David Norton
Position
Associate Professor
Qualifications
B.Sc. (Hons)
Ph.D.
Room
Forestry 116
Contact Details
Phone: +64 3 364 2116
david.norton@canterbury.ac.nz
Postal Address
School of Forestry
College of Engineering
University of Canterbury
Private Bag 4800
Christchurch
New Zealand
Undergraduate Courses
- FORE 202/BIOL 270 Plant Ecology
- FORE 218 Forest Health and Dendrology
- FORE 444/BIO 379 Sustaining Biodiversity on Private Land
Graduate Courses
Research Interests
Conservation biology, especially fragmentation and restoration ecology, significance assessment and threatened plant conservation; forest ecology, especially forest pattern and dynamics.
Current research projects
- Integrating biodiversity conservation and production in agriculture and forestry.
- Integrating pastoral and biodiversity values in the South Island high country.
- Significance assessment in rural New Zealand
- Assessment of the affects of subsidence resulting from underground coal-mining on podocarp-beech forest.
- Mine-site restoration.
- Ecology, conservation and restoration of threatened plant species.
Further information on research
Major Research achievements during past five years
2001 - 2002 Biennial Research Report (.pdf, 281KB)
Recent Publications
Norton, D.A. 2000. Conservation biology and private land: shifting the focus. Conservation Biology 14: 1221-1223.
Yates, C.J., Norton, D.A. and Hobbs, R.J. 2000. Grazing effects on soil and microclimate in fragmented woodlands in south western Australia: implications for restoration. Austral Ecology 25: 36-47.
Norton, D.A. and 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.
Norton, D.A. 2000. Benefits of possum control for indigenous vegetation. In: T. Montague (ed). Possums in New Zealand: The Biology, Impact and Management of an Introduced Marsupial. Lincoln, Mannaki Whenua Press. 232-240.
Norton, D.A. 2000. Sand plain forest fragmentation and residential development, Invercargill City, New Zealand. In: J.L. Craig, N.D. Mitchell, and D.A. Saunders(eds). Nature Conservation 5: Nature Conservation in Production Environments: Managing the Matrix. Surrey Beatty and Sons, Chipping Norton, N.S.W. 157-165.
Saunders, A. and Norton, D.A. 2001. Ecological restoration at mainland islands in New Zealand. Biological Conservation 99: 109-119.
James, I.L. and 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.
Norton, D.A., Ladley, J.J. and Sparrow, A.D. 2002. Host provenance effects on germination and establishment of two New Zealand mistletoes (Loranthaceae). Functional Ecology 16: 657-663.
Norton, D.A. 2002. Sustainable forest management in New Zealand. In: A transition to forest sustainability. (eds. D. Lindenmayer and J. Franklin), CSIRO Publishing, Canberra. 167-188.
Norton, D.A. and de Lange, P.J. 2003. Fire and vegetation in a temperate peat bog: implications for threatened species management. Conservation Biology 17: 138-148.
Norton, D.A. and de Lange P.J. 2003. A new species of Coprosma (Rubiaceae) from the South Island, New Zealand. New Zealand Journal of Botany 41: 223-231.
Hobbs, R.J. and Norton, D.A. 2004. Ecological filters, thresholds and gradients in resistance to ecosystem reassembly. In: Assembly Rules and Ecosystem Restoration. (eds V. Temperton, R.J. Hobbs, R.J., Halle and M. Fattorini), Island Press, Washington D.C. - pp 72-95.
de Lange, P.J. and 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.
de Lange, P.J., Norton, D.A., Heenan, P.B., Courtney, S.P., Molloy, B.P.J., Ogle, C.C., Rance, B.D., Johnson, P.N. & Hitchmough, R. 2004. Threatened and uncommon plants of New Zealand . New Zealand Journal of Botany 42 : 45-76.
Norton, D.A. & Roper-Lindsay, J. 2004. Assessing significance for biodiversity conservation on private land in New Zealand . New Zealand Journal of Ecology 28 : 295-305.