Journal of the Royal Society of New Zealand 2004

Volume 34/Number 1/March 2004

• Maximum possible age of a petrel breeding colony near Punakaiki (South Island, New Zealand) from radiocarbon and stable isotope analysis of soil D. J. Hawke p. 1

Science policy

• Science and sustainable development in New Zealand J. L. Craig p. 9

Systematics

• Phylogenetic relationships in a small group of diminutive galaxiid fishes and the evolution of sexual dimorphism R. M. McDowall, J. M. Waters p. 23

Taxonomy

• A revision of the Phreatogammaridae (Crustacea, Amphipoda) of New Zealand. Part 2: Phreatogammarus fragilis and P. propinquus M. A. Chapman p. 59

• Matanui, a new genus of deepwater triplefin fishes (Pisces: Tripterygiidae) from New Zealand L. A. Jawad, K. D. Clements p. 81

Letter

• Letter to the Editor T. H. Worthy p. 105 and response Richard N. Holdaway, Martin D. Jones, and Nancy R. Beavan Athfield

Volume 34/Number 2/June 2004

• Marine Mollusca of oxygen isotope stages of the last 2 million years in New Zealand. Part 1: Revised generic positions and recognition of warm-water and cool-water migrants A. G. Beu with appendix: Age and correlation of Ototoka tephra B. V. Alloway, B. J. Pillans, T. R. Naish, and J. A. Westgate p. 111

Volume 34/Number 3/September 2004

Earth sciences

• Stratigraphy of the lower Maitai Group at West Dome, Southland, New Zealand J. M. C. Stratford, C. A. Landis, S. R. Owen, E. H. Gilmour, M. E. McColloch, and H. J. Campbell p. 267

Palaeontology

• The fossil rails (Aves: Rallidae) of Fiji with descriptions of a new genus and species Trevor H. Worthy p. 295

Taxonomy

• The Chatham Islands endemic galaxiid: a Neochanna mudfish (Teleostei: Galaxiidae) R. M. McDowall p. 315

Volume 34/Number 4/December 2004

Conservation

• The nutritional value of cocksfoot (Dactylis glomerata L.), midribbed snow-tussock (Chionochloa pallens Zotov), and red tussock (Chionochloa rubra Zotov) for the takahe (Porphyrio hochstetteri Meyer) K. A. C. James, P. J. Moore, J. A. Mills, J. P. Koolaard, R. B. Lavers, C. A. Butts, B. P. Treloar, N. D. Grace, and L. M. Bang p. 333

Ecology

• Observations of live Gray's beaked whales (Mesoplodon grayi) in Mahurangi Harbour, North Island, New Zealand, with a summary of at-sea sightings M. L. Dalebout, K. G. Russell, M. J. Little, and P. Ensor p. 347

• The influence of juvenile brown trout (Salmo trutta) on habitat use of inanga (Galaxias maculatus) in a stream simulator M. L. Bonnett and A. R. McIntosh p. 357

Quaternary studies

• An aeolian sediment pulse at c. 28 kyr BP in southern Tasmania P. D. McIntosh, K. Kiernan, and D. M. Price p. 369

• A revised Little Ice Age chronology of the Franz Josef Glacier, Westland, New Zealand K. M. McKinzey, W. Lawson, D. Kelly, and A. Hubbard p. 381

Indexes

• Author index p. 395
• Subject index p. 397

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