ArticleEcology and evolution2023
Multi-marker DNA metabarcoding reveals spatial and sexual variation in the diet of a scarce woodland bird.
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- From Sequences to Food Webs: DNA Metabarcoding Reshapes Fish Trophic Ecology.Animals : an open access journal from MDPI · 2026Review
- Spatio-Temporal Variation in Diet Among Age and Sex Cohorts of a Model Generalist Bird Species, the Great TitEcology and evolution · 2025Article
- Spatio-temporal variation of the endangered Dupont's Lark diet across Iberia and Morocco.PloS one · 2024Article
- Multi-marker DNA metabarcoding reveals spatial and sexual variation in the diet of a scarce woodland bird.Ecology and evolution · 2023Article
- The predator problem and PCR primers in molecular dietary analysis: Swamped or silenced; depth or breadth?Molecular ecology resources · 2023Review
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Abstract
Avian diet can be affected by site-specific variables, such as habitat, as well as intrinsic factors such as sex. This can lead to dietary niche separation, which reduces competition between individuals, as well as impacting how well avian species can adapt to environmental variation. Estimating dietary niche separation is challenging, due largely to difficulties in accurately identifying food taxa consumed. Consequently, there is limited knowledge of the diets of woodland bird species, many of which are undergoing serious population declines. Here, we show the effectiveness of multi-marker fecal metabarcoding to provide in-depth dietary analysis of a declining passerine in the UK, the Hawfinch (
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