Endangered Kangaroo Island dunnarts are partially arboreal and use pygmy-possum nest boxes

Sophie Petit; Peter A. Hammond

doi:10.1071/PC25057

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Endangered Kangaroo Island dunnarts are partially arboreal and use pygmy-possum nest boxes

Sophie Petit

^A ^B ^* and Peter A. Hammond ^B

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^A UniSA STEM, University of South Australia, Mawson Lakes, SA 5095, Australia.

^B Kangaroo Island Research Station, Penneshaw, SA 5222, Australia.

^* Correspondence to: sophie.petit@unisa.edu.au

Handling Editor: Paul Meek

Pacific Conservation Biology 31, PC25057 https://doi.org/10.1071/PC25057

Submitted: 27 July 2025 Accepted: 23 September 2025 Published: 7 October 2025

© 2025 The Author(s) (or their employer(s)). Published by CSIRO Publishing. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License (CC BY-NC-ND)

Keywords: arboreal, bushfire recovery, Cercartetus, Kangaroo Island dunnart, nest box, refuge, shelter sharing, Sminthopsis fuliginosus aitkeni.

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