affiliation

Australian National University

email

thomas.heinsohn[at]bigpond.com.au

contact details

Visiting Fellow, Archaeology & Natural History, College of Asia & the Pacific, Australian National University, ACT 0200

research interests

• Global warming
• Animal ecology
• Management of alpine areas
• Other: historical ecology of invasive and synanthropic vertebrates

publications

Heinsohn T.E., 1997. Phantoms in the foliage: human influences on the rainforests of the New Guinea Archipelago. Pp. 278-295 in Australia's Ever-Changing Forests 111: Proceedings of the Third National Conference on Australian Forest History, edited by J. Dargavel. Australian Forest History Society / Centre for Resource and Environmental Studies, Australian National University, Canberra.

Heinsohn T.E., 1998. Captive Ecology. Nature Australia 26(2): 36-43.

Heinsohn T.E., 2000. Predation by the White-breasted Sea Eagle Haliaeetus leucogaster on Phalangerid Possums in New Ireland, Papua New Guinea. Emu 100: 245-6

Heinsohn T.E., 2001. Human influences on vertebrate zoogeography: Animal translocation and biological invasions across and to the east of Wallace's Line. Pp. 153-170 in Faunal and Floral Migrations and Evolution in SE Asia-Australasia, edited by I. Metcalfe, J.M.B. Smith, M. Morwood & I. Davidson. A.A. Balkema, Lisse.

Heinsohn T.E., 2001. A Giant Among Possums [Sulawesi Bear Cuscus Ailurops ursinus]. Nature Australia 26(12): 24-31.

Heinsohn T.E., 2002. Status of the common spotted cuscus Spilocuscus maculatus and other wild mammals on Selayar Island, Indonesia, with notes on Quaternary faunal turnover. Australian Mammalogy 24(2): 199-207.

Heinsohn T.E., 2002. Observations of probable camouflaging behaviour in a semi-commensal common spotted cuscus Spilocuscus maculatus maculatus (Marsupialia: Phalangeridae) in New Ireland, Papua New Guinea. Australian Mammalogy 24(2): 243-245.

Heinsohn T.E., 2002. Possum extinctions at the marsupial rontier: the status of the northern common cuscus Phalanger orientalis on Santa Ana Island, Makira Province, Solomon Islands. Australian Mammalogy 24(2): 247-248.

Heinsohn T.E., 2003. Animal translocation: long-term human influences on the vertebrate zoogeography of Australasia (natural dispersal versus ethnophoresy). Australian Zoologist 32(3): 351-376.

Heinsohn T.E., 2004. Phalangeroids as ethnotramps: A brief history of possums and gliders as introduced species. Pp. 506-526 in The Biology of Australian Possums, edited by R. Goldingay & S.M. Jackson. Surrey Beatty & Sons, Sydney.

Heinsohn T.E., 2004. Ecological variability in the common spotted cuscus Spilocuscus maculatus in the Australasian Archipelago - a review. Pp. 527-538 in The Biology of Australian Possums, edited by R. Goldingay & S.M. Jackson. Surrey Beatty & Sons, Sydney.

Heinsohn T.E., 2005. Den sites and habitats utilised by the northern common cuscus Phalanger orientalis (Marsupialia: Phalangeridae) in East Timor. Australian Mammalogy 27(1): 99-101.
Heinsohn T.E., 2005. The Cuscus That Fooled Science [Northern common cuscus Phalanger orientalis]. Nature Australia 28(5): 26-33.

Heinsohn T.E., 2005. Wallaby extinctions at the macropodid frontier: Changing status of the northern pademelon Thylogale browni in New Ireland Province, Papua New Guinea. Australian Mammalogy 27(2): 175-183.

Heinsohn T.E., 2006. Spread of the cane toad Bufo marinus to San Cristobal (Makira) Island, Solomon Islands. Australian Zoologist 33(4): 474-475.

Heinsohn T.E. & Barker R., 2006. Observations of scavenging carnivory by the common brushtail possum Trichosurus vulpecula on macropod carcasses in Namadgi National Park, montane Southeastern Australia. Australian Zoologist 33(3): 295-296.

Heinsohn T.E. & Hope G.S., 2006. The Torresian Connections: Zoogeography of New Guinea. Pp. 71-93 in Evolution and Biogeography of Australasian Vertebrates, edited by J.R. Merrick, M. Archer, G.M. Hickey and M.S.Y. Lee. Auscipub, Sydney.

Heinsohn, T.E. 2010. Marsupials as introduced species: Longterm anthropogenic expansion of the marsupial frontier and its implications for zoogeographic interpretation. In Simon G. Haberle, Janelle Stevenson & Matthew Prebble (editors), Altered Ecologies: Fire, Climate and Human Influence on Terrestrial Landscapes, Terra Australis 32. ANU E-Press, Canberra, The Australian National University (in press).

current research or projects

• History of biological invasions by introduced vertebrates in Australasia / Asia-Pacific region
• Historical biogeography of Phalangeroid possums