Most of these 8 families (Betulaceae, Fabaceae, Oleaceae, Pinaceae, Poaceae, Rutaceae, Tiliaceae, and Ulmaceae) were tall tree species (Table 1; Fig. Based on these previous studies and our own results that a larger number of tree species were consumed by A. argenteus compared to A. speciosus, it could be argued that A. argenteus has adapted to feeding on a more diverse range of tall trees through the development of a more advanced ability to climb, as a consequence of competition pressure from A. speciosus during the course of their establishment process in sympatry. The diversity of these major diet items was clearly different in the 2 species. In the probability distribution of the niche overlap index obtained from the null model (ra3) in EcoSimR, the upper value of the 95% range (2-tail) was 0.639, and lower than the observed value (Supplementary Data SD6). 2015). H��W�n�H}�W�Q,�d7�ɗf&�l����@�ł�(��Ԓ����T5u�=�E ��K�����^��,�E��9�ޚ$��vW�>�����W?�^���&���Mf�a�^��@K�ջ����,��n��8I��>W3��8��6���,f>�ck3;��]�͟뾎Y�c7�Wm�}�elf�oQ��y��]��J5��r6o�u���O˧ia�-���{�v56]�H�8��[\���ۈ�b6��G���;H�6=Kb[ZC�߮��Mt��7|Lb�{/������Y��bç��*϶�z��l�K)��JN��ξiJ��C���e�R;9��Hj�Qy�5�yh�Րb��$q��lA*I���}�KQ���K�6�����f|d��ټ�.˒u�����0Vv wΎ7��ci;�g��S�P���-����%�h�T���Xe�Kg��yS`�/b_>���R.�g �B,J9&I��b��U_�5K�Y�f���#ծC�I�?��Qh�ғ��C�]�^�����c�53�}��$��~#�Ǥ�'O�9XH5��O/�(+Y֚ר���&��*���i�1���j2��6�5�(��!Y��'Ѱ�{�8z2���!J��ik%�����/�N��bՈr��C�P��&KV���`��$|e���З�'���Z�3��Q�ɞ�wQ dk�K��"K7Md�>�?.�줿�������&�o��">��\%��x��X��^K�b Excluding the top shared family (Fagaceae), these percentages were 61% (74/121) and 42% (22/52) for A. argenteus and A. speciosus, respectively (Supplementary Data SD4 and SD5). Mice were released at the point of capture after sampling feces and recording their weight and sex. We used the software Claident (Tanabe and Toju 2013) for assigning obtained sequences to each individual of the Apodemus species according to the MID tag and cleaning up the sequence data obtained from Ion PGM sequencing by excluding low-quality sequences (minor sequences or those that were too short; minqual = 20, minlen = 50 in the Claident) and chimeric sequences. These proportions indicate that both wood mouse species relied on tall trees, and that A. argenteus consumed non-Fagaceae tall trees more frequently. To amplify the trnL in PCR, we followed methods in Taberlet et al. 2014, 2017). 2005), only blast hit sequences with E-values less than 1.0e-10 were included as data for the analyses below. 2015; Nakahara et al. endobj Detailed information about the obtained samples is summarized in Supplementary Data SD1. Galetti, M., R. R.Rodarte, C. L.Neves, M.Moreira, and R. Costa-Pereira. 2012; Cristescu 2014). (2015) suggested. White circle with a solid black line indicates the Uryu Experimental Forest, Hokkaido University, in Horokanai, Hokkaido. Based on these results, they considered that the extent of the consumption of dietary tannins might differ between the species due to their feeding habits. 119 0 obj (2017) demonstrated that the population dynamics of A. speciosus was positively associated with the acorn production of Q. crispula, but that of A. argenteus was less so, and predicted that the difference in response to acorn production might be caused by the different diets of these species. Therefore, further information about a local floral DNA database in the study site will enable finer species identification (e.g., see Nakahara et al. Kartzinel et al. endobj (2007) and Onodera et al. As observed in the trend of the consumption of Fagaceae species in the autumn, it appears that A. argenteus and A. speciosus also take a generalist and a specialist strategy, respectively, for the Ulmaceae species (assumed to be Ulmus sp. %PDF-1.6
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We selected the P6 loop of the chloroplast trnL (UAA) intron (hereafter trnL) as a marker for detecting dietary plant species, which has an appropriate feature for the DNA meta-barcoding of fecal samples in terms of the abundant reference sequences in the DNA database and the utility of its short target fragment for possibly degraded DNA samples (Pompanon et al. 2009b), plus an additional 30 bp of sequence that were used as primers for the emulsion PCR and Ion PGM sequencing below. and Abies sachalinensis in Pinaceae, Phellodendron amurense in Rutaceae, Tilia sp. During early part of lactation, dry matter intake remains suboptimum thus dairy cow is unable to meet out production requirements though intake. Data from proportions of occurrences and Ion PGM reads both showed seasonal changes in the dietary components of both Apodemus species (Fig. The clip is from the 2015 Holiday Lectures on Science, Lecture 3, 3:35 – 7:48. 2015), they could represent valuable ecological model organisms for understanding universal mechanisms in niche partitioning, community assembly, and species coexistence. We therefore removed all the reads corresponding to the bait species (oats and sunflowers), and ultimately used 8,766 and 6,489 non-bait reads for the dietary analyses of A. argenteus and A. speciosus, respectively (Supplementary Data SD3). 2015). Food items identified are listed in Table 1. HilleRisLambers, J., P. B. Adler, W. S. Harpole, J. M. Levine, and M. M. Mayfield. In this study, we profile plant diets of 2 sympatric species of wood mice in Japan, A. argenteus and A. speciosus, using DNA meta-barcoding analyses with NGS, and compare their dietary profiles to explore the niche partitioning and the mechanism of coexistence between them. 2007). We thank K. Armstrong for improving the English expression. uuid:96b68de3-1dd1-11b2-0a00-110a275dc400 4 and 5), while A. argenteus consumes material from a more diverse range of families but including the Ulmaceae to a lesser extent (Figs. See Supplementary Data SD1 for concentration and purity of the isolated DNA. Ecological niches hold critical information concerning the eco-evolutionary dynamics that govern biodiversity and abundance patterns. Thus, the ecological differences between the 2 Apodemus species would appear to be reflected in the relevant correlated aspects of morphology, dietary ecology, and locomotion. Both Apodemus species consumed species of Fagaceae and Pinaceae more frequently in the latter half of the year (August–October; Figs. 98% (762/781) of total reads for Urticaceae (Supplementary Data SD3) from 1 A. speciosus individual collected in October (TN366, JSFD226). 10.1073/pnas.1503283112 These findings coupled with other studies on habitat niche partitioning present a clearer picture of how these 2 sympatric species can coexist. Onodera et al. 50 ng of template DNA, 0.24 μM of each primer, and 2× QIAGEN Multiplex PCR Master Mix in total of 10 μl. 264 0 obj 2021-01-08T19:18:22-08:00 <> 4. 5A and E based on the occurrences data). (2007) and Ando et al. The roles of morphological traits, resource variation and resource partitioning associated with the dietary niche expansion in the fish-eating bat Myotis pilosus. Instead, A. argenteus might have consumed other parts of the plant, such as flowers that appear in spring and summer. 2016) to assess dietary niche overlap and segregation, and ultimately the discrimination of niches of coexisting species. An advantage of the NGS meta-barcoding analysis compared with traditional methods lies in the higher sensitivity for the detection of minor dietary components. There is geographic variation in the breeding season of A. argenteus and A. speciosus along the Japanese archipelago (once or twice per year—Fujimaki 1969, 1970; Yoshida 1972; Murakami 1977), but, in Hokkaido, the majority of breeding activity occurs once from April to September (peak is in July to August) for A. argenteus (Fujimaki 1969, 1970) and once from April to September (peak is in April to June) for A. speciosus (Kondo and Abe 1977). Locomotory habits also might be associated with niche separation (Galetti et al. Our findings support this assertion and imply that dietary divergence is … Therefore, dietary profiles for these species remain to be fully determined, and consequently, niche partitioning according to a fine-scale resolution of diet has not been demonstrated. Seasonal changes in the diet of Apodemus argenteus (dark gray, blue in the online pdf version) and A. speciosus (light gray, orange in the online pdf version) for plant families: (A) Fagaceae, (B) Betulaceae, (C) Fabaceae, (D) Oleaceae, (E) Pinaceae, (F) Tiliaceae, and (G) Ulmaceae. For full access to this pdf, sign in to an existing account, or purchase an annual subscription. There is a large difference in body size between these 2 Apodemus species. In particular, the abundance of food items is an important consideration for species coexistence and niche segregation (Soininen et al. It was also suggested that the 2 Apodemus species consumed Oleaceae species in different seasons. Dietary intake was not distinguishable between species or related to individual body size. 3B–G). false Supplementary Data SD1.—Information on samples collected. However, the mechanism should be further tested with additional considerations: 1) In this study, most taxa were identified at only genus or family level. Valentini, A., F.Pompanon, and P. Taberlet. Dietary profiles of Apodemus argenteus (A) and A. speciosus (B) summarized based on plant families. The color corresponds to plant families as indicated in the legend (see online pdf for colored version of this figure). 2009a; Kress et al. 6. Variation in resource use can generally be separated along any of 3 axes that serve to define ecological niches of coexisting animals: space, time, and food (e.g., Pianka 1973; Schoener 1974). For decades, biologists have sought to understand how diverse assemblages of large mammalian herbivores (LMH) partition food resources. Dietary niche partitioning appears to be seasonal; in the fall, partitioning breaks down to some degree, likely because food is so abundantly available, and both species consume a larger, overlapping array of acorns and arthropods. The PCR reaction mixture contained ca. 97 0 obj The 2 Apodemus species consumed Oleaceae species (assumed to be the Manchurian ash, F. mandshurica; Table 1) in different seasons, being consumed by A. argenteus from June to August (the peak was in July), and by A. speciosus from August to October (the peak was in September; Fig. 2015-05-27 In the final step to determine the dietary taxon for each obtained sequence, we performed a BLAST search (Altschul et al. Therefore, cow has to compromise from her body for the nutrients to achieve peak milk yield during early lactation. The results suggested that A. argenteus is a generalist feeder, and A. speciosus a specialist, and the 2 Apodemus species separate their dietary niches not only by the component plant species overall, but also by differences within seasons. Our study indicated that A. speciosus were more dependent on Fagaceae plants than A. argenteus (Figs. We therefore excluded these 4 “bait” sequences. Recently, researchers have used DNA barcoding (Kartzinel et al. Emrich, M. A., E. L.Clare, W. O.Symondson, S. E.Koenig, and M. B. Fenton. 224 0 obj Food items of A. argenteus were derived from 20 families, and from 21 families for A. speciosus. The abundance of acorns is known to fluctuate yearly (e.g., Onodera et al. A total of 89,239 reads were obtained from the fecal samples, with 73,725 reads taken into consideration for the following analyses (47,036 and 26,689 reads for A. argenteus and A. speciosus, respectively; Supplementary Data SD3), excluding taxa based on the criteria above. Fuji region (Central Honshu), a higher dependency on the acorn-producing Quercus trees by A. speciosus was apparent, compared with A. argenteus which mainly relies on other tree species such as the Japanese red pine Pinus densiflora and the Japanese larch Larix kaempferi (Sekijima 1999). Supplementary Data SD3.—Obtained reads for each sequence and individual. There was also evidence for species differences in diet across seasons. Suzuki, H., M. G.Filippucci, G. N.Chelomina, J. J.Sato, K.Serizawa, and E. Nevo. 5) More distantly related species occupying the similar trophic niche also should be investigated for further understandings of the coexistence system of the 2 Apodemus species. Niche breadth based on the total diet (all seasons combined) of A. argenteus and A. speciosus was 0.458 and 0.443, respectively (95% credible interval [CI]: 0.455–0.462 for A. argenteus and 0.426–0.459 for A. speciosus). We are grateful to Y. Akimoto, A. Akimoto, R. Onodera, and H. Wakabayashi for their assistance with fieldwork to capture mice and collect fecal samples, and the staff of the Uryu Experimental Forest, Hokkaido University, for providing support for the field investigation. As observed in the previous studies, segregation based on minor dietary components may promote the coexistence of the 2 Japanese Apodemus species. 2008). <>/ExtGState<>/Font<>/ProcSet[/PDF/Text/ImageC]/Properties<>/XObject<>>>/Rotate 0/Thumb 180 0 R/Type/Page>> Consistent with this general tendency, assemblages of terrestrial mammals in the Japanese archipelago are found to be phylogenetically diverse (Sato 2016). The pattern of the dietary niche partitioning in the 2 Japanese wood mice species appears to change with season. endobj <> Apodemus speciosus has often been used as a model species to assess forest fragmentations and island isolation (Sato et al. Deer mice (Rodentia: Cricetidae: Peromyscus) are the most populous native mammali… This suggests that a certain degree of ecological niche segregation is needed for their coexistence. Supplementary Data SD4.—Correspondence among top BLAST hit genera, species in the study area, possible diet species, and plant types of identified taxa. On the other hand, some studies used the number of reads to estimate the abundance of foods semiquantitatively (e.g., Willerslev et al. 10–20 and 20–50 g, respectively (Ohdachi et al. Here we assessed this mechanism by testing its core assumption, that evolved differences in foraging behavior correspond with differences in resources consumed. <>/ExtGState<>/Font<>/ProcSet[/PDF/Text/ImageC]/Properties<>/XObject<>>>/Rotate 0/Thumb 36 0 R/Type/Page>> Tall tree species made up 64% (83/130) and 57% (40/70) of the total representation in the diets of A. argenteus and A. speciosus, respectively (based on a binary count of occurrence; Supplementary Data SD4 and SD5). Monthly difference of dietary profiles of Apodemus argenteus (Aar) and A. speciosus (Asp) based on the proportion of the binary occurrence data (upper) and the proportion of the number of reads obtained from the analyses of the Ion PGM next generation sequencer (lower). These results suggest that A. argenteus and A. speciosus partition themselves by adopting a generalist and a specialist strategy, respectively. 2). Supplementary data are available at Journal of Mammalogy online. The 2 Apodemus species are basically omnivorous or granivorous (e.g., Abe and Oya 1974; Mizushima and Yamada 1974; Tachibana et al. On average, 3.0 plant taxa (min 0 – max 8) were detected from 3 fecal pellets per individual A. argenteus, and 1.4 (min 0 – max 5) plant taxa per individual A. speciosus. The higher dependency of A. speciosus on the Fagaceae species demonstrated by this study supports this prediction. (2017) showed that the acorn production in the previous year had a positive effect on the population abundance of A. speciosus , while that effect was much less for A. argenteus (see also … Cooper, N. R., J. Rodríguez, and A. Purvis. 6B). endstream Most of those sequences (33 of 51) were identified as species from multiple genera in a particular family (Supplementary Data SD2). Chang Y(1)(2), Song S(1), Li A(1), Zhang Y(1), Li Z(1)(3), Xiao Y(1), Jiang T(1), Feng J(1)(2)(3), Lin A(1)(4). The vertical axis indicates the number of occurrences that wood mice consumed the plant taxa identified. Our results demonstrate the role of dietary niche partitioning in bear and wolf coexistence, and that caribou may be primary prey for wolves in an ecosystem with relatively high moose abundance and low human development. 2 and 3). We conducted the field survey at the Uryu Experimental Forest of Hokkaido University in Horokanai, Hokkaido, Japan (44°03–29′N, 142°1–20′E; Fig. 0.5 ha) with 4–5 100-m lines in each month. 2015). In other areas of Japan, such as forest in the Mt. The study site is covered by snow from December to May, making the sampling of the wood mice more difficult. Because individual wood mice consumed 2 or more dietary items, the total number of occurrences exceeded the number of wood mice. We combined data on foraging behavior, available prey, and observed diets of five coexisting species of … niche partitioning (Abrams, 1983; Schoener, 1974). Trophic Structure and Dietary Niche Partitioning Using Stable Isotope Analysis. Violle, C., D. R.Nemergut, Z.Pu, and L. Jiang. The intraspecific dietary niche overlap between perch size classes reflected an enhanced partitioning, whereas that of pike size classes was found almost unchanged in response to pikeperch stocking. The 5′-end of the forward primer was tagged by 8-bp nucleotide sequences (MID; multiplex identifiers) and a 3-bp barcode adaptor (GAT) to identify each sample after the sequencing run (Valentini et al. 4 months) did not differentially affect the extent of the DNA degradation in feces. 2017). b Numbers of occurrence among the Apodemus individuals that ate dietary items that could not be assigned to taxa below family level. Two sympatric and congeneric species of wood mice (Rodentia: Muridae), the small Japanese wood mouse (Apodemus argenteus) and the large Japanese wood mouse (A. speciosus), occur throughout Japan. As expected from the hoarding behavior of the Apodemus species, both Apodemus species depend on acorn-producing tree species in the Fagaceae (assumed to be Q. crispula). 2013). We characterize the diet, potential dietary niche overlap and prey preference of a large African carnivore guild on small fenced protected areas. 28 0 obj Seasonal changes in the niche breadth (A) and niche overlap (B) of Apodemus argenteus and A. speciosus based on the number of occurrences of plant taxa in the diet. Niche overlap between A. argenteus and A. speciosus based on the total diet was 0.672. The numbers of reads for these 3 sequences were 8,051 and 2,772 for A. argenteus and A. speciosus, respectively (Supplementary Data SD3), and were identical apart from differences in length. <>/ExtGState<>/Font<>/ProcSet[/PDF/Text/ImageC/ImageI]/Properties<>/XObject<>>>/Rotate 0/Thumb 215 0 R/Type/Page>> The frequency of occurrence for food items consumed by both species was high in comparison with that for unshared food items in 1 of the Apodemus species. Since A. argenteus is semiarboreal, whereas A. speciosus is terrestrial, their use of space is partly segregated despite that they occur sympatrically (Doi and Iwamoto 1982; Sekijima 1993). 25292095), and by Green Science Research Center in Fukuyama University (granted to JJS). <>/ExtGState<>/Font<>/ProcSet[/PDF/Text/ImageC]/XObject<>>>/Rotate 0/Thumb 18 0 R/Type/Page>> Niche partitioning facilitates species coexistence in a world of limited resources, thereby enriching biodiversity. A few decades of habitat fragmentation has reduced population genetic diversity: a case study of landscape genetics of the large Japanese field mouse. false Annual precipitation is 1,410 mm, and maximum snow depth is 275 cm. Watch the Niche Partitioning clip and then complete the following table to describe the remaining examples of niche partitioning. 5 0 obj This pattern was also observed in 2 sympatric species of Ctenomys rodents in Brazil (Lopes et al. 1988) or provided relatively lower numbers of taxa (the tooth marks on fallen seeds—Hayashi et al. Behavioral niche partitioning is an important and widely assumed mechanism for the coexistence of ecologically similar species. Smalll mammals of Mt. 2014). They also suggested that A. speciosus had a higher tolerance against noxious substances (tannins) in acorns of Quercus crispula than A. argenteus. Indices for niche breadth and overlap were based on Rao (1982) and Pianka (1974), respectively. Conversely, both Apodemus species consumed species in the Ulmaceae (Ulmus sp.) The 2 species showed a relatively large degree of niche overlap in plant dietary profiles, feeding mostly on acorn-producing Fagaceae species (assumed to be Quercus crispula). in Tiliaceae, and Ulmus sp. List of plant taxa identified in the diets of 2 Apodemus species in this study. 5G based on the occurrences data). Faculty of Life Science and Technology, Fukuyama University, Higashimura-cho, Aza, Sanzo, Fukuyama, Japan. Resource partitioning among species traditionally has been evaluated along three niche axes: spatial separation (including use of different habitats), temporal avoidance, and dietary differences (Keddy, 1989; Ben-David, Bowyer & Faro, 1996; Kronfeld-Schor et al.,2001; Stewart et al.,2002). When we encountered identical sequences with different lengths (due to a difference in the number of 1-bp repeats in a homopolymer, or the difference in the sequenced frame), we treated these sequences as identical (Supplementary Data SD4 and SD5) and as 1 food item in the diet of an individual. 2015; Nakahara et al. Given that the DNA meta-barcoding approach does not provide the information on which part of a plant is consumed, a direct approach to investigate consumed parts of plants in each season may provide an additional perspective of the niche partitioning between the Apodemus species. This clip is from a 2015 Holiday Lecture Series, Patterns and Processes in Ecology. Niche overlap varied seasonally, with a corresponding seasonal change in the niche breadth of A. speciosus (Fig. Details. endobj However, A. argenteus was less dependent on Fagaceae species than A. speciosus. One classic mechanism of dietary niche partitioning is the grazer-browser spectrum, which suggests that some herbivores (grazers, such as zebras) eat only grasses, some (browsers, such as dik-dik) eat only plants that aren't grasses, and others eat both. The roles of morphological traits, resource variation and resource partitioning associated with the dietary niche expansion in the fish‐eating bat Myotis pilosus. Therefore, a higher dependency of A. speciosus on Fagaceae species, and the diverse diet of A. argenteus are considered to be characteristic throughout Japan. Therefore, we assumed that the Fagaceae species detected was Q. crispula. 2014; Kartzinel et al. Niche partitioning by diet also may be reflected in other morphological and ecological characteristics (Emrich et al. 3) The pattern based on single-year data provided by this study should be confirmed by studies with multiple years to analyze annual variation of the diets of these wood mice. The niche breadth of A. argenteus appeared to be higher than that of A. speciosus; however, the 95% CIs overlapped slightly. The solid and dashed lines indicate mean and 95% CI (credible interval), respectively. uuid:96b68deb-1dd1-11b2-0a00-810000000000 endobj These empirical results corroborate that competitive interactions and the degree of specialisation may strongly shape the success of introductions of top-predators in freshwater … Dietary overlap is one of the numerous niche dimensions used to characterize resource partitioning and potential competition within a community. Invertebrates were most important in terms of frequency and volume, although reptiles, mammals and birds were also commonly identified. The example above is only one example of niche partitioning. 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