Table 1.
Gut microbiome samples from Darwin’s finch species on Santa Cruz island.
| Common Name | Abbreviation | Scientific Name | Highland Samples (N) |
Lowland Samples (N) |
Total per species |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Small Ground finch | SGF | Geospiza fuliginosa | 8 | 5 | 13 |
| Medium Ground finch | MGF | Geospiza fortis | 1 | 6 | 7 |
| Large Ground finch | LGF | Geospiza magnirostris | 8+ | 8 | |
| Cactus finch | CF | Geospiza scandens | 6 | 6 | |
| Small Tree finch | STF | Camarhynchus parvulus | 9+ | 1* | 10 |
| Large Tree finch | LTF | Camarhynchus psittacula | 3 | 3 | |
| Woodpecker finch | WPF | Camarhynchus pallidus | 5 | 5 | |
| Vegetarian finch | VF | Platyspiza crassirostris | 4 | 4 | |
| Warbler finch | WF | Certhidea olivacea | 7 | 7 | |
| Total | 33 | 30 | 63 |
+No stable isotope samples were collected for 2 STF/Highland and 1 LGF.
*No first foraging observations were collected for STF in the lowland habitat.