Supplementary Table 1. Details of Studies Used in the Cross-Species Analysis of Antechinus

Supplementary Table 1. Details of studies used in the cross-species analysis of antechinus group size, and the proportion of females in nest groups. N = number of individuals radio-tracked in summer (s), autumn (a), winter (non-rut) (w) and the rut (r).

Study site / Coordinates / n / Sampling times / Species / Minimum temperature range (C)
Chiltern, Victoria (Coates 1995) / -36.1, 146.37 / a) 13
w) 13
r) 12 / May – Aug 1989 - 1991 / A. flavipes / 4 – 7 °
Union Camp Creek, NSW (McNee and Cockburn 1992) / -35.55, 150.35 / r) 18 / August 1987 / A. stuartii / 8 °
Kioloa, NSW
(this study) / -35.53, 150.37 / s) 5
a) 5
w) 4 / July 2003, Jan 2004, May 2005 / A. stuartii / 4 - 13 °
Monga, NSW (Lazenby-Cohen and Cockburn 1988; Lazenby-Cohen 1991) / -35.37, 149.57 and -35.35, 149.55 / s) 6
a) 27
w) 19
r) 33 / April, June, Aug, Oct, Dec 1986, Mar, April, June, Aug, Dec 1987 / A. agilis / -3 - 10 °
Murramarang, NSW (Lorch 2004) / -35.32, 150.23 / a) 16
w) 13 / Mar-June 2003 / A. stuartii / 6 - 12 °
Tumut, NSW (Banks et al. 2005) / -35.1, 148.4 / w) 80 / July 2002, July 2003 / A. agilis / 0 - 3 °
Springbrook, Qld
(this study) / -28.2, 153.3 / s) 17
a) 12 / Mar 2008, April 2008, Jan 2009, Feb 2009 / A. subtropicus / 13 - 20 °

References

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Lazenby-Cohen KA, Cockburn A (1988) Lek promiscuity in a semelparous mammal, Antechinus stuartii (Marsupialia: Dasyuridae)? Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology 22:195-202

Lorch D (2004) Sex-specific variation in infestation and diversity of ectoparasites on the brown antechinus, Antechinus stuartii. Postgraduate Diploma thesis, Institut fur Okologie. Friedrich-Schiller University, Jena

McNee A, Cockburn A (1992) Specific identity is not correlated with behavioral and life history diversity in Antechinus stuartii sensu-lato. Australian Journal of Zoology 40:127-133