Dr David Norton
Selected publications
Norton, D. A. 2008. Biodiversity offsets: two New Zealand case studies and an assessment framework. Environmental Management [PDF]
Ledgard, N.J. & Norton, D.A. 2008. The impact of browsing on wilding conifers in the South Island high country. New Zealand Journal of Forestry 52(4): 29-34 [PDF].
Norton, D.A. 2007. Using biodiversity offsets to obtain “win-win’ outcomes for biodiversity conservation and economic production. New Zealand Journal of Forestry 52(3): 36-40 [PDF].
Norton D.A. 2008. Guidelines for preparing whole property management plans for high country farms. School of Forestry, University of Canterbury, Christchurch, New Zealand. [PDF]
Norton, D.A. & Didham, R.K. 2007. Comment on “Why are there so many species of herbivorous insects in tropical rainforests?” Science 315: 1666b. [PDF]
Norton, D.A., Espie, P.R., Murray, W. & Murray, J. 2006. Influence of pastoral management on plant biodiversity in a depleted short tussock grassland, Mackenzie Basin. New Zealand Journal of Ecology 30: 335-344. [PDF]
Hobbs. R.J. et al. 2006. Novel ecosystems: theoretical and management aspects of the new ecological world order. Global Ecology and Biogeography 15: 1-7. [PDF]
Didham, R.K., Watts, C.H. & Norton, D.A. 2005. Are systems with strong underlying abiotic regimes more likely to exhibit alternative stable states? Oikos 110: 409-416. [PDF]
Hobbs, R.J. & Norton, D.A. 2004. Ecological filters, thresholds and gradients in resistance to ecosystem reassembly. In: Assembly Rules and Restoration Ecology. (eds V.M. Temperton, R.J. Hobbs, T. Nuttle & S. Halle), Island Press, Washington D.C. 72-95. [PDF]
de Lange, P.J. & Norton, D.A. 2004. The ecology and conservation of Kunzea sinclairii (Myrtaceae), a naturally rare plant of rhyolitic rock outcrops. Biological Conservation 117: 49-59. [PDF]
Norton, D.A. & de Lange, P.J. 2003. Fire and vegetation in a temperate peat bog: implications for threatened species management. Conservation Biology 17: 138-148. [PDF]
Norton, D.A., Ladley, J.J. & Sparrow, A.D. 2002. Host provenance effects on germination and establishment of two New Zealand mistletoes (Loranthaceae). Functional Ecology 16: 657-663. [PDF]
James, I.L. & Norton, D.A. 2002. Helicopter based natural forest management for New Zealand’s rimu (Dacrydium cupressinum, Podocarpaceae) forests. Forest Ecology and Management 155: 337-346. [PDF]
Saunders, A. & Norton, D.A. 2001. Ecological restoration at mainland islands in New Zealand. Biological Conservation 99: 109-119. [PDF]
Norton, D.A. & Miller, C.J. 2000. Some issues and options for the conservation of native biodiversity in rural New Zealand. Ecological Management and Restoration 1: 29-37. [PDF]
Reay, S.D. & Norton, D.A. 1999. Assessing the success of restoration plantings in a temperate New Zealand Forest. Restoration Ecology 7: 298-308. [PDF]
Norton, D.A. & de Lange, P.J. 1999. Host specificity in parasitic mistletoes (Loranthaceae) in New Zealand. Functional Ecology 7: 551-559. [PDF]
Norton, D.A. & Carpenter, M.A. 1998. Mistletoes as parasites; host specificty and speciation. Trends in Ecology and Evolution 13: 101-105. [PDF]
Norton, D.A. & Reid, N. 1997. Conservation and management of threatened and pest loranthaceous mistletoes in Australasia: lessons for ecosystem management. Conservation Biology 11: 759-769. [PDF]
Hobbs, R.J. & Norton, D.A. 1996. Towards a conceptual framework for restoration ecology. Restoration Ecology 4: 93-110. [PDF]
Norton, D.A., Hobbs, R.J. & Atkins, L. 1995. Fragmentation, disturbance and plant distribution: mistletoes in woodland remnants in the Western Australian wheatbelt. Conservation Biology 9: 426-438. [PDF]
Lord, J.M. & Norton, D.A. 1990. Scale and the spatial concept of fragmentation. Conservation Biology 4: 197-202. [PDF]
Norton, D.A., Briffa, K.R. & Salinger, M.J. 1989. Reconstruction of New Zealand summer temperature back to 1730 A.D. using dendroclimatic techniques. International Journal of Climatology 9: 633-644. [PDF]
Norton, D.A. & Kelly, D. 1988. Mast seeding over 33 years by Dacrydium cupressinum (Podocarpaceae) in New Zealand: The importance of economies of scale. Functional Ecology 2: 399-408. [PDF]
Norton, D.A. & Schönenberger, W. 1984. The growth forms and ecology of Nothofagus solandri at the alpine timberline, Craigieburn Range, New Zealand. Arctic and Alpine Research 16: 361-370. [PDF]