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Stevi Vanderzwan
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Lab manager for the Mammalian Ecology and Conservation Unit at UC Davis 🧬 🦊 💩 🐻 🦌. Lurking here for science news 🤓
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I'm so excited to share that my first dissertation chapter on SF coyotes is out in the #OpenAccess journal Ecosphere @ecologicalsociety.bsky.social. We DNA metabarcoded and genotyped hundreds of scats to explore dietary variation across the city 🧬💩 🧪

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Impervious surface cover and number of restaurants shape diet variation in an urban carnivore
In the past decade, studies have demonstrated that urban and nonurban wildlife populations exhibit differences in foraging behavior and diet. However, little is known about how environmental heteroge....
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January 22, 2025 at 4:23 PM