Insects are crucial for ecosystem health but climate change and pesticide use are driving
massive insect decline. To mitigate this loss, we need new and effective monitoring …

The accurate extraction of species‐abundance information from DNA‐based data
(metabarcoding, metagenomics) could contribute usefully to diet analysis and food‐web …

Although interest in Acanthocephala seems to have reached only a small community of
researchers worldwide, we show in this opinion article that this group of parasites is …

Accurate knowledge of a species' diets is fundamental to understand their ecological
requirements. Next-generation sequencing technology has become a powerful and non …

Studies providing a detailed diet description of whole-bird communities are surprisingly
scarce. Yet, these studies are pivotal to comprehend the mechanisms structuring …

Seasonality affects the availability of resources within the African non-breeding environment
of migratory songbirds. We are generally unaware of how songbirds respond to such …

The authors assessed the importance of the round goby Neogobius melanostomus as prey
for three native predatory fish species, Atlantic cod Gadus morhua, European perch Perca …

Tundra arthropods are of considerable ecological importance as a seasonal food source for
many arctic‐breeding birds. Dietary composition and food preferences are rarely known …

Invasive buffel grass (Cenchrus ciliaris) is considered a threat to the critically endangered
northern hairy‐nosed wombat (Lasiorhinus krefftii; NHW). Buffel grass outcompetes native …

With rapid climate change over the past decades, organisms living in seasonal
environments are suggested to increasingly face trophic mismatches: the disruption of …