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Delineating the interaction of Escherichia species with freshwater pathogens and land-use

A project to add value to Ministry for the Environment’s Freshwater Pathogen QMRA study found that low numbers of E. coli phylotype B1 and a…
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Integrated Impact Assessment Framework (updated March 2024)

The purpose of this integrated impact assessment (IIA) framework is to allow exploration of scenarios where land use is changing for a specified region of…
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Terrestrial macrofauna invertebrates as indicators of agricultural impacts

This report examines how invertebrates like spiders and worms can be counted to evaluate the impact of regenerative farming practices. Farms have vastly more insects,…
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Our Environment: Crop Suitability

Our Environment is a web-based tool that makes environmental information available to users. It has a simplified GIS interface to allow users to spatially explore…
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On the use of stressor-response relationships in the management of lake eutrophication

Since the 1960s, theoretical and empirical advances in limnology have offered lake managers different approaches to address lake eutrophication problems. The Vollenweider input–output model and…
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Project Summary: Bananas on Northland Dairy Farms

This article summarises the results of a Rural Professionals Fund project that aimed to investigate whether growing bananas on Northland dairy farms has the potential…
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Towards implementation of robust monitoring technologies alongside freshwater improvement policy in NZ

International studies point out that some freshwater policy objectives are not achieved. This study describes that this is in part caused by shortcomings that include:…
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Faecal source tracking and the identification of naturalised Escherichia coli to assist with establishing water quality and faecal contamination levels

E. coli are routinely measured as faecal indicator bacteria (FIB) to provide indications of microbial water quality in parallel with other physico-chemical parameters. Recent evidence…
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Adoption of the Tīmata Method for Restoring Native Bush

Over two million native forest plants have been sold and over 8600 hectares planted using the Tīmata Method for establishing ngahere (native bush). This article…
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