Each year, Lincoln University's second year biological diversity class goes on a three-day "Biodiversity Coast to Coast." We travel to and from Lincoln, across the Canterbury Plains, across the Southern Alps via Arthur's Pass, and across the West Coast through Moana to Punakaiki. The tour takes us through a wide range of ...more ↓
Each year, Lincoln University's second year biological diversity class goes on a three-day "Biodiversity Coast to Coast." We travel to and from Lincoln, across the Canterbury Plains, across the Southern Alps via Arthur's Pass, and across the West Coast through Moana to Punakaiki. The tour takes us through a wide range of South Island habitats and environmental conditions.
We stop at a variety of sites, including McHugh's Plantation in Darfield, Lord's Bush and Kowai Bush near Springfield, the Broken River skifield entrance to Craigieburn Forest Park, Greyney's Shelter, Dobson Nature Trail, and Kelly's Creek, all in Arthur's Pass National Park, the Rakaitane walk at Lake Brunner, Deep Creek near Moana, Truman's Track and Nikau Scenic Reserve at Punakaiki.
The class, in groups, do five minute bird counts, freshwater invertebrate stream kick sampling, and 10 m by 10 m forest plots in which we look for all kinds of woody plants (adults and seedlings), ferns, herbaceous vascular plants, mushrooms, invertebrates > 5 mm long in the bushes, and invertebrates > 5 mm long on the ground.
In this group we bring together all of our observations from this trip.
Also check out our earlier project from our field trips prior to 2015, when we focused more on how woody plant leaf shapes changes across our rainfall and elevation gradients.
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Ecol202 Biodiversity Coast-to-Coast 2015 and later
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created this project on March 31, 2015
