In the Catlins Ecological Region of south-east Otago, New Zealand, Nothofagus menziesii is present as a continuous body of forest surrounded by other vegetation types lacking Nothofagus, and as a number of relatively small ...

Adaptive cluster sampling has been suggested as an efficient sampling technique for rare and patchy populations. In this thesis the question asked is: how useful is the design for ecologists? Simulated and real ecological ...

The tourism industry is one of the most significant economic industries for many countries including New Zealand. Indeed, tourism provides significant employment, incomes, taxes, investment and developmental benefits for ...

The thesis is an analysis of the five-part madrigal volumes of Benedetto Pallavicino, maestro di cappella at the Mantuan court 1596-1601, in relation to the compositions of his contemporaries active at Mantua and the nearby ...

In the northern South Island, the area northern Te Wai Pounamu (NTWP) is defined appropriate to a regional investigation of pre-European culture change. It is argued that the Māori sequence of this region is relevant to a ...

In the period between 1940 and 1990 church state relations in New Zealand underwent an extensive change. In 1940 New Zealand purported to be a Christian nation, while by 1990 New Zealand was said to be secular and pluralistic. ...

This is a study into political lobbying and how it has become a feature of modern, strategic business marketing. It includes the first longitudinal study of UK Political Party Conferences over the period 1994-98 as market ...

This study is an archaeological examination of the prehistoric hunting of moa, a family (Dinornithidae) of now extinct large flightless birds that inhabited New Zealand. The analysis employs a detailed butchering pattern ...