The first time I ever slept-out (sleeping bag, no tent), I was about four years old, and the place was an idyllic …
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New Zealand
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Palaeobotany & Palaeoclimate
The Kai Point Coal Mine – Late Cretaceous vegetation treasure-trove
by Mike Poleby Mike PoleThe lowlands south of Dunedin (New Zealand), used to be almost impassable wetlands. The local Maoris were incredulous when the first Western …
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Palaeobotany & Palaeoclimate
Eucalyptus fossils in New Zealand – the thin end of the wedge
by Mike Poleby Mike PoleEucalyptus (aka ‘gum-tree’) is the quintessential Australian tree. There are about 700 species of them today (depending on who you ask), all of …
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Climate & Earth Systems
Four Degrees of Climate Change in New Zealand – should we care?
by Mike Poleby Mike PoleNew Zealand might be a relatively lucky position as regards global warming. We mostly have a moderate, ‘maritime’ climate. Not too hot, …
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There was a time when I threatened myself to start teaching the ecology of Middle-earth. I helped take a couple of trips …
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New Zealand Geology
The Marshall Paraconformity – a 30 year geological debate in New Zealand
by Mike Poleby Mike PoleCut back to the late 1970s – I was a schoolboy and had found my way into the Burnside Marl Pit, Dunedin …
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Biogeography & Vegetation
Flooded Forests: sea-level rise in the Haast, West Coast, New Zealand
by Mike Poleby Mike PoleI own a little patch of bush in the Haast, on the wet, West Coast of New Zealand. It was selectively logged …
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The fern Cladophlebis is probably the single-most common plant fossil in the New Zealand Jurassic. It’s present in virtually every plant fossil …
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Has New Zealand recently entered an entirely new period of time? You may have caught up with the proposal that the world …
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Biogeography & Vegetation
Matai- vanquished giant of New Zealand’s dry forests?
by Mike Poleby Mike PoleI’ve long found New Zealand’s black pine, the matai (Prumnopitys taxifolia) to be a special tree. From a dishevelled juvenile, It can …
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