Disentangling the diet composition of Arctic shorebirds? chicks provides a new perspective on trophic mismatches: dataset ...

We use metabarcoding of prey items in faeces to show that chicks of four different shorebird species (red knot, curlew sandpiper, little stint, and red phalarope) strongly differ in their arthropod diet, which may have implications for the calculations of trophic mismatches. ...

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Zhemchuzhnikov, Misha
Format: Dataset
Language:unknown
Published: NIOZ 2022
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Online Access:https://dx.doi.org/10.25850/nioz/7b.b.jd
https://dataportal.nioz.nl/doi/10.25850/nioz/7b.b.jd
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Summary:We use metabarcoding of prey items in faeces to show that chicks of four different shorebird species (red knot, curlew sandpiper, little stint, and red phalarope) strongly differ in their arthropod diet, which may have implications for the calculations of trophic mismatches. ...