A 2000 year history of vegetation and landscape change in Hawke's Bay, North Island, New Zealand

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dc.contributor.authorWilmshurst, Janet Maryen
dc.date.accessioned2010-10-31T20:58:59Z
dc.date.available2010-10-31T20:58:59Z
dc.date.issued1995en
dc.description.abstractSediment cores from four lakes in the Tutira and Putere districts of Hawke's Bay, North Island, New Zealand, are analysed for the remains of pollen, charcoal, tephra and erosion pulses to reconstruct a 2000 year history of vegetation and landscape change. The Hawke's Bay region is disturbed frequently by earthquakes, volcanic eruptions, cyclonic storms, droughts and fire. This thesis determines how the vegetation and soil stability have responded to some of these disturbances, through detailed palaeoecological investigations of lake sediment cores. Studies of surface pollen and differential pollen and spore preservation were undertaken to enhance the interpretations made from the palaeoecological record. Because New Zealand has only been settled by Polynesians relatively recently, the effects of natural disturbance on the vegetation and landscape can be assessed under similar climatic conditions to the present, but in the absence of cultural change. The effects of human settlement on a previously uninhabited landscape are assessed and compared with previously occurring natural disturbances.en
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10092/4790
dc.identifier.urihttp://dx.doi.org/10.26021/6401
dc.language.isoen
dc.publisherUniversity of Canterbury. Zoologyen
dc.relation.isreferencedbyNZCUen
dc.rightsCopyright Janet Mary Wilmshursten
dc.rights.urihttps://canterbury.libguides.com/rights/thesesen
dc.titleA 2000 year history of vegetation and landscape change in Hawke's Bay, North Island, New Zealanden
dc.typeTheses / Dissertations
thesis.degree.grantorUniversity of Canterburyen
thesis.degree.levelDoctoralen
thesis.degree.nameDoctor of Philosophyen
uc.bibnumber509061en
uc.collegeFaculty of Scienceen
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