Maria Beger

Apr 28, 2024 | biorxiv.org | Elizabeth Boyse |Kevin Robinson |Ian Carr |Maria Beger

AbstractImproved understanding of biotic interactions is necessary to accurately predict the vulnerability of ecosystems to climate change. Recently, co-occurrence networks built from environmental DNA (eDNA) metabarcoding data have been advocated as a means to explore interspecific interactions in ecological communities exposed to different human and environmental pressures.

Dec 23, 2023 | biorxiv.org | Elizabeth Boyse |Kevin Robinson |Maria Beger |Ian Carr

AbstractMarine mammal foraging grounds are popular focal points for marine protected area (MPA) implementation, but may be temporally dynamic, requiring continuous monitoring to infer prey availability and abundance. Marine mammal distributions are assumed to be driven by their prey in foraging areas, but limited understanding of prey distributions often prevents us from exploring how shifting prey availability impacts both seasonal and long-term marine mammal distributions.