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After reading the rebuttal letter and the revised manuscript by myself, I can now confirm that the authors have appropriately addressed all of the reviewers’ concerns. However, I’d like to suggest some final changes to be made by the authors:
The Materials & Methods section is still too long (with almost 5000 words). I’d recommend at least moving sections 2.6.1 and 2.6.2 (on eDNA sampling) to the SI as well. Besides, I believe the authors have moved section 2.6.7 (on controlling for contamination) to the SI but forgot to remove the same section from the main text. Please kindly correct this.
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