Abstract: The Andaman Islands represent one of the Indo-Pacific's most ecologically significant marine environments, which supports various elasmobranch communities. The two elasmobranch groups that exist there face multiple threats, such as overfishing and habitat destruction, and the illegal wildlife trade. The traditional underwater visual census and longline survey methods fail to detect these animals in complex reef and seagrass habitats, which results.........
Keywords: environmental DNA, eDNA metabarcoding, elasmobranchs, Andaman Islands, marine biodiversity, shark conservation
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