Paulo, Praça do Oceanográfico, São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8860-9042

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• Márcio S. dos S. de Jesus,

  Roles Investigation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Instituto Oceanográfico, Universidade de São Paulo, Praça do Oceanográfico, São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil

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• Jan Pawlowski,

  Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Validation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Institute of Oceanology, Polish Academy of Sciences, Sopot, Poland, ID-Gene ecodiagnostics, Confignon, Switzerland

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• Fabrizio Frontalini

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

  Affiliation Dipartimento di Scienze Pure e Applicate, Università degli Studi di Urbino “Carlo Bo”, Urbino, Italy

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0425-9306

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