Environmental DNA (eDNA) metabarcoding is a novel method of assessing biodiversity
wherein samples are taken from the environment via water, sediment or air from which DNA …

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

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 …

Background DNA barcodes are a useful tool for discovering, understanding, and monitoring
biodiversity which are critical tasks at a time of rapid biodiversity loss. However, widespread …

DNA metabarcoding, especially when coupled with high‐through‐put DNA sequencing, is
currently revolutionizing our capacity to assess biodiversity across a full range of taxa and …

The world is struggling to solve a devastating biodiversity loss that not only affects the
extinction of treasured species and irreplaceable genetic variation, but also jeopardizes the …

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 …

DNA metabarcoding offers new perspectives in biodiversity research. This recently
developed approach to ecosystem study relies heavily on the use of next‐generation …

Rapid changes of the biosphere observed in recent years are caused by both small and
large scale drivers, like shifts in temperature, transformations in land-use, or changes in the …

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