Facts from faeces
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Cites methods from "Facts from faeces"
...After considering the approaches used in several studies (Schaller 1967; Johnsingh 1983; Putman 1984; Emmons 1987; Jasic, Feinsinger & Jimenez 1993), we selected the methods developed by Floyd et al....
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...The methodology of scat analysis has been reviewed (Putman 1984; Reynolds & Aebischer 1991) and applied in earlier food habit studies of carnivores either alone (Norton et al....
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...These differences probably result from the high digestibility of fungi, which means that they are unlikely to be detected in faeces samples and will only be recorded in stomach contents if eaten relatively recently (e.g. Putman, 1984)....
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...For example, the importance of foods that are more rapidly digested may be under-estimated (Putman, 1984), while that of small, frequently consumed items may be over-estimated when consumption is measured in terms of frequency of occurrence (Reynolds & Aebischer, 1991)....
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