COMPARISON OF FOREST STRUCTURE AND REGENERATION ON BENCH AND STEWART ISLANDS, NEW ZEALAND
@article{Veblen1980COMPARISONOF,
title={COMPARISON OF FOREST STRUCTURE AND REGENERATION ON BENCH AND STEWART ISLANDS, NEW ZEALAND},
author={T. T. Veblen and G. Stewart},
journal={New Zealand Journal of Ecology},
year={1980},
volume={3},
pages={50-68}
}SUMMARY: The absence of introduced browsing animals from Bench Island, located 5 km east of Stewart Island, provides the opportunity to compare forest structure and regeneration in these two areas of similar vegetation with and without browsing animals. The population structures of the main canopy tree species, rata (Metrosideros umbellata), kamahi (Weinmannia racemosa), and rimu (Dacrydium cupressinum), are similar in the areas compared. However, on Stewart Island, browsing animals, mainly… CONTINUE READING
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