Sir Alan Mark, Emeritus
Professor
Botany
Otago University
New Zealand
Biography
Sir Alan Mark, Emeritus Professor of Otago university Deartment of Botany.
Research Interest
Ecology, conservation and environmental management of indigenous vegetation, especially of tussock grassland, forest, lakeshore, wetland and alpine ecosystems. The conservation status of New Zealand's indigenous grasslands. History of the development and use of our tussock grasslands.
Publications
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Mark, A. F., Molau, U., Whigham, P., Little, L., & Nielsen, J. (2016). Periglacial tarn on the Rock and Pillar Range crest, south-central South Island, New Zealand, and its surrounding snowbank community. Austral Ecology, 41(3), 282-290. doi: 10.1111/aec.12310
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Dickinson, K. J. M., Barratt, B. I. P., Lord, J. M., & Mark, A. F. (2017). Does unpredictability in alpine climatic conditions favour biotic fitness in a changing world? Proceedings of the Ecological Society of America (ESA) 102nd Annual Meeting. OOS 26-3. Washington, DC: Ecological Society of America. Retrieved from http://www.esa.org/portland/
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Lord, J. M., Mark, A. F., Humar-Maegli, T., Halloy, S. R. P., Bannister, P., Knight, A., & Dickinson, K. J. M. (2017). Slow community responses but rapid species responses 14 years after alpine turf transplantation among snow cover zones, south–central New Zealand. Perspectives in Plant Ecology, Evolution & Systematics. Advance online publication. doi: 10.1016/j.ppees.2017.07.004
