Environmental DNA (eDNA) metabarcoding is a novel method of assessing biodiversity
wherein samples are taken from the environment via water, sediment or air from which DNA …

Studies on the feeding ecology of fish are essential for exploring and contrasting trophic
interactions and population and community dynamics within and among aquatic …

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 …

The application of high‐throughput sequencing‐based approaches to DNA extracted from
environmental samples such as gut contents and faeces has become a popular tool for …

Regime shifts in ecosystem structure and processes are typically studied from a temporal
perspective. Yet, theory predicts that in large ecosystems with environmental gradients …

Although metabarcoding is a well-established tool for describing diversity of pelagic
communities, its quantitative value is still controversial, with poor correlations previously …

Many ecologists have lamented the demise of natural history and have attributed this
decline to a misguided view that natural history is outdated and unscientific. Although there …

Current methods for monitoring marine fish (including bony fishes and elasmobranchs)
diversity mostly rely on trawling surveys, which are invasive, costly, and time‐consuming …

Differences in diet can explain resource partitioning in apparently similar, sympatric species.
Here, we analyzed 1,252 fecal droppings from five species (Eptesicus nilssonii, Myotis …

Under rapid environmental change, opportunistic species may exhibit dramatic increases in
response to the altered conditions, and can in turn have large impacts on the ecosystem …