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Table 6 The total number of prey tracks observed in paired baited and unbaited areas at nine sites in Australia

From: Sympatric prey responses to lethal top-predator control: predator manipulation experiments

Site

Treatment

Plotnights

Birds

Rabbits

Possums

Small mammals^

Macropods

Pigs

Echidnas

Koalas

Toads

Frogs

Hopping mice

Reptiles*

Barcaldine

B

3015

998

1005

17

901

1901

29

24

BP

10

24

NP

RE

UB

3131

921

608

2

703

1969

3

9

2

10

Blackall

B

809

187

120

1

185

348

1

5

BP

ND

2

NP

RE

UB

3271

808

473

2

749

762

8

19

19

Tambo

B

1352

1001

93

5

222

782

17

1

BP

0

2

NP

RE

UB

2130

901

148

4

448

960

13

3

6

11

Mt Owen

B

4389

4554

1292

175

1442

1512

2

1

2

NR

NR

NP

RE

UB

4350

5549

2229

1048

2186

1157

1

1

1

Strathmore

B

2066

4254

ND

32

21

200

89

3

BP

NR

NR

NP

RE

UB

2186

5633

26

53

1183

295

0

Lambina

B

750

380

11

NP

1128

127

NP

ND

NP

NP

106

276

132

UB

750

275

10

1051

152

24

303

84

Quinyambie

B

1400

1026

922

NP

1942

12

ND

1

NP

NP

0

6105

213

UB

1400

948

1234

1554

1

1

3

8883

190

Cordillo Downs

B

900

134

16

NP

593

25

7

ND

NP

NP

0

356

136

UB

900

459

53

980

20

0

37

130

252

Todmorden

B

1300

496

221

NP

1366

89

NP

ND

NP

NP

8

393

377

UB

1300

470

9

1333

108

0

272

173

Grand Total

 

35399

28995

8444

1312

16857

11308

465

68

3

18

246

16718

1557

  1. * = Greater in baited areas; ^ = greater PTI in unbaited areas; NP = not present; ND = known to be present but not detected on tracking plots; NR = present and detected but not recorded; RE = mostly Varanus spp. and reported in [25]; X = insufficient data to calculate p; #N surveys for hopping-mice at Lambina = 2, error df = 1 for hopping-mice.