Microplastics receive significant societal and scientific attention due to increasing concerns
about their impact on the environment and human health. Marine mammals are considered …

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 …

As an algorithm with excellent performance, convolutional neural network has been widely
used in the field of image processing and achieved good results by relying on its own local …

Abstract The Southern Ocean contributes substantially to the global biological carbon pump
(BCP). Salps in the Southern Ocean, in particular Salpa thompsoni, are important grazers …

Bryde's‐like whales are a complex of medium‐sized baleen whales that occur in tropical
waters of all three major ocean basins. Currently, a single species of Bryde's whale …

Large filter-feeding animals are potential sentinels for understanding the extent of
microplastic pollution, as their mode of foraging and prey mean they are continuously …

Dietary and predator–prey studies are more frequently relying on DNA metabarcoding
methods, typically achieving results that have a better taxonomic resolution (eg, species …

Zooplankton biodiversity assessment is a crucial element in monitoring marine ecosystem
processes and community responses to environmental alterations. In order to evaluate the …

Molecular techniques using DNA retrieved from community or environmental samples, in
particular environmental DNA (eDNA), are becoming increasingly popular for detecting …

DNA-based analyses have become powerful tools for characterizing the metazoan
biodiversity of diverse marine ecosystems. Metabarcoding (ie, large-scale taxonomic …