The construction of increasingly detailed species interaction networks is extending the
potential applications of network ecology, providing an opportunity to understand complex …

Dietary metabarcoding has vastly improved our ability to analyse the diets of animals, but it
is hampered by a plethora of technical limitations including potentially reduced data output …

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

Dietary analysis using DNA metabarcoding is a powerful tool that is increasingly being used
to further our knowledge of trophic interactions in highly complex food webs but is not …

DNA metabarcoding is widely used to determine wild animal diets, but whether this
technique provides accurate, quantitative measurements is still under debate. To test our …

Money spiders (Linyphiidae) are an important component of conservation biological control
in cereal crops, but they rely on alternative prey when pests are not abundant, such as …

Understanding the full diet of natural enemies is necessary for evaluating their role as
biocontrol agents, because many enemy species do not only feed on pests but also on other …

Environmental DNA analysis (eDNA) has revolutionized the field of biomonitoring in the past
years. Various sources have been shown to contain eDNA of diverse organisms, for …

Biodiversity is declining at alarming rates worldwide and large-scale monitoring is urgently
needed to understand changes and their drivers. While classical taxonomic identification of …

The urgent need for highly resolved and broad biomonitoring has never been greater as
challenges such as climate change, agricultural intensification and biodiversity loss …