AI	Artificial Intelligence
ARGs	Antibiotic Resistance Genes
ASV	Amplicon Sequence Variant
COI	Cytochrome Oxidase I
CRISPR-Cas	Clustered Regularly Interspaced Short Palindromic Repeats–CRISPR-associated proteins
dPCR	Digital Polymerase Chain Reaction
ddPCR	Droplet Digital Polymerase Chain Reaction
eDNA	Environmental DNA
GIS	Geographic Information Systems
ITS	Internal Transcribed Spacer
HEPA	High-Efficiency Particulate Air (filter)
HTS	High-Throughput Sequencing
ISO	International Organization for Standardization
LAMP	Loop-Mediated Isothermal Amplification
RPA	Recombinase Polymerase Amplification
LSTM	Long Short-Term Memory
MIQE	Minimum Information for Publication of Quantitative Real-Time PCR Experiments
NGS	Next Generation Sequencing
OTU	Operational Taxonomic Unit
PCBs	Polychlorinated Biphenyls
PCR	Polymerase Chain Reaction
PM	Particulate Matter
PTFE	Polytetrafluoroethylene
qPCR	Quantitative Polymerase Chain Reaction
US EPA	United States Environmental Protection Agency