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  • General Information

  • 1. What is your highest level of academic degree?

  • Where are you currently employed or continuing education?

  • Are you already familiar with plant metabarcoding, or are you interested in conducting a plant metabarcoding study in the future?

  • Which types of plant eDNA samples are of interest to you?

    Select up to 3 options

  • Are you familiar with the FAIR principles (Findable, Accessible, Interoperable, Reusable)?

  • Plant eDNA Metabarcoding Practice and Challanges

  • If you are familiar with the FAIR principles but do not apply them or you are opposed to FAIR data repositories, please briefly explain why.

  • Do you use standardized protocols for sampling eDNA in the field? (Please specify your answer in the "Other" field.)

  • Please specify your answer from the last question.

    Last question: Do you use standardized protocols for sampling eDNA in the field?

  • Do you use standardized protocols for processing eDNA samples in the laboratory? (Please specify your answer in the "Other" field).

  • Please specify your answer from the last question.

    Last question: Do you use standardized protocols for processing eDNA samples in the laboratory?

  • Which plant barcoding region are you using or are you most interested in?

    Select up to 7 options

  • Do you use any open-source bioinformatics software for your analysis? (Please specify your answer in the "Other" field.)

  • Please specify your answer from the previous question.

    Last question: Do you use any open-source bioinformatics software for your analysis?

  • Are you encountering challenges with bioinformatics software?

  • Which reference databases or taxonomic assignment systems are you currently using or would you like to use? (Please specify.)

  • Do you manually perform quality control of your metabarcoding results?

  • Do you submit your sampled and analyzed metabarcoding data to a FAIR repository?

  • Are you in favor of developing standardized best practices for plant metabarcoding? (Please specify.)

  • Would you use established standards for plant metabarcoding if they were available? (Please specify.)

  • What are the biggest obstacles you face in plant eDNA metabarcoding? (Please specify.)

  • Exploring Plant eDNA Metabarcoding

  • What interests you most about plant eDNA metabarcoding?

    Select up to 4 options

  • What are the main reasons you have not yet used plant metabarcoding?

    Select up to 3 options

  • What type of resources would help you get started with plant eDNA metabarcoding?

    Select up to 5 options

  • What would make you more likely to start using plant metabarcoding in your research?