Do rats and possums reduce the reproductive capacity of large-fruited broadleaved species in Waikato hill-country forests?

• Main Author: Dickinson, Margaret Christine
• Other Authors: Lusk, Christorpher H., Fitzgerald, Neil
• Format: Thesis
• Language: English
• Published: The University of Waikato 2022
• Subjects: Rat; Rattus rattus; Possum; Trichosurus vulpecula; Tawa; Beilschmiedia tawa; Mangeao; Litsea calicaris; Pigeonwood; Hedycarya arborea; Fleshy large-fruit; Seed production; Trichosurus vulpecula > Environmental aspects > New Zealand > Waikato; Seed dispersal by animals > Environmental aspects > New Zealand > Waikato; Forest ecology > New Zealand > Waikato; Rattus > Environmental aspects > New Zealand > Waikato; New Zealand; Sanctuary Mountain
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/10289/14760

Although brushtail possum (Trichosurus vulpecula) browsing can have conspicuous impacts by killing trees outright, there is also evidence of more insidious threats to regeneration of some species through depression of seed production. It is not known how widespread these more cryptic effects are. Th...