Abstract:
A considerable amount of unpublished material exists for intertidal and shallow subtidal rocky reefs in NE New Zealand. Much of the information is from unpublished theses. This review summarises this material and discusses it in the light of published accounts from the NE coast (especially the areas around Leigh, Northland), and studies from elsewhere within and outside New Zealand. While some reasonably well-supported models for subtidal grazers can now be formulated, the intertidal material is still too diffuse to allow meaningful models to be proposed. -