Fecal matters : implementing classical Coleoptera species lists with metabarcoding data from passerine bird feces
Bookwalter, Jamie Dinkins (Centre de Recerca Ecològica i d'Aplicacions Forestals)
Mohamed Niyas, Afaq (University of Georgia. Warnell School of Forestry and Natural Resources)
Caballero López, Berta (Museu de Ciències Naturals de Barcelona)
Villari, Caterina (University of Georgia. Warnell School of Forestry and Natural Resources)
Claramunt López, Bernat (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona. Departament de Biologia Animal, de Biologia Vegetal i d'Ecologia)

Data:	2023
Resum:	Diversity inventories are critical to creating accurate species range maps and estimating population sizes, which in turn lead to better informed landscape and wildlife management decisions. Metabarcoding has facilitated large-scale environmental diversity surveys. However, the use of a metabarcoding approach with bird feces to survey arthropod diversity is still relatively undeveloped. The aim of this study was to see if and how a metabarcoding approach with bird feces could contribute to a saproxylic Coleoptera survey of traditional insect traps. We compared two methods of surveying saproxylic Coleoptera diversity (metabarcoding birds feces and deploying traditional traps) over two elevations in a mountain system. The two methods caught different species and different levels of functional guild richness. The metabarcoding method successfully recorded both distinct and overlapping portions of diversity from traditional collections, and the approach was also effective in signaling the presence of both rare species and nine country records. Our results show that metabarcoding Passerine bird feces can be successful when used alongside traditional collection methods to capture a broad diversity of saproxylic Coleoptera. This method, however, has quantitative and qualitative limitations, including the inability to produce species abundance data as well as the generation of false positives and negatives due to biases within the metabarcoding pipeline.
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Llengua:	Anglès
Document:	Article ; recerca ; Versió publicada
Matèria:	Beetle ; Diet ; Dietary study ; Functional guild ; Insect ; Metagenomic ; Saproxylic ; Trap ; SDG 15 - Life on Land
Publicat a:	Journal of Insect Conservation, Vol. 27, Issue 4 (June 2023) , p. 557-569, ISSN 1572-9753

DOI: 10.1007/s10841-023-00479-7

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