Environmental DNA can act as a biodiversity barometer of anthropogenic pressures in coastal ecosystems.

For class Anthozoa at the genus level, we noted an increasing trend in the proportion of sequences with anthropogenic pressure for Anthopleura (speciose genus of sea anemones), Palythoa (sand-encrusted colonial anemone), and Zoanthus (non-sand-encrusted colonial anemone).

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