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• Studies on the biology of soil-dwelling nematodes of tussock grassland 

  Wood, Franklin H. (University of Canterbury. Zoology, 1971)

  Tussock grassland is the indigenous grassland of New Zealand. It covers one-fifth of the land area and is related to the "steppes" of the northern hemisphere (Zotov, 1939; Allan, 1946). Two types of grassland exist; tall ...

• Physiological stress, smoltification and seawater adaptation in New Zealand's sockeye and quinnat salmon. 

  Franklin, Craig E. (University of Canterbury. Zoology, 1989)

  This study investigated smoltification and seawater adaptability of sockeye (Oncorhynchus nerka) and quinnat salmon (O. tshawytscha). Both species were introduced into New Zealand with an anadromous population of quinnat ...

• Understanding Variation in Water Quality using a Riverscape Perspective 

  Franklin, Hannah Mayford (University of Canterbury. Biological Sciences, 2010)

  With the increasing degradation of rivers worldwide, an understanding of spatial and temporal patterns in freshwater quality is important. Water quality is highly variable in space and time, yet this is largely overlooked ...