Environmental DNA metabarcoding reveals estuarine benthic community response to nutrient enrichment – Evidence from an in-situ experiment

Highlights

• eDNA-derived communities (18S, rbcL, 16S) responded to nutrient enrichment.
• Responses were sensitive to enrichment level, but varied between estuaries.
• All communities show potential for development of molecular biomonitoring tools.

Keywords

Environmental monitoring, Bacteria 16S, Diatoms rbcL, Eukaryotes 18S, High-throughput sequencing