Gaoligong mountains water eDNA metabarcoding data
We report here a large-scale attempt to use aquatic environmental DNA (eDNA) metabarcoding to survey vertebrate communities across a 30,000 km2 protected-area complex along the China-Myanmar border in the Gaoligong Mountains. Our goal was to demonstrate how eDNA metabarcoding provides a scalable method for obtaining high-quality, granular, timely, and trustworthy data on species distributions.