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 …

Soaring throughput, plummeting costs, and increased sensitivity for assaying degraded or
low-concentration DNA are driving a revolution in the way that we monitor biodiversity …

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 …

Ecosystem-based management (EBM) is a framework for managing marine resources. EBM
strategies can be evaluated with ecosystem models that represent functional components of …

By depicting who eats whom, food webs offer descriptions of how groupings in nature
(typically species or populations) are linked to each other. For asking questions on how food …

Fish are both consumers and prey, and as such part of a dynamic trophic network.
Measuring how they are trophically linked, both directly and indirectly, to other species is …

Almost all of the world's fisheries overlap spatially and temporally with foraging seabirds,
with impacts that range from food supplementation (through scavenging behind vessels), to …

11 12 It is now seven years since a conference was held at the University of Innsbruck,
Austria, that for the 13 first time was dedicated exclusively to the emerging field of the …

The diet of an individual animal is subject to change over time, both in response to short‐
term food fluctuations and over longer time scales as an individual ages and meets different …

Cryptic speciation among morphologically homogeneous species is a phenomenon
increasingly reported in cosmopolitan marine invertebrates. This situation usually leads to …