wyspy: Fiordland

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Fiordland (Māori: Te Rua-o-te-Moko, "The Pit of Tattooing", and also translated as "the Shadowlands") is a non-administrative geographical region of New Zealand in the south-western corner of the South Island, comprising the western third of Southland. Most of Fiordland is dominated by the steep sides of the snow-capped Southern Alps, deep lakes, and its steep, glacier-carved and now ocean-flooded western valleys. The name "Fiordland" derives from the New Zealand English spelling of the Scandinavian word for steep glacial valleys, "fjord". The geographic area of Fiordland is dominated by, and roughly coterminous with, Fiordland National Park, New Zealand's largest national park. Due to the…

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Vegetation associated with kakapo ( <i>Strigops habroptilus</i> Gray) in Sinbad Gully, Fiordland, New Zealand. Abstract The kakapo, a flightless, nocturnal, browsing parrot, is now known only from a few birds in the Milford Sound area where the forests are mostly unmodified by introduced browsing mammals. In February 1975 three male birds had courtship territories at 600–900m altitude in the head of Sinbad Gully, where sleep slopes, waterfalls, and avalanches largely determine the vegetation pattern. The three courtship territories comprised track and bowl systems in ridge‐crest silver beech ( Nothofagus menziesii ) forest. A garden territory or “kakapo garden” is described; it is a scrub‐c…

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Fiordland National Park is a national park in the south-west corner of South Island of New Zealand. It is the largest of the 13 national parks in New Zealand, with an area of 12,607 km2 (4,868 sq mi). The park occupies almost half of the area of Te Wāhipounamu, a UNESCO World Heritage Site established in 1990, and is administered by the Department of Conservation (DOC). The southern ranges of the Southern Alps cover most of Fiordland National Park, combined with the deep glacier-carved valleys. The park is a refuge for many threatened native animals, ranging from dolphins and bats to reptiles, insects, and endangered species of birds endemic to New Zealand, such as the takahē, mōhua, kākāpō…

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<i>Anemonastrum tenuicaule</i> and <i>A. antucense</i> (Ranunculaceae), new combinations for a New Zealand endemic species and its South American relative.. A rational taxonomic circumscription of genera in tribe Anemoneae (Ranunculaceae) is briefly discussed. It is concluded that, in view of the morphological diversity of the group and recent molecular phylogenetic findings, a moderately narrow approach to the re-circumscription of genera earlier included in Anemone sensu lato is preferable, in particular, with the recognition of the lineage with the base chromosome number x = 7 (Anemone subgen. Anemonidium) as two genera, Hepatica sensu stricto and Anemonastrum in an expanded circumscript…

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Te Wāhipounamu (Māori for "the place of greenstone") is a World Heritage Site in the south west corner of the South Island of New Zealand. Inscribed on the World Heritage List in 1990 and covering 26,000 square kilometres (10,000 sq mi), the site incorporates four national parks: Aoraki / Mount Cook Fiordland Mount Aspiring Westland Tai Poutini It is thought to contain some of the best modern representations of the original flora and fauna of Gondwana, one of the reasons for its listing as a World Heritage site.

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Changes in landslide vegetation at Lake Thomson, Fiordland, New Zealand

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The New Zealand rock wren (Xenicus gilviventris) is a small New Zealand wren (family Acanthisittidae) endemic to the South Island of New Zealand. Its Māori names include pīwauwau ("little complaining bird"), mātuitui, and tuke ("twitch", after its bobbing motion). Outside New Zealand it is sometimes known as the rockwren to distinguish it from the unrelated rock wren of North America. The rock wren is currently restricted to alpine and subalpine areas of the South Island. It is a poor flier and highly terrestrial, feeding in low scrub, open scree, and rockfalls. The rock wren and rifleman are the only two surviving New Zealand wrens; the rock wren's closest relatives were the extinct stout-…

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The kākāpō (Māori: [ˈkaːkaːpɔː]; pl.: kākāpō; Strigops habroptilus), sometimes known as the owl-parrot, is a species of large, nocturnal, ground-dwelling parrot of the superfamily Strigopoidea. It is endemic to New Zealand. Kākāpō can be up to 64 cm (25 in) long. They have a combination of unique traits among parrots: finely blotched yellow–green plumage, a distinct facial disc, owl-like forward-facing eyes with surrounding discs of specially textured feathers, a large grey beak, short legs, large blue feet, relatively short wings and a short tail. It is the world's only flightless parrot, the world's heaviest parrot, and also is nocturnal, herbivorous, visibly sexually dimorphic in body si…

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Abundance and Dynamics of Small Mammals in New Zealand: Sequential Invasions into an Island Ecosystem Like No Other.. New Zealand had no people or four-footed mammals of any size until it was colonised by Polynesian voyagers and Pacific rats in c. 1280 AD. Between 1769 and 1920 AD, Europeans brought three more species of commensal rats and mice, and three predatory mustelids, plus rabbits, house cats hedgehogs and Australian brushtail possums. All have in turn invaded the whole country and many offshore islands in huge abundance, at least initially. Three species are now reduced to remnant populations, but the other eight remain widely distributed. They comprise an artificial but interactin…

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Diversity and cross-species transmission of viruses in a remote island ecosystem: implications for wildlife conservation.. The ability of viruses to emerge in new species is influenced by aspects of host biology and ecology, with some taxa harbouring a high diversity and abundance of viruses. However, how these factors shape virus diversity at the ecosystem scale is often unclear. To better understand the pattern and determinants of viral diversity within an ecosystem, and to describe the novel avian viruses infecting an individual avian community, we performed a metagenomic snapshot of the virome from the entire avian community on remote Pukenui/Anchor Island in Aotearoa New Zealand. Throu…

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Montane‐Alpine vegetation near Lake Shirley, Fiordland 2. Additions and corrections. Summary Ecological and floristic studies of alpine and montane vegetation near Lake Shirley, Fiordland, have been supplemented by further observations during a subsequent visit. Futher communities are described and additional comments are made on others. Sampling of stands near upper forest limits shows that vegetation patterns at and above this level are complex, and this is discussed chiefly in relation to the distribution of Chionochloa and Nothofagus species. Comments are made on local distribution patterns and on data from other published sources relating to the influence of browsing mammals. Additions…

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Montane‐alpine vegetation near Lake Shirley, Fiordland. Summary Montane, subalpine, and alpine vegetation near Lake Shirley between Caswell and Charles Sounds, Fiordland, is described. Nineteen communities are recognised and grouped into five edaphic classes. The complexity of the vegetation is partly ascribed to the frequency of ecotones and, between 450–600m (1,500–2,000 ft), to interdigitating stands of montane and subalpine forest. Comments are made on modification of vegetation by deer (chiefly Wapiti) and a list of plants consisting of 67 lichens, mosses, and hepatics, and 167 vascular plants is included.