A note on pollen dispersal in canterbury, new zealand

Abstract

Myers (1973) discussed the dispersal of Nothofagus pollen on the basis of a pollen trapping programme at Bankside and Eyrewell Scientific Reserves in central Canterbury. These reserves are 60 km and 14 km, respectively, east of the nearest Nothofagus forest which grows on the ranges at the western edge of the Canterbury Plains (see fig. 1, Myers 1973). Bankside Reserve is dominated by scrub of Leptospermum ericoides and grassland of Festuca novaezelandiae and Notodanthonia clavata (Molloy 1970). There are three major plant communities in the Eyrewell Reserve - low forest of L. ericoides, shrubland of the same species with L. scoparium and Pomaderris phylicifolia var. ericifolia and grassland similar to that at Bankside (Molloy and Ives 1972). © 1978 Taylor & Francis Group, LLC.