Speakers: Lisa Wolf and Finn McKinlay, Victoria University of Wellington, and Edie Cullen, Hataitai School Lisa—In my PhD thesis, I investigate the symbiotic relationship between the brooding anemone Handactis nutrix and its brown macroalgal host Cystophora scalaris on the south coast of Wellington. I first examined host specificity, as well as the abundance and distribution […]
We will climb for 40 minutes up the 4WD Buchanans Road Tramping Track, passing Dendrobium cunninghamii, Earina autumnalis, Helichrysum lanceolatum and Metrosideros colensoi. From there we’ll walk bait lines and informal unformed tracks for a 90-minute circuit of Syzygium maire (maire tawake, swamp maire). Botanising time will be additional to this. Bring good footwear and […]
Speakers: Paul Bell-Butler and Lee Oliver, Victoria University of Wellington. Paul—New Zealand’s bryophyte flora remains poorly understood – even basic knowledge is lacking for many liverwort species, with 23% of taxa classified as ‘Data Deficient’. The genetic and biogeographic affinities of the country’s non-vascular flora are also only beginning to be explored. Using a multi-gene […]
Note not the first Saturday of a month. Stoney Creek block is owned by Greater Wellington and is predominantly plantation forest. However, it also contains a number of remnant native forest areas that we will explore. These include areas where black and hard beech are dominant, as well as areas of mānuka and kānuka. There […]
Details to come. Leader: Eleanor Burton 021 0588 324/ esmeraldadoris93@gmail.com
Speaker: Jane Gosden Kettle hole tarns that form ephemeral wetlands (hereafter kettles) are plant biodiversity hotspots containing over 400 species of plants and lichens (hereafter “plant”) including numerous At Risk and Threatened species. Management of kettles is challenging because they are small (median 0.09 ha), widely distributed in Te Waipounamu | the South Island, patchy […]