Private Bag 1930

• Main Authors: P N. Johnson, Manaaki Whenua
• Other Authors: The Pennsylvania State University CiteSeerX Archives
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Subjects: Manorburn Ecological District; Otago; tussock; vegetation; flora; threatened plants; 1. Summary; Greenland
• Online Access: http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.226.2673; http://www.doc.govt.nz/upload/documents/science-and-technical/casn135.pdf

altitude in the upper Manor Burn catchment, inland Otago, contains tussock grassland and wetland vegetation types in good condition and representative of upland parts of the Manorburn Ecological District. 1.2 Compared with the Greenland RAP (Recommended Area for Protection) which adjoins down valley, the Manorburn Conservation Area has a lesser representation of rock outcrop, heath pavement, and scrub veg etation, a comparable presence of sunny scarp turf and of dense wetland red tussock, and a greater area of moss and sedge wetlands. Whereas Greenland RAP has predominant tussock grassland of red and hard tussock, Manorburn Conservation Area is at a sufficiently higher altitude for the main grasslands to be a mixture of narrow-leaved snow tussock with red tussock and hybrids. 1.3 The Manorburn Conservation Area does not contain the full diversity of vegetation types present in the Greenland RAP, nor does it alone represent the altitudinal sequence of tussock grassland and wetland types that are present in the two areas combined. It is a valuable adjunct to the Greenland RAP, rather than an optional area for biological and landscape conservation. 2.