Ecological disturbance is a key agent shaping the spatial and temporal landscape of food availability. In forests of western North America, disturbance from fire can lead to resource pulses of deadwoo
The diet of an individual animal is subject to change over time, both in response to short-term food fluctuations and over longer time scales as an individual ages and meets different challenges over
Fecal samples from the Eastern Whip-poor-will bird were collected in 2019 and 2020 in Illinois, USA for insect diet analysis. DNA was extracted from samples and the COI gene was sequenced to target in