Conserving biodiversity in the face of ever-increasing human pressure is hampered by our
lack of basic information on species occurrence, distribution, abundance, habitat …

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

Mitochondrial genome (mitogenome) plays important roles in evolutionary and ecological
studies. It becomes routine to utilize multiple genes on mitogenome or the entire …

Advances in DNA sequencing technology have revolutionized the field of molecular analysis
of trophic interactions, and it is now possible to recover counts of food DNA sequences from …

Metabarcoding of environmental samples has many challenges and limitations that require
carefully considered laboratory and analysis workflows to ensure reliable results. We …

Vast global declines of freshwater and marine fish diversity and population abundance pose
serious threats to both ecosystem sustainability and human livelihoods. Environmental DNA …

Determining diet is a key prerequisite for understanding species interactions, food web
structure and ecological dynamics. In recent years, there has been considerable …

Metabarcoding has been used in a range of ecological applications such as taxonomic
assignment, dietary analysis and the analysis of environmental DNA. However, after a …

Global biodiversity in freshwater and the oceans is declining at high rates. Reliable tools for
assessing and monitoring aquatic biodiversity, especially for rare and secretive species, are …

The continuous decline in Earth's biodiversity represents a major crisis and challenge for the
21st century, and there is international political agreement to slow down or halt this decline …