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Dietary partitioning of Australia's two marsupial hypercarnivores, the Tasmanian devil and the spotted-tailed quoll, across their shared distributional range

Australia’s native marsupial fauna has just two primarily flesh-eating ‘hypercarnivores’, the Tasmanian devil (Sarcophilus harrisii) and the spotted-tailed quoll (Dasyurus maculatus) which coexist only on the island of Tasmania. Devil populations are currently declining due to a fatal transmissible...

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Published in:PLoS One
Main Authors: Andersen, Georgina E., Johnson, Christopher N., Barmuta, Leon A., Jones, Menna E.
Format: Artigo
Language:Inglês
Published: Public Library of Science 2017
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Online Access:https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5703475/
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29176811
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.govhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0188529
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