References

Bell, B.D. 1981. Breeding and condition of possums Trichosurus vulpecula in the Orongorongo Valley, near Wellington, New Zealand, 1966–1975 . In Bell, B.D. (Ed.) Proceedings of the first symposium on marsupials in New Zealand. Zoological Publications from Victoria University of Wellington 74: 87–139.

Cockayne, L. 1928. Monograph on the New Zealand Beech Forests. Part II. The forests from the practical and economic stand-points. N.Z. State Forest Service Bulletin No. 4. Government Printer, Wellington.

Cremer, K.W. 1969. Browsing of mountain ash regeneration by wallabies and possums in Tasmania. Australian Forestry 33: 201–210.

Fitzgerald, A.E. 1976. Diet of the opossum Trichosurus vulpecula (Kerr) in the Orongorongo Valley, Wellington, New Zealand, in relation to food-plant availability. N.Z. Journal of Zoology 3: 399–419.

Fitzgerald, A.E. 1978. Aspects of the food and nutrition of the brush-tailed opossum Trichosurus vulpecula (Kerr 1792) Marsupialia: Phalangeridae, in New Zealand. In Montgomery, G.G. (Ed.) The Ecology of Arboreal Folivores. Smithsonian Institution Press, Washington, D.C. pp.284–303.

page 48

Freeland, W.J. & Winter, J.W. 1975. Evolutionary consequences of eating: Trichosurus vulpecula (Marsupialia) and the genus Eucalyptus . Journal of Chemical Ecology 1: 439–455.

Gilmore, D.P. 1967. Foods of the Australian opossum (Trichosurus vulpecula Kerr) on Banks Peninsula, Canterbury, and a comparison with other selected areas. N.Z. Journal of Science 10: 235–279.

Green R.H. 1974. Mammals. In: Williams, W.D. (Ed.), Biogeography and Ecology in Tasmania. Dr. W. Junk, The Hague, 1974. Series Monographiae Biologicae Vol. 25: 367–396.

Holloway, J.T. 1959. Noxious-animal problems in the South Island watersheds. N.Z. Science Review 17: 21–28.

Kean, R.I. & Pracy, L.T. 1949. Effects of the Australian opossum (Trichosurus vulpecula Kerr) on indigenous vegetation in New Zealand. Proceedings of 7th Pacific Science Congress 4: 696–715.

Kirk, H.B. & Bendall, W.E. 1919. Report on Kapiti Island as a plant and animal sanctuary. Transactions and Proceedings of the New Zealand Institute 51: 468–470.

Mason, R. 1958. Foods of the Australian opossum (Trichosurus vulpecula, Kerr) in New Zealand indigenous forest in the Orongorongo Valley, Wellington, New Zealand. N.Z. Journal of Science 1: 590–613.

McKelvey, P.J. 1959. Animal damage in North Island protection forests. N.Z. Science Review 17: 28–34.

McNally, J. 1955. Damage to Victorian exotic pine plantations by native animals. Australian Forestry 19: 87–99.

Owen, W.H. & Thomson, J.A. 1965. Notes on the comparative ecology of the common brushtail and mountain possums in Eastern Australia. Victorian Naturalist 82: 216–217.

Perham, A.N. 1924. Progress report of investigation of the opossum - genus Trichosurus - in New Zealand. N.Z. State Forest Service. Unpublished report.

Thomson, G.M. 1922. The Naturalisation of Animals and Plants in New Zealand . Cambridge University Press.

Troughton, E. 1941. Furred Animals of Australia . Angus and Robertson, Sydney.

Zotov, V.D. 1947. Forest deterioration in the Tararuas due to deer and opossum. Transactions and Proceedings of the Royal Society of N.Z. 77: 162–165.