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Technical Report

Shifting from land-use capability to land-use suitability

The LUS classification system will be based on concatenation of three categories: land-use potential, contribution to catchment contaminant delivery, and pressure in receiving environments (Fig.…
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Land-use suitability is not an intrinsic property of a land parcel

Land-use choices should not be determined by potential productivity alone but should also account for environmental constraints and for land use elsewhere in the landscape.…
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Efficacy of subsurface denitrification to attenuate nitrate in shallow groundwaters

Our preliminary results indicate occurrence of complete ‘benign' denitrification in the reducing shallow groundwater sites with lower dissolved oxygen (DO) contents (DO < 1mg L-1),…
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Project Summary: Strip-Till Establishment for High-Value Hybrid Seed Crops

This article summarises the results of a Rural Professionals Fund project that aimed to see if strip-till would be suitable to produce hybrid vegetable seed…
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A review of the policies and implementation of practices to decrease water quality impairment by phosphorus in NZ, the UK, and the US

We outline policy in New Zealand, the UK, and the US who have imposed limits for P. We contrast the strategies used and discuss their…
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Towards an improved understanding and management of uncertainty in science investigations of environment policy options

9th International Congress on Environmental Modelling and Software, 2018
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Continuous measures of confidence in direction of environmental trends at site and other spatial scales

Managers and decision-makers need to know if variables measured by environmental monitoring programs are increasing or decreasing, both at individual sites and at larger spatial…
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Agronomic performance of summer forage crops on a Waikato dry-stock farm

Forage crops options are required by dry-stock farmers to fill summer feed gaps. This trial compared a brassica monoculture with simple and hyper-diverse mixtures containing…
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