
%0 Journal Article
%A Claridge, A. W. 
%A Trappe, J. M. 
%A Claridge, D. L. 
%T Mycophagy by the swamp wallaby (<emph type="2">Wallabia bicolor</emph>)
%J Wildlife Research
%D 2001/12/20
%V 28
%N 6
%P 643-645
%K 
%R https://doi.org/10.1071/WR00105
%U https://www.publish.csiro.au/paper/WR00105 
%X Microscopic analysis of the scats of swamp wallabies (Wallabia bicolor), collected from a variety of forested sites in south-eastern mainland Australia, indicates that the species consumes a diversity of species of hypogeous (underground-fruiting) fungi. The mycophagous (fungus-feeding) dietary behaviour seemingly extends to habitats recently burned by fire, implying that W. bicolor may be critical in dispersing fungal spores and perhaps in re-establishing mycorrhizal associations of these fungi with forest trees and shrubs. Such an interrelationship has been previously demonstrated only for more heavily mycophagous species of ground-dwelling mammal. 
