Rainfall-triggered shallow slope failures are very common in the western Southern Alps of
New Zealand, causing widespread damage to property and infrastructure, injury and loss of …

Alpine permafrost occurrence in maritime climates has received little attention, despite
suggestions that permafrost may occur at lower elevations than in continental climates. To …

A time-averaged 30-m-depth shear wave velocity (VS 30) map is developed for New
Zealand as a weighted combination of a geology-based and a terrain-based model. A …

Aim The extent to which bacterial communities exhibit biogeographic patterns in their
distribution remains unclear. We examined the relative influence of factors including …

Environmental variation is a crucial driver of ecological pattern, and spatial layers
representing this variation are key to understanding and predicting important ecosystem …

Site productivity indices have been widely used to describe age normalised height and
volume for a range of forest species. In this study we used a wide range of modelling …

Coast redwood (Sequoia sempervirens) is a productive conifer that has considerable
potential as a plantation species within New Zealand where radiata pine (Pinus radiata) …

We examined spatiotemporal changes in rat tracking indices following large-scale (> 10 000
ha) pest control using aerial applications of sodium monofluoroacetate (1080) baits in …

Background Stream ecosystems comprise complex interactions among biological
communities and their physicochemical surroundings, contributing to their overall ecological …

Cupressus lusitanica and C. macrocarpa are two fast growing conifer species with valuable
timber that have been widely established throughout New Zealand. Despite the importance …