Feeding ecology of fishes: an overview of worldwide publications

RR Braga, H Bornatowski, JRS Vitule - Reviews in Fish Biology and …, 2012 - Springer
The impact of human activity is evident in the depletion of fish populations worldwide. This
being the case, there is an urgent need to discover the true biodiversity of the world before …

A new versatile primer set targeting a short fragment of the mitochondrial COI region for metabarcoding metazoan diversity: application for characterizing coral reef fish …

M Leray, JY Yang, CP Meyer, SC Mills, N Agudelo… - Frontiers in …, 2013 - Springer
Introduction The PCR-based analysis of homologous genes has become one of the most
powerful approaches for species detection and identification, particularly with the recent …

Reconstructing hyperdiverse food webs: Gut content metabarcoding as a tool to disentangle trophic interactions on coral reefs

JM Casey, CP Meyer, F Morat, SJ Brandl… - Methods in Ecology …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Anthropogenic stressors have strong impacts on ecosystems. To understand their influence,
detailed knowledge about trophic relationships among species is critical. However, this …

Pair-formation in coral reef fishes: an ecological perspective

RN Hughes, DJ Hughes… - Oceanography and Marine …, 2014 - api.taylorfrancis.com
Pair-formation is a common social system among animals. However, the use of the term
'pairformation'is often ambiguous, and the assumed reproductive importance of pairing often …

Metabarcoding dietary analysis of coral dwelling predatory fish demonstrates the minor contribution of coral mutualists to their highly partitioned, generalist diet

M Leray, CP Meyer, SC Mills - PeerJ, 2015 - peerj.com
Understanding the role of predators in food webs can be challenging in highly diverse
predator/prey systems composed of small cryptic species. DNA based dietary analysis can …

[PDF][PDF] Stomach content analysis in freshwater fish feeding ecology

P Manko - University of Prešov, 2016 - researchgate.net
Central to the study of animal ecology is the usage an animal makes of its environment
(Johnson 1980). Animal populations need adequate quantities of usable resources to …

Dietary and habitat niche partitioning in congeneric cryptobenthic reef fish species

SJ Brandl, JM Casey, CP Meyer - Coral Reefs, 2020 - Springer
Ecological niches hold critical information concerning the eco-evolutionary dynamics that
govern biodiversity and abundance patterns. Cryptobenthic reef fishes account for …

Partitioning of diet between species and life history stages of sympatric and cryptic snappers (Lutjanidae) based on DNA metabarcoding

M Takahashi, JD DiBattista, S Jarman, SJ Newman… - Scientific Reports, 2020 - nature.com
Lutjanus erythropterus and L. malabaricus are sympatric, sister taxa that are important to
fisheries throughout the Indo-Pacific. Their juveniles are morphologically indistinguishable …

Congruent trophic pathways underpin global coral reef food webs

C Pozas-Schacre, JM Casey… - Proceedings of the …, 2021 - National Acad Sciences
Ecological interactions uphold ecosystem structure and functioning. However, as species
richness increases, the number of possible interactions rises exponentially. More than 6,000 …

Moorea BIOCODE barcode library as a tool for understanding predator–prey interactions: insights into the diet of common predatory coral reef fishes

M Leray, JT Boehm, SC Mills, CP Meyer - Coral reefs, 2012 - Springer
Identifying species involved in consumer–resource interactions is one of the main limitations
in the construction of food webs. DNA barcoding of prey items in predator guts provides a …