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2013
- Syfert, M.M., Smith, M.J., Coomes, D.A. (2013) The effects of sampling bias and model complexity on the predictive performance of MaxEnt species distribution models. PLoS ONE 8(2): e55158. DOI link
- Vanderwel M.C, Coomes,D.A., and Purves, D.W. (2013) Quantifying variation in forest disturbance, and its effects on aboveground biomass dynamics, across the eastern United States. Global Change Biology DOI link
- Ruiz-Benito, P., Lines, E.R., Gómez-Aparicio, L., Zavala, M.A., Coomes, D.A. (2013) Patterns and Drivers of Tree Mortality in Iberian Forests: Climatic Effects Are Modified by Competition. PLoS ONE 8(2): e56843. DOI link
2012
- Tanentzap, A. J., Mountford, E. P., Cooke, A. S., & Coomes, D.A. (2012). The more stems the merrier: advantages of multi-stemmed architecture for the demography of understorey trees in a temperate broadleaf woodland. Journal of Ecology. DOI link
- Tanentzap, A. J., & Coomes, D.A. (2012) Carbon storage in terrestrial ecosystems: Do browsing and grazing herbivores matter? Biological Reviews, 87(1), 72-94.
- Price, C. A., Weitz, J. S., Savage, V. M., Stegen, J., Clarke, A., Coomes, D.A., … Swenson, N. G. (2012) Testing the metabolic theory of ecology. Ecology Letters. DOI link
- Brodribb, T. J., Pittermann, J., & Coomes, D.A. (2012) Elegance versus speed: Examining the competition between conifer and angiosperm trees. International Journal of Plant Sciences, 173, 673-694. R
- Kunstler, G., Lavergne, S., Courbaud, B., Thuiller, W., Vieilledent, G., Zimmermann, N. E., Coomes, D.A. (2012) Competitive interactions between forest trees are driven by species' trait hierarchy, not phylogenetic or functional similarity: Implications for forest community assembly. Ecology Letters, 15(8), 831-840.
- Simonson, W. D., Allen, H. D., & Coomes, D.A. (2012) Use of an airborne lidar system to model plant species composition and diversity of Mediterranean oak forests. Conservation Biology, 26, 840-850.
- Tanentzap, A. J., Lee, W. G., & Coomes, D.A. (2012) Soil nutrient supply modulates temperature-induction cues in mast-seeding grasses. Ecology, 93, 462-469.
- Coomes, D.A., Holdaway, R. J., Kobe, R. K., Lines, E. R., & Allen, R. B. (2012) A general integrative framework for modelling woody biomass production and carbon sequestration rates in forests. Journal of Ecology, 100, 42-64.
- Lines, E. R., Zavala, M. A., Purves, D. W., & Coomes, D.A. (2012) Predictable changes in aboveground allometry of trees along gradients of temperature, aridity and competition. Global Ecology and Biogeography. PAGE
- Wright, D. M., Tanentzap, A. J., Flores, O., Husheer, S. W., Duncan, R. P., Wiser, S. K., … Coomes, D.A. (2012) Impacts of culling and exclusion of browsers on vegetation recovery across New Zealand forests. Biological Conservation, 153, 64-71.
- Echeverría, C., Newton, A., Nahuelhual, L., Coomes, D.A., & Rey-Benayas, J. M. (2012) How landscapes change: Integration of spatial patterns and human processes in temperate landscapes of southern Chile. Applied Geography, 32(2), 822-831.
- Jucker, T., & Coomes, D.A. (2012) Comment on "Plant species richness and ecosystem multifunctionality in global drylands". Science, 337(6091), 155.
2011
- Hurst, J. M., Allen, R. B., Coomes, D.A., & Duncan, R. P. (2011). Size-specific tree mortality varies with neighbourhood crowding and disturbance in a Montane Nothofagus forest. PLoS One, 6(10), e26670. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0026670
- Echeverría, C., Newton, A., Nahuelhual, L., Coomes, D., & Rey-Benayas, J. M. (2012). How landscapes change: Integration of spatial patterns and human processes in temperate landscapes of southern Chile. Applied Geography, 32(2), 822-831.
- Kattge, J., Díaz, S., Lavorel, S., Prentice, I. C., Leadley, P., Bönisch, G., …Coomes, D.A... Wirth, C. (2011). TRY - a global database of plant traits. Global Change Biology, 17(9), 2905-2935.
- Hoorens, B., Coomes, D., & Aerts, R. (2010). Neighbour identity hardly affects litter-mixture effects on decomposition rates of New Zealand forest species. Oecologia, 162(2), 479-489.
- Rands, M. R. W., Adams, W. M., Bennun, L., Butchart, S. H. M., Clements, A., Coomes, D.… Vira, B. (2011). Culture and Biodiversity Losses Linked Response. Science, 331(6013), 31.
- Rands, M. R., Adams, W. M., Bennun, L., Butchart, S. H., Clements, A., Coomes, D., … Vira, B. (2010). Biodiversity conservation: challenges beyond 2010. Science, 329(5997), 1298-1303. DOI link
- Tanentzap, A. J., & Coomes, D.A. (2011). Carbon storage in terrestrial ecosystems: do browsing and grazing herbivores matter?. Biological Reviews. DOI link
- Coomes, D.A., Lines, E. R., & Allen, R. B. (2011). Moving on from Metabolic Scaling Theory: hierarchical models of tree growth and asymmetric competition for light. Journal of Ecology, 99(3), 748-756. DOI link
- Flores, O., & Coomes, D.A. (2011). Estimating the wood density of species for carbon stock assessments. Methods in Ecology and Evolution, 2(2), 214-220. DOI link
- Kunstler, G., Albert, C. H., Courbaud, B., Lavergne, S., Thuiller, W., Vieilledent, G. … Coomes, D.A. (2011). Effects of competition on tree radial-growth vary in importance but not in intensity along climatic gradients. Journal of Ecology, 99(1), 300-312. DOI link
- Bee, J. N., Tanentzap, A. J., Lee, W. G., Lavers, R. B., Mark, A. F., Mills, J. A., ... Coomes, D.A. (2011). Influence of foliar traits on forage selection by introduced red deer in New Zealand. Basic and Applied Ecology, 12(1), 56-63.
- Tanentzap, A. J., Bazely, D. R., Koh, S., Timciska, M., Haggith, E. G., Carleton, T. J., Coomes, D.A. (2011). Seeing the forest for the deer: Do reductions in deer-disturbance lead to forest recovery?. Biological Conservation, 144(1), 376-382.
- Tanentzap, A. J., Lee, W. G., Dugdale, J. S., Patrick, B. P., Fenner, M., Walker, S., Coomes, D.A. (2011). Differential responses of vertebrate and invertebrate herbivores to traits of New Zealand subalpine shrubs. Ecology, 92(4), 994-999.
- Holdaway, R. J., Richardson, S. J., Dickie, I. A., Peltzer, D.A., & Coomes, D.A. (2011). Species- and community-level patterns in fine root traits along a 120000-year soil chronosequence in temperate rain forest. Journal of Ecology, 99(4), 954-963.1466. DOI link
- Spence, L. A., Dickie, I. A., & Coomes, D.A. (2011). Arbuscular mycorrhizal inoculum potential: a mechanism promoting positive diversity-invasibility relationships in mountain beech forests in New Zealand?. Mycorrhiza, 21(4), 309-314. DOI link
2010
- Bystriakova, N., Bader, M. and Coomes, D.A. (2011) Long-term tree fern dynamics linked to disturbance and shade tolerance. Journal of Vegetation Science 22, 72–84. DOI link
- Bystriakova, N., Schneider, H., & Coomes, D. (2010). Evolution of the climatic niche in scaly tree ferns (Cyatheaceae, Polypodiopsida). Botanical Journal of the Linnean Society, 165(1), 1-19. DOI link
- Bee, J.N., Tanentzap, A.T, Lee, W.G., Lavers, R.B., Mark, A.F., Mills, J.A., Coomes, D.A , Influence of foliar traits on forage selection by introduced red deer in New Zealand. Basic and Applied Ecology, DOI link.
- Rands, M.R.W., Adams, W.M., Bennun, L., Butchart, S.H.M., Clements, A., Coomes, D.A., Entwistle, A., Hodge, I., Kapos, V., Scharlemann, J.P.W., Sutherland, W.J., Vira, B. (2010) Biodiversity Conservation: Challenges Beyond 2010. Science 329: 1298- 1303. DOI link
- Lafortezza, R., Coomes, D.A., Kapos, V., & Ewers, R.M. (2010) Assessing the impacts of fragmentation on plant communities in New Zealand: scaling from survey plots to landscapes. Global Ecology and Biogeography 19, 741–75. DOI link
- Wright, D.M., Jordan, G.J., Lee, W.G., Duncan, R.P., Forsyth, D.M., & Coomes, D.A. (2010) Do leaves of plants on phosphorus-impoverished soils contain high concentrations of phenolic defence compounds? Functional Ecology 24, 52-61. DOI link
- Forsyth, D.M., Wilmshurst, J.M., Allen, R.B., & Coomes, D.A. (2010) Impacts of introduced deer and extinct moa on New Zealand ecosystems. New Zealand Journal of Ecology 34, 48–65. click
- Russo S.E., Jenkins K.L., Wiser S.K., Uriarte M., Duncan R.P., Coomes D.A. (2010) Interspecific relationships among growth, mortality and xylem traits of woody species from New Zealand. Functional Ecology 24: 253-262.
- Flores, O., Coomes, D.A.(2010) Estimating the wood density of species for carbon stock assessments. Methods in Ecology and Evolution DOI link
- Gaxiola A., McNeill S.M., Coomes, D.A. (2010) What drives retrogressive succession? Plant strategies to tolerate infertile and poorly drained soils. Functional Ecology 24:714–722. DOI link
- Lines E.R., Coomes D.A., Purves D.W. (2010) Influences of Forest Structure, Climate and Species Composition on Tree Mortality across the Eastern US. PLoS ONE 5(10): e13212. DOI link
- Spence, L.A., Dickie, I.A., Coomes, D.A.(2010) Arbuscular mycorrhizal inoculum potential: a mechanism promoting positive diversity–invasibility relationships in mountain beech forests in New Zealand? DOI link
- Bee, J.N., Wright, D.M., Tanentzap, A.J., Lee, W.G., Lavers, R.B., Mark, A.F., Mills, J.A., & Coomes, D.A. (2010) Spatio-temporal feeding selection of red deer in a mountainous landscape. Austral Ecology, 35, 752–764. DOI link
- Spence, L.A., Ross, J.V., Wiser, S.K., Allen, R.B. & Coomes, D.A. (2010) Disturbance affects short-term facilitation, but not long-term saturation, of exotic plant invasion in New Zealand forest. Proceeding Royal Society - Biology DOI link
- Tanentzap, A.J., Lee, W.G., Dugdale, J.S., Patrick, B.P., Fenner, M., Walker, S., & Coomes, D.A. (2010) Differential responses of vertebrate and invertebrate herbivores to traits of New Zealand subalpine shrubs. Ecology, in press. DOI link
- Tanentzap, A.J., Bazely, D.R., Koh, S., Timciska, M., Haggith, E.G., Carleton, T.J., & Coomes, D.A. (2010)Seeing the forest for the deer: Do reductions in deer-disturbance lead to forest recovery? Biological Conservation, in press. DOI link
2009
- Coomes, D.A. & Sack, L. (2009) Response to comment on Coomes et al. ‘Scaling of xylem vessels and veins within the leaves of oak species’. Biology Letters, 5, 381-382.
- Hoorens, B, Coomes, D.A., Aerts, R. (2009) Neighbour identity hardly affects litter mixture effects on decomposition rates of New Zealand forest species. Oecologia 162, 479-89.
- Kunstler, G., Coomes, D.A., Canham, C.D. (2009) Size-dependence of growth and mortality influence the shade tolerance of trees in a lowland temperate rain forest. Journal of Ecology. 97, 685 - 695. DOI link
- Coomes, D.A., Kunstler, G., Canham, C.D., & Wright, E. (2009) A greater range of shade-tolerance niches in nutrient-rich forests: an explanation for positive richness–productivity relationships? Journal of Ecology. 97, 705-717.
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- Chave, J., Coomes,D.A, Jansen, S., Lewis, S., Swenson, N., Zanne, A. (2009) Towards a worldwide wood economics spectrum. Ecology Letters, 12, 351-366 DOI link pdf
- Ewers, R.M., Kapos, V., & Coomes, D.A., Lafortezza, R., & Didham, R.K. (2009) Mapping community change in modified landscapes. Biological Conservation, 142, 2872-2880. DOI link
- Tanentzap, A.J., Burrows, L.E., Lee, W.G., Nugent, G., Maxwell, J.M., & Coomes, D.A. (2009) Landscape-level vegetation recovery from herbivory: progress after four decades of invasive red deer control. Journal of Applied Ecology 46, 1064–1072. DOI link
- Tanentzap, A.J., Bee, J.N., Lee, W.G., Lavers, R.B., Mills, J.A., Mark. A.F., & Coomes D.A. (2009) The reliability of palatability estimates obtained from rumen contents analysis and a field-based index of diet selection. Journal of Zoology. 278, 243–248. DOI link pdf (password needed)
- Bee, J.N, Tanentzap, A.J., Lee, W.G., Lavers, R.B., Mark, A.F., Mills, J.A., Coomes, D.A. (2009) The benefits of being in a bad neighbourhood: plant community composition influences red deer foraging decisions. Oikos, 118, 18-24. DOI link
- Echeverría, E., Coomes, D.A., Hall M. and Newton, A.C. (2008) Spatially explicit models to analyze forest loss and fragmentation between 1976 and 2020 in southern Chile. Ecological Modelling DOI link pdf (password needed)
2008
- Coomes, D.A., Heathcote, S., Godfrey, E.R., Shepherd, J.J., and Sack, L. (2008) Scaling of xylem vessels and veins within the leaves of oak species. Biology Letters 4, 302-306 DOI link pdf (password needed)
- Weedon, J., Cornwell, W., Cornelissen, H., Zanne, A., Wirth, C., Coomes, D.A. (2008). Global meta-analysis of wood decomposition rates: a role for trait variation among tree species? Ecology Letters 12, 45-56. DOI link
- Janssen, T., Bystriakova, N., Rakotondrainibe, F., Coomes, D.A.,, Labat, N.L., Schneider, H. (2008) Neoendemism in Madagascan scaly tree ferns results from recent, coincident diversification bursts. Evolution 62: 1876-89. DOI link
- Grubb,P.J., Jackson, R.V., Barberis, I.M., Bee, J.N., Coomes, D.A., Dominy, N.J., De La Fuente, M.A.S. Lucas, P.W., Metcalfe, D.J., Svenning, J.C., Turner, I.M. & Vargas O. (2008) Monocot leaves are eaten less than dicot leaves in tropical lowland rain forests: correlations with toughness and leaf presentation. Annals of Botany 101, 1379-1389 DOI link pdf (password needed)
- Gaxiola, A., Burrows, L.E. & Coomes D.A. (2008) Tree-fern trunks facilitate seedling regeneration in a productive lowland temperate rain forest. Oecologia, 155, 325–335. DOI link pdf (password needed)
- Holdaway, R.J., Allen, R.B., Clinton, P.W., Davis, M.R. & Coomes,D.A.(2008) Intraspecific changes in forest canopy allometries during self-thinning. Functional Ecology DOI link pdf (password needed)
2007
- Turnbull, L.A, Coomes, D.A., Purves, D.W., & Rees, M. (2007) How spatial structure alters population and community dynamics in a natural plant community. Journal of Ecology 95, 79–89. DOI link
- Kunstler, G., Allen, R.B., Coomes, D.A., Canham, C.D., & Wright, E.F. (2007) Long-term harvesting of podocarps. Landcare Research Contract Report LC0607/188
- Coomes, D.A. & Allen, R.B. (2007) Effects of size, competition and altitude on tree growth. Journal of Ecology 95, 1084–1097. DOI link pdf (password needed)
- Coomes, D.A & Allen, R.B. (2007) Mortality and tree-size distributions in natural mixed-age forests. Journal of Ecology, 95, 27-40. DOI link
- Coomes, D.A., Jenkins, K.L., & Cole, L.E.S. (2007) Scaling of tree vascular transport systems along gradients of nutrient supply and altitude. Biology Letters, 3, 86-89. DOI link
- Bee, J. N., Kunstler G. & Coomes, D.A. (2007) Resistance and resilience of New Zealand tree species to browsing. Journal of Ecology 95, 1014–1026. DOI link pdf (password needed)
- Echeverría, C., Newton, A.C., Lara, A., Benayas, J.M.R., & Coomes, D.A. (2007) Impacts of forest fragmentation on species composition and forest structure in the temperate landscape of southern Chile. Global Ecology and Biogeography, 16, 426-439. DOI link
2006
- Coomes, D.A. (2006) Challenges to the generality of WBE scaling theory. Trends In Ecology & Evolution, 21, 593-596. DOI link
- Russo, S., Wiser, S.W., & Coomes, D.A. (2007) Growth-size scaling relationships of woody plant species differ from predictions of the Metabolic Theory of Ecology. Ecology Letters, 10, 889–901. DOI link
- Parfitt, R.L., Ross, D.J., & Coomes, D.A., Richardson, S.J., Smale, M.C., & Dahlgren, R.A. (2005) N and P in New Zealand soil chronosequences and relationships with foliar N and P. Biogeochemistry, 75, 305-328. click
- Echeverría, C., Cayuela, L., Manson, R., Coomes, D.A., Lara, A. , Rey-Benayas, J.M. & Newton A.C. (2007) Spatial and temporal patterns of forest loss and fragmentation in Mexico and Chile. In: Biodiversity Loss and Conservation in Fragmented Forest Landscapes: The Forests of Montane Mexico and Temperate South America (ed A.C. Newton), pp 14-41. CABI, Wallingford, Oxford.
- Echeverría, C., Coomes, D.A., Salas, J., Rey-Benayas, J.M., Lara, A., & Newton, A. (2006) Rapid deforestation and fragmentation of Chilean Temperate Forests. Biological Conservation, 130, 481-494. DOI link
- Coomes, D.A., Mark, A.F., & Bee, J. (2006) Animal Control and Ecosystem Recovery. In: Biological Invasions in New Zealand (eds R.B. Allen & W.G. Lee), pp. 339-354, Springer Verlag.
- Husheer, S.W., Robertson, A.W., Coomes, D.A., & Frampton, C.M. (2006) Herbivory and plant competition reduce mountain beech seedling growth and establishment in New Zealand. Plant Ecology, 183, 245-256. DOI link
2005 and earlier
- Coomes, D.A., Allen, R.B., Bentley, W.A., Burrows, L.E., Canham, C.D., Fagan, L., Forsyth, D.M., Gaxiola-Alcantar, A., Parfitt, R.L., Ruscoe, W.A., Wardle, D.A., Wilson, D.J., & Wright, E.F. (2005) The hare, the tortoise and the crocodile: the ecology of angiosperm dominance, conifer persistence and fern filtering. Journal of Ecology, 93, 918-935. click
- Grubb, P.J., Metcalfe, D.J. & Coomes, D.A. (2005) Comment on "A brief history of seed size". Science, 310, 783A-783A. click
- Tanner, E.V.J., Teo, V.K., Coomes, D.A. & Midgley, J.J. (2005) Pair-wise competition-trials amongst seedlings of ten dipterocarp species; the role of initial height, growth rate and leaf attributes. Journal of Tropical Ecology, 21, 317-328. click
- Platt, K.H., Allen, R.B., Coomes, D.A., & Wiser, S.K. (2004) Mountain beech seedling responses to removal of below-ground competition and fertiliser addition. New Zealand Journal of Ecology, 28, 289-293. click
- Turnbull, L.A., Coomes, D.A., Hector, A., & Rees, M. (2004) Seed mass and the competition/colonization trade-off: competitive interactions and spatial patterns in a guild of annual plants. Journal of Ecology, 92, 97-109. click
- Husheer, S.W., Coomes, D.A., & Robertson, A.W. (2003) Long-term influences of introduced deer on the composition and structure of New Zealand Nothofagus forests. Forest Ecology and Management, 181, 99-117. click
- Coomes, D.A., Allen, R.B., Scott, N.A., Goulding, C., Beets, P. (2003) Designing systems to monitor carbon stocks in forests and shrublands. Forest Ecology and Management, 164, 89-108. click
- Bellingham, P.J. & Coomes, D.A. (2003) Grazing and community structure as determinants of invasion success by Scotch broom in a New Zealand montane shrubland. Diversity and Distributions, 9, 19-28. click
- Coomes, D.A., Duncan, R.P., Allen, R.B., & Truscott, J. (2003) Disturbances prevent stem size-density distributions in natural forests from following scaling relationships. Ecology Letters, 6, 980-989. click
- Coomes, D.A., Allen, R.B., Forsyth, D.M. & Lee, W.G. (2003) Factors preventing the recovery of New Zealand forests following control of invasive deer. Conservation Biology, 17, 450-459. click
- Forsyth, D.M., Coomes, D.A., & Nugent, G. (2003) Framework for assessing the susceptibility of management areas to deer impacts. Science for Conservation Series, Issue 213. 39 pages. Department of Conservation, Wellington, New Zealand.
- Coomes, D.A., & Grubb, P.J. (2003) Colonization, tolerance, competition and seed-size variation within functional groups. Trends in Ecology & Evolution, 18, 283-291. click
- Wardle, D.A., Hornberg, G., Zackrisson, O., Kalela-Brundin, M., & Coomes, D.A. (2003) Long-term effects of wildfire on ecosystem properties across an island area gradient. Science, 300, 972-975. click
- Coomes, D.A., Rees, M., Grubb, P.J., & Turnbull, L. (2002) Are differences in seed mass among species important in structuring plant communities? Evidence from analyses of spatial and temporal variation in dune-annual populations. Oikos, 96, 421-432. click
- Coomes, D.A., Rees, M., Turnbull, L., & Ratcliffe, S. (2002) On the mechanisms of coexistence among annual-plant species, using neighbourhood techniques and simulation models. Plant Ecology, 163, 23-38. click
- Coomes, D.A. & Grubb, P.J. (2000) Impacts of root competition in forests and woodlands: A theoretical framework and review of experiments. Ecological Monographs, 70, 171-207. click
- Coomes, D.A., Rees, M., & Turnbull, L. (1999) Identifying aggregation and association in fully mapped spatial data. Ecology, 80, 554-565. click
- Kollmann, J., Coomes, D.A., & White, S.M. (1998) Consistencies in post-dispersal seed predation of temperate fleshy-fruited species among seasons, years and sites. Functional Ecology, 12, 683-690. click
- Coomes, D.A. & Grubb, P.J. (1998) A comparison of 12 tree species of Amazonian caatinga using growth rates in gaps and understorey, and allometric relationships. Functional Ecology, 12, 426-435. click
- Coomes, D.A. & Grubb, P.J. (1998) Responses of juvenile trees to above- and belowground competition in nutrient-starved Amazonian rain forest. Ecology, 79, 768-782. click
- Bonis, A., Grubb, P.J., & Coomes, D.A. (1997) Requirements of gap-demanding species in chalk grassland: reduction of root competition versus nutrient-enrichment by animals. Journal of Ecology, 85, 625-633. click
- Coomes, D.A. (1997) Nutrient status of Amazonian caatinga forests in a seasonally dry area: nutrient fluxes in litter fall and analyses of soils. Canadian Journal of Forest Research, 27, 831-839. click
- Grubb, P.J. & Coomes, D.A. (1997) Seed mass and nutrient content in nutrient-starved tropical rainforest in Venezuela. Seed Science Research, 7, 269-280. click
- Coomes, D.A. & Grubb, P.J. (1996) Amazonian caatinga and related communities at La Esmeralda, Venezuela: Forest structure, physiognomy and floristics, and control by soil factors. Vegetatio, 122, 167-191. click
Reports
- Wiser, S., Allen, R., Peltzer, D., Benecke, U, Baker, G., & Coomes, D.A (2003) Growth and survival of residual trees after harvesting. Landcare Research Contract Report LC0203/125, prepared for Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry, New Zealand.
- Svavarsdóttir, K., Allen, R.B., Burrows, L., Coomes, D.A., Wiser, S., Smale M., & Benecke, U (1999) Silvacultural research in selected forest types: a podocarp-tawa forest in Taranaki. Landcare Research Contract Report LC9899/119, prepared for Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry, New Zealand.
- Allen, R, Burley, J., Coomes, D.A, Beets, P., Goulding, C. (1999) Data handling and database design: A national system for monitoring changes in carbon stored in indigenous forests and scrub: data models and linkages to software for South Island transect. Landcare Research Contract Report JNT9899/125, prepared for Ministry for the Environment, New Zealand.