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Kahikatea - Podocarpus dacrydioides
Kahikatea (Podocarpus dacrydioides) forests were once found extensively on alluvial plains and river flats throughout New Zealand. Today these forests have dwindled in extent; largely as a result of clearing of the fertile soils for pastoral farming and the use of the non-tainting timber for butter …
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Reconstruction of seed dispersal via modeling, seedling recruitment, and dispersal efficiency of Hemiphaga novaeseelandiae in Vitex lucens and Prumnopytis ferruginea in New Zealand
… small numbers under a female miro and tawa tree. Kahikatea and matai were the main actively dispersed species under trees. Damage of bird-dispersed depulped seeds by mammals was high for tawa and low in miro. Experiments using an original spatially-explicit in silico simulation model showed that …
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Phenology and frugivory of large-fruited species in northern New Zealand and the impacts of introduced mammals
… year, even when the fruit was relatively scarce. Kahikatea (Dacrycarpus dacrydioides; small and sugar-rich) was eaten by kereru when large quantities of ripe fruit were available. The timing and nutrition of the fruiting species was generally complementary, with different nutritional components …