Translocations are the human-mediated movements of living organisms for conservation
and non-conservation purposes. Conservation translocations have become popular and …

Arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi (AMF; phylum Gomeromycota) associate with plants forming
one of the most successful microbe–plant associations. The fungi promote plant diversity …

A plethora of studies have offered crucial insights in the phylogeographic status of Western
Palearctic bird species. However, an overview integrating all this information and analyzing …

In diet metabarcoding analyses, insufficient taxonomic coverage of PCR primer sets
generates false negatives that may dramatically distort biodiversity estimates. In this paper …

Raptors are popular and iconic birds, and are important ecologically, with some species
listed as threatened. Yet they are among the most difficult birds to identify. This fully updated …

Disturbance of wildlife by ecotourism has become a major concern in the last decades. In
the Mediterranean, sea‐based tourism and related recreational activities are increasing …

The main objective of this work was to develop and validate a robust and reliable “from‐
benchtop‐to‐desktop” metabarcoding workflow to investigate the diet of invertebrate‐eaters …

Most large raptors on migration avoid crossing the sea because of the lack of atmospheric
convection over temperate seas. The osprey Pandion haliaetus is an exception among …

The owl family Tytonidae comprises two genera: Phodilus, limited to the forests of central
Africa and South-East Asia, and the ubiquitous Tyto. The genus Tyto is majorly represented …

The existence of substantial morphological variation has resulted in the description of
numerous subspecies of the cosmopolitan barn owl, Tyto alba. However, preliminary studies …