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The primary classification of the forest communities into subtropical and subantarctic rain forest, suggested by me [1], at first thought seems sound enough. But there are wide areas covered by mixed forest where podocarps, the usual broad-leaved dicotylous trees and Nothofagus are present in abundance, and where the forest interior is almost, if not quite, as hygrophytic as that of subtropical rain forest. It also seems easy to separate the forests on altitudinal lines, but here again a difficulty arises, for certain North Island high-mountain forests, extending from 900 m. to 1200 m. altitude, are but little different from some of those of the lowland Fiord district.
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Cockayne, L. (1971). The Subtropical and Subantarctic Rain Forests of New Zealand. In: Eyre, S.R. (eds) World Vegetation Types. The Geographical Readings series. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-15440-1_8
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