Table 1 Summary of faecal samples collected from two bird species across three landscapes in Peninsular Malaysia. The codes represented the landscapes which the samples were collected in and subsequently used during NGS metabarcoding.

From: DNA metabarcoding confirms Copsychus saularis, the common insectivorous species in oil palm plantations as biological control of ground-dwelling insect pests

Locality

Landscape

Latitude

Longitude

Bird species

Code

West Malaysia: Kelantan, Aring

Monoculture

4.981350°

102.427994°

Copsychus saularis

MCP1

West Malaysia: Kelantan, Aring

Monoculture

4.981350°

102.427994°

Copsychus saularis

MCP2

West Malaysia: Kelantan, Aring

Monoculture

4.981350°

102.427994°

Copsychus saularis

MCP3

West Malaysia: Kelantan, Aring

Forest patch plantation

4.971966°

102.454474°

Copsychus saularis

FPP1

West Malaysia: Kelantan, Aring

Forest patch plantation

4.971966°

102.454474°

Copsychus saularis

FPP2

West Malaysia: Johor, Tenggaroh

Forest patch plantation

2.016534°

104.061070°

Copsychus saularis

FPP3

West Malaysia: Kelantan, Aring

Next to forest plantation

4.901594°

102.455445°

Copsychus saularis

NFP1

West Malaysia: Kelantan, Aring

Next to forest plantation

4.901594°

102.455445°

Copsychus saularis

NFP2

West Malaysia: Kelantan, Aring

Next to forest plantation

4.901594°

102.455445°

Copsychus saularis

NFP3

West Malaysia: Pahang, Lepar

Forest patch plantation

3.898077°

102.834755°

Copsychus malabaricus

FPPX1

West Malaysia: Kelantan, Aring

Forest patch plantation

4.971966°

102.454474°

Copsychus malabaricus

FPPX2