Immediately before human settlement, dense tall podocarp-angiosperm forest dominated the moist Southland and southern coastal Otago districts. Open, discontinuous podocarp-angiosperm forest bordered the central Otago dry interior, extending along the north Otago coast. Grassland was mostly patchy within these woody ecosystems, occurring on limited areas of droughty or low-nutrient soils and wet...

In the original publication of article Evol Ecol 34, 803–820 (2020) we suggested that “Historical records from Otago Acclimatisation Society indicate in region…a total 185 individuals…were introduced United Kingdom between 1865 and 1907 (Santos 2012; Santos Nakagawa 2013)”.

AIM Auckland and Otago medical programmes have different methods for selecting students. This study compared postgraduate retention in New Zealand (NZ) of medical graduates from the two medical programmes, to assess whether different selection methods influenced retention. Other variables assessed included entrance category and age at graduation. METHODS Anonymised databases were created of a...

With the advent of spoken language computer interface systems, the storage and management of speech corpora is becoming more of an issue in the development of such systems. Until recently, even large corpora were stored as individual text and speech files (for example, [18]), or as a single, monolithic file (for example, [1]). The issues involved in management and retrieval of the data have bee...

1Department of Zoology, University of Otago, P.O. Box 56, Dunedin, New Zealand. *Author for correspondence. R02051 Received 26 November 2002; accepted 9 June 2003; online publication date 19 November 2003 Abstract Body colour is an important distinguishing feature in a New Zealand alpine weta hybrid zone and is strongly correlated with mitochondrial DNA haplotype variation. To assess the broade...

Janet Stephenson is a social scientist with a particular interest in societal responses to environmental challenges. She is the Director of the Centre for Sustainability at the University of Otago. Rob Lawson is in the Marketing department at the University of Otago. His special area of expertise is in the study of consumer behaviour, with strong interests in the development of marketing theory...

BACKGROUND It is estimated one in two adults age 80 and over fall each year, resulting in substantial morbidity and mortality rates among this oldest-old population. The Otago Exercise program (OEP) is an evidence-based fall prevention program shown to reduce falls by 35% among high-risk older adults. The OEP was designed to be delivered in the home by physical therapists. This model has encoun...