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Temperature and Nitrogen Effects on Phosphorus Uptake by Agricultural Stream-Bed Sediments

Climate change will likely increase the growing season, temperatures, and ratio of nitrogen (N) to phosphorus (P) loss from land to water. However, it is…
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Guidance

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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Quantifying contaminant losses to water from pastoral land uses in NZ I: Development of a spatial framework for assessing losses at a farm scale

Assessing the effectiveness of mitigation measures for reducing contaminant losses to water from pastoral farming systems is a challenging task. Two important factors that contribute…
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Taieri Land Use Diversification Opportunities

This website shares a variety of resources produced by a project working with farmers in the Upper Taieri Wai catchment group (Ranfurly, Central Otago) to…
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Lower Cost Native Restoration of Farmland: Tīmata Method Fact Sheet

This six-page fact sheet on the Tīmata Method has been developed for New Zealand land owners. The Tīmata Method, which in Māori translates to begin,…
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Monitoring macroinvertebrates in rivers

Macroinvertebrates are animals that lack a backbone and, while small, are large enough to be seen with the naked eye. The freshwater environments they inhabit…
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Capturing premiums for authentic Māori agrifood products: Consumer willingness to pay and authentication processes

This report examines the types of premiums that Māori agrifood producers can get for their products through indigenous branding and environmental credentials generated by the…
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What You Can Do In Your Catchment

A catchment, or whaitua, is an area of land where rain flows into a common river, lake or other body of water. A healthy water…
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