Faeces of generalist predators as 'biodiversity capsules': A new tool for biodiversity assessment in remote and inaccessible habitats

Food Webs

Volumn 3, Issue , 2015, Pages 1-6

  Boyer, Stéphane ^a,b   Cruickshank, Robert H ^b   Wratten, Stephen D ^b  

^a UNITEC INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (New Zealand)

^b LINCOLN UNIVERSITY   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

Biodiversity discovery; DNA barcoding; EDNA; Generalist predators; Molecular diet analyses; Next generation sequencing; Optimal foraging theory

Indexed keywords

HEXAPODA; INVERTEBRATA;

EID: 84954082340     PISSN: None     EISSN: 23522496     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.fooweb.2015.02.001     Document Type: Article

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