Hill country pastures in the southern North Island of New Zealand: an overview

Vegetation Mortality in the Kaimai Ranges, North Island, New Zealand!

Areas ofvegetation mortality have been recognized in the upland forests of the Kaimai Ranges, North Island, New Zealand. The mortality is not confined to any particular vegetation type, but occurs above a critical altitude that differs at different points along the ranges. The mortality is episodic and has occurred at intervals over a period of several hundred years, with severe droughts implic...

Isolated deep earthquakes beneath the North Island of New Zealand

An overview of current and potential hill country livestock systems

This paper reviews current production trends for sheep and beef cattle production in New Zealand and gives some insight into the opportunities for improvement. The New Zealand climate favours pasture growth and this is the key to sheep and beef cattle production with over 95% of the diet being grazed pasture or crop. Exports are the focus of the industry with 92% of sheep meat and 82% of beef e...

Population Density and Distribution of the New Zealand Indigenous Earthworm Octochaetus Multiporus (megascolecidae: Oligochaeta) in Hill Pastures

New Zealand Journal of Ecology (1998) 22(1): 87-93 ©New Zealand Ecological Society As part of a larger study on the biophysical indicators of sustainability in pastoral ecosystems (Lambert et al., 1996) earthworm numbers have been measured in pastures with differing managements. The native New Zealand earthworm Octochaetus multiporus (Beddard, 1885) was commonly found during the routine winter ...

A new record of Percursaria percursa (Ulvaceae, Ulvales) on the North Island, New Zealand

The filamentous green alga Percursaria percursa (Ulvaceae, Ulvales) was recorded for the first time on the North Island of New Zealand at Ōmokoroa Estuary, Tauranga Harbour. This species is previously known within New Zealand from only two records, both from the South Island. In Tauranga Harbour, this species was restricted to anoxic estuarine sediments where mangrove forests had been mulched, ...