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 …

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 …

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

Exhaustive biodiversity data, covering all the taxa in an environment, would be fundamental
to understand how global changes influence organisms living at different trophic levels, and …

With the advent of DNA sequencing‐based techniques, the way we detect and measure
biodiversity is undergoing a radical shift. There is also an increasing awareness of the need …

The construction of increasingly detailed species interaction networks is extending the
potential applications of network ecology, providing an opportunity to understand complex …

Food authentication using molecular techniques is of great importance to fight food fraud.
Metabarcoding, based on the next‐generation sequencing (NGS) technologies, allowing …

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 …

Metabarcoding analysis using environmental DNA (eDNA) is increasingly being used for
monitoring biota. However, knowledge regarding abundance of fish environmental RNA …

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 …