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

• 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: unknown
• Published: Figshare 2016
• Subjects: Environmental Science; Ecology; FOS Biological sciences; Keta; Atlantic salmon; Oncorhynchus gorbuscha; Salmo salar; Alaska; Aleutian Islands
• Online Access: https://dx.doi.org/10.6084/m9.figshare.c.3294239; https://figshare.com/collections/Development_and_application_of_DNA_techniques_for_validating_and_improving_pinniped_diet_estimates/3294239

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 per...