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A Provisional Classification of North Island Forests
Authors: P.J. McKelvey, J.L. NichollsPublication: New Zealand Journal of Forestry, Volume N.Z.J.For. 1954, Issue N.Z.J.For. 7(4) 1957, pp 84-101, Jan 1957
Publisher: New Zealand Institute of Forestry
Abstract: A complete appreciation of the pattern of North Island forests was until recently unobtainable, a serious deficiency in the face of urgent management problems. Provision of aerial photographs and the consequent completion of a National Forest Survey has provided the overall picture required. The forests have been classified provisionally into 78 types, in 18 groups, on the criteria of physiognomically significant specific and structural differences. It is hoped that further research will reinforce the classification with links of relationship, some of them genetic.