New Zealand Vegetation 1

Dune Slack Vegetation in Southern New Zealand

A range of slack vegetation in southern New Zealand was described by detailed sampling of four dune slacks, contrasting in topographic situation and in vegetation. Comparison is made with a slack previously sampled on Stewart Island. The five slacks differed markedly in the plant communities present. One slack, where there was considerable peat accumulation, was dominated by the megaherb Phormi...

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...

Models of Vegetation Dynamics in Semi-arid Vegetation: Application to Lowland Central Otago, New Zealand

New Zealand Journal of Ecology (1997) 21(2): 129-140 ©New Zealand Ecological Society these conceptual extremes should be seen as being endpoints of a range of possible situations, and not as discrete alternatives. It is therefore unlikely that an observed field situation would be completely described by any one of the models alone. More recently developed models use the conceptual extremes as c...

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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...