Editorial
Editorial
M. C. Crawley
Pages: 1
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Presidential address
A perspective at year 26
C. L. Batcheler
Pages: 2–6
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Research article
Studies on the vegetation of Mount Colenso, New Zealand. 4. An assessment of the processes of canopy maintenance and regeneration strategy in a red beech (Nothofagus fusca) forest
S. R. June and J. Ogden
Pages: 7–15
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Research article
On the diameter growth rates of red beech (Nothofagus fusca) in different parts of New Zealand
John Ogden
Pages: 16–18
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Research article
Management impacts on nutrient fluxes in beech-podocarp-hardwood forests
D. G. Neary, A. J. Pearce, C. L. O'Loughlin and L. K. Rowe
Pages: 19–26
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Research article
Alpine phytomass and primary productivity in central Otago, New Zealand
Colin D. Meurk
Pages: 27–50
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Research article
Freezing resistance of New Zealand trees and shrubs
A. Sakai and P. Wardle
Pages: 51–61
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Research article
A study of the respiration and microflora of the mud of the heathcote river, Christchurch
John R. L. Walker and Rosemary F. McCallion
Pages: 62–65
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Research article
Variability in New Zealand montane and alpine pollinator assemblages
Richard B. Primack
Pages: 66–73
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Research article
Blue-green lucerne aphid damage to lucerne seedlings—cultivar differences
E. B. McSweeney and M. W. Dunbier
Pages: 74–76
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Research article
Records of nektonic existence of the sessile barnacle (Megabalanus decorus)
M. B. Jones and B. A. Foster
Pages: 77–80
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Research article
Notes on the distribution, activitiy and breeding of the whistling frog (Litoria Ewingi Anura: Hylidae) in the coastal Manawatu district, New Zealand
Brian J. Gill
Pages: 81–83
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Research article
Comparisons of the climates of the two habitats of Hamilton's Frog (Leiopelma Hamiltoni (McCulloch))
D. G. Newman, I. G. Crook and Ch. Imboden
Pages: 84–90
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Research article
The influence of the tuatara on fairly prion breeding on Stephens Island, Cook Strait
G. Y. Walls
Pages: 91–98
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Research article
The food of the New Zealand Pigeon (Hemiphaga novaseelandiae novaeseelandiae)
W. Mary McEwen
Pages: 99–108
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Research article
Differential intensity of moorhen Gallinula chloropus (Rallidae) feeding at dawn and dusk in spring
R. A. Fordham
Pages: 109–117
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Research article
Organochlorine residues in New Zealand birds of prey
N. C. Fox and J. W. Lock
Pages: 118–125
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Research article
Foods of the Australian brush-tailed opossum (Trichosurus vulpecula) in an exotic forest
B. Warburton
Pages: 126–131
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Research article
Weddell seal harvesting at Scott Base, McMurdo Sound, Antarctica, 1970–76
M. C. Crawley
Pages: 132–137
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Research article
Pup mortality of the New Zealand fur seal (Arctocephalus forsteri, Lesson)
R. H. Mattlin
Pages: 138–144
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Research article
The history and control of red deer in the takahe area, Murchison Mountains, Fiordland National Park
J. Parkes, K. Tustin and L. Stanley
Pages: 145–152
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Research article
The effects of hunting on the numbers and group sizes of Himalayan thar (Hemitragus jemlahicus) In Carneys Creek, Rangitata catchment
K. G. Tustin and C. N. Challies
Pages: 153–157
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Policy submission
Nuclear power generation in New Zealand
Anonymous
Pages: 158–165
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Policy submission
The future of West Coast forests and forest industries
Anonymous
Pages: 166–172
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Conference Resumé
The effect on seed germination of volatiles from Pinus radiata litter
R. E. Lill, J. A. McWha and A. L. J. Cole
Pages: 173
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Conference Resumé
Modern niche theory and plant ecology
Richard B. Primack
Pages: 173–174
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Conference Resumé
Competition between alpine grasses in the Lewis Pass–Arthurs Pass regions
C. J. Burrows
Pages: 175
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Conference Resumé
Aspects of the biology of some lumbricid earthworms in New Zealand pastures
N. A. Martin
Pages: 175–176
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Conference Resumé
Age-specific survival patterns in plants
David G. Lloyd
Pages: 176–177
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Conference Resumé
The potential role of chemosterilants in vertebrate pest control
M. E. R. Godfrey
Pages: 177–178
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Conference Resumé
Aspects of the ecology of bellbirds on Tiritiri Island
John L. Craig and Murray E. Douglas
Pages: 178–179
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Conference Resumé
Fiordland sand and dune vegetation and its management for conservation
P. N. Johnson
Pages: 178
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Conference Resumé
Progress and techniques in the management of the New Zealand falcon (Falco novaeseelandiae)
N. C. Fox
Pages: 179–180
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Conference Resumé
Breeding of the grey warbler at Kowhai Bush, Kaikoura
Brian J. Gill
Pages: 180–181
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Conference Resumé
Ecophysiology--leaf elongation and photosynthesis--in some alpine snow tussocks from central Otago
D. H. Greer
Pages: 181–182
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Conference Resumé
Stream invertebrate communities in a west coast beech forest catchment
Brent Cowie
Pages: 182–183
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Conference Resumé
The allelopathic potential of kahikatea. A progress report
B. P. J. Molloy, J. D. Ferguson and P. J. Fletcher
Pages: 183–184
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Book Review
The Unsteady State, Environmental Problems, Growth and Culture Culture. Kenneth E. F. Watt, Leslie F., Molloy, C. K. Varshney, Dudley Weeks, Soetjipto Wirosardjono. An East-West Centre Book, Hawaii, 1977. 287 pp.
Wren Green
Pages: 185–186
Article (pdf file, 157 KB)

Book Review
Energetical Significance of the Annelids and Arthropods in a Swedish Grassland Soil Soil. Persson, T. and Lohm, U. Ecological Bulletins 23. 211 pp. Swedish Natural Science Research Council (NFR) 1977.
John Wightman
Pages: 185
Article (pdf file, 157 KB)

Book Review
New Zealand Freshwater Fishes---a guide and natural history. McDowall, R. M. Heinemann Educational Books (NZ) Ltd., Auckland. 232 pp. Retail Price $NZ 24.75.
Vivienne Burrows
Pages: 186–187
Article (pdf file, 157 KB)

Book Review
The Famine Business. Colin Tudge (Faber and Faber, London.)
G. A. Knox
Pages: 187–188
Article (pdf file, 157 KB)

Annual Report
Annual report for year ending 30 June 1978
New Zealand Ecological Society Council
Pages: 189–192
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