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 …

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 …

Metabarcoding provides a powerful tool for investigating biodiversity and trophic
interactions, but the high sensitivity of this methodology makes it vulnerable to errors …

Ecological understanding of the role of consumer–resource interactions in natural food webs
is limited by the difficulty of accurately and efficiently determining the complex variety of food …

Assessing diet variability is of main importance to better understand the biology of bats and
design conservation strategies. Although the advent of metabarcoding has facilitated such …

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 prevention of non-indigenous aquatic invasive species spreading into new areas is a
goal of many resource managers. New techniques have been developed to survey for …

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 …

The contributions of environmental DNA to ecology are reviewed, focusing on diet, trophic
interactions, species distributions and biodiversity assessment. Environmental DNA has the …

Food webs in agricultural systems are complex and trophic linkages are difficult to track
using conventional methodologies. Here, we review three alternative approaches that allow …