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dc.contributor.authorJarman, Peter Johnen
dc.contributor.authorAllen, Lee Roberten
dc.contributor.authorBoschma, Dennis Johnen
dc.contributor.authorGreen, Stuart Wayneen
dc.date.accessioned2009-10-29T16:29:00Z-
dc.date.issued2007-
dc.identifier.citationAustralian Journal of Zoology, 55(1), p. 63-72en
dc.identifier.issn1446-5698en
dc.identifier.issn0004-959Xen
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/1959.11/2749-
dc.description.abstractIn 1313 scats of the spotted-tailed quoll 'Dasyurus maculatus', collected over 5 years from the gorge country of north-eastern New South Wales, the most frequent and abundant items were derived from mammals and a restricted set of insect orders. These quolls also ate river-associated items: waterbirds, eels, crayfish, aquatic molluscs and even frogs. Macropods contributed most of the mammal items, with possums, gliders and rodents also being common. Some food, particularly from macropods and lagomorphs, had been scavenged (as shown by fly larvae). The most frequent invertebrates were three orders of generally large insects Coleoptera, Hemiptera and Orthoptera, which were most frequent in summer and almost absent in winter scats. Monthly mean numbers of rodent and small dasyurid items per scat were inversely related to these large insects in scats. The numbers of reptile items were inversely related to the numbers of mammal (especially arboreal and small terrestrial mammal) items per scat, thus types of items interacted in their occurrences in monthly scat samples. Frequencies of most vertebrate items showed no seasonal, but much year-to-year, variation. This quoll population ate four main types of items, each requiring different skills to obtain: they hunted arboreal marsupials (possibly up trees), terrestrial small mammals and reptiles (on the ground), and seasonally available large insects (on trees or the ground), and scavenged carcases, mostly of large mammals but also birds and fishes (wherever they could find them).en
dc.languageenen
dc.publisherCSIRO Publishingen
dc.relation.ispartofAustralian Journal of Zoologyen
dc.titleScat contents of the spotted-tailed quoll 'Dasyurus maculatus' in the New England gorges, north-eastern New South Walesen
dc.typeJournal Articleen
dc.identifier.doi10.1071/ZO06014en
dc.subject.keywordsConservation and Biodiversityen
local.contributor.firstnamePeter Johnen
local.contributor.firstnameLee Roberten
local.contributor.firstnameDennis Johnen
local.contributor.firstnameStuart Wayneen
local.subject.for2008050202 Conservation and Biodiversityen
local.subject.seo2008970106 Expanding Knowledge in the Biological Sciencesen
local.profile.schoolSchool of Environmental and Rural Scienceen
local.profile.schoolSchool of Environmental and Rural Scienceen
local.profile.emailpjarman@une.edu.auen
local.profile.emailsgreen2@une.edu.auen
local.output.categoryC1en
local.record.placeauen
local.record.institutionUniversity of New Englanden
local.identifier.epublicationsrecordpes:5497en
local.publisher.placeAustraliaen
local.format.startpage63en
local.format.endpage72en
local.identifier.scopusid33947601745en
local.peerreviewedYesen
local.identifier.volume55en
local.identifier.issue1en
local.contributor.lastnameJarmanen
local.contributor.lastnameAllenen
local.contributor.lastnameBoschmaen
local.contributor.lastnameGreenen
dc.identifier.staffune-id:pjarman2en
dc.identifier.staffune-id:sgreen2en
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local.identifier.unepublicationidune:2825en
dc.identifier.academiclevelAcademicen
dc.identifier.academiclevelAcademicen
local.title.maintitleScat contents of the spotted-tailed quoll 'Dasyurus maculatus' in the New England gorges, north-eastern New South Walesen
local.output.categorydescriptionC1 Refereed Article in a Scholarly Journalen
local.relation.urlhttp://nla.gov.au/anbd.bib-an25965734en
local.search.authorJarman, Peter Johnen
local.search.authorAllen, Lee Roberten
local.search.authorBoschma, Dennis Johnen
local.search.authorGreen, Stuart Wayneen
local.uneassociationUnknownen
local.year.published2007en
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