Using fecal DNA metabarcoding to test if diet of migratory birds is correlated with Pb exposure level at a contaminated site in north Idaho: rbcL dataset

Fecal samples from migratory birds were collected from Pb contaminated wetlands in the Bunker Hill Lower Basin Coeur ’d Alene River Watershed and from a Hepton Lake reference area St. Joe River Watershed during 2022-2024. Chloroplast rbcL metabarcoding was used to identify plant taxa recently consumed by the birds.

Impact/Purpose

This dataset consists of chloroplast ribulose-1,5-bisphosphate carboxylase/oxygenase large subunit gene (rbcL) amplicon-sequencing reads from Anseriformes fecal metagenomic DNA samples. These sequences can be used for metabarcoding to identify plant taxa recently consumed by migratory waterfowl. The purpose of this dataset is to make sequences publicly-available through the NCBI sequence read archive database.

Citation

Reichman, J. AND M. Jankowski. Using fecal DNA metabarcoding to test if diet of migratory birds is correlated with Pb exposure level at a contaminated site in north Idaho: rbcL dataset. U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Washington, DC, 2025. [DOI: 10.23719/1532393]

DOI: Using fecal DNA metabarcoding to test if diet of migratory birds is correlated with Pb exposure level at a contaminated site in north Idaho: rbcL dataset