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Technical Report

Measuring real time nitrate leaching from a tile drained Hawkes Bay onion field: Final report

The data showed a strong linear relationship between the N concentration measured by the sensor and in the grab sample (sensor N concentration = 1.09…
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Resilience indicators for rural New Zealand towns: Statistical analysis

The AgResearch Resilient Rural Communities (RRC) programme engaged PwC to conduct analysis of official statistics for rural areas of New Zealand. The analysis extended earlier…
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Comparing generational preferences for individual components of sustainability schemes in the Californian wine market

Millennials are the largest demographic segment in the USA and have gained market share of high-frequency wine drinkers while Baby Boomers and Gen-X generations share…
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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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CLUES model calibration: residual analysis to investigate potential sources of model error

This paper presents the results of the latest calibrations of the CLUES model for each of total nitrogen, total phosphorus and Escherichia coli. CLUES has…
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Physiographics in the Waituna catchment

The Physiographic Environments of New Zealand research project, part of the Our Land and Water National Science Challenge, describes how the physiographics approach has been…
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Supercharge your data collection when participating in community-based monitoring of freshwater environments

A brochure for rural community and catchment groups, explaining how the data they collect can help detect changes in freshwater quality – but only if…
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Physiographic Environment Classification: a Controlling Factor Classification of Landscape Susceptibility to Waterborne Contaminant Loss

Spatial variation in the landscape factors climate, geomorphology, and lithology cause significant differences in water quality issues even when land use pressures are similar. The…
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Guidelines for the use of Pohewa Pae Tawhiti to support decisions around changes in land use

Pohewa Pae Tawhiti (PPT) (Visualising Horizons) combines whakaarotau and pohewa (priorities and visions) with biophysical data (current and modelled future) to enable potential options for…
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