Moose omics dataframe ...
With accelerated land conversion and global heating at northern latitudes, it becomes crucial to understand, how life histories of animals in extreme environments adapt to these changes. Animals may either adapt by adjusting foraging behaviour or through physiological responses, including adjusting...
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Dryad
2021
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| Online Access: | https://dx.doi.org/10.5061/dryad.9s4mw6mfr https://datadryad.org/stash/dataset/doi:10.5061/dryad.9s4mw6mfr |
| Summary: | With accelerated land conversion and global heating at northern latitudes, it becomes crucial to understand, how life histories of animals in extreme environments adapt to these changes. Animals may either adapt by adjusting foraging behaviour or through physiological responses, including adjusting their energy metabolism or both. Until now, it has been difficult to study such adaptations in free ranging animals due to methodological constraints that prevent extensive spatiotemporal coverage of ecological and physiological data. Through a novel approach of combining DNA-metabarcoding and nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR)-based metabolomics, we aim to elucidate the links between diets and metabolism in Scandinavian moose Alces alces over three biogeographic zones using a unique dataset of 265 marked individuals. Based on 17 diet items, we identified four different classes of diet types that match browse species availability in respective ecoregions in northern Sweden. Individuals in the boreal zone consumed ... : Datum = capture date when animal was sampled AgeCapt = animal age at capture Pregnancy = pregnancy status ( (0=unknown, 1=pregn, 2=not pregn, M=male) NrCalfs = number of calves at heel; blank fields are unknowns or males Special = main diet type (>60%) based on diet compostion assessed via DNA-metabarcoding; 'Generalist' diets do not contain items at proportions >60%. H_freq_all = diet diversity based on full diet composition Height = elevation of capture location (a.s.l.) ------------------------------------- 7 main diet items included as proportions 97 metaboltes included based on the ppm value ... |
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