Cullen et al. (2001): Disturbance and climate warming influences on New Zealand Nothofagus treeline population dynamics.

Cullen, L.E.; Stewart, G.H.; Duncan, R.P.; Palmer, J.G. 2001. Disturbance and climate warming influences on New Zealand Nothofagus treeline population dynamics. Journal of Ecology 89: 1061-1071.

This paper uses forest stand history reconstruction to infer the relative roles of climate warming and disturbance on the population dynamics of silver beech dominated treelines in north Westland. Tree recruitment over the last 300 years has been episodic in response to small, localized disturbances, while climate warming over the last 50 years has had no influence on recruitment. Any influence of climate warming may be masked by the overwhelming importance of disturbance in driving treeline population dynamics in these forests.