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Biological flora of New Zealand 9. Beilschmiedia tawa(A. Cunn.) Benth. et Hook. F. ex Kirk (Lauraceae) Tawa
Barbara Knowles,A. E. Beveridge +1 more
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Morphological and anatomical descriptions of Beilschmiedia tawa are given together with information relevant to its ecology, a distribution map based on its presence or absence in grid squares, and bibliographic references to other informaion.Abstract:
Morphological and anatomical descriptions of Beilschmiedia tawa are given together with information relevant to its ecology, a distribution map based on its presence or absence in grid squares, and bibliographic references to other informaion. B. tawa is one of the main canopy-forming trees in the lowland and low hill forests of the North Island and is also one of the main merchantable hardwoods. It has a good capacity to regenerate in shade or small canopy gaps, but is sensitive to exposure, tending to deteriorate in intensively logged forests.read more
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Mutualisms with the wreckage of an avifauna: the status of bird pollination and fruit- dispersal in New Zealand
Dave Kelly,Jenny J. Ladley,Alastair W. Robertson,Sandra H. Anderson,Debra M. Wotton,Susan K. Wiser +5 more
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Strategies to estimate national forest carbon stocks from inventory data: the 1990 New Zealand baseline
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Lauraceae from rainforest surrounding an early Miocene maar lake, Otago, southern New Zealand
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Composition and structure of forest overwhelmed at Pureora, central North Island, New Zealand, during the Taupo eruption (c. AD 130)
TL;DR: The composition and structure of forest at Pureora, overthrown and buried by pumiceous tephra during the c. AD 130 Taupo eruption, are deduced from identification of plant macrofossils.
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The geological history of New Zealand and its life
TL;DR: The Circum-Pacific Mobile Belt as discussed by the authors is a region in which geological processes and consequent geographic changes appear to have been exceptionally rapid throughout the span of geological time, and the oceanic ridges, the basins and trenches that separate and flank them and the chains of islands that surmount them are part of a complex system that extends north to Melanesia, thence westward to the Indonesian archipelago and northward to Japan and beyond as the geographic manifestation of the Circum Pacific Mobile Belt.
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The structure of New Zealand woods
B. A. Meylan,B. G. Butterfield +1 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors describe the use of both light and electron microscopy for the identification of New Zealand gynosperms under light microscopy, and present a large two-face view and six smaller one-tace views per species.
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