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 …

Spiders are among the dominant invertebrate predators in agricultural systems and are
significant regulators of insect pests. The precise dynamics of biocontrol of pests in the field …

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 …

Null models provide a valuable baseline against which fundamental ecological hypotheses
can be tested and foraging choices that cannot be explained by neutral processes or …

The diet of an individual animal is subject to change over time, both in response to short‐
term food fluctuations and over longer time scales as an individual ages and meets different …

Modern agricultural pest management systems rely on naturally occurring generalist
predators to promote pest suppression. Still, little research has been done to assess their …