Thread: Scholarly articles about tahr, deer, mow and sheep grazing

Here are a few I have found

Tahr grazing

Short article
https://www.landcareresearch.co.nz/p...e-kino?a=86756

Full research article
https://dcon01mstr0c21wprod.azureweb...thern-alps.pdf

Moa vs deer grazing
https://www.researchgate.net/profile...0b57358d7e.pdf

Thesis on Tahr grazing
http://researcharchive.lincoln.ac.nz...pdf?sequence=5

Sheep grazing in NZ alpine environments
https://ir.canterbury.ac.nz/handle/10092/13588

Some more

tasmania risk assessment of thar, has good list of references at end
https://dpipwe.tas.gov.au/Documents/...Assessment.pdf

Researhgate link - need to download full pdf version
https://www.researchgate.net/publica...0fa9a/download

diet of tahr, chamois possums
https://newzealandecology.org/nzje/2845.pdf

case for multi-species managment of pests
https://newzealandecology.org/system...col24_1_97.pdf

Thanks for your efforts in finding these Stug. I'll work my way through them before coming to my own conclusion.

Interesting reading, painful but interesting.

Worth noting that the moa comparison is being made between low estimate moa numbers and the peak density numbers of deer. Personally I feel this is Dis engenuous. They have peak numbers of deer set at 50 animals per km2. There isn't anywhere you will find densities even close to this in nz outside of deer farms

Skim read through these thanks @stug my take on the Lincoln one is decreasing Tahr numbers allows Chamois to breed more and fill the gap left from culling the Tahr. They pretty much said this so then I guess the minister of destruction will want to go after Chamois next.

Originally Posted by Happy Jack

Skim read through these thanks @stug my take on the Lincoln one is decreasing Tahr numbers allows Chamois to breed more and fill the gap left from culling the Tahr. They pretty much said this so then I guess the minister of destruction will want to go after Chamois next.

Followed by deer, trout etc etc

The Landcare research paper included surveys and resurveys in 2004 and 2014 but due to incosistencies in methods they are unable to conclude the tahr densities where tussock is not negatively seriously affected.