Using DNA metabarcoding and direct behavioural observations to identify the diet of proboscis monkeys (Nasalis larvatus) in the Kinabatangan Floodplain, Sabah

• Valentine Thiry ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Valentine Thiry, Arthur F. Boom

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

  * E-mail: valentinethiry89@gmail.com (VT); boomarthur@gmail.com (AFB); goossensbr@cardiff.ac.uk (BG)

  Affiliations Anthropology and Human Genetics Unit, Faculté des Sciences, Université Libre de Bruxelles, Brussels, Belgium, Conservation Biology Unit, O.D. Nature, Royal Belgian Institute of Natural Sciences, Brussels, Belgium

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• Arthur F. Boom ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Valentine Thiry, Arthur F. Boom

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: valentinethiry89@gmail.com (VT); boomarthur@gmail.com (AFB); goossensbr@cardiff.ac.uk (BG)

  Affiliations Evolutionary Biology and Ecology Unit, Faculté des Sciences, Université Libre de Bruxelles, Brussels, Belgium, Royal Museum for Central Africa, Biology Department, Section Vertebrates, Tervuren, Belgium

  https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5724-2754

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• Danica J. Stark,

  Roles Investigation, Methodology, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Danau Girang Field Centre, c/o Sabah Wildlife Department, Kota Kinabalu, Malaysia, Organisms and Environment Division, Cardiff School of Biosciences, Cardiff University, Cardiff, United Kingdom

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3828-4518

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• Olivier J. Hardy,

  Roles Investigation, Resources, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Evolutionary Biology and Ecology Unit, Faculté des Sciences, Université Libre de Bruxelles, Brussels, Belgium

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• Roseline C. Beudels-Jamar,

  Roles Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Conservation Biology Unit, O.D. Nature, Royal Belgian Institute of Natural Sciences, Brussels, Belgium

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• Regine Vercauteren Drubbel,

  Roles Methodology, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Anthropology and Human Genetics Unit, Faculté des Sciences, Université Libre de Bruxelles, Brussels, Belgium

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• Sylvia Alsisto,

  Roles Resources, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Sabah Wildlife Department, Kota Kinabalu, Malaysia

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• Martine Vercauteren,

  Roles Project administration, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Anthropology and Human Genetics Unit, Faculté des Sciences, Université Libre de Bruxelles, Brussels, Belgium

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• Benoit Goossens

  Roles Investigation, Methodology, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: valentinethiry89@gmail.com (VT); boomarthur@gmail.com (AFB); goossensbr@cardiff.ac.uk (BG)

  Affiliations Danau Girang Field Centre, c/o Sabah Wildlife Department, Kota Kinabalu, Malaysia, Organisms and Environment Division, Cardiff School of Biosciences, Cardiff University, Cardiff, United Kingdom, Sabah Wildlife Department, Kota Kinabalu, Malaysia

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