Development and application of DNA techniques for validating and improving pinniped diet estimates

• Published in: Ecological Applications
• Main Authors: Tollit, Dominic J., Schulze, Angela D., Trites, Andrew W., Olesiuk, Peter F., Crockford, Susan J., Gelatt, Thomas S., Ream, Rolf R., Miller, Kristina M.
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Wiley 2009
• Subjects: Atlantic salmon; Oncorhynchus gorbuscha; Salmo salar; Alaska; Aleutian Islands
• Online Access: http://dx.doi.org/10.1890/07-1701.1; https://api.wiley.com/onlinelibrary/tdm/v1/articles/10.1890%2F07-1701.1; https://esajournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1890/07-1701.1

Polymerase chain reaction techniques were developed and applied to identify DNA from >40 species of prey contained in fecal (scat) soft‐part matrix collected at terrestrial sites used by Steller sea lions ( Eumetopias jubatus ) in British Columbia and the eastern Aleutian Islands, Alaska. Sixty p...