The nestling diet of Svalbard snow buntings identified by DNA metabarcoding

• Main Author: Stolz, Christian
• Format: Master Thesis
• Language: English
• Published: UiT Norges arktiske universitet 2019
• Subjects: arctic food web; diet analysis; fecal/faecal samples; insectivore; pitfall trap; scatology; Spitsbergen; tundra arthropod community; VDP::Mathematics and natural science: 400::Zoology and botany: 480; VDP::Matematikk og Naturvitenskap: 400::Zoologiske og botaniske fag: 480; BIO-3950; Adventdalen; Arctic; Svalbard; Plectrophenax nivalis; Snow Bunting; Tundra
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/10037/15438

Tundra arthropods have considerable ecological importance as a food source for several bird species that are reproducing in the Arctic. The actual arthropod taxa comprising the chick diet are however rarely known, complicating assessments of ecological interactions. In this study, I identified the n...