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Return of the Megaherbs

Posted onMarch 31, 2017March 31, 2017

Four years have passed since I first visited Macquarie Island and now the subantarctic island looks like a different place. The distinctive tussock grass is dotted across the coastal slopes in a scene reminiscent of the 1980s and 1990s when Read More …

CategoriesSubantarcticTagsMacquarie Island, megaherbs, rabbits, rephotography, Subantarctic

The last of Macquarie Island’s rabbits

Posted onNovember 8, 2016March 8, 2018

Five years ago this month, hunters on Macquarie Island killed six rabbits. The hunters had been patrolling the Subantarctic tundra for a little over three months in the search for feral rabbits. At the time nobody knew these were the Read More …

CategoriesSubantarcticTagsinvasive species, Macquarie Island, MIPEP, rabbits, Subantarctic

First glimpses of a post-feral future

Posted onDecember 16, 2015August 6, 2016

In April 2015 the short grasslands of Macquarie Island are at the end of their summer growing season. The plants are the tallest they have been for years, probably for many decades. There is virtually no bare ground visible as Read More …

CategoriesSubantarcticTagsfield work, Macquarie Island, rabbits, Subantarctic

Feral rabbits and the baseline problem

Posted onJuly 13, 2015August 6, 2016

Rabbits were already locally abundant on Macquarie Island by the time the first descriptions of the island’s vegetation were made by Scott (1880) and A. Hamilton (1884). Consequently there is no information to give us a baseline of the vegetation Read More …

CategoriesSubantarcticTagsMacquarie Island, rabbits, Subantarctic

Four years without bunnies

Posted onApril 22, 2015August 6, 2016

Walking is getting harder on Macquarie Island. Previously short-cropped grass only centimetres tall is now a knee-deep meadow of grass matted with mosses and herbs. This is one of the initial observations from last week’s field trip to the Subantarctic Read More …

CategoriesSubantarcticTagsfield work, Macquarie Island, rabbits, Subantarctic

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