Fast and efficient DNA-based method for winter diet analysis from stools of three cervids: Moose, red deer, and roe deer

Acta Theriologica

Volumn 58, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 379-386

  Czernik, Marta ^a   Taberlet, Pierre ^b   Świsłocka, Magdalena ^a   Czajkowska, Magdalena ^a   Duda, Norbert ^a   Ratkiewicz, Mirosław ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BIALYSTOK   (Poland)

^b UNIVERSITÉ JOSEPH FOURIER   (France)

Author keywords

Alces alces; Capreolus capreolus; Cervus elaphus; DNA metabarcoding; Ungulate diet analysis; Ungulate management

Indexed keywords

CHLOROPLAST; CONSERVATION MANAGEMENT; DIET; DNA; NICHE; QUALITATIVE ANALYSIS; RUMINANT; WINTER;

POLAND;

EID: 84884739575     PISSN: 00017051     EISSN: 21903743     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s13364-013-0146-9     Document Type: Article

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