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Unraveling Fish Community Diversity and Structure in the Yellow Sea: Evidence from Environmental DNA Metabarcoding and Bottom Trawling.

Jinyong Zhang, Xiaoyu Cui, Lin Lin, Yuan Liu, Jinqing Ye, Weiyue Zhang, Hongjun Li

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Jinyong ZhangState Environmental Protection Key Laboratory of Coastal Ecosystem, National Marine Environmental Monitoring Center, Dalian 116023, China.
Xiaoyu CuiCollege of Aquatic and Life Sciences, Dalian Ocean University, Dalian 116023, China.
Lin LinKey Laboratory of South China Sea Fishery Resources Exploitation and Utilization, Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs, South China Sea Fisheries Research Institute, Chinese Academy of Fishery Sciences, Guangzhou 510300, China.
Yuan LiuState Environmental Protection Key Laboratory of Coastal Ecosystem, National Marine Environmental Monitoring Center, Dalian 116023, China.
Jinqing YeState Environmental Protection Key Laboratory of Coastal Ecosystem, National Marine Environmental Monitoring Center, Dalian 116023, China.
Weiyue ZhangCollege of Marine Ecology and Environment, Shanghai Ocean University, Shanghai 201306, China.
Hongjun LiState Environmental Protection Key Laboratory of Coastal Ecosystem, National Marine Environmental Monitoring Center, Dalian 116023, China.

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National Key Research and Development Program of China; the Fund of Key Laboratory of South China Sea Fishery Resources Exploitation and Utilization, Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs, P. R. China; Doctoral Research Initiation of Foundation of Nat 2024YFF0808802; FREU2020-03; 2020-A-06
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Abstract

The use of environmental DNA (eDNA) metabarcoding to analyze fish species diversity across different aquatic ecosystems is well documented. Nonetheless, there is a gap in validating eDNA metabarcoding studies on the diversity and structure of fish communities in coastal ecosystems, particularly in comparing these findings with bottom trawl catch data. In this study, we employed eDNA metabarcoding to explore species composition and relative abundance in fish communities, taxonomic-level diversity variations, and the interplay between community structures and environmental factors in the Yellow Sea and compared these results with those obtained from bottom trawl catches. In addition, we compared the various methods used to estimate the distributions of taxonomic, phylogenetic, and functional diversity factors. We found that eDNA metabarcoding detected a greater number of species (86 vs. 41), genera (73 vs. 37), and families (42 vs. 25) than bottom trawl results at each sampling station. eDNA metabarcoding provided higher Shannon, Simpson, and Chao1 alpha diversity indices than the bottom trawl results. The PCoA results showed that eDNA metabarcoding samples could be more clearly separated at the sampling sites in the Zhuanghe (ZH) and Lianyungang (LYG) areas than bottom trawling samples. The RDA analysis indicated that temperature, along with NO3- and NH

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