Possums -Yr 12 Biology

This pathfinder has been put together by Ms Morgan (librarian) and Ms Bio (biology teacher)

To complete your assignment this week, you firstly need to find out how possums damage the New Zealand environment

Databases

• In the Australia/NZ MasterFile in epic, check out the folder entitled possums, there are several articles saved in there that might be useful to you as a starting point. Use your class log-in details.
• You will also find useful material in the ProQuest Science database in epic and in INNZ.

Websites

• Landcare Research is a New Zealand environmental research organization.
  http://www.landcareresearch.co.nz/publications/infosheets/possums/
• The Department of Conservation is a government department charged with conserving the natural heritage of New Zealand.
  http://www.doc.govt.nz/templates/podcover.aspx?id=33422
• Te Ara is the online Encyclopedia of New Zealand. The Ministry for Culture and Heritage administers it. http://www.teara.govt.nz/TheBush/Conservation/IntroducedAnimalPests/2/en

In our library

• Possums / Frank Saxton. 599.23
• The brushtail possum : biology, impact and management of an introduced marsupial / edited by T.L. Montague. 599.232

Possible keyword for further searches

• possums, marsupials, “trichosurus vulpecula”, control, pests, New Zealand, “forest ecology”

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