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The Natural History of Southern New Zealand

Hardback

Main Details

Title The Natural History of Southern New Zealand
Authors and Contributors      Edited by John Darby
Edited by R. Ewan Fordyce
Edited by Alan Mark
Foreword by Neville Peat
Physical Properties
Format:Hardback
Pages:400
Dimensions(mm): Height 304,Width 228
Category/GenreConservation of the environment
Pets and the Natural World
ISBN/Barcode 9781877133510
ClassificationsDewey:508.937
Audience
Tertiary Education (US: College)
Illustrations colour photos, maps & charts

Publishing Details

Publisher Otago University Press
Imprint Otago University Press
Publication Date 1 January 2004
Publication Country New Zealand

Description

This beautifully illustrated volume will be of interest to amateur naturalists, but it is of a scientific level appropriate to undergraduate students. Thirteen chapters, each authored or co-authored by specialists, describe a different area or science, including geology, landforms, fossils, climate, biogeography, environmental change since the last glaciation, the human factor, wetlands, the coast, and the open sea. The colour plates are of excellent quality and include maps, diagrams, and photographs, including satellite and aerial photographs.

Author Biography

Plant ecologist Alan Mark has spent most of his life researching the ecology and sustainable management of indigenous ecosystems. He has served on several official organisations, including ManapouriTe Anau Lake Guardians, National Parks and Reserves Authority, Conservation Authority, Otago Conservation Board, Land Settlement Board, Mountain Lands Committee and Fiordland Marine Guardians. He is a distinguished life member of the Forest & Bird Protection Society, a life member of the NZ Ecological Society and the Ecological Society of America, an honorary member of the NZ Alpine Club, a Fellow of the Royal Society of NZ and recipient of the society's Hutton Medal and Fleming Environmental Award. He received a CBE in 1989, a DCNZM in 2001 and was knighted in 2009 for his services to conservation. He received an honorary DSc from the University of Otago in 2014. Neville Peat is an award-winning New Zealand nature writer and biographer. His books also cover genres such as history, geography and the environment. The original edition of Wild Dunedin won the inaugural Montana New Zealand Book Awards Natural Heritage Category in 1996. In 2007 he was awarded New Zealands largest literary prize, the Creative New Zealand Michael King Writers Fellowship, for a book about the Tasman Sea. He lives on the Otago Peninsula, handy to albatrosses, penguins and sea lions.