Research Article
Experimental Evaluation of Koala Scat Persistence and Detectability with Implications for Pellet-Based Fauna Census
Table 3
Percentage of scats detected and time needed to detect them, in three different ground layer complexities.
| | Characteristics of search | Mean percentage of scats found (± SEM) | Time of search (min) | Mean time taken by scat (sec) | Mean percentage found at 2 min | Mean time to find the 1st scat (sec) | | Mean | Minimum | Maximum |
| | Simple litter | 100.0 | 3.4 | 2.1 | 6.2 | 0.73 | 87.3 | 22 | | Complex litter | 97.7 (±1.1) | 15.8 | 7.1 | 25.2 | 1.05 | 30.3 | 10.1 | | Highly complex litter | 83.9 (±4.4) | 34.3 | 15.4 | 48.6 | 2.61 | 11.2 | 17.5 |
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SEM: standard error of mean.
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