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The sap beetle genus Carpophilus Stephens (Coleoptera: Nitidulidae) is a large genus consisting of over 200 species and are found worldwide. Several species are important pests of crops and stored products, and are frequently intercepted as part of biosecurity operations. The genus is poorly known taxonomically, and there are several species groups that are challenging to identify by... [Thesis or Dissertation]

When plants are exposed to multiple environmental stress factors, one form of stress can affect the response to another stress. This study used seedlings of a new cultivar of wheat(Triticum aestivum L. cv. 1862), grown under factorial combinations of two levels of ultraviolet-B (UV-B)radiation, two salinity regimes and two levels of iron treatment in chelator-buffered nutrient solutions in a... [Thesis or Dissertation]

At a time when student interest in science needs boosting and when a new school curriculum mandates a focus on the nature of science, we report on changes in teachers’ understanding of the nature of science following intervention workshops and experience of the science learning hub website. The qualitative and quantitative methods for the research included questionnaires, interviews,... [Conference Item]

The influence of soil texture on canopy growth, vine yield, and fruit composition of Sauvignon blanc were assessed on a mature vineyard from the Rapaura area in Marlborough. The subject vines were mature Sauvignon blanc in a commercial vineyard trained to four cane VSP and planted with a north south orientation. Row and vine spacings were typical of the area at 3m x 1.8m. Four areas of... [Thesis or Dissertation]

Arthropod species that have the potential to damage crops are food resources for communities of predators and parasitoids. From an agronomic perspective these species are pests and biocontrol agents respectively, and the relationships between them can be important determinants of crop yield and quality. The impact of biocontrol agents on pest populations may depend on the availability of other... [Thesis or Dissertation]

Rain forest canopies are renowned for their very high biodiversity and the critical role they play in key ecological processes and their influence on global climate. Despite that New Zealand supports one of the most diverse and extensive epiphyte flora of any temperate forest system, few studies have investigated epiphyte communities and their invertebrate fauna along with factors that... [Thesis or Dissertation]

The Canterbury plains are frequently exposed to summer drought and climate predictions forecast that the severity and frequency of summer drought will increase. The most commonly used pasture grass, perennial ryegrass (Lolium perenne L.), is drought sensitive. One possible method to maintain sward dry matter (DM) production under water stress is to use an alternative grass species such as... [Thesis or Dissertation]

An open access copy of this article is available from the publishers website.A comprehensive post-28 ka record of the Egmont volcano's eruptive history is presented, and the relationships of andesitic tephra beds to andic soil material, Egmont-sourced volcaniclastic detritus, and two silicic tephra beds from Taupo Volcano are discussed, along with implications for inter-regional correlation. The post-28 ka tephra succession is recorded in 16 andesitic tephra...http://sfx.auckland.ac.nz:3210/sfxlcl3?issn=00288330&date=1996&volume=30&issue=1&spage=79-90 [Journal Article]

An open access copy of this article is available from the publishers website.The present study of the terebratellid brachiopod Calloria inconspicua (Sowerby) was prompted by the discrepancy in locating the brood-space in previous studies (Percival 1944; Doherty 1979); the unique position of the pigment spots in the larva; and the question of whether an initial shell preceded the definitive shell, as in Terebratalia transversa (Sowerby) (Stricker & Reed 1984, 1985b)....http://sfx.auckland.ac.nz:3210/sfxlcl3?issn=03036758&date=1996&volume=26&issue=1&spage=119-137 [Journal Article]

An open access copy of this article is available from the publishers website.A phytochemical register of New Zealand plant species (Gambie 1976, 1988) has been updated.http://sfx.auckland.ac.nz:3210/sfxlcl3?issn=03036758&date=1996&volume=26&issue=4&spage=483-527 [Journal Article]

An open access copy of this article is available from the publishers website.Nine fossil bivalve assemblages have been recognized in the Hohxil desert area of western Qinghai, China: Wuchiapingian Netschajewia jiangsuensis assemblage, Smithian - Spathian Bakevellia costata - Leptochondria virgalensis - Entolium microtis assemblage, Carnian Halobia austriaca - Halobia yunnanensis - Halobia convexa assemblage, Norian Halobia yandongensis - Halobia aff. dilatata...http://sfx.auckland.ac.nz:3210/sfxlcl3?issn=03036758&date=1996&volume=26&issue=4&spage=429-455 [Journal Article]

An open access copy of this article is available from the publishers website.A drummer (Family Kyphosidae) collected at Little Barrier Island, Hauraki Gulf (36�10? S, 175�06? E), is a new record for New Zealand. The herbivorous Kyphosus vaigiensis (Quoy & Gaimard, 1825) is widespread in the tropical Indo-Pacific, and is the third species of its genus to be recorded from New Zealand waters.http://sfx.auckland.ac.nz:3210/sfxlcl3?issn=03036758&date=1997&volume=27&issue=2&spage=219-221 [Journal Article]

An open access copy of this article is available from the publishers website.The palynology and sedimentology of the late Holocene Wharau Road Swamp, Northland, are described. Organic sediment began accumulating ca 4300 yr B. P. in a valley as a result of damming by a basaltic lava flow from nearby Mount Te Puke. Mixed conifer-hardwood forest dominated the region until major anthropogenic forest clearance dated by radiocarbon at ca 600 yr B. P. Dacrydium cupressinum was...http://sfx.auckland.ac.nz:3210/sfxlcl3?issn=03036758&date=1997&volume=27&issue=4&spage=401-418 [Journal Article]

An open access copy of this article is available from the publishers website.Pollen and sediment analysis of two Holocene cores from Awana, Great Barrier Island, shows that at 7000 calibrated yr B.P. the local swamp was an estuarine salt marsh dominated by Restionaceae. By c. 6000 yr B.P. the water table was lower, and a fresh water swamp (Gleichenia-Leptospermum) had replaced the salt marsh. Regional conifer-hardwood forest c. 7000 yr B.P. was initially co-dominated by...http://sfx.auckland.ac.nz:3210/sfxlcl3?issn=03036758&date=1999&volume=29&issue=3&spage=213-233 [Journal Article]

An open access copy of this article is available from the publishers website.Placostylus hongii (Lesson) is recorded from sites between Whangaroa and Whangarei on the mainland Northland coast, and from the Poor Knights, Chicken, Mokohinau and Great Barrier Islands offshore. There is considerable variation in shell morphology between the various populations, commonly with marked morphological divergence at a local scale but with overlapping variation overall across all...http://sfx.auckland.ac.nz:3210/sfxlcl3?issn=03036758&date=1999&volume=29&issue=4&spage=407-434 [Journal Article]

An open access copy of this article is available from the publishers website.In this paper we analyse nine existing Agathis australis (kauri) chronologies for their response to climate, and compare our results with those of previous studies. We update the southernmost chronology, from Katikati, which now extends to the 1997 growth ring (1997-98 growing season in Southern Hemisphere). We also employ recent standardisation procedures that have been demonstrated to...http://sfx.auckland.ac.nz:3210/sfxlcl3?issn=03036758&date=2000&volume=30&issue=3&spage=263-276 [Journal Article]

An open access copy of this article is available from the publishers website.Pollen and sediment analyses of two cores from coastal freshwater swamps at northern Kaitoke (Kaitoke Swamp and Police Station Swamp), Great Barrier Island, show that c. 7300 calibrated yr B.P. Kaitoke Swamp was an estuary with tidal flats. Avicennia, now absent from the swamp area, was present in the estuary. By c. 4500 yr B.P. fresh water conditions had developed at the Kaitoke Swamp site as...http://sfx.auckland.ac.nz:3210/sfxlcl3?issn=03036758&date=2000&volume=30&issue=1&spage=27-47 [Journal Article]

An open access copy of this article is available from the publishers website.Part I of this investigation (Buckley et al. 2000) found consistent significant correlations between tree growth and climate for nine New Zealand kauri tree-ring chronology sites. The nature of these correlations suggests that Agathis australis (kauri) may carry a useful signal of the El Nino-Southern Oscillation (ENSO) phenomenon. We have explored the potential of kauri for ENSO reconstruction...http://sfx.auckland.ac.nz:3210/sfxlcl3?issn=03036758&date=2000&volume=30&issue=3&spage=277-292 [Journal Article]

An open access copy of this article is available from the publishers website.Pollen and sediment analyses of two cores from southern Kaitoke (Forsythes' Paddock and Blackwells' Bush), Great Barrier Island, show that at c. 7500 cal. yr B.P., the area was an estuary with tidal flats and Avicennia. By c. 3000 cal. yr B.P., a Restionaceae (Leptocarpus) salt marsh had developed in the estuary as marine influences lessened. By c. cal. 2550 yr B.P., fresh water swamp...http://sfx.auckland.ac.nz:3210/sfxlcl3?issn=03036758&date=2000&volume=30&issue=1&spage=49-68 [Journal Article]

An open access copy of this article is available from the publishers website.The tripterygiid fish Grahamina signata Fricke & Roberts, 1993 was described from 174 specimens collected from several exposed locations around the coast of New Zealand. It was distinguished from the Tasmanian G. gymnota (Scott 1977) by the number of pored scales in the lower lateral line, the number of branches of the supraorbital tentacle, and the colouration of the pectoral-fin base....http://sfx.auckland.ac.nz:3210/sfxlcl3?issn=03036758&date=2000&volume=30&issue=4&spage=373-384 [Journal Article]

An open access copy of this article is available from the publishers website.The sediment record of Whangape Harbour shows that there were significant fluctuations in depositional energy in the harbour during the period from c. >8000 cal. yr B.P. to some time within the last millenium, and that fluvial influences increased as the harbour infilled. The pollen record (highly discontinuous) from Whangape Harbour indicates that conifer-hardwood forest covered the hills...http://sfx.auckland.ac.nz:3210/sfxlcl3?issn=03036758&date=2001&volume=31&issue=2&spage=411-424 [Journal Article]

An open access copy of this article is available from the publishers website.A 2 m section at the base of Mt Richmond contains a palynological record of the last glacial maximum (LGM) (c. 25 000-c. 16 500 14C years BP) vegetation of the Auckland Isthmus. Three silicic tephra layers derived from the Taupo Volcanic Centre (Okaia Tephra c. 23 500 14C years BP, Kawakawa Tephra c. 22 500 14C years BP) and the Okataina Volcanic Centre (Okareka Tephra c. 18 000 14C years BP),...http://sfx.auckland.ac.nz:3210/sfxlcl3?issn=03036758&date=2002&volume=32&issue=1&spage=155-167 [Journal Article]

An open access copy of this article is available from the publishers website.A multi-proxy analysis of a sediment core from Waiatarua, Auckland Isthmus, adds to an environmental history from the local wetland spanning the Late Glacial to modern times. Several distal tephra were recorded in the core: 8.5 ka Rotoma (reworked), 6.1 ka Tuhua (primary and reworked), most likely the 1.8 ka Taupo (the latter is previously unreported for the Auckland Isthmus), and one...http://sfx.auckland.ac.nz:3210/sfxlcl3?issn=03036758&date=2002&volume=32&issue=2&spage=337-353 [Journal Article]

An open access copy of this article is available from the publishers website.Seven cores were extracted from a river terrace swamp in the forested Kauaeranga valley, Coromandel Peninsula, New Zealand. High-resolution (c. 36-73 yr interval) pollen records were obtained from four of the cores and aged by radiocarbon dating and with stratigraphic reference to the 665 � 15 14C yr BP Kaharoa Tephra. The records span the last c. 1800 yr and show that the vegetation...http://sfx.auckland.ac.nz:3210/sfxlcl3?issn=03036758&date=2002&volume=32&issue=3&spage=507-531 [Journal Article]

An open access copy of this article is available from the publishers website.Finsch's duck (Chenonetta finschi), an extinct, possibly flightless New Zealand endemic, was widely distributed and apparently abundant immediately before human settlement of New Zealand, but its bones have rarely been identified in archaeological sites. Its extinction has been variously attributed to habitat changes, predation by the introduced Pacific rat (Rattus exulans), and human...http://sfx.auckland.ac.nz:3210/sfxlcl3?issn=03036758&date=2002&volume=32&issue=4&spage=629-651 [Journal Article]