Assessing springtime vertebrate prey of sympatric mesopredators in the southeastern United States using metabarcoding analysis

• Jordan L. Youngmann ,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Software, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: jordan.youngmann@uga.edu

  Affiliation Daniel B. Warnell School of Forestry and Natural Resources, University of Georgia, Athens, Georgia, United States of America

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5669-7746

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• Stacey L. Lance,

  Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Savannah River Ecology Laboratory, University of Georgia, Aiken, South Carolina, United States of America

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• John C. Kilgo,

  Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation United States Department of Agriculture Forest Service, Southern Research Station, New Ellenton, South Carolina, United States of America

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• Charles Ruth,

  Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation South Carolina Department of Natural Resources, Columbia, South Carolina, United States of America

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• Jay Cantrell,

  Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation South Carolina Department of Natural Resources, Columbia, South Carolina, United States of America

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• Gino J. D’Angelo

  Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Daniel B. Warnell School of Forestry and Natural Resources, University of Georgia, Athens, Georgia, United States of America

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