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

Table 2

Eucalypt species fed to hospitalised koalas between 1 and 6 days [26] before their scats were collected in comparison to species found in the diet of wild koalas on NSI (only E. tereticornis, E. robusta, and E. resinifera are present on NSI, their percentages are taken from Cristescu et al. [34]).

Common name	Scientific name	% fed between last 1 to 6 days	% eaten by NSI wild koalas
Grey gum	E.  propinqua,  E. punctata, E. major	41%
Blue gum	E. tereticornis	23%	12%
River red gum	E. camaldulensis	17%
White gum	E. dunnii	5%
Swamp mahogany	E. robusta	5%	4%
Flooded gum	E. grandis	4%
Red stringybark	E. resinifera	2%	11%
Ironbark	E. crebra	1%
Mountain Blue gum	E. deanei	1%
Spotted gum	E. maculata	1%