The frosty upper Waipakihi basin in the Kaimanawa mountains. Seven hundred years ago tussocks were restricted to valleys such as this, where trees were excluded by intense frost inversions, or by waterlogged and acidic soils, and by frequent soil disturbance. The advent of extensive burning by Maori created the conditions for the tussocks to colonise the areas of burnt forest.
GEOFF ROGERS
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Forest and Bird, Issue 280, 1 May 1996, Page 20
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62The frosty upper Waipakihi basin in the Kaimanawa mountains. Seven hundred years ago tussocks were restricted to valleys such as this, where trees were excluded by intense frost inversions, or by waterlogged and acidic soils, and by frequent soil disturbance. The advent of extensive burning by Maori created the conditions for the tussocks to colonise the areas of burnt forest. GEOFF ROGERS Forest and Bird, Issue 280, 1 May 1996, Page 20
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