This OTU table includes metabardocing dataset on mammal communities detected near Lamto Ecological Research Station, Ivory Coast, from the manuscript titled "Moss as a novel and natural eDNA trap for terrestrial biodiversity monitoring across the tree of life and biomes". These samples were collected investigate the possibility of using moss-derived eDNA for biodiversity monitoring.\n
[This dataset was processed using the GBIF Metabarcoding Data Toolkit.]
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