Review Article: Potential geomorphic consequences of a future great (<i>M</i>_w = 8.0+) Alpine Fault earthquake, South Island, New Zealand by T. R. Robinson, T. R. H. Davies

“…The Alpine Fault in New Zealand's South Island has not sustained a large magnitude earthquake since ca. …”
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Cladistic assessment of subtribal affinities within the tribe Moriomorphini with description of Rossjoycea glacialis, gen. n. and sp. n. from the South Island, and revision of Meonochilus Liebherr and Marris from the North Island, New Zealand (Coleoptera, Carabidae) by James Liebherr

“…Representatives of all New Zealand moriomorphine genera are included in the analysis, with cladistic results necessitating description of Rossjoycea glacialis, gen. n. and sp. n., known from a single locality near the Franz Josef Glacier, Westland, South Island, New Zealand. Monophyly of Meonochilus Liebherr and Marris, 2009 is demonstrated, and its six species are taxonomically revised: M. amplipennis (Broun), M. eplicatus (Broun), M. placens (Broun), M. bellorum, sp. n., M. rectus, sp. n., and M. spiculatus, sp. n. …”
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Further use of molecular data in studying biogeographic patterns within the centipede genus Craterostigmus: the case for a monophyletic New Zealand species by Gonzalo Giribet, Alejandra Guzmán Cuéllar, Gregory D. Edgecombe

“…Herein, previously missing 16S rRNA sequences for the Lewis Pass samples are added to the four-gene sample, together with newly collected specimens from South Island and Stewart Island. The more complete dataset retrieves both C. crabilli and C. tasmanianus as monophyletic, and the four-gene analysis dataset shows that Stewart Island and North Island populations fall outside a clade that unites most South Island samples. …”
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EARTHQUAKE OF 21 FEBRUARY 2011 IN NEW ZEALAND Generation of Glacial Tsunami by George Pararas-Carayannis

“…The present study assesses the tectonic stresses and seismicity of the Marlborough fault system along the northern part of South Island, and briefly evaluates the potential of future tsunami generation from earthquakes that may be generated near New Zealand’s Hikurangi Trough, that may also impact the coasts of South Island as well as the coastlines near the City of Wellington on North Island.…”
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Deep Fault Drilling Project—Alpine Fault, New Zealand by Rupert Sutherland, John Townend, Virginia Toy

“…The Alpine Fault, South Island, New Zealand, constitutes a globally significant natural laboratory for research into how active plate-bounding continental faults work and, in particular, how rocks exposed at the surface today relate to deep-seated processes of tectonic deformation, seismogenesis, and mineralization. …”
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Tectonic classification of vertical crustal motions – a case study for New Zealand by Robert TENZER, Ali FADIL

“…The detected rates of subsidence in the eastern South Island are typically less than 1 mm/yr. The subsidence in the Buller Region (in the northwest South Island) is 1.4–1.5 mm/yr. …”
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Age frequency distribution and revised stable isotope curves for New Zealand speleothems: palaeoclimatic implications by Williams Paul W., Neil Helen L., Zhao Jian-Xin

“…Revising and extending earlier work, composite records are produced for central-west North Island (CWNI) and north-west South Island (NWSI). Both demonstrate that over the last 15 ka the regions responded similarly to global climatic events, but that the North Island site was also influenced by the waxing and waning of regional subtropical marine influences that penetrated from the north but did not reach the higher latitudes of the South Island. …”
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A population genomics analysis of the Aotearoa New Zealand endemic rewarewa tree (Knightia excelsa) by Ann M. McCartney, Emily Koot, Jessica M. Prebble, Rubina Jibran, Caroline Mitchell, Ana Podolyan, Alexander J. Fergus, Elise Arnst, Katie E. Herron, Gary Houliston, Thomas R. Buckley, David Chagné

“…Four genetic clusters located in the northern North Island (NNI), eastern North Island (NIE), western and southern North Island (NIWS), and the South Island (SI) were identified. Gene flow was revealed between the SI and NIE genetic clusters, plus bottleneck and contraction events within the genetic clusters since the mid-late Pleistocene, with divergence between North and South Island clusters estimated to have occurred ~115,000–230,000 years ago. …”
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Staying close to home: Marine habitat selection by foraging yellow-eyed penguins using spatial distribution models by Rachel P. Hickcox, Thomas Mattern, Thomas Mattern, Mariano Rodríguez-Recio, Melanie J. Young, Yolanda van Heezik, Philip J. Seddon

“…Endangered yellow-eyed penguins (Megadyptes antipodes) are central-place, benthic-diving foragers that search for prey in the productive marine areas off the coast of the South Island, New Zealand. Like other seabirds, they target specific, reliable areas of high prey abundance, which are often associated with oceanographic characteristics such as bathymetry, seafloor sediment type, and sea surface temperature. …”
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Disrupting the regional housing market: Airbnb in New Zealand by Malcolm Campbell, Hamish McNair, Michael Mackay, Harvey C Perkins

“…The ‘traditional’ tourism hotspots, mainly in the South Island of New Zealand, for example, Wanaka or Queenstown (Queenstown Hill, Lake Hayes South, Sunshine Bay), and the largest city, Auckland (Central West, East, Habourside and Waiheke Island), are shown. …”
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Ancient DNA analyses reveal contrasting phylogeographic patterns amongst kiwi (Apteryx spp.) and a recently extinct lineage of spotted kiwi. by Lara D Shepherd, Trevor H Worthy, Alan J D Tennyson, R Paul Scofield, Kristina M Ramstad, David M Lambert

“…Overall, little spotted kiwi exhibited much lower levels of genetic diversity and structuring than brown kiwi, particularly through the South Island. Our results also indicate that little spotted kiwi (or at least hybrids involving this species) survived on the South Island mainland until more recently than previously thought.…”
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Segmental arterial mediolysis after fenestrated endovascular abdominal aortic aneurysm repair—A rare complication by Eric T.A. Lim, MB, ChB, Andrew Gilkison, FRANZCR, Hannah Elstub, FRCPA, Frances Colgan, FRCR, Timothy Buckenham, FRANZCR, Adib Khanafer, FRCS, FRACS

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Unconformities and Gold in New Zealand: Potential Analogues for the Archean Witwatersrand of South Africa by Dave Craw, Neil Phillips, Julian Vearncombe

“…The hosting young sedimentary basins of the South Island rest on thin or thick crust on inboard and outboard foreland settings, with variable alluvial gold budgets. …”
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Ambient tectonic tremors in Manawatu, Cape Turnagain, Marlborough, and Puysegur, New Zealand by Pierre Romanet, Satoshi Ide

“…Abstract Tectonic tremors have been detected in New Zealand, including the Gisborne and Manawatu regions in the North Island and along the Alpine Fault in the South Island. Here we report a regional analysis of tremor activity in New Zealand and present a potential relationship between slow and ordinary earthquakes. …”
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Optimal Fleet Policy of Rental Vehicles with Relocation: A Simulation Study by John-Carlo Favier, Subhamoy Ganguly, Timofey Shalpegin

“…At the same time, the single-fleet model is relatively more profitable at the expense of a lower service level in key centres due to vehicles accumulating in the South Island due to a significant volume of one-way southbound travel. …”
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Effectiveness of area-based management in reducing bycatch of the New Zealand dolphin by E Slooten

“…A long-term study in the Banks Peninsula Marine Mammal Sanctuary (South Island east coast) shows a significant increase in survival rates (by 5.4%) and indicates that the previously rapid population decline has slowed substantially. …”
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Notes on the distribution, ecology, and life history of Maotoweta virescens (Orthoptera, Rhaphidophoridae, Macropathinae) and a comparison of two survey methods by James M. H. Tweed, Michael Wakelin, Bruce McKinlay, Tara J. Murray

“…M. virescens has now been recorded from indigenous forest sites throughout the length of the western South Island, where it can occur in relatively high abundance. …”
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Nonorographic inertia‐gravity waves over New Zealand's Southern Alps: A case study by Yang Yang, Trevor Carey‐Smith, Stuart Moore, Mike Revell, Michael Uddstrom

“…Inertia‐gravity waves (IGWs) were found over the South Island from the upper troposphere to the lower stratosphere. …”
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Complex species status for extinct moa (Aves: Dinornithiformes) from the genus Euryapteryx. by Leon Huynen, David M Lambert

“…COI divergences between Euryapteryx individuals from the south of New Zealand's South Island and those from the Far North of the North Island exceed 1.6% and are likely to represent separate species. …”
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Life history traits vary between geographically distinct populations in a protogynous hermaphrodite by Stina Kolodzey, Stephen R. Wing

“…We analyzed the population structure, at which males dominate the populations, and modeled fecundity of blue cod from the Marlborough Sounds in the north of New Zealand's South Island, and compared these results with previously collected data from a blue cod population in Fiordland on the southwest coast of the South Island. …”
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