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Showing 1 to 2 of 2 for “"fecal DNA metabarcoding"”.
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A System-Level Analysis of Migratory Shorebird Habitat Use, Diet, and the Influence of Climate-Driven Ecosystem Change in the Virginia Barrier Islands
… (May 14 – June 2, 2023 – 2024) and used fecal DNA metabarcoding to examine diet and prey selection on mudflats. Mudflats supported comparable shorebird numbers and invertebrate densities to barrier island sand substrate. The composition of shorebird and invertebrate communities differed …
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Factors affecting Western Atlantic red knots (Calidris canutus rufa) and their prey during spring migration on Virginia's barrier islands
… We compared these prey availability data to prey DNA data obtained from fecal DNA metabarcoding analyses on red knot feces (n = 100) collected on peat and sand substrates between 2017 – 2019. Red knots consumed prey from Orders Veneroida (clams), Mytiloida (mussels), Diptera (flies), and …