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Adventures of a plant nerd south of Australia

Tag: rephotography

Return of the Megaherbs

Posted onMarch 31, 2017March 31, 2017Leave a comment

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

Pictures of landscapes past, part 2

Posted onJuly 14, 2016August 11, 20161 Comment

(Continued from Part 1). The kind of things plant ecologists often measure in the field – the height and percentage foliage cover of different plants, species lists – are difficult to obtain from looking at a photograph of the landscape Read More …

CategoriesSubantarcticTagsMacquarie Island, rephotography, Subantarctic

Pictures of landscapes past, part 1

Posted onJune 10, 2016August 24, 20161 Comment

Repeat photography, or rephotography, is an established method for studying landscape change. A big advantage of this technique is that it can provide a record going back decades wherever there is old photographs of scenes which can be relocated. Another Read More …

CategoriesSubantarcticTagsMacquarie Island, rephotography, Subantarctic

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