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The takahē : fifty years of conservation management and research / edited by William G. Lee and Ian G. Jamieson.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublisher: Dunedin, N.Z. : University of Otago Press, 2001Description: 131 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : colour illustrations ; 23 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 1877276014
  • 9781877276019
Subject(s): Genre/Form: DDC classification:
  • 639.97850993
Contents:
Takahe: the bird that twice came back from the grave / Alison Ballance -- Notornis rediviva / Joan L. Watson -- Origins and prehistoric ecology of takahe based on morphometric, molecular, and fossil data / Steven A. Trewick and Trevor H. Worthy -- Fifty years of takahe conservation, research and management: what have we learnt? / William G. Lee -- Fiordland takahe: population trends, dynamics and problems / Jane M. Maxwell -- Captive rearing: a management tool for the recovery of the endangered takahe / Daryle K. Eason and Murray Willans -- Island takahe: closure of the debate over the merits of introducing Fiordland takahe to predator-free islands / Ian G. Jamieson and Christine J. Ryan -- Takahe: breaking ground in species recovery / John L. Craig.
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Item type Current library Call number Copy number Status Date due Barcode
Book City Campus City Campus Main Collection 639.97850993 TAK (Browse shelf(Opens below)) 1 Available A210987B
Book City Campus City Campus Main Collection 639.97850993 TAK (Browse shelf(Opens below)) 1 Available A212565B

"Dedicated to Dr Geoffrey Orbell and his party ... in rediscovering the takahe in 1948"--Frontispiece.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 123-131) and index.

Takahe: the bird that twice came back from the grave / Alison Ballance -- Notornis rediviva / Joan L. Watson -- Origins and prehistoric ecology of takahe based on morphometric, molecular, and fossil data / Steven A. Trewick and Trevor H. Worthy -- Fifty years of takahe conservation, research and management: what have we learnt? / William G. Lee -- Fiordland takahe: population trends, dynamics and problems / Jane M. Maxwell -- Captive rearing: a management tool for the recovery of the endangered takahe / Daryle K. Eason and Murray Willans -- Island takahe: closure of the debate over the merits of introducing Fiordland takahe to predator-free islands / Ian G. Jamieson and Christine J. Ryan -- Takahe: breaking ground in species recovery / John L. Craig.

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