Canterbury Plains
Floristic changes over 30 years in a Canterbury Plains kānuka forest remnant, and comparison with adjacent vegetation types
... In contrast, some of the plantation forest stands we surveyed featured many of the indigenous species that were recorded in the Reserve. Of all habitats, including the Eyrewell Reserve, the old pine stands had the ...
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The improvement of light land under irrigation on the Canterbury Plains
... in Canterbury where lack of soil moisture is a limiting factor to production exceeds one and a half million acres, a figure which is a gross area and includes roads, railways and ...on Canterbury ...
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Insect flower visitors of planted native species within the arable landscape on the Canterbury Plains, New Zealand
... Abstract Almost all of the original native vegetation of Canterbury Plains has been replaced with an arable landscape of managed exotic vegetation. A previous study planted small areas of native trees on ...
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Effects of mixed cropping farming systems on changes in soil properties on the Canterbury Plains
... Summary: Before European settlement, most of the 750,000 ha of land comprising the Canterbury Plains was under native tussock grassland with pockets of podocarp forest. The dominant land use today is mixed ...
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Insect flower visitors in native plantings within the arable landscape of the Canterbury Plains
... Lasioglossum sp., Melangyna novaezelandiae, Calliphora stygia, Dilophus nigrostigma, Calliphora vicina, Leioproctus spp. and Eristalis tenax) with each also being recognised as a crop pollinator. The results of this ...
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The ecology of the skylark Alauda arvensis L. on the Canterbury Plains, New Zealand
... Alauda arvensis, bioindicator, Canterbury Plains, cereal, conservation, extensification, hedgehog, lucerne, lowland farmland, New Zealand, population declines, skylark, predation, ter[r] ...
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Two new Holocene vegetation records from the margins of the Canterbury Plains, South Island, New Zealand
... Palynological records provide a broader and more representative range of information about past vegetation communities than do charcoal and macrofossils. Although late Quaternary palynological records exist for the wider ...
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An empirical and numerical modelling analysis of a complex meso scale windfield, Canterbury Plains, New Zealand
... Frequencies of Surface Synoptic Circulation Types at Time Closest to Onset of North-easterly Events at Christchurch Airport... Spatial Variations in the Frequency daily and Total Duratio[r] ...
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The rural settlements of the Canterbury Plains in the area between the Rakaia and Waimakariri Rivers
... functional 0:: it depends on tne and the number rather than tile.. of the fUDct:ioDcl uni tLo.[r] ...
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Canterbury railways : full steam ahead : the provincial railways of Canterbury, 1863 76
... It is a little after 2 o’clock, and a warm north-westerly wind gusts across the Canterbury Plains. It whips up clouds of dust, to the discomfort of those who have gathered just outside Christchurch at the ...
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Geology, landforms and soils of the Waipara and Waikari regions of North Canterbury with an emphasis on lands used for viticulture
... North Canterbury has at times been subject to periods of extreme weather events and intense rainfall causing ...the Canterbury Plains formed from unweathered fine sediments derived from the greywacke ...
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Farmland, food, and bioenergy crops need not compete for land
... Planting plan of Mxg bioenergy shelterbelts at a commercial dairy farm on the Canterbury Plains, New Zealand..[r] ...
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Canterbury – Full Steam Ahead 1863 – 1878 : The History of the Canterbury Provincial Railways
... and plains, and not as a part of a national rail ...in Canterbury; indeed, he felt that there would be little challenge for the railway- builders on the broad, flat Canterbury ...in Canterbury ...
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APEC project on SME Resilience, Resilient Organisations monthly reports Report 3: Impacts on Farming Organisations
... the Canterbury earthquake ...central Canterbury Plains, affecting rural areas, small towns and the city of ...central Canterbury plains were subjected to a sustained period of thousands ...
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Persistence of biodiversity in a dryland remnant within an intensified dairy farm landscape
... lowland Canterbury Plains of New Zealand have been extensively modified since human occupation, but with recent conversions to irrigated dairy farming very few remnants of native dryland vegetation remain ...
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Origin and Regional Setting of Metropolises in India
... great plains of India, the peninsular plateau, the coastal plains and the Hima- layan ...northern plains along the river banks and coastal areas in the early historical ...
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Mobility and livestock mortality in communally used pastoral areas: the impact of the 2005-2006 drought on livestock mortality in Maasailand
... There is consensus that pastoral mobility is beneficial for both pastoralists and the environment. However, rapid change arising from multiple factors, including landscape fragmentation, sedentarization, and demographic ...
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The effect of the abolition of the provinces on political parties in the New Zealand House of Representatives, 1876 7
... THE LIBRA~Y CANTERBURY UNIVERSITY COLLEGil... THE LIBRARY eANTERBURY UNIVERSITY COLLEGE..[r] ...
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Regional Characteristics of Temperature Anomalies in Pakistan with Emphasis on Spatial Distribution at Decadal Scale: A Case Study of August (1950s 2000s)
... Indus plains in the decade of 2000s. The western parts of Indus plains, Kirthar ranges, Brahui ranges and Kharan were found above average temperature but in this scenario, the eastern parts of Indus ...
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Labour in Christchurch : community and consciousness, 1914 1919
... Labour Records unless otherwise stated, held in Trade Union Archives, University of Canterbury Library Canterbury Furniture and Related Trades Industrial Union of Workers, Ordinary Minut[r] ...
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