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August 30, 2024
Our Land and Water has now ended.
Our mission was to preserve the most fundamental treasures of Aotearoa – its land and water – while producing value from those same treasures.
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Guidance
Six Criteria for Selecting Fit-for-Purpose Indicators
For OLW research, there are six criteria that are the most important for ensuring indicators are useful. Fit-for-purpose indicators are: accepted by stakeholders, valid, clearly…
Technical Report
A pathway to Multilateral Data Sharing: Understanding and overcoming barriers to MLDS in New Zealand’s primary industries
Drawing from lessons of past attempts at data sharing, international experiences, multilateral trade agreements, game theory, and considerations of Te Mana Raraunga Principles of Māori…
Presentation
Land-use effects on aquatic ecosystems – strengthening the evidence base
NZ Freshwater Sciences Conference, December 2018
Guidance
Towards a Physiographic Map: Information for Regional Councils
Physiographic Environments of New Zealand research is developing a cost-effective technique to measure and map (as an integrated physiographic layer) how features of the natural…
Summary
Extreme Weather a Critical Concern for Next Decade of Farming, Experts Say
One year after the widespread devastation caused by the catastrophic flooding of cyclone Gabrielle, a new report finds that primary sector experts are deeply concerned…
Journal Article
Dynamics of phosphorus exchange between sediment and water in a gravel-bed river
Phosphorus (P) stores in gravel-bed rivers are released for uptake by periphyton when pH levels exceed 8.5. The Tukituki River has low alkalinity water and…
Technical Report
Faecal source tracking to understand the role of introduced predators and avian species on water quality assessments in the Makiriri Reserve, Dannevirke
Escherichia coli are used as indicators of faecal contamination in water quality assessments, but ‘naturalised' non-faecal E. coli and non-pathogenic E. coli-like bacteria can confound…
Video
Wai 262 opportunities for National Science Challenges – webinar
Te Pae Kahurangi, the government’s 2020 CRI review, has signalled changes ahead. While the future of National Science Challenges is unclear, there is still much…
Summary
Assessing the Effectiveness of On-Farm Mitigation Actions
This research summary describes how effective on-farm mitigations have been so far, by comparing losses of nitrogen (N), phosphorus (P) and sediment in 1995 and…
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