Journal of The Royal Society of New Zealand 1997

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Volume 27/Number 1/March 1997

Marine biology

• Faunal changes in Waitemata Harbour sediments, 1930s-1990s
• Foraminiferal associations in the upper Waitemata Harbour, Auckland, New Zealand

  History of NZ biota

• Late glacial to Holocene vegetation and climate change in the eastern Takitimu Mountains, western Southland, New Zealand
• Quaternary fossil fauna of South Canterbury, South Island, New Zealand

  Conservation science

• Note on the conservation status of the giant bully, Gobiomorphus gobioides (Teleostei: Eleotridae)

Volume 27/Number 2/June 1997

Biology of possums

• Effects of possum browsing on northern rata, Orongorongo Valley, Wellington, New Zealand
• Possums (Trichosurus vulpecula) on Hawke's Bay farmland: spatial distribution and population structure before and after a control operation

  Taxonomy and distribution of fishes

• A large galaxiid fossil (Teleostei) from the Miocene of Central Otago, New Zealand
• Two further new species of Galaxias (Teleostei: Galaxiidae) from the Taieri River, southern New Zealand
• Kyphosus vaigiensis (Kyphosidae), a new fish record from northeastern New Zealand
• Distribution and conservation status of the dwarf inanga Galaxias gracilis (Teleostei: Galaxiidae) an endemic fish of Northland dune lakes

  Herpetology

• Morphological variation of Emoia murphyi (Lacertilia: Scincidae) on islands of the southwest Pacific

  Invertebrate taxonomy

• A revision of the New Zealand species of the parasitoid genus Aleochara, with description of four new species (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae)
• Austroperla cyrene Newman (Plecoptera: Austroperlidae)

  Vegetation

• Vegetation change along a geothermal stress gradient at the Te Kopia steamfield

Volume 27/Number 3/September 1997

Environmental monitoring

• Natural and anthropogenic influences on peat development in Waikato/Hauraki Plains restiad bogs
• Organic carbon stocks in New Zealand's terrestrial ecosystems

  Biodiversity

• Regional patterns of biodiversity in New Zealand: one degree grid analysis of plant and animal distributions

  Palaeobotany

• Miocene conifers from the Manuherikia Group, New Zealand
• Paleocene plant macrofossils from Kakahu, South Canterbury, New Zealand

Volume 27/Number 4/December 1997

Environmental history

• A 4300 year palynological and sedimentological record of environmental change and human impact from Wharau Road Swamp, Northland, New Zealand
• Vegetational and climatic history during oxygen isotope stage 7 and early stage 6, Taranaki, New Zealand

  Indigenous vertebrates

• South Island skinks of the genus Oligosoma: description of O. longipes n. sp. with redescription of O. otagense (McCann) and O. waimatense (McCann)
• Sympatric flightless rails Gallirallus dieffenbachii and G. modestus on the Chatham Islands, New Zealand; morphometrics and alternative evolutionary scenarios

  Invertebrate biology

• Modelling hydrological relationships of testate amoebae (Protozoa: Rhizopoda) on New Zealand peatlands

  Atmosphere

• A preliminary study of the transport of air from Africa and Australia to New Zealand
• Wind erosion rates on terraces in the Mackenzie Basin

  Forestry

• Dynamics of upland podocarp/broadleaved forest on Mamaku Plateau, central North Island, New Zealand

  Index

• The Journal of the Royal Society of New Zealand author and keyword index

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