ArticleEcology and evolution2022
Focal vs. fecal: Seasonal variation in the diet of wild vervet monkeys from observational and DNA metabarcoding data.
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- Investigating Anthropogenic and Social Influences on Diet of Semi-Urban Vervet Monkeys Using DNA Metabarcoding.Ecology and evolution · 2026Article
- Forage preference in two geographically co-occurring fungus gardening ants: A dietary DNA approach.PloS one · 2025Article
- First dietary study of the critically endangered black morph Bornean banded langur (Biodiversity data journal · 2025Article
- Stability and flexibility of the gut microbiota of wild Tibetan macaques.ISME communications · 2025Article
- Analysis of winter diet in Guizhou golden monkey (Ecology and evolution · 2024Article
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- The Food Niche Overlap and Interspecific Relationship between the Sympatric Tibetan Macaque and Grey Snub-Nosed Monkey.Animals : an open access journal from MDPI · 2023Article
- Focal vs. fecal: Seasonal variation in the diet of wild vervet monkeys from observational and DNA metabarcoding data.Ecology and evolution · 2022Article
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Abstract
Assessing the diet of wild animals reveals valuable information about their ecology and trophic relationships that may help elucidate dynamic interactions in ecosystems and forecast responses to environmental changes. Advances in molecular biology provide valuable research tools in this field. However, comparative empirical research is still required to highlight strengths and potential biases of different approaches. Therefore, this study compares environmental DNA and observational methods for the same study population and sampling duration. We employed DNA metabarcoding assays targeting plant and arthropod diet items in 823 fecal samples collected over 12 months in a wild population of an omnivorous primate, the vervet monkey (
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