New Zealand island restoration: seabirds, predators, and the importance of history
New Zealand’s offshore and outlying islands have long been a focus of conservation biology as sites
New Zealand’s offshore and outlying islands have long been a focus of conservation biology as sites
Bone-seed, Chrysanthemoides monilifera ssp. monilifera (L.), is an environmental weed of coastal vegetation communities scattered throughout New Zealand. To assess the long-term implications for native forest regeneration in sites where bone-seed is present, we selected four study sites around Wellington, New Zealand, where bone-seed was abundant. We compared seed bank composition in bone-seed-invaded sites with nearby native forest patches, and monitored bone-seed and native seedling recruitment with and without control of mature bone-seed plants.