Dr David Norton

Current students

PhD students

Alwyn Williams: Restoration of woody ecosystems in hill and high country farming ecosystems
Ehsan Razavy Toosi: Biodegradation of water extractable organic matter (WEOM), its related properties and temporal variability in different landuses
Etienne Laliberté: Agricultural intensification, biodiversity, ecosystem functioning, and resilience in grazing systems: a case study of the New Zealand high country
Frisco Nobilly: Development of growth models for mixed species beech forests, South Island, New Zealand.

Masters students

Marcus Bloor: Open space covenats and the conservation of indigenous biodiversity in hill and high country farming systems
Martin Korndoerfer: Interaction between cattle herders and natural forests in Nigeria

Honours students

Past students

PhD students

Steve Pawson: Effects of landscape heterogeneity and clearfell harvest size on beetle (Coleoptera) biodiversity in plantation forests (completed 2006)
Robin Mitchell: A comparison of three natural succession chronosequence case studies from the South Island, New Zealand to select predictable indices for evaluating restoration success (completed 2005)
Erik van Eyndhoven: Resource selection by the Brushtail Possum (Trichosurus vulpecular) in a mixed red – silver beech (Nothofagus fusca – N. menziesii) forests, north Westland, New Zealand: a multi-scale, GIS-based approach (completed 2004).
Ingrid Gruner: Comparative ecology and conservation of rare native broom, Carmichaelia (Fabaceae), South Island, New Zealand (completed 2003)
Craig Miller: Conservation ecology of riparian forest within the agricultural landscape: West Coast, New Zealand (completed 2002).
Nishantha Jinadasa: Seed characteristics and resource requirements of broom (Cytisus scoparius), elder (Sambucus nigra) and mahoe (Melicytus ramiflorus) in the context of a secondary succession (completed 2000).
Rachel Ebbett: The ecology of lowland totara in South Island, New Zealand: distribution, regeneration and future survival in a fragmented landscape (completed 1998).
Howard Rogers: Variation in the effects of disturbance along a soil drainage gradient for a lowland temperate rainforest, South Westland (completed 1995).
Sean Weaver: A postmodern approach to ecological sustainability: the re-enchantment of Fiji’s forests (completed 1995).
Richard Duncan: Disturbance, succession and the co-existence of species n a lowland Podocarp forest, South Westland, New Zealand (completed 1991).

Masters students

Arison Arihafa: Past and present vegetation patterns of the Tiromoana Bush restoration area (completed 2008)
Yvette Dickinson: Spatial patterning of Hieracium invaded short tussock grassland communities (completed 2008)
Carolyn Wood: An assessment of trampling impact on alpine vegetation, Fiordland and Aspiring National Parks, New Zealand (completed 2007)
Jeremy Mansell: Draft management plan for Cashmere Forest, Port Hills, Canterbury (completed 2007)
Andi Werntze: Modelling the effects of different harvesting scenarios on biodiversity and economic values in New Zealand plantation forests (completed 2004)
Nerida Theinhardt: Plant restoration at an open cast coal mine, West Coast – New Zealand (completed 2004).
Hilary Phipps: Assessing the success of restoration plantings at Cape Foulwind (completed 2004).
Brendon Christensen: Validity of biodiversity monitoring programmes: Boundary Stream Mainland Project, Dept of Conservation (completed 2004).
Amy Leighton: An investigation of the issues surrounding biodiversity conservation on private land: a Banks Peninsula case study (completed 2003).
Eykolina de Zwart: Possum resource selecton in a fragmented landscape, Cass, New Zealand (completed 2003).
Sina Hustedt: Hebe armstrongii (Scrophulariaceae), Canterbury, New Zealand (completed 2002).
Sarah McElrea: Effects of exotic plantation forest management on indigenous biodiversity values, Canterbury Foothills, New Zealand (completed 2002).
Stephanie Enright: The impact of plantation forestry management on the vegetation of embedded indigenous remnants: a study of Carter Holt Harvey, Kinleith Forest, Central North Island, New Zealand (completed 2002).
Rune Bratlie: Edge Management in a South-Boreal Norwegian Conifer Forest (completed 2000)
Richard Earl: The effects of fragmented landscapes on bird communities in the Canterbury foothills (completed 2000).
Liza Lopez: Are there positive effects of possums (Trichosurus vulpecula) in an ecological restoration area at Hoon Hay Valley, Canterbury, New Zealand? (completed 1998).
Martyn O’Cain: The role of possums in forest regeneration, Hoon Hay Valley, Port Hills, Canterbury, New Zealand (completed 1997).
Roger Dungan: Spatial coupling of plant recruitment processes: vegetation change and the regeneration ecology of Hoon Hay Valley, Port Hills, Canterbury, New Zealand (completed 1997).
Ray Genet: The development of a concept plan for the ecological restoration of Quail Island (Otamahua) (completed 1997)
Geoff Keey: A test of whether Tilman’s resource ratio hypothesis predicts the vegetation dynamics of forest systems on the West Coast of the South Island (completed 1996).
Chris Rickard: Introduced small mammals and invertebrate conservation in lowland podocarp forest, South Westland, New Zealand (completed 1996).
Stephen Reay: The success of three restoration plantings at Kennedy’s Bush, Port Hills, Canterbury, New Zealand (completed 1996).
Mike Ogle: Factors affecting the early growth and survival of indigenous seedlings planted for the purpose of ecological restoration (completed 1996).
Antonius Tri Priantoro: An ecological study of the endemic prostrate broom (Carmichaelia apprerssa Simpson) at Kaitorete Spit, Canterbury, New Zealand (completed 1995).
Didik Widyatmoko: The ecology and conservation of New Zealand’s cypress whipcord, Hebe cupressoides (Hook f.) Cockayne et Allan (Scrophulariaceae) (completed 1994).
Kristen Nash: High Country Conservation (MForSc Report) (completed 1993).
Hamish Owen: Mistletoe and the brushtailed possum in silver beech forest, South Westland, New Zealand (completed 1993).
Mojo Mathers: Species diversity and stand development within a lowland terrace rimu forest, south Westland, New Zealand (completed 1992).
Evelyn Bigcas: The adaptive geometry of tree saplings in lowland Saltwater State Forest, south Westland (completed 1992).
Janet Awimbo: Rapid landscape assessment of representativeness for wildlife conservation, Hokitika Ecological District, New Zealand (completed 1992).
Boyd Cornere: Population dynamics of a lowland terrace rimu forest, south Westland, New Zealand (completed 1992).
Fiona Lilley: Ecology and conservation management of Chionochloa rigida on Banks Peninsula, New Zealand (completed 1990)
Dale McDonald: Seedling/sapling light environments in different regeneration stages of a lowland podocarp forest, south Westland, New Zealand (completed 1989)