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Title: Notes on the diets of four rodent species from Goodenough Island
Contributor(s): Elliott, Todd F  (author)orcid ; Vernes, Karl  (author)orcid 
Publication Date: 2021
Early Online Version: 2020-07-02
DOI: 10.1071/AM20022
Handle Link: https://hdl.handle.net/1959.11/30500
Abstract: Goodenough Island is in the Milne Bay Province of Papua New Guinea and is located off of New Guinea's eastern coast. Goodenough Island has a unique yet poorly studied mammal community. Previous dietary study of mycophagous New Guinean forest wallabies showed that Goodenough Island's endemic black forest wallaby (Dorcopsis atrata) ate at least 12 taxa of fungi. Using spirit collections at the Australian Museum in Sydney, we evaluated and compared fungal diversity in rodent diets on the same island. We sampled diets of four Goodenough Island rodent species (Chiruromys forbesi, Paramelomys platyops, Rattus exulans and Rattus mordax) and show that fungi are dietary components for three of these mammals.
Publication Type: Journal Article
Source of Publication: Australian Mammalogy, 43(2), p. 256-259
Publisher: CSIRO Publishing
Place of Publication: Australia
ISSN: 1836-7402
0310-0049
Fields of Research (FoR) 2008: 060202 Community Ecology (excl. Invasive Species Ecology)
060208 Terrestrial Ecology
Fields of Research (FoR) 2020: 310302 Community ecology (excl. invasive species ecology)
310308 Terrestrial ecology
Socio-Economic Objective (SEO) 2008: 960806 Forest and Woodlands Flora, Fauna and Biodiversity
Socio-Economic Objective (SEO) 2020: 180606 Terrestrial biodiversity
Peer Reviewed: Yes
HERDC Category Description: C1 Refereed Article in a Scholarly Journal
Appears in Collections:Journal Article
School of Environmental and Rural Science

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