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• The evolutionary ecology of Festuca Novae-Zelandiae in Mid-Canterbury, New Zealand 

  Lord, Janice M. (University of Canterbury. Botany, 1992)

  Festuca novae-zelandiae (Hack.) Cockayne is a long-lived, caesptiose grass indigenous to New Zealand. It has expanded dramatically in range in 1000 years of human settlement. This study was conducted to determine how ...

• Diatom communities in New Zealand subalpine mire pools: distribution, ecology and taxonomy of endemic and cosmopolitan taxa 

  Kilroy, Catherine (University of Canterbury. Biological Sciences, 2007)

  Mire pools – shallow water-bodies in peat-forming wetlands – are a characteristic feature of New Zealand’s subalpine and alpine landscapes (>1000 m a.s.l.), yet have been the subject of few biological studies to date, ...

• The evolution of socio-political cartoon satire in the New Zealand press during the 19th and early 20th centuries : Its role in justifying the alienation of Maori lands 

  MacDonald, G. G. Vince (University of Canterbury. History, 1995)

  This thesis examines the evolution of socio-political cartoon satire and how it came to be used as a weapon in the Pakeha media campaign to facilitate the total alienation of Maori land in New Zealand in the nineteenth ...