Effective conservation of species and ecosystems requires the understanding of important
ecological traits, such as dietary habits, food webs, and trophic niches. In diet studies, the …

Fine‐scale estimation of trophic interactions is an important subject in the field of ecology.
Diet analysis based on fecal DNA metabarcoding has been accepted as a noninvasive …

Advances in DNA sequencing technology have revolutionized the field of molecular analysis
of trophic interactions, and it is now possible to recover counts of food DNA sequences from …

The past 30 years have seen several paradigm shifts in our understanding of how ocean
ecosystems function. Now recent technological advances add to an overwhelming body of …

Fulmars are effective biological indicators of the abundance of floating plastic marine debris.
Long-term data reveal high plastic abundance in the southern North Sea, gradually …

Fish biodiversity can be measured by capturing and then sequencing free DNA present in
water. Such environmental DNA (eDNA) methods offer an effective, noninvasive tool for …

The decreasing cost and increasing scope and power of emerging genomic technologies
are reshaping the field of molecular ecology. However, many modern genomic approaches …

DNA metabarcoding is a promising approach for rapidly surveying biodiversity and is likely
to become an important tool for measuring ecosystem responses to environmental change …

Identifying the composition of avian diets is a critical step in characterizing the roles of birds
within ecosystems. However, because birds are a diverse taxonomic group with equally …

The application of DNA metabarcoding to dietary analysis of trophic generalists requires
using multiple markers in order to overcome problems of primer specificity and bias …