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The Catchment Group Toolkit
Build your Catchment Group Toolkit with resources from Our Land and Water and NZ Landcare Trust. Below you will find links to practical tools and…
Journal Article
Seventy years of data from the world's longest grazed and irrigated pasture trials
Pastures are the most widespread land use, globally. The Winchmore trials were established in 1948–1949 in Canterbury, New Zealand and examined either different rates of…
Technical Report
eDNA as a holistic measure of pastoral landscape effects on taonga species
Freshwater quality is measured with key indicators such as faecal indicator bacteria (E. coli), nitrates and phosphates. For communities, such indicators are vague and somewhat…
Journal Article
Nitrogen loads to New Zealand aquatic receiving environments: Comparison with regulatory criteria
There is concern about the deteriorating nutrient status of aquatic receiving environments in New Zealand. We estimated the amount by which current nitrogen (N) concentrations…
Model
Impacts of grazing on ground cover, soil physical properties and soil loss via surface erosion: A novel geospatial modelling approach
Agricultural expansion and overgrazing are globally recognized as key contributors to accelerated soil degradation and surface erosion, with direct consequences for land productivity, and environmental…
Presentation
Can the Integration and Implementation Science framework support better research for land and water policy?
New Zealand Freshwater Sciences Society Conference, December 2019
Technical Report
Farm Certification Scheme Survey, 2022
This survey followed up a baseline survey to measure KPIs for the OLW Challenge – specifically, measuring participation in farm certification schemes. The data tables…
Journal Article
Challenges and opportunities for land use transformation: Insights from the Central Plains Water Scheme in NZ
This paper considers the factors that are important to land managers in determining whether to change their land use system when the development of an…
Video
Science for Policy – The Regulatory Process
This webinar describes the results of an in-depth study into the role that science played in the development of the National Policy Statement for Freshwater…
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