The past 30 years have seen several paradigm shifts in our understanding of how ocean
ecosystems function. Now recent technological advances add to an overwhelming body of …

DNA metabarcoding of food in animal scats provides a non‐invasive dietary analysis
method for vertebrates. A variety of molecular approaches can be used to recover dietary …

Gelatinous zooplankton are a large component of the animal biomass in all marine
environments, but are considered to be uncommon in the diet of most marine top predators …

Jellyfish and other pelagic gelatinous organisms (“gelata”) are increasingly perceived as an
important component of marine food webs but remain poorly understood. Their importance …

The monitoring of plastic pollution through marine biota is a difficult task, which is receiving
increasing attention nowadays. A selection of appropriate bioindicator species for plastic …

Antarctica is home to numerous species that are vulnerable to environmental change, and
assessing species responses requires long-term monitoring. However, Antarctica's extreme …

DNA metabarcoding is a molecular technique frequently used to characterize diet
composition of insectivorous birds. However, results are sensitive to methodological …

Recent studies have highlighted the presence of antibiotic resistance genes (ARGs) in
Antarctica, which are typically indicative of human activity. However, these studies have …

High precision, high coverage DNA-based diet analysis tools allow great insight into the
food web interactions of cryptic taxa. We used DNA fecal-metabarcoding to look for …

Hummingbirds consume sugars from nectar, sap and honeydew, and obtain protein, fat and
minerals from arthropods. To date, the identity of arthropod taxa in hummingbird diets has …