The diet of Myotis lucifugus across Canada: assessing foraging quality and diet variability. ...
(Uploaded by Plazi for the Bat Literature Project) Abstract 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 reso...
Main Authors: | , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , |
---|---|
Format: | Article in Journal/Newspaper |
Language: | unknown |
Published: |
Zenodo
2014
|
Subjects: | |
Online Access: | https://dx.doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.13411553 https://zenodo.org/doi/10.5281/zenodo.13411553 |
id |
ftdatacite:10.5281/zenodo.13411553 |
---|---|
record_format |
openpolar |
spelling |
ftdatacite:10.5281/zenodo.13411553 2024-09-15T18:26:37+00:00 The diet of Myotis lucifugus across Canada: assessing foraging quality and diet variability. ... Clare, Elizabeth L. Symondson, William O. C. Broders, Hugh Fabianek, François Fraser, 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. 2014 https://dx.doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.13411553 https://zenodo.org/doi/10.5281/zenodo.13411553 unknown Zenodo hash://md5/3707d055640c50d45e094dbc180ed2ad hash://sha256/91aad1b4506b8bb51771933ed94ca4076f2c177935edd399dd229de4b3cd0b41 zotero://select/groups/5435545/items/DKLQ2NDK https://zotero.org/groups/5435545/items/DKLQ2NDK https://linker.bio/cut:hash://md5/2c81df38414a5787b9e834b637007f2e!/b232116-234559 hash://md5/26f7ce5dd404e33c6570edd4ba250d20 hash://md5/3707d055640c50d45e094dbc180ed2ad hash://sha256/91aad1b4506b8bb51771933ed94ca4076f2c177935edd399dd229de4b3cd0b41 zotero://select/groups/5435545/items/DKLQ2NDK https://zotero.org/groups/5435545/items/DKLQ2NDK https://linker.bio/cut:hash://md5/2c81df38414a5787b9e834b637007f2e!/b232116-234559 hash://md5/26f7ce5dd404e33c6570edd4ba250d20 https://dx.doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.1410543 https://dx.doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.13411552 Biodiversity Mammalia Chiroptera Chordata Animalia bats bat JournalArticle ScholarlyArticle article-journal 2014 ftdatacite https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.1341155310.5281/zenodo.141054310.5281/zenodo.13411552 2024-09-02T10:10:03Z (Uploaded by Plazi for the Bat Literature Project) Abstract 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 ... Article in Journal/Newspaper Northwest Territories DataCite |
institution |
Open Polar |
collection |
DataCite |
op_collection_id |
ftdatacite |
language |
unknown |
topic |
Biodiversity Mammalia Chiroptera Chordata Animalia bats bat |
spellingShingle |
Biodiversity Mammalia Chiroptera Chordata Animalia bats bat Clare, Elizabeth L. Symondson, William O. C. Broders, Hugh Fabianek, François Fraser, 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. The diet of Myotis lucifugus across Canada: assessing foraging quality and diet variability. ... |
topic_facet |
Biodiversity Mammalia Chiroptera Chordata Animalia bats bat |
description |
(Uploaded by Plazi for the Bat Literature Project) Abstract 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 ... |
format |
Article in Journal/Newspaper |
author |
Clare, Elizabeth L. Symondson, William O. C. Broders, Hugh Fabianek, François Fraser, 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. |
author_facet |
Clare, Elizabeth L. Symondson, William O. C. Broders, Hugh Fabianek, François Fraser, 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. |
author_sort |
Clare, Elizabeth L. |
title |
The diet of Myotis lucifugus across Canada: assessing foraging quality and diet variability. ... |
title_short |
The diet of Myotis lucifugus across Canada: assessing foraging quality and diet variability. ... |
title_full |
The diet of Myotis lucifugus across Canada: assessing foraging quality and diet variability. ... |
title_fullStr |
The diet of Myotis lucifugus across Canada: assessing foraging quality and diet variability. ... |
title_full_unstemmed |
The diet of Myotis lucifugus across Canada: assessing foraging quality and diet variability. ... |
title_sort |
diet of myotis lucifugus across canada: assessing foraging quality and diet variability. ... |
publisher |
Zenodo |
publishDate |
2014 |
url |
https://dx.doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.13411553 https://zenodo.org/doi/10.5281/zenodo.13411553 |
genre |
Northwest Territories |
genre_facet |
Northwest Territories |
op_relation |
hash://md5/3707d055640c50d45e094dbc180ed2ad hash://sha256/91aad1b4506b8bb51771933ed94ca4076f2c177935edd399dd229de4b3cd0b41 zotero://select/groups/5435545/items/DKLQ2NDK https://zotero.org/groups/5435545/items/DKLQ2NDK https://linker.bio/cut:hash://md5/2c81df38414a5787b9e834b637007f2e!/b232116-234559 hash://md5/26f7ce5dd404e33c6570edd4ba250d20 hash://md5/3707d055640c50d45e094dbc180ed2ad hash://sha256/91aad1b4506b8bb51771933ed94ca4076f2c177935edd399dd229de4b3cd0b41 zotero://select/groups/5435545/items/DKLQ2NDK https://zotero.org/groups/5435545/items/DKLQ2NDK https://linker.bio/cut:hash://md5/2c81df38414a5787b9e834b637007f2e!/b232116-234559 hash://md5/26f7ce5dd404e33c6570edd4ba250d20 https://dx.doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.1410543 https://dx.doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.13411552 |
op_doi |
https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.1341155310.5281/zenodo.141054310.5281/zenodo.13411552 |
_version_ |
1810467132240035840 |