Story: Ecoregions

More links and websites

• Environments of New Zealand

  A list of ecoregion classifications, with maps.

• Land Environments of New Zealand (LENZ)

  This classification system divides the New Zealand mainland into 20 different ecoregions. It groups similar environments which tend to support similar groups of plants and animals.

More suggestions and sources

• Kuschel, G., ed. Biogeography and ecology in New Zealand. The Hague: Junk, 1975.
• Leathwick, J., and others. Land environments of New Zealand. Auckland: David Bateman, 2003.
• Molloy, Les. The living mantle: soils in the New Zealand landscape. 2nd ed. Lincoln: New Zealand Society of Soil Science, 1998.
• Simpson, Philip, ed. Ecological regions and districts of New Zealand: a natural subdivision. Wellington: Biological Resources Centre, 1982.
• Soons, J. M., and M. J. Selby, eds. Landforms of New Zealand. 2nd ed. Auckland: Longman Paul, 1992.
• Worthy, Trevor H., and Richard N. Holdaway. The lost world of the moa: prehistoric life of New Zealand. Christchurch: Canterbury University Press, 2002.