Te Waahipounamu: South‐west New Zealand World Heritage Area. Ecological research and conservation historyFootnote^†

A somewhat longer, more personalised version of this paper, dedicated to Dr Peter Wardle, was presented at his retirement symposium in Sept 1995 and published as part of its proceedings in 1998, in Ecosystems, Entomology and Plants (Royal Society of New Zealand Miscellaneous Series 48 Pp 39–68)

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