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We would like to thank Hugh Fitzgerald, Natalia Atkins, Peter Blain, Justin

Bloomfield, Christina Borzak, Belinda Browning, Naomi Dean, Petrina Duncan, John Evans, Erin Flynn, Katrina French, Neal Haslem, Kirsten Haydon, Aaron Holmes, Anthony Mann, Alison Miller, Lisa O’Bryan, Martin O’Bryan, Mike Perring, Laura Reid, Jen Sanger, Amanda Smith, Kerri Spicer, Richard Stephens, Paul Tilyard, Veronica Tyquin, Natasha Wiggins, and Sam Wood for their help with fieldwork. Thank you to Kerri Spicer and Bernard Plumpton (both Forestry Tasmania) for their invaluable planning advice. Thank you to Sam Wood (University of Tasmania) for preparing the map, Bryn Roberts (Forestry Tasmania) for GIS help and Greg Jordan (University of Tasmania) and Clare McArthur (University of Sydney) for their advice with statistical analysis. Thank you to Barrie Wells (University of Tasmania) and Joanne McEvoy (University of Tasmania) for their training and advice on rodent handling. We would like to thank the following bodies for their financial support: Holsworth Wildlife Research Endowment, W.V. Scott Charitable Trust, Cooperative Research Centre for Forestry, Forestry Tasmania and Forest Practices Authority. All work was completed under the University of Tasmania Animal Ethics Approval permits A0009923 and A0010504, and Department of Primary Industries and Water, Parks and Wildlife permits FA 08098, FA 09075 and FA10047; and with permission from Forestry Tasmania to conduct mammal trapping in State Forest.

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