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Monitoring to detect changes in water quality to meet policy objectives

Detecting change in water quality is key to providing evidence of progress towards meeting water quality objectives. A key measure for detecting change is statistical…
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Taking a look at the big picture

What are the relationships between soil quality and land value, land pressure on catchments, and water quality? Typically, soil quality monitoring has been used to…
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Guide to Vision Mātauranga

The Guide to Vision Mātauranga was developed by the Rauika Māngai, an assembly of senior Māori representatives from across the National Science Challenges, for for…
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Connecting communities for effective farm plans – webinar

Land use intensification and the degradation of water quality was enabled by a system that considered all farms separately, despite their cumulative effects on water…
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Handrails through the Swamp? A Pilot to Test the Integration and Implementation Science Framework in Complex Real-World Research

The socio-environmental challenges the world faces are ‘swamps': situations that are messy, complex, and uncertain. The aim of this paper is to help disciplinary scientists…
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Consumer Insights and Willingness to Pay for Attributes: Kiwifruit in Shanghai

To achieve greater value in global markets, New Zealand can increase its understanding of our international customers' demands for products from New Zealand's land and…
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Technical Report

Bananas on Northland dairy farms: An option for forage supply and effluent cycling?

This project investigated if growing bananas on Northland dairy farms has potential to increase the economic and environmental sustainability of the dairy enterprise, by: •…
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Impacts of sediment on banded kōkopu

This is one of a collection of 11 fact sheets bringing together existing scientific information on the impacts of sediment on freshwater and estuarine fish…
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The effect of irrigation and urine application on phosphorus losses to subsurface flow from a stony soil

Factors such as irrigation and soil pH can increase the solubility of P and its loss to water. Urine patches are known to alter pH…
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