Understanding resource use and dietary niche partitioning in a high-altitude predator guild using seasonal sampling and DNA metabarcoding

• Charlotte E. Hacker,

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

  Affiliations Ecology and Nature Conservation Institute, Chinese Academy of Forestry, Key Laboratory of Biodiversity Conservation of National Forestry and Grassland Administration Beijing, Beijing, China, Department of Biological Sciences, Duquesne University, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States of America, Snow Leopard Conservancy, Sonoma, California, United States of America

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4641-3631

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• Wei Cong,

  Roles Data curation, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Ecology and Nature Conservation Institute, Chinese Academy of Forestry, Key Laboratory of Biodiversity Conservation of National Forestry and Grassland Administration Beijing, Beijing, China

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• Yunchuan Dai,

  Roles Data curation, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Institute for Ecology and Environmental Resources, Chongqing Academy of Social Sciences, Chongqing, China

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• Jia Li,

  Roles Data curation, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Ecology and Nature Conservation Institute, Chinese Academy of Forestry, Key Laboratory of Biodiversity Conservation of National Forestry and Grassland Administration Beijing, Beijing, China

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• Ye Li,

  Roles Data curation, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Ecology and Nature Conservation Institute, Chinese Academy of Forestry, Key Laboratory of Biodiversity Conservation of National Forestry and Grassland Administration Beijing, Beijing, China

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• Diqiang Li,

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

  Affiliation Ecology and Nature Conservation Institute, Chinese Academy of Forestry, Key Laboratory of Biodiversity Conservation of National Forestry and Grassland Administration Beijing, Beijing, China

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• Rodney Jackson,

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

  Affiliation Institute for Ecology and Environmental Resources, Chongqing Academy of Social Sciences, Chongqing, China

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• Jan E. Janecka ,

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

  * E-mail: yugzhang@sina.com.cn (YZ); janeckaj@duq.edu (JEJ)

  Affiliation Department of Biological Sciences, Duquesne University, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States of America

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• Yuguang Zhang

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

  * E-mail: yugzhang@sina.com.cn (YZ); janeckaj@duq.edu (JEJ)

  Affiliation Ecology and Nature Conservation Institute, Chinese Academy of Forestry, Key Laboratory of Biodiversity Conservation of National Forestry and Grassland Administration Beijing, Beijing, China

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