Assessing Asiatic cheetah’s individual diet using metabarcoding and its implication for conservation

Assessing Asiatic cheetah’s individual diet using metabarcoding and its implication for conservation

Abstract Knowledge on diet composition allows defining well-targeted conservation measures of large carnivores. Little is known about ecology of critically endangered Asiatic cheetah, especially the overall diet and its possible regional differences. We used cheetah scats, metabarcoding technique an...

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Main Authors: Leili Khalatbari, Bastian Egeter, Hamed Abolghasemi, Ehsan Hakimi, Taher Ghadirian, Amir Hosein Khaleghi Hamidi, Houman Jowkar, Urs Breitenmoser, José Carlos Brito
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Nature Portfolio 2022-07-01
Series:Scientific Reports
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-022-15065-1

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https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-022-15065-1

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