What’s on the menu? Examining native apex- and invasive meso-predator diets to understand impacts on ecosystems

In Australia, populations of a native, terrestrial apex predator, the dingo Canis dingo/C. familiaris, introduced invasive subordinate mesopredators, the European red fox Vulpes vulpes and feral cat Felis catus, which co-occur, but there is limited understanding of their relative impacts on native and invasive prey in different ecosystems. We collected scats from each predator across a ~10,000 km2 semi-arid mallee environment, and used macroscopic scat analysis to identify prey species making up the diet of the three predator species. The archived dataset is the raw diet results of all scats collected as part of this study.