In my Fifth Form year at Dunstan High School, Alexandra, my Biology Teacher was Peter Child. He retired shortly afterwards, and as …
Biogeography & Vegetation
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Biogeography & Vegetation
The Last Tree in Papanui Bush. And that last palm tree on Easter Island
by Mike Poleby Mike Pole“What did the kiwi bloke say while cutting down the last tree in Papanui Bush?” Here, I’m just re-phrasing of the question …
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Biogeography & Vegetation
Was there a Forest before Central Otago’s Kowhai Forest?
by Mike Poleby Mike PoleWhen humans arrived in New Zealand, a bit over 700 years ago (Wilmshurst et al., 2008; Jacomb et al., 2014), it seems …
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Biogeography & Vegetation
Dunedin’s Saddlebacks/Tieke and Yellowheads/Mopua
by Mike Poleby Mike PoleAmateur field observations of species can be priceless. A local Dunedin man (Peter Thomson, 1823-1879), using the pen-name ‘Pakeha’, wrote several accounts …
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Green Island Bush is a prime example of a large patch of New Zealand indigenous forest that was essentially annihilated in the …
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Biogeography & Vegetation
The Lost Ecosystem of the Leith Swamp Forest, Dunedin
by Mike Poleby Mike PoleOne part of Dunedin is different from the rest…. The Dunedin area is an old volcano. It’s formed mostly from the molten, …
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Biogeography & Vegetation
The Ancient Footpath from Otepoti-Dunedin to Moeraki
by Mike Poleby Mike PoleHow old is the oldest cultural feature on Aotearoa-New Zealand? Imagine being around when the only way to get anywhere was to …
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When a forest is dead, but somehow still there – either as bleached stumps, and felled, and possibly burnt trunks, I call …
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We owe so much of what we know of early Dunedin to just a few artists! Up till 1850, there’s only a …
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Biogeography & Vegetation
Deans Bush–Pūtaringamotu and the Mystery of the Missing Tree Ferns
by Mike Poleby Mike PoleTree ferns are indicators of a consistently pretty wet climate. In New Zealand-Aotearoa, if you look closely (and not too closely if …
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