From presence/absence to reliable prey proportions: A field test of dietary DNA for characterizing seabird diets
G. V. Clucas, A. Stillman, E. C. Craig
This study demonstrates that dietary DNA can quantitatively estimate fish proportions in seabird diets, showing high correlation with biomass observations and outperforming presence/absence metrics.
bioRxiv · Mar 22, 2024 · PreprintEcology