Dietary partitioning of Australia's two marsupial hypercarnivores, the Tasmanian devil and the spotted-tailed quoll, across their shared distributional range.

Australia's native marsupial fauna has just two primarily flesh-eating 'hypercarnivores', the Tasmanian devil (Sarcophilus harrisii) and the spotted-tailed quoll (Dasyurus maculatus) which coexist only on the island of Tasmania. Devil populations are currently declining due to a fatal...

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Autori principali: Georgina E Andersen, Christopher N Johnson, Leon A Barmuta, Menna E Jones
Natura: Articolo
Lingua:English
Pubblicazione: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2017-01-01
Serie:PLoS ONE
Accesso online:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC5703475?pdf=render