Conservation Ecology Group, Groningen Institute for Evolutionary Life Sciences, University of Groningen

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Diet information is important for understanding ecological process and trophic interactions. Monitoring the role of specific organisms in ecosystems, especially of those under threats such as insects, is crucial for reporting and mitigating human effects on ecosystems. However, researching something as basic and crucial as diets is surprisingly not straightforward, especially when both prey and predator are small.

Dietary data collection with classic observational methods is not common practice anymore in ecological studies or wildlife monitoring programs. It is time-consuming and costly, or simply unfeasible, and this had led to a scarcity of information on diets. This lack of information is currently being addressed by technological advances in molecular techniques such as DNA metabarcoding, yielding high-throughput and high-resolution dietary information.

To make this wealth of information on diets available to the large community of researchers, wildlife managers and the general public we present DietBank. DietBank is a repository of taxa detected by DNA metabarcoding that were food to another organism, whether an insect, birds, mammal of fish.

DietBank contains sample metadata, taxonomically assigned DNA sequence variants, and quantitative information on the occurrence and abundance of each variant in each sample.

DietBank can be queried to summarize diet overviews but can also be mined for local biodiversity, trophic interactions, and specific species interactions. We recommend DietBank as a tool for ecological assessments, study design, or to simply be browsed to reveal the wonders of the natural world.

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