Research Article

Experimental Evaluation of Koala Scat Persistence and Detectability with Implications for Pellet-Based Fauna Census

Figure 3

Boxplots (minimum, first quartile, median, third quartile, and maximum, with outliers ° and extreme values *) showing the variability of the average number of scats remaining by vegetation community (a) after 36 weeks, (b) all 36 weeks combined (grey lines in (b) include max and min medians of all but wetlands). Boxplots are ordered from the vegetation community with the least remaining scats (12.2.15) to the one with most remaining scats (12.2.6). NB: vegetation communities (12.2.10: mallee Eucalyptus spp. low woodland, 12.2.15: wetlands, 12.2.5: Corymbia spp. open to low closed forest, 12.2.6: E. racemosa woodland, 12.2.7: Melaleuca quinquenervia open forest to woodland, and 12.2.8: E. pilularis open forest) follow Queensland Herbarium [27] except for the addition of simple and complex rehabilitation.
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