[HTML][HTML] Quantitative overview of marine debris ingested by marine megafauna

S Kühn, JA Van Franeker - Marine pollution bulletin, 2020 - Elsevier
This review quantifies plastic interaction in marine biota. Firstly, entanglement and ingestion
records for all marine birds, mammals, turtles, fish, and invertebrate species, are …

Recommended best practices for plastic and litter ingestion studies in marine birds: Collection, processing, and reporting

JF Provencher, SB Borrelle, AL Bond, JL Lavers… - Facets, 2019 - facetsjournal.com
Marine plastic pollution is an environmental contaminant of significant concern. There is a
lack of consistency in sample collection and processing that continues to impede meta …

Counting with DNA in metabarcoding studies: How should we convert sequence reads to dietary data?

BE Deagle, AC Thomas, JC McInnes… - Molecular …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
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 …

Recent Bayesian stable‐isotope mixing models are highly sensitive to variation in discrimination factors

AL Bond, AW Diamond - Ecological Applications, 2011 - Wiley Online Library
Stable isotopes are now used widely in ecological studies, including diet reconstruction,
where quantitative inferences about diet composition are derived from the use of mixing …

Causes and consequences of individual variability and specialization in foraging and migration strategies of seabirds

RA Phillips, S Lewis, J González-Solís… - Marine Ecology Progress …, 2017 - int-res.com
Technological advances in recent years have seen an explosion of tracking and stable
isotope studies of seabirds, often involving repeated measures from the same individuals …

Current methods and future directions in avian diet analysis

BD Hoenig, AM Snider, AM Forsman, KA Hobson… - The Auk, 2022 - academic.oup.com
Identifying the composition of avian diets is a critical step in characterizing the roles of birds
within ecosystems. However, because birds are a diverse taxonomic group with equally …

Pyrosequencing faecal DNA to determine diet of little penguins: is what goes in what comes out?

BE Deagle, A Chiaradia, J McInnes, SN Jarman - Conservation Genetics, 2010 - Springer
DNA barcoding of faeces or stomach contents is an emerging approach for dietary analysis.
We pyrosequenced mtDNA 16S markers amplified from faeces of captive little penguins …

Advancing the integration of multi‐marker metabarcoding data in dietary analysis of trophic generalists

LP da Silva, VA Mata, PB Lopes… - Molecular Ecology …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
The application of DNA metabarcoding to dietary analysis of trophic generalists requires
using multiple markers in order to overcome problems of primer specificity and bias …

Black-legged kittiwakes as messengers of Atlantification in the Arctic

M Vihtakari, J Welcker, B Moe, O Chastel, S Tartu… - Scientific Reports, 2018 - nature.com
Climate warming is rapidly altering marine ecosystems towards a more temperate state on
the European side of the Arctic. However, this “Atlantification” has rarely been confirmed, as …

The trophodynamics of marine top predators: current knowledge, recent advances and challenges

JW Young, BPV Hunt, TR Cook, JK Llopiz… - Deep Sea Research …, 2015 - Elsevier
We review present understanding of the spatial and temporal diet variability
(trophodynamics) of a range of pelagic marine top predators, at both early and adult life …