Ancient and modern scats record broken ecological interactions and a decline in dietary breadth of the critically endangered kākāpō parrot (Strigops habroptilus)

Threatened animal taxa are often absent from most of their original habitats, meaning their ecological niche cannot be fully captured by contemporary data alone. Although DNA metabarcoding of scats and coprolites (palaeofaeces) can identify the past and present species interactions of their deposito...

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Main Authors: Alexander P. Boast, Jamie R. Wood, Nicola Bolstridge, George L. W. Perry, Janet M. Wilmshurst
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Frontiers Media S.A. 2023-03-01
Series:Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution
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Online Access:https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fevo.2023.1058130/full