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Figure 1. Seasonal variations in the Chinese mole shrew diet. (A) Seasonal changes in animal and plant food items at different taxonomic levels. (B) Seasonal changes in the numbers and proportions of earthworms at the species level. Different letters indicate a difference between seasons (P < 0.05).
Figure 2. Box-and-whisker plots for alpha diversity in animal (A) and plant (B) food item estimators (Chao1, Shannon, and Simpson indices).
Figure 3. Two-dimensional principal coordinate analysis (PCoA) of MOTUs of the Chinese mole shrew diet throughout the year. (A) represents animal food items and (B) represents plant food items. The first two principal coordinate (PC) axes are shown.
Figure 4. Heat map and FO of predominant animal (A) and plant (B) food items throughout the year. Each number in the heat map indicates the relative abundance of the corresponding food. Abbreviations: Sp, spring; Su, summer; A, autumn; W, winter.
Figure 5. Relative abundance of the top 10 animal food items at the species level based on the COI metabarcoding assay.
Figure 6. Relative abundance of the top 10 plant food items at the species level based on the rbcL metabarcoding assay.
Figure 7. Animal (A) and plant (B) food items at taxonomic levels significantly differentiated between seasons as determined by linear discriminatory analysis (LDA) effect size (LEfSe). LDA scores were interpreted as the degree of difference in relative abundance.