
TY  - JOUR
A1  - Lunney, D. 
A1  - Ashby, E. 
A1  - Grigg, J. 
A1  - O'Connell, M. 
T1  - Food availability and habitat selection of Sminthopsis leucopus (Gray) (Marsupialia: Dasyuridae) in logged forest on the south coast of New South Wales.
JF  - Australian Mammalogy
JO  - Aust. Mammalogy
Y1  - 1986
VL  - 9
IS  - 2
SP  - 105
EP  - 110
KW  - 
UR  - https://doi.org/10.1071/AM86015 
N2  - Diet was assessed using faecal pellet analysis. Food availability was measured on ridges and in gullies of logged. unlogged and regenerating forest using pitfall traps. Sminthopsis leucopus ate a wide variety of prey, including vertebrates. The observed similarity between the invertebrates in scats and pitfall traps in the preferred habitat (logged ridges) indicates that S. leucopus feeds opportunistically. Adequate food resources were available in all ridge habitats yet S. leucopus were captured predominantly in only logged ridge habitat. We conclude that food availability did not influence habitat selection. 
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