possum Trichosurus vulpecula
Nutritional Properties of Some Fruits Eaten by the Possum Trichosurus vulpecula in a New Zealand Broadleaf-Podocarp Forest
... the possum Trichosurus vulpecula Kerr in the broadleaf-podocarp forest of Orongo- rongo Valley near Wellington, New Zealand, has been analysed from stomach contents by Mason ...the possum diet ...
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Endogenous Type D Retrovirus in a Marsupial, the Common Brushtail Possum (Trichosurus vulpecula)
... We have sequenced and characterized an endogenous type D retrovirus, which we have named TvERV(D), from the genome of an Australian marsupial, the common brushtail possum (Trichosurus vulpecula). ...
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An Australian abroad : the secret life of the brushtail possum (Trichosurus vulpecula) : a thesis presented in partial fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy in Veterinary Science at Massey University, Manawatu, New Zealand
... brushtail possum (Trichosurus vulpecula) home ranges for six wild free-living subpopulations, (four grids were studied; all of them before possum depopulation and two of them after ...
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Brushtail possum (Trichosurus vulpecula) diet in a north Westland mixed beech (Nothofagus) forest
... brushtail possum (Trichosurus vulpecula) diet in a mixed Nothofagus ...previous possum diet studies in Nothofagus forests and suggest that possums are very selective in their feeding, both ...
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The thalamus and its cortical projection in the brush tailed possum, Trichosurus vulpecula, and the native cat Dasyurus viverrinus, with a comparative review of thalamic organisation in marsupial and placental mammals
... Neocortical projections of the suprageniculate and posterior thalamic nuclei in the brush-tailed possum, Trichosurus vulpecula Phalangeridae, with a comparative commentary on the organis[r] ...
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Possum (Trichosurus vulpecula) control benefits native beech mistletoes (Loranthaceae)
... brushtail possum (Trichosurus vulpecula) has been blamed for the decline of three native New Zealand beech mistletoe species (Alepis flavida, Peraxilla tetrapetala and Peraxilla colensoi, ...
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The Sensitivity of the Brushtail Possum (Trichosurus vulpecula) to 1080 Poison
... brushtail possum (Trichosurus vulpecula) to 1080 poison is important as a basis for planning effective control ...for possum control in New Zealand forest ...
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Exploring the influence of disturbance history and forest type on an Arboreal Marsupial, the Common Brushtail Possum (Trichosurus Vulpecula), using a Multi disciplinary Approach
... brushtail possum ( Trichosurus vulpecula ) is a highly adaptable, nocturnal, arboreal marsupial omnivore, capable of exploiting a large array of food types (Fitzgerald 1984; Cowan and Moeed 1987; ...
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Comparison of two techniques for assessing possum (Trichosurus vulpecula) diet from stomach contents
... assessing possum (Trichosurus vulpecula Kerr) diet from stomach contents (“point-sampling” and “layer-separation”) are described and ...most possum stomach ...sieving possum stomach ...
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Possum (Trichosurus vulpecula) diet in a mast and non-mast seed year in a New Zealand Nothofagusforest
... The importance of forest floor fungi is another notable feature of Hurunui possum diet. Fungi are often recorded in possum diet (Nugent et al., 2000), but are usually only a minor component of total diet ...
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Field Acceptance of Non-Toxic and Toxic Baits by Populations of the Brushtail Possum (Trichosurus vulpecula Kerr)
... sum, Trichosurus vulpecula Kerr, at the end of the last century (Pracy, 1962) and the realisation that the abundance of this animal, introduced into New Zealand for its fur, had reached pest propor- tions ...
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Divergence of a mammal along a habitat gradient: a study of the coppery brushtail possum, Trichosurus vulpecula johnsonii
... 81 on the Atherton Tablelands also suggests that sexual selection is not a significant evolutionary force in these possums (chapter two: 2.5.1; Clinchy et al., 2004; Isaac and Johnson, 2003). Thus it seems likely that ...
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Long-term changes and seasonal patterns in possum (Trichosurus vulpecula) leaf diet, Orongorongo Valley, Wellington, New Zealand
... from possum diet from 1979, probably because all mature trees had died and the remaining plants were small (Campbell, ...in possum diet was being taken from the foot slopes of the ridges adjacent to the ...
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Possum (Trichosurus vulpecula) densities and impacts on Fuchsia (Fuchsia excorticata) in south Westland, New Zealand
... between possum density and damage to plants is not necessarily true across a range of forest types even with in one ...Westland, possum damage was worse in the simplest forest types at mid-altitude with ...
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Divergence of a mammal along a habitat gradient: a study of the coppery brushtail possum, Trichosurus vulpecula johnsonii
... Sam Price-Rees, with assistance from Katie Jones, captured 23 adult grey brushtail possums, two grey pouch-young, one coppery brushtail possum, and sampled three road kill possums for this study in 2005. The ...
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The Possum Pied Piper: the development and investigation of an audio lure for improved possum (Trichosurus vulpecula) monitoring and control in New Zealand
... of possum detections during possum surveillance surveys do not result in possum captures at detection sites during follow-up control operations using traps 7- 10 days later ...consecutive ...
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Factors influencing brushtail possum (Trichosurus vulpecula) damage in a Pinus radiata plantation on the Coromandel Peninsula, New Zealand
... on each tree. The likelihood that such damage had been caused by possums (rather than other herbivores or weather) was scored as: 4 = high, 3 = likely, 2 = uncertain, 1 = unlikely and 0 = not possum-related. The ...
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The distribution and expression of CFTR restricts electrogenic anion secretion to the ileum of the brushtail possum, Trichosurus vulpecula
... GlyH101 and NPPB were tenfold higher in the intact tissue when compared with their effect on cloned pCFTR expressed in FRT cells. However, similar discrepancies between the effect of these compounds in expression systems ...
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Changes in Australian brushtail possum (Trichosurus vulpecula) den site use following density reduction
... of possum behaviour and bTB dynamics, as this may help identify ways to increase control ...in possum denning areas in this study were also more susceptible to bTB infection than those grazing in ...
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An Australian abroad : the secret life of the brushtail possum (Trichosurus vulpecula) : a thesis presented in partial fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy in Veterinary Science at Massey University, Manawatu, New Zealand
... in possum populations and its ...First, possum density is unlikely to be a good predictor of per-capita TB transmission rates, as it was not a good predictor of the mean rates of contact or proximity (even ...
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