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Faeces of generalist predators as ‘biodiversity capsules’: A new tool for biodiversity assessment in remote and inaccess...

Published in Food Webs

Molecular methods are increasingly used to identify prey DNA in predators' faeces to describe diet composition. However, such analysis can reveal much more ecological information. If faeces are regarded as ‘biodiversity capsules’, they can help describe and quantify ecological communities by containing a representative sample of the prey species oc...