A comparison and critique of different scat‐analysis methods for determining carnivore diet

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Biogeographical patterns in the diet of an opportunistic predator: the red fox Vulpes vulpes in the Iberian Peninsula (2013, background): “2003), and biomass is considered a direct measure of the energetic value of prey items consumed (Reynolds & Aebischer 1991), and therefore the best approximation to the true diet (Klare et al. 2011).”
Responses of invasive predators and native prey to a prescribed forest fire (2017, methodology): “This method adjusts for differences in the digestibility of different prey and so provides the best approximation of diets of carnivores (Klare et al. 2011).”
A continental‐scale analysis of feral cat diet in Australia (2015, methodology): “However, like earlier authors (D ıaz-Ruiz et al., 2011; Klare et al., 2011), we found that few studies used any one of these measures.”
Food habits of the world's grey wolves (2016, background): “For example, %FO can over- represent small prey items, whereas volume and biomass calculations can be influenced by varying scat sizes (Klare et al. 2011).”