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Table 3 The alpha diversity for both traditional surveys (September and May) and the event 9 (September) and event 21 (May) eDNA surveying events

From: Airborne environmental DNA metabarcoding detects more diversity, with less sampling effort, than a traditional plant community survey

Alpha diversity

Site/spoke number

Sep. Trad. survey

May Trad. survey

Sep. eDNA event

May eDNA event

1

24

32

1

10

2

31

46

1

17

3

21

31

15

20

4

35

51

20

21

5

37

43

27

23

6

20

30

19

20

7

31

42

14

10

8

29

42

15

13

9

23

33

24

13