New Zealand Journal of Botany abstracts

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VEGETATION STUDIES ON SECRETARY ISLAND, FIORDLAND
PART 1: GENERAL INTRODUCTION

G. T. S. Baylis

Botany Department, University of Otago

P. Wardle

Botany Division, Department of Scientific and Industrial Research, Lincoln

A. F. Mark*

Botany Department, University of Otago Abstract Secretary Island lies where an eight-mile length of Fiordland's western coast is separated from the mainland by the intersection of Thompson and Doubtful Sounds (Figs 1 and 2). It consists of ice-worn benches and steep ridges rising to nearly 4,000 ft and amounting to about 30 square miles in area. Forest and scrub clothe the island from high-water mark to the tree line at about 3,000 ft and, above this, there are grassland, herbfield, patches of low scrub and bare rock. The fiords that isolate it are a mile or more in width, except where Bauza Island intervenes, and have so far proved effective barriers to the spread of naturalised animals. This account therefore deals with a virgin vegetation.

N.Z. J. Bot 1: 167-70
(Received for publication, 28 February 1963)

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