Gumlands are shrub-covered, flat to rolling land in northern New Zealand, which have deposits of kauri gum. Most remaining ones are centr...
These are small, nutrient-enriched, vegetated, moist depressions between shore dunes or in a sandbank, especially those which periodicall...
Tarns are small mountain and high country lakes. They form mainly in association with glacial features such as cirque basins and kettleho...
String mires are formed from distinctive string-pool and island patterning of mostly upland wetlands. They have slightly elevated ridges ...
Snow bank communities occur in the alpine zone in situations where snow lies for up to seven months of the year. They are saturated well ...
Pakihi are a type of wet heath, characterised by very infertile soils with an impervious horizon and little or no peat. In South Westland...
Seepages and flushes form where groundwater emerges on hillsides to form soils that are mostly permanently saturated with relatively nutr...
Lakes have been arbitrarily defined as bodies of fresh water having a major dimension of 0.5 km or more (Irwin 1975), but many smaller bo...
In the broadest sense, a lagoon is a shallow lake that is intermittently connected with a river, a deeper lake, or the sea. In New Zealan...
Estuaries are where fresh water from rivers mixes with salt water. They are formed where the underlying or adjacent topography constrains...
Ephemeral wetlands are formed in closed depressions lacking a surface outlet and are wet only seasonally or in wet years. The water sourc...
Damp sand plains are flat areas where wind has removed sand down to a level where the water is permanently just below the surface or occa...
Cushion bogs primarily occur in mountainous, typically alpine, situations. Wetlands with cushion-forming angiosperms appear unique to the...
Domed bogs ([Sporadanthus]) are raised bogs dominated by [Sporadanthus ferrugineus] or [S. traversii], members of the family Restionaceae...
Blanket mires are peatlands (i.e. bogs and fens) that extensively cover the crests, slopes, flats, and hollows of an undulating landform,...