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Caroline Beamish meets a braided river specialist, and Wahine Toa, on a mission to let our rivers flow.
Making community-based freshwater monitoring data count
Electronic field form templates have been developed to support community-based monitoring (CBM) groups to capture stream health observations and measurements in an efficient and standardised way.
The principles of effective riparian buffer design
Nutrients, sediment, and microbial contaminants are mobilized from urban and agricultural landscapes and enter streams, rivers, lakes and estuaries.
How to cultivate freshwater or saltwater plants to help restore aquatic ecosystems
NIWA has released two booklets to provide advice on the cultivation of native submerged macrophytes to help rehabilitation initiatives in freshwater and saltwater environments.
Fallout from nuclear testing helps reveal the importance of streambank erosion in New Zealand catchments
The obvious and sometimes dramatic nature of streambank erosion suggests that it may be a significant contributor of sediment to New Zealand rivers. Despite this, there have been very few attempts to determine the relative importance of streambank erosion as a source of sediment in New Zealand catchments.
Optimising aquatic alligator weed management
Alligator weed was introduced to Northland, New Zealand in the 1880s-1900s, and is now well established in the region and further south to the Waikato.
EFlows Explorer – a webtool to aid broad-scale river flow management planning
Increasing rates of water use in New Zealand are causing changes to the magnitude, duration, timing, rates of change and predictability of fluxes of water in rivers, wetlands, and groundwater systems.
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