DNA metabarcoding illuminates dietary niche partitioning by African large herbivores

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 112, Issue 26, 2015, Pages 8019-8024

  Kartzinel, Tyler R ^a   Chen, Patricia A ^a   Coverdale, Tyler C ^a   Erickson, David L ^b   Kress, W John ^b   Kuzmina, Maria L ^b   Rubenstein, Daniel I ^a,c   Wang, Wei ^a   Pringle, Robert M ^a,c  

^a PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION   (United States)

^c MPALA RESEARCH CENTRE   (Kenya)

Author keywords

African savannas; Body size; Coexistence; Competition; Ungulates

Indexed keywords

PLANT DNA;

AFRICAN; ARTICLE; BODY SIZE; DIGESTIVE FUNCTION; DNA BARCODING; DNA LIBRARY; DNA METABARCODING; ECOLOGICAL NICHE; FECES; FOOD COMPOSITION; FOOD INTAKE; GRAZER; GRAZING; HERBIVORE; NONHUMAN; PLANT IDENTIFICATION; POACEAE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; SAVANNA; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS; SPECIES DIVERSITY; AFRICA; ANIMAL; BIODIVERSITY; GENETICS; HERBIVORY; PHYSIOLOGY; WILD ANIMAL;

EQUUS BURCHELLII; MAMMALIA; POACEAE; UNGULATA;

AFRICA; ANIMALS; ANIMALS, WILD; BIODIVERSITY; DNA BARCODING, TAXONOMIC; HERBIVORY;

EID: 84937950203     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1503283112     Document Type: Article

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