A decade after environmental scientists integrated high‐throughput sequencing
technologies in their toolbox, the genomics‐based monitoring of anthropogenic impacts on …

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 …

Assessment of biodiversity using metabarcoding data, such as from bulk or environmental
DNA sampling, is becoming increasingly relevant in ecology, biodiversity sciences and …

Trap-based surveillance strategies are widely used for monitoring of invasive insect species,
aiming to detect newly arrived exotic taxa as well as track the population levels of …

DNA metabarcoding of freshwater communities typically relies on PCR amplification of a
fragment of the mitochondrial cytochrome c oxidase I (COI) gene with degenerate primers …

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 …

Ecological research is often hampered by the inability to quantify animal diets. Diet
composition can be tracked through DNA metabarcoding of fecal samples, but whether …

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

Environmental DNA (eDNA) analyses have become invaluable for detecting and monitoring
aquatic and terrestrial species and assessing site biodiversity within aquatic environments …