Coastal Biodiversity Monitoring in the Eastern Shore Islands Area of Interest using Environmental DNA - 2023

The records contained here include eDNA metabarcoding results from the 12S (targeting fish) and COI (targeting general biodiversity) markers. At each of five coastal sampling stations we conduct beach seining to catch and measure fish, and collect water samples for eDNA metabarcoding.

Beach seining and eDNA can complement one another, since neither method will capture every species found at the sampling sites on their own.