Sequential impacts of Polynesian and European settlement on vegetation and environmental processes recorded in sediments at Whangapoua Estuary, Great Barrier Island, New Zealand

Regional Environmental Change

Volumn 6, Issue 1-2, 2006, Pages 25-40

  Ogden, J ^a   Deng, Y ^b   Horrocks, M ^a   Nichol, S ^a   Anderson, S ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AUCKLAND   (New Zealand)

^b UNIVERSITY OF AUCKLAND   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

Estuarine succession; Maori; Palynology; Sedimentation rate; Vegetation zonation

Indexed keywords

EID: 33644622450     PISSN: 14363798     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10113-005-0006-5     Document Type: Review

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