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Primary Industry Trade at Risk Unless Assurance is Tightened

Two recently published reports look at the gap between Aotearoa’s assurance schemes for the primary sector and our trade potential. A new report, EU Green Deal:…
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Estimation of nutrient loads from monthly water quality data

Causes of variation between loads estimated using alternative calculation methods and their repeatability were investigated using 20 years of daily flow and monthly concentration samples…
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Quantifying Actual Denitrification in Groundwater Systems

This poster provides a one-page summary of research to quantify actual denitrification in groundwater systems. Measurement of neon, argon and N2(g) identifies: 1. Excess N2(g)…
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The Power of the Current Monitoring Network to Detect Nitrate Reductions in the Selwyn-Waihora Zone

Plan Change 1 (PC1) of the Canterbury Land andWater Regional Plan included requirements for farmers in the Selwyn-Waihora catchment to reduce nitrate discharges to groundwater…
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Dissolved gases as indicator of denitrification in shallow groundwaters in agricultural landscape

NZ Soil Science Society Conference, December 2018
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A Global Database of Soil Plant Available Phosphorus

Soil phosphorus drives food production that is needed to feed a growing global population. However, knowledge of plant available phosphorus stocks at a global scale…
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Phosphorus and iron-oxide transport from a hydrologically isolated grassland hillslope

Losses of N, P and Fe in drainage responded differently to waterlogging. Moderate nitrate concentration prevented Fe–P dissolution and loss in drainage. Low nitrate concentrations…
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Reductive dissolution of phosphorus associated with iron oxides during saturation in an agricultural soil profile

In soils with a fragipan or poor permeability, water may remain in a soil profile long enough to make it anoxic and reductive. The reductive…
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