Additional file 1 of Molecular analysis of scats revealed diet and prey choice of grey wolves and Eurasian lynx in the contact zone between the Dinaric Mountains and the Alps

Additional file 1: Table S1. Study site and sample collection. Table S2. Details of PCR protocol. Table S3. Occurrence of prey taxa in wolf and lynx scats. Table S4. Relative read abundance (RRA) matrix (the proportion of identified reads assigned to each prey taxon for comparison analysis). Table S5. Prey taxa identity classification. Table S6. Results of DNA analysis of prey species presence in grey wolf and Eurasian lynx scats. Table S7. Frequency of occurrence of the important prey items in wolf and lynx diet. Table S8. Results of PERMANOVA, testing the effects of predator species and spatial variation on the changes of diet composition. Table S9. Prey taxa most responsible for driving differences in dietary composition between groups. Table S10. Results of the similarity percentage (SIMPER) analysis on interspecific and spatial dietary difference for wolf and lynx diet.