The Vegetative Cover of
New Zealand,
P F J Newsome
$38.50 (NWASCO) This longawaited publication gives us the first overview of New Zealand's vegetation cover. A 150-page booklet describes characteristic features of each of the 47 vegetation types, and has colour photographs of each type. The accompanying 1:1,000,000 scale maps are useful for assessing the extent of each vegetation type in some detail. The publication has three minor defects; estuarine vegetation is omitted; kauri forest appears to be lumped into lowland podocarpbroadleaf forest without any explanation; and discussion on the relationship between vegetation, moa and Maori takes little account of the wealth of new research in this field over the past decade. Despite this the book is a good up-to-date reference work on our native and exotic vegetation cover.
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Forest and Bird, Volume 19, Issue 2, 1 May 1988, Page 35
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129The Vegetative Cover of New Zealand, Forest and Bird, Volume 19, Issue 2, 1 May 1988, Page 35
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