Seasonal truffle consumption by long-nosed bandicoots ('Perameles nasuta') in a mixed rainforest-open forest community in north-eastern New South Wales

Title
Seasonal truffle consumption by long-nosed bandicoots ('Perameles nasuta') in a mixed rainforest-open forest community in north-eastern New South Wales
Publication Date
2014
Author(s)
Vernes, Karl A
( author )
OrcID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1635-9950
Email: kvernes@une.edu.au
UNE Id une-id:kvernes
Type of document
Journal Article
Language
en
Entity Type
Publication
Publisher
CSIRO Publishing
Place of publication
Australia
DOI
10.1071/AM13040
UNE publication id
une:15178
Abstract
Scats of long-nosed bandicoots ('Perameles nasuta') from north-eastern New South Wales were examined for seasonal occurrence of fungi. Fungus was detected in bandicoot diets in all seasons, but samples from autumn and winter were more likely to contain fungi, and more taxa were consumed in these seasons, compared with spring and summer. Individual scat samples also contained more spore types in autumn and winter than in spring and summer. My results support other work in temperate south-eastern Australia that indicate an autumn and winter peak in fungal availability, and a stronger focus on fungal consumption by mammals at this time of year.
Link
Citation
Australian Mammalogy, 36(1), p. 113-115
ISSN
1836-7402
0310-0049
Start page
113
End page
115

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