{"id":7399,"date":"2025-08-20T05:16:20","date_gmt":"2025-08-19T16:16:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.unitec.ac.nz\/epress\/?page_id=7399"},"modified":"2026-10-23T16:43:28","modified_gmt":"2026-10-23T03:43:28","slug":"totara-forest-invercargill","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.unitec.ac.nz\/epress\/index.php\/perspectives-in-biodiversity\/volumes\/2025-1\/totara-forest-invercargill\/","title":{"rendered":"Perspectives in Biodiversity | 2025 | Volume 3 (1) | pp 59\u201375"},"content":{"rendered":"<nav class=\"items-justified-center wp-block-navigation is-content-justification-center is-layout-flex wp-container-core-navigation-is-layout-16018d1d wp-block-navigation-is-layout-flex\" aria-label=\"Perspectives in Biodiversity\"><ul class=\"wp-block-navigation__container items-justified-center wp-block-navigation\"><li class=\" wp-block-navigation-item wp-block-navigation-link\"><a class=\"wp-block-navigation-item__content\"  href=\"https:\/\/www.unitec.ac.nz\/epress\/index.php\/perspectives-in-biodiversity\/\" rel=\"https:\/\/www.unitec.ac.nz\/epress\/index.php\/perspectives-in-biodiversity\/\" title=\"Home\"><span class=\"wp-block-navigation-item__label\">Home PBD |<\/span><\/a><\/li><li class=\" wp-block-navigation-item wp-block-navigation-link\"><a class=\"wp-block-navigation-item__content\"  href=\"https:\/\/www.unitec.ac.nz\/epress\/index.php\/perspectives-in-biodiversity\/editorial-board\/\" rel=\"https:\/\/www.unitec.ac.nz\/epress\/index.php\/perspectives-in-biodiversity\/editorial-board\/\"><span class=\"wp-block-navigation-item__label\">Editorial Board |<\/span><\/a><\/li><li class=\" wp-block-navigation-item wp-block-navigation-link\"><a class=\"wp-block-navigation-item__content\"  href=\"https:\/\/www.unitec.ac.nz\/epress\/index.php\/perspectives-in-biodiversity\/author-guidelines\/\" rel=\"https:\/\/www.unitec.ac.nz\/epress\/index.php\/perspectives-in-animal-health-and-welfare\/author-guidelines\/\" title=\"Author Guidelines\"><span class=\"wp-block-navigation-item__label\">Author Guidelines |<\/span><\/a><\/li><li class=\" wp-block-navigation-item wp-block-navigation-link\"><a class=\"wp-block-navigation-item__content\"  href=\"https:\/\/www.unitec.ac.nz\/epress\/index.php\/perspectives-in-biodiversity\/volumes\/\" rel=\"https:\/\/www.unitec.ac.nz\/epress\/index.php\/perspectives-in-biodiversity\/volumes\/\" title=\"Issues\"><span class=\"wp-block-navigation-item__label\">Articles |<\/span><\/a><\/li><li class=\" wp-block-navigation-item wp-block-navigation-link\"><a class=\"wp-block-navigation-item__content\"  href=\"https:\/\/www.unitec.ac.nz\/epress\/index.php\/perspectives-in-biodiversity\/editorial-board\/\" rel=\"https:\/\/www.unitec.ac.nz\/epress\/index.php\/perspectives-in-biodiversity\/editorial-board\/\"><span class=\"wp-block-navigation-item__label\">Contact Us <\/span><\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/nav>\n\n\n<div style=\"height:50px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-is-layout-9d6595d7 wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\">\n<p>Research paper<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\">\n<p class=\"has-text-align-right\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.unitec.ac.nz\/epress\/index.php\/perspectives-in-biodiversity\/volumes\/2025-1\/\" data-type=\"page\" data-id=\"7080\">Volume 3 (1)<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<h1 class=\"wp-block-heading\">A comparative analysis of three remnant t\u014dtara dune forest patches in the peri-urban fringe of Waih\u014dpai \/ Invercargill, Murihiku \/ Southland, Aotearoa \/ New Zealand<\/h1>\n\n\n\n<p>Yannick Dorsman*, Jordon Traill<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Southern Institute of Technology, 133 Tay Street, Invercargill, New Zealand.<br><sup>*<\/sup> corresponding author: <a href=\"mailto:yannickd@tutanota.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">yannickd@tutanota.com<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Received: 14 Feb 2025 | Accepted: 14 May 2025 | Published: 03 October 2025<br>Senior Editor: Peter de Lange<br><a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.34074\/pibdiv.003106\">https:\/\/doi.org\/10.34074\/pibdiv.003106<\/a><br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-right\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.unitec.ac.nz\/epress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/PBD-dorsman-n-traill-2025.pdf\" data-type=\"attachment\" data-id=\"7523\">Download PDF<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Abstract<\/strong><br>The t\u014dtara (<em>Podocarpus totara <\/em>G.Benn. ex D.Don var. totara) dune forests on the fringe of Waih\u014dpai \/ Invercargill are one of the largest remaining tracts of this threatened forest association. Their proximity to an urban centre exposes the forest to threats, but there is also the potential for restoration through community participation. Effective restoration requires informed knowledge of the ecological characteristics of nearby sites of reference. This study compares vascular plant communities across three sites: two intact t\u014dtara dune forest sites managed by Invercargill City Council, and a site under a restoration management regime where stock grazing was recently ended. Four plots at each site were surveyed to compare plant assemblages to infer successional pathways and patch resilience. The two reference sites, while having similar elevation, slope, aspect and canopy species, held differences in mid-canopy woody species, indicating that dune age and forest condition could drive below-canopy species assemblages. Six species were identified as widespread within the intact patches but absent in the degraded site, suggesting potential target restoration plantings for t\u014dtara dune forests in the region.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:50px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-small-font-size\"><strong>Cite as<\/strong><br>Dorsman, Y., &amp; Traill, J. (2025). A comparative analysis of three remnant t\u014dtara dune forest patches in the peri-urban fringe of Waih\u014dpai \/ Invercargill, Murihiku \/ Southland, Aotearoa \/ New Zealand. <em>Perspectives in Biodiversity<\/em>, 3 (1): 59\u201375. <a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.34074\/pibdiv.003106\">https:\/\/doi.org\/10.34074\/pibdiv.003106<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Research paper Volume 3 (1) A comparative analysis of three remnant t\u014dtara dune forest patches in the peri-urban fringe of Waih\u014dpai \/ Invercargill, Murihiku \/ Southland, Aotearoa \/ New Zealand Yannick Dorsman*, Jordon Traill Southern Institute of Technology, 133 Tay&#8230; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.unitec.ac.nz\/epress\/index.php\/perspectives-in-biodiversity\/volumes\/2025-1\/totara-forest-invercargill\/\">Continue Reading &rarr;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"parent":7080,"menu_order":7,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-7399","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unitec.ac.nz\/epress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/7399","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unitec.ac.nz\/epress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unitec.ac.nz\/epress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unitec.ac.nz\/epress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unitec.ac.nz\/epress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7399"}],"version-history":[{"count":16,"href":"https:\/\/www.unitec.ac.nz\/epress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/7399\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8910,"href":"https:\/\/www.unitec.ac.nz\/epress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/7399\/revisions\/8910"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unitec.ac.nz\/epress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/7080"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unitec.ac.nz\/epress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7399"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}