Background Natural forests cover approximately 29% of New Zealand's landmass and
represent a large terrestrial carbon pool. In 2002 New Zealand implemented its first …

Ecosystem science increasingly relies on highly derived metrics to synthesize across large
datasets. However, full uncertainty associated with these metrics is seldom quantified. Our …

This chapter reviews all stocks and fluxes of carbon in New Zealand, and reviews
biophysical regulation through surface albedo. The terrestrial environment provides a …

Abstract The United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC)
requires reporting net carbon stock changes and anthropogenic greenhouse gas emissions …

Question: How do aggregate trait values and functional diversity of leaf traits linked to
palatability and decomposability change during a woody post‐cultural succession spanning …

Natural regeneration of new forests has significant potential to mitigate greenhouse gas
emissions, but how strong is the potential biodiversity co-benefit? We quantified carbon …

Natural forest comprises approximately 78% of New Zealand's total forest area and their
dead wood carbon pools contribute to the national carbon balance reported under the …

New Zealand's ratification of the Kyoto Protocol offers considerable opportunity for the sale
of 'carbon credits' from newly created forests. Given that forests need to have arisen since …

Invasive mammalian herbivores (eg deer, feral goats and brushtail possums;
hereafter'herbivores') are widespread throughout New Zealand and their control is important …

Decomposition rates of above-ground coarse woody debris (CWD)(> 10 cm diameter) were
determined for nine common New Zealand indigenous tree species, and of below-ground …