South Westland
Diet and impacts of brushtail possum populations across an invasion front in South Westland, New Zealand
... Abstract: Impact of the irruptive fluctuation in abundance of brushtail possum populations since their initial colonisation was investigated in the forests of South Westland, New Zealand. Possum abundance, ...
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Impact of Invading Brushtail Possum Populations on Mixed Beech- Broadleaved Forests, South Westland, New Zealand
... in Westland (James, ...in South Westland, comprises only ...in South Westland, but the range of forest composition in Westland was still heavily under-represented ...
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Breeding biology and threats to the blue penguin (Eudyptula minor) in South Westland, New Zealand
... in South Westland is needed to learn more about annual variation in breeding productivity and to determine if breeding success is consistently high over an extended time ...
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Impact of cattle on conservation land licensed for grazing in South Westland, New Zealand
... Abstract: Making use of existing fences as ready-made exclosures, this study aimed to assess the long-term effects of cattle grazing on forest margins. Results indicated: 1) that cattle browsing and trampling has an ...
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Possum (Trichosurus vulpecula) densities and impacts on Fuchsia (Fuchsia excorticata) in south Westland, New Zealand
... Figure 2: Percent of 496 branches in 10 foliage cover classes, or completely defoliated or dead for five study sites over 4 or 5 years in south Westland. In the defoliated/dead (Dead) class, the frequency ...
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Ecology and distribution of silver beech (Nothofagus menziesii) in the Paringa district, South Westland, New Zealand
... In Westland, interest has been in the transitions between the central part of the province, where conifer / hardwood forests extend from the coast up to the subalpine scrub belt on the flanks of the Southern Alps, ...
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Matai Totara Flood-Plain Forests in South Westland
... Fresh alluvium deposited by floods obviously plays a major part in the dynamics of matai/totara forests in South Westland. These are catastrophe-dominated communities, although unlike kahikatea forests, ...
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No evidence of negative effects of aerial 1080 operations on red deer (Cervus elaphus) encounters and sightings in South Westland forests
... An alternative hypothesis is that the behavioural response of deer could be caused indirectly by temporal changes in the intensity or type of recreational or commercial hunting pressure (Nugent & Sweetapple 1989) ...
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Cattle grazing and the regeneration of totara (Podocarpus totara var. waihoensis) on river terraces, south Westland, New Zealand
... Grazing appears to improve site availability for totara establishment on the Whataroa River terraces. Both study sites were grazed up until about 5 years ago, and the density of saplings and trees is similar at both ...
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Assessment of the physical well being of red deer (Cervus elaphus L ) populations : in South Westland, New Zealand
... INTRODUCTION In March 1969 a group of pellet-sampling lines was established in the lower Arawata Valley, South Westland, to monitor the long-term impact of commercial hunting on the dens[r] ...
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Ecology of hard beech (Nothofagus truncata) in southern outlier stands in the Haast Ecological District, South Westland, New Zealand
... including those beyond the present coastline which were exposed by a lowered sea level, that silver beech is assumed to have survived the heavy glaciation that characterised the district. Wardle argues, from evidence ...
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Disturbance, succession and the coexistence of species in a lowland podocarp forest, South Westland, New Zealand
... Vegetation change in six forest stands affected by flood and wind disturbance was investigated using stand history reconstruction in a lowland podocarp forest, south Westland, New Zealan[r] ...
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Diet of stoats at Okarito Kiwi Sanctuary, South Westland, New Zealand
... Abstract: The diet of 871 stoats (Mustela erminea) caught within the Okarito Kiwi Sanctuary, South Westland, New Zealand, between 2001 and 2004 was studied by assessment of gut contents. Stoat and ship rat ...
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Foods and Foraging of Forest Birds in Temperate Rainforest, South Westland, New Zealand
... South Westland Nothofagus forests are not as depauperate in nectar and, particularly, in fruit supplies as has often been ...in South Westland the silver beech associations have a significant ...
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Cretaceous and Eocene geology of South Westland
... i Lithofacies RaSb: Burrowed Glauconitic Sandstone In the type section of the Rasselas Member on Monro Beach, a bioturbated glauconitic, medium sandstone shows a high density of biogenic[r] ...
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Physico chemical conditions and benthic community dynamics in four South Westland streams
... Assemblage diversity in ecosystems such as tropical rainforests, could reflect the high degree of spatial heterogenity of such environments and not necessarily environmental stability Ma[r] ...
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Studies on the pollen of New Zealand gymnosperms
... Modern pollen rain has been studied quantitatively in South Westland where pollen percentages in moss cushions were compared to a quantitative assessment of the local vegetation surround[r] ...
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A study of the detrital heavy minerals of Westland
... A survey of heavy detrital minerals in the beach sands of central and south Westland seemed an appropriate adjunct to the work in the Taramakau region... drift Brodie 1960 means that mat[r] ...
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Distribution and diet of chamois (Rupicapra rupicapra) in Westland forests, South Island, New Zealand
... In Westland, the areas of possum-damaged rata-kamahi forest where partial canopy recovery has been documented coincide with the “only area where browsing pressure from ungulates in the understorey tiers has been ...
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Ecological studies in the indigenous forests of north Westland, New Zealand
... The population structures and regeneration requirements of the seven major canopy tree species of the lowland forests in north Westland are compared.. The species studied were Dacrydium [r] ...
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