Data from: The diet of Myotis lucifugus across Canada: assessing foraging quality and diet variability ...
Variation in prey resources influences the diet and behaviour of predators. When prey become limiting, predators may travel farther to find preferred food or adjust to existing local resources. When predators are habitat limited, local resource abundance impacts foraging success. We analysed the die...
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ftdatacite:10.5061/dryad.6b183 2024-02-04T10:03:21+01:00 Data from: The diet of Myotis lucifugus across Canada: assessing foraging quality and diet variability ... Clare, Elizabeth L. Symondson, William O. C. Broders, Hugh Fabianek, François Frazer, Erin E. MacKenzie, Alistair Boughen, Andrew Hamilton, Rachel Willis, Craig K. R. Martinez-Nuñez, Felix Menzies, Allyson K. Norquay, Kaleigh J. O. Brigham, Mark Poissant, Joseph Rintoul, Jody Barclay, Robert M. R. Reimer, Jesika P. Fraser, Erin E. 2013 https://dx.doi.org/10.5061/dryad.6b183 https://datadryad.org/stash/dataset/doi:10.5061/dryad.6b183 en eng Dryad https://dx.doi.org/10.1111/mec.12542 Creative Commons Zero v1.0 Universal https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/legalcode cc0-1.0 spatial-temporal variation Myotis lucifugus Species interactions resource use molecular diet analysis Dataset dataset 2013 ftdatacite https://doi.org/10.5061/dryad.6b18310.1111/mec.12542 2024-01-05T01:14:15Z Variation in prey resources influences the diet and behaviour of predators. When prey become limiting, predators may travel farther to find preferred food or adjust to existing local resources. When predators are habitat limited, local resource abundance impacts foraging success. We analysed the diet of Myotis lucifugus (little brown bats) from Nova Scotia (eastern Canada) to the Northwest Territories (north-western Canada). This distribution includes extremes of season length and temperature and encompasses colonies on rural monoculture farms, and in urban and unmodified areas. We recognized nearly 600 distinct species of prey, of which ≈30% could be identified using reference sequence libraries. We found a higher than expected use of lepidopterans, which comprised a range of dietary richness from ≈35% early in the summer to ≈55% by late summer. Diptera were the second largest prey group consumed, representing ≈45% of dietary diversity early in the summer. We observed extreme local dietary variability and ... : Main Sequence DataMOTU_BLASTSupplement - Montmorency ForestSupplement - Aiguebelle_National_ParkDryad Read Me File ... Dataset Northwest Territories DataCite Metadata Store (German National Library of Science and Technology) Canada Northwest Territories |
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spatial-temporal variation Myotis lucifugus Species interactions resource use molecular diet analysis Clare, Elizabeth L. Symondson, William O. C. Broders, Hugh Fabianek, François Frazer, Erin E. MacKenzie, Alistair Boughen, Andrew Hamilton, Rachel Willis, Craig K. R. Martinez-Nuñez, Felix Menzies, Allyson K. Norquay, Kaleigh J. O. Brigham, Mark Poissant, Joseph Rintoul, Jody Barclay, Robert M. R. Reimer, Jesika P. Fraser, Erin E. Data from: The diet of Myotis lucifugus across Canada: assessing foraging quality and diet variability ... |
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Variation in prey resources influences the diet and behaviour of predators. When prey become limiting, predators may travel farther to find preferred food or adjust to existing local resources. When predators are habitat limited, local resource abundance impacts foraging success. We analysed the diet of Myotis lucifugus (little brown bats) from Nova Scotia (eastern Canada) to the Northwest Territories (north-western Canada). This distribution includes extremes of season length and temperature and encompasses colonies on rural monoculture farms, and in urban and unmodified areas. We recognized nearly 600 distinct species of prey, of which ≈30% could be identified using reference sequence libraries. We found a higher than expected use of lepidopterans, which comprised a range of dietary richness from ≈35% early in the summer to ≈55% by late summer. Diptera were the second largest prey group consumed, representing ≈45% of dietary diversity early in the summer. We observed extreme local dietary variability and ... : Main Sequence DataMOTU_BLASTSupplement - Montmorency ForestSupplement - Aiguebelle_National_ParkDryad Read Me File ... |
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Clare, Elizabeth L. Symondson, William O. C. Broders, Hugh Fabianek, François Frazer, Erin E. MacKenzie, Alistair Boughen, Andrew Hamilton, Rachel Willis, Craig K. R. Martinez-Nuñez, Felix Menzies, Allyson K. Norquay, Kaleigh J. O. Brigham, Mark Poissant, Joseph Rintoul, Jody Barclay, Robert M. R. Reimer, Jesika P. Fraser, Erin E. |
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Clare, Elizabeth L. Symondson, William O. C. Broders, Hugh Fabianek, François Frazer, Erin E. MacKenzie, Alistair Boughen, Andrew Hamilton, Rachel Willis, Craig K. R. Martinez-Nuñez, Felix Menzies, Allyson K. Norquay, Kaleigh J. O. Brigham, Mark Poissant, Joseph Rintoul, Jody Barclay, Robert M. R. Reimer, Jesika P. Fraser, Erin E. |
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Data from: The diet of Myotis lucifugus across Canada: assessing foraging quality and diet variability ... |
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data from: the diet of myotis lucifugus across canada: assessing foraging quality and diet variability ... |
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