[PDF] Top 20 The ecology and molecular ecology of the New Zealand lesser short tailed bat Mystacina tuberculata : a thesis presented in partial fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy in Ecology at Massey University, Palmerston North, New Zealand

... a bat population during a control operation revealed no ...southern North Island expanded before the last glacial maxim um, presumably during interstadials when ... See full document

... friendship, particularly to Krista Hupman (yes you beat me to it but I’m still the Don -), Sarah Dwyer, Sonja Clemens, Manue Martinez, Emma Betty, Cheryl Cross, Anna Meissner, Gabriel Machosvsky Capuska, Jochen ... See full document

... It’s hard to know when my journey began, maybe it was when I was young when I watched the undersea adventures of Jacque Cousteau or David Attenborough ’s ‘The Living Planet’; maybe it evolved later, during the long night ... See full document

... in new methods and practices (see Costanzo et ...of new practices (Gafsi and Brossier ...Other North American studies have found that although financial support attracted farmers to enter ... See full document

... Table 2.4 The mea n number of Koki seen on the six transect lines using the 5-minute Point Count and the Line Transect methods from March - October 2000.. Mean ± SE number of Koki seen 5[r] ... See full document

... central North Island, New Zealand between February and July ...the New Zealand streams, exhibiting the predicted log‐linear ...the New Zealand  ... See full document

... of New Zealand presents, in the faces of the hills, a microrelief where it is possible to distinguish three classes of slope: 1 - 1 2°, 1 3-25°, >25° from the horizontal, termed low slope (LS), medium ... See full document

... The members of the order Haemosporidia are single-celled, intracellular parasites (Rommel, 2000) that have an apical complex in at least some of their life stages. Their phylum is therefore known as Apicomplexa (Levine, ... See full document

... The mean number of Koki seen on the six transect lines using the Point Count and the Line Transect methods, March - October 2000.. Transect lines ranked from least to most Koki detected [r] ... See full document

... Massey University and the Higher Education Commission of the Government of Pakistan are thankfully acknowledged for supporting this study. I am deeply indebted to my supervisors Alastair Robertson, Jennifer ... See full document

... in New Zealand, previous studies have not mainly addressed the inter-site variability change across land-uses and the community concordance between fish and invertebrates, within a small geographical ... See full document

... Eighty six tammar wallabies were shot on a single night in an area of the Okataina State Forest in the Rotorua region of North Island New Zealand as part of pest control operation conducted by the ... See full document

... A.H. Bickerton , first professor o f chemi stry at Canterbury Co l l ege in 1 874 , was another scientific mater i a l ist. He thought that science had dispro v ed the 'myths ' of Genesis. As R.M. Burdon puts i t : 'In h ... See full document

... on New Zealand stream communities mostly in terms of the changes in their community composition and structure in impacted sites (McIntosh & McDowall, 2004; Quinn, ...of New Zealand stream ... See full document

... three New Zealand species are common species and are quite widespread, suggesting that pygmy mistletoe distributions are probably not usually limited by the absence of hosts, although suitable hosts may be ... See full document

... Foremost, I have to thank my parents and family who enabled me to come to New Zealand and provided me with ongoing support. I am also very grateful to my wonderful supervisors, Isabel Castro, Laryssa Howe, ... See full document

... of New Zealand Bar-tailed Godwits Limosa lapponica baueri features the longest and second-longest non-stop migratory flights yet recorded (>11,000 km from Alaska to New Zealand in ... See full document

... days prior to first egg lay until the penultimate egg was laid ( Komdeur et al. 1 999). This was supported by the observation that within pair copulations were never observed before day -6. The majority of the data were ... See full document

... the new methods, DNA extraction from scat samples provides a diet picture limited to several days, whereas stable isotopes and FAs can reflect diet over long time scales, which are more relevant in terms of ... See full document

... Diaz & Cabido ( 1 997) examined the plant functional attributes of a diverse array of plant types originating from an equal l y broad spectrum of environmental conditions leading to predictions of coarse-scale shifts ... See full document