Multidimensional trophic niche revealed by complementary approaches: gut content, digestive enzymes, fatty acids and stable isotopes in soil fauna
A. M. Potapov, M. M. Pollierer, S. Salmon, V. Sustr, T.-W. Chen
The paper uses four complementary methods to analyze the multidimensional trophic niche of soil springtails, revealing that different methods capture distinct feeding dimensions and that bacterial feeding may be more common than previously thought.
bioRxiv · May 15, 2020Ecology