Supporting data for “Foraging Ecology, Evolutionary Constraints, and Microbial Symbiosis: An Integrative Study of Bats and Pigeons in a Subtropical East Asian Region”

The research project amis to characterise the dietary taxa and gut microbial taxa present in the host digestive tract. In addition, the study includes dietary composition analyses of urban-dwelling feral pigeons and spotted doves.

The present dataset encompasses the compositional profiles, diversity metrics, and modelling outputs generated during the course of these investigations. To ensure clarity and reproducibility, all data and associated files are organised according to the chapters in which they are used—each chapter corresponds to a dedicated folder containing the specific data analysed in that section. Within each chapter folder, R scripts for data visualisation and statistical analyses are also provided.</p><p><br></p><p dir="ltr">Specifically, Chapter 2 contains metadata for three <i>Myotis</i> species, their dietary composition data, and intermediate and final outputs from subsequent diversity analyses.