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Marine eDNA from the Galápagos Islands

23 sites · 69 samples · September–October 2018

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Jaccard dissimilarity of fish communities

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Fine-Scale Oceanographic Processes Shape Marine Biodiversity Patterns Inferred From Environmental DNA in the Galápagos Islands

Luke E. Holman, Diana A. Pazmiño, Shyam Gopalakrishnan, Alexander Forryan, Alex R. Hearn, Alberto C. Naveira-Garabato, Marc Rius

University of Copenhagen · University of Southampton · Galápagos Science Center USFQ · MigraMar · Universidad San Francisco de Quito · CEAB-CSIC · University of Johannesburg

Diversity and Distributions (2026) 32: e70239 · doi.org/10.1111/ddi.70239 · Open access

Sequence data: ENA PRJEB55415 · Data and code: Zenodo 10.5281/zenodo.10593433