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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ftdryad:oai:v1.datadryad.org:10255/dryad.54087 2023-05-15T17:46:43+02:00 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. Canada 2013-09-25T15:04:03Z http://hdl.handle.net/10255/dryad.54087 https://doi.org/10.5061/dryad.6b183 unknown doi:10.5061/dryad.6b183/2 doi:10.5061/dryad.6b183/3 doi:10.5061/dryad.6b183/5 doi:10.5061/dryad.6b183/6 doi:10.5061/dryad.6b183/7 doi:10.1111/mec.12542 PMID:24274182 doi:10.5061/dryad.6b183 Clare EL, Symondson WOC, Broders H, Fabianek F, Frazer EE, MacKenzie A, Boughen A, Hamilton R, Willis CKR, Martinez-Nuñez F, Menzies AK, Norquay KJO, Brigham M, Poissant J, Rintoul J, Barclay RMR, Reimer JP (2014) The diet of Myotis lucifugus across Canada: assessing foraging quality and diet variability. Molecular Ecology 23(15): 3618-3632. http://hdl.handle.net/10255/dryad.54087 Mammals Species Interactions resource use molecular diet analysis spatial-temporal variation Article 2013 ftdryad https://doi.org/10.5061/dryad.6b183 https://doi.org/10.5061/dryad.6b183/2 https://doi.org/10.5061/dryad.6b183/3 https://doi.org/10.5061/dryad.6b183/5 https://doi.org/10.5061/dryad.6b183/6 https://doi.org/10.5061/dryad.6b183/7 https://doi.org/1 2020-01-01T15:03:52Z 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 variation among seasons and years. Based on the species of insects that were consumed, we observed that two locations support prey species with extremely low pollution and acidification tolerances, suggesting that these are areas without environmental contamination. We conclude that there is significant local population variability in little brown bat diet that is likely driven by seasonal and geographical changes in insect diversity, and that this prey may be a good indicator of environment quality. Article in Journal/Newspaper Northwest Territories Dryad Digital Repository (Duke University) Canada Northwest Territories |
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Mammals Species Interactions resource use molecular diet analysis spatial-temporal variation 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. 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 variation among seasons and years. Based on the species of insects that were consumed, we observed that two locations support prey species with extremely low pollution and acidification tolerances, suggesting that these are areas without environmental contamination. We conclude that there is significant local population variability in little brown bat diet that is likely driven by seasonal and geographical changes in insect diversity, and that this prey may be a good indicator of environment quality. |
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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. |
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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. |
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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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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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