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Frontiers in Marine Science, 2020 Reptile growth is influenced by many ecological processes that can cumulatively give rise to divergent somatic growth rates within spatially structured populations.
Matthew D. Ramirez +5 more
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Ecosphere, 2021 DNA metabarcoding has become a powerful technique for identifying the species present in a bulk environmental sample. The application of DNA metabarcoding to wildlife diet analysis is a particularly promising tool for exploring trophic interactions.
Aimee L. Massey +4 more
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Ecologies, 2021 Ozark hellbenders (Cryptobranchus alleganiensis bishopi) have undergone marked population declines across their entire distribution. A variety of ecological life history research has been conducted to determine the cause(s) of the declines. Historically,
Waylon Hiler +6 more
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Assessing grey seal (Halichoerus grypus) diet in western Scotland [PDF]
, 2008 Grey seal diet was last comprehensively studied in western Scotland in 1985. Since then, the grey seal population has increased by approximately 30% and relative abundance of fish stocks in the area has changed markedly.
Harris, R.N.
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FACETS, 2019 Marine plastic pollution is an environmental contaminant of significant concern. There is a lack of consistency in sample collection and processing that continues to impede meta-analyses and large-scale comparisons across time and space. This is true for
Jennifer F. Provencher +8 more
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Metabarcoding dietary analysis in the insectivorous bat Nyctalus leisleri and implications for conservation [PDF]
Biodiversity Data Journal, 2023 In this study, we aim to uncover diet preferences for the insectivorous bat Nyctalus leisleri (Leisler's bat, the lesser noctule) and to provide recommendations for conservation of the species, based on the analysis of prey source habitats. Using a novel
Sarah Bourlat +8 more
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Identification of groups who report similar patterns of diet among a representative national sample of British adults aged 65 years of age or more. [PDF]
, 2001 OBJECTIVES: Using a national representative sample to identify groups within the UK male and female population over 65 years who report similar patterns of diet.
Pryer, JA, Cook, A, Shetty, P
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Isotopic analysis reveals landscape patterns in the diet of a subsidized predator, the common raven
Ecological Solutions and Evidence, 2021 Anthropogenic subsidies to native predators can have cascading effects on sensitive prey populations, but the spatial mechanisms behind these effects are often unknown.
Seth Harju +3 more
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An assessment of diet overlap of two mesocarnivores in the North-West Province, South Africa [PDF]
, 2009 We used scat analysis to study the diet of two sympatric medium-sized carnivores: brown hyaena and black-backed jackal, in the NorthWest Province of South Africa.
Craig J. Tambling +33 more
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Fecal microbiota and diets of muskox female adults and calves
Ecology and Evolution, 2022 In mammals, the gut microbiome is vertically transmitted during maternal lactation at birth. In this study, we investigated the gut microbiome and diets of muskox, a large herbivore inhabiting in the high Arctic.
Ji‐Yeon Cheon +5 more
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