It has been suggested that plants can change soil characteristics via their litter to favour their own species. The New Zealand kauri tree (Agathis australis) presents an interesting case for studying ...

Tree species can affect the soil they are growing on and this might influence their fitness. The New Zealand gymnosperm tree species kauri (Agathis australis (D. Don) Lindl.) which grows in mixed ...

MEASUREMENTS have been carried out of the carbon-13/carbon-12 ratio in a New Zealand kauri (Agathis australis) a thousand years old. This tree grew in the Omahutu Forest, in the north of New Zealand, ...

Scientists happened upon an apparently lifeless tree stump while hiking in West Auckland, New Zealand, only to discover it is actually alive. The once robust kauri tree (Agathis australis) shares a ...

A fungus from a group that ravages trees around the world is now infesting New Zealand's ancient, symbolic kauris. Waipoua Forest Trust One of the world's oldest and largest living trees stands just a ...

In a tiny area of an isolated archipelago in the southwest Pacific lives a unique tree species on the precipice of extinction. Recent research has shown it is declining dramatically, and mature ...

New Zealand’s largest and oldest living tree species, the kauri (Agathis australis), is threatened with extinction by an invasive pathogen, Phytophthora agathidicida. These conifers live for more than ...

Sebastian Leuzinger receives funding from The Royal Society. Martin Karl-Friedrich Bader does not work for, consult, own shares in or receive funding from any company or organization that would ...