Long-term impacts of grazing on indigenous forest remnants on North Island hill country, New Zealand

New Zealand Journal of Ecology

Volumn 32, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 57-66

  Smale, Mark C ^a   Dodd, Michael B ^b   Burns, Bruce R ^a   Power, Ian L ^b  

^a LANDCARE RESEARCH   (New Zealand)

^b RUAKURA RESEARCH CENTRE   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

Biodiversity; Fragmentation

Indexed keywords

BIODIVERSITY; BROAD-LEAVED FOREST; CONIFEROUS FOREST; GRASSLAND; GRAZING; HABITAT FRAGMENTATION; HABITAT STRUCTURE; NATURE CONSERVATION; POPULATION STRUCTURE; RURAL LANDSCAPE;

AUSTRALASIA; NEW ZEALAND; NORTH ISLAND;

BEILSCHMIEDIA TAWA; CONIFEROPHYTA; DICKSONIA SQUARROSA; DYSOXYLUM SPECTABILE; FILICOPHYTA; HYMENOPHYLLUM; KUNZEA; KUNZEA ERICOIDES; MELICYTUS RAMIFLORUS; ORCHIDACEAE;

EID: 46849097788     PISSN: 01106465     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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