What do wolves eat in the SE Alaska island Archipelago? Lots of cool stuff and spatial variation revealed by DNA metabarcoding of scats collected across a geographic gradient spanning deer, moose, mountain goat systems. Marine mammals dominant food in one year. Guess which? /1
What do wolves eat in the SE Alaska island Archipelago? Lots of cool stuff and spatial variation revealed by DNA metabarcoding of scats collected across a geographic gradient spanning deer, moose, mountain goat systems. Marine mammals dominant food in one year. Guess which? /1
What do wolves eat in the SE Alaska island Archipelago? Lots of cool stuff and spatial variation revealed by DNA metabarcoding of scats collected across a geographic gradient spanning deer, moose, mountain goat systems. Marine mammals dominant food in one year. Guess which? /1
On Pleasant Island, where marine mammals dominated diet, wolves are feeding primarily on...SEA OTTERS...which are also an important resource for other wolf populations. Previously extirpated sea otters have recovered in some regions and are still absent from others. /2
The paper is open access, so come read about what wolves eat.

"Metabarcoding of fecal DNA shows dietary diversification in wolves substitutes for ungulates in an island archipelago"

https://esajournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/ecs2.3297
in one study area...not year...why can I never write anything without typos
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