New Zealand coastal dinoflagellates withGonyaulaxaffinities

Catastrophic events in New Zealand coastal environments

Catastrophic events recorded in selected coastal wetlands of New Zealand are reported. These date back over 6000 years, but become more well-defined in the past Millennium. Comparison between the historic and palaeoenvironmental record indicates that a reliance on the former does not include several significant nationwide events. By highlighting the details and effects of several locally genera...

Early Maori settlement impacts in northern coastal Taranaki, New Zealand

Pollen and charcoal analyses of sediments from northern coastal Taranaki, New Zealand, show that Maori settlement impacts on the vegetation began with the burning of tall coastal forest in the mid-17th century. Forest was replaced with a fern-shrubland, and small wetlands expanded with changing hydrological conditions. This forest clearance was much later than in most regions of the country, wh...

Coote New Zealand Futures Trust New Zealand

On Media A workshop report from US Institute for Peace examined Arab media, August, 05 (http://usip.org/virtual diplomacy/publications/reports/18.html), with special focus on attitudes to US and to the West. The relevant Arab governments play a double role since mostly, they control the media, where they appease the ideological positions of their own threatening insurgencies while focusing publ...

New Zealand

Coastal turfs of mainland New Zealand-their composition, environmental character and conservation needs

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