The common ringtail is a nocturnal Australian marsupial with a grasping tail that helps it move along branches.
It has a grasping tail that it uses to hold branches as it moves through trees.
Researchers compared arboreal-marsupial detections over 26 years in tall, wet montane ash forests of southeastern mainland Australia. The Common Ringtail Possum was one of the species whose detections increased. In the same dataset, detections of almost all studied species were strongly related to the abundance of hollow-bearing trees.
Common Ringtail Possum detections were positively associated with young forest regenerated after the 2009 wildfire. Researchers compared long-term records with forest age and hollow-bearing tree abundance. The results describe occurrence patterns in montane ash forests of mainland southeastern Australia.
An extinction-risk assessment has not been added yet.
In the 26-year montane-ash dataset, Common Ringtail Possum detections increased and were positively associated with young post-2009 regrowth.