Ecological Niche Characteristics of the Diets of Three Sympatric Rodents in the Meili Snow Mountain, Yunnan
Abstract
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Abstract
1. Introduction
2. Materials and Methods
2.1. Study Area
2.2. Collection of Samples
2.3. Sampling of Gut Contents, DNA Extraction and Sequencing
2.4. Sequence Processing and Data Statistical Analysis
2.5. Characteristics of Trophic Niche
3. Results
3.1. Food Composition of Studied Species
3.2. Interspecific Comparison of Food Composition Diversity
3.3. Difference Analysis of Food between the Three Species
3.4. Trophic Niche Breadth and Overlap Index
4. Discussion
4.1. Dietary Differences among the Three Species
4.2. Trophic Niche Characteristics of the Three Species
5. Conclusions
Author Contributions
Funding
Institutional Review Board Statement
Informed Consent Statement
Data Availability Statement
Conflicts of Interest
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Animal-Derived Food | Plant-Derived Food | |||
---|---|---|---|---|
Order Level | Genus Level | Order Level | Genus Level | |
Apodemus ilex | 4.8608 | 7.6388 | 5.0680 | 7.1344 |
Apodemus chevrieri | 3.8784 | 5.9160 | 3.3481 | 3.3981 |
Niviventer confucianus | 5.1911 | 7.5649 | 3.8118 | 4.8972 |
Animal-Derived Food | Plant-Derived Food | |||
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Apodemus chevrieri | Apodemus chevrieri | Apodemus chevrieri | Apodemus chevrieri | |
Apodemus chevrieri | 0.2429 | 0.3418 | ||
Niviventer confucianus | 0.4648 | 0.0973 | 0.1249 | 0.0762 |
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Qin, F.; Xie, M.; Ding, J.; Li, Y.; Song, W. Ecological Niche Characteristics of the Diets of Three Sympatric Rodents in the Meili Snow Mountain, Yunnan. Animals 2024, 14, 2392. https://doi.org/10.3390/ani14162392
Qin F, Xie M, Ding J, Li Y, Song W. Ecological Niche Characteristics of the Diets of Three Sympatric Rodents in the Meili Snow Mountain, Yunnan. Animals. 2024; 14(16):2392. https://doi.org/10.3390/ani14162392
Chicago/Turabian StyleQin, Feng, Mengru Xie, Jichao Ding, Yongyuan Li, and Wenyu Song. 2024. "Ecological Niche Characteristics of the Diets of Three Sympatric Rodents in the Meili Snow Mountain, Yunnan" Animals 14, no. 16: 2392. https://doi.org/10.3390/ani14162392