The analysis of food webs and their dynamics facilitates understanding of the mechanistic
processes behind community ecology and ecosystem functions. Having accurate techniques …

DNA barcoding is a technique for identifying organisms based on a short, standardized
fragment of genomic DNA. The standardized sequence region is called a DNA barcode …

Critical knowledge gaps about environmental fate and unintentional effects of currently used
pesticides (CUPs) hamper the understanding and mitigation of their global impacts on …

Multiplex PCR is a valuable tool in many biological studies but it is a multifaceted procedure
that has to be planned and optimised thoroughly to achieve robust and meaningful results …

Diet analysis is a prerequisite to fully understand the biology of a species and the
functioning of ecosystems. For carnivores, traditional diet analyses mostly rely upon the …

Food webs in agricultural systems are complex and trophic linkages are difficult to track
using conventional methodologies. Here, we review three alternative approaches that allow …

Assuring future food productivity and security will require that better use is made of pest
regulation provided by naturally occurring ecological services. However, empirical evidence …

Predicting whether a predator is capable of affecting the dynamics of a prey species in the
field implies the analysis of the complete diet of the predator, not simply rates of predation on …

Waste production became the main concern in the era of the increasing world population.
Millions of tons of waste are being generated everyday worldwide, and now, it is a big …

Molecular gut‐content analysis enables detection of arthropod predation with minimal
disruption of ecosystem processes. Most assays produce only qualitative results, with each …