This database summarises incursion response and eradication programmes from around the world. The scope of the database is terrestrial arthropod pests and plant pathogens. Weeds, vertebrate pests, aqu...
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Category: Freshwater
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The New Zealand Institute for Plant and Food Research Limited
Keywords pests, plant pathogens, biosecurity, invaders, eradication
The Biological Control Agents introduced to New Zealand (BCANZ) online database contains complete information on the biological control agents that have been introduced to New Zealand to help manage w...
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The New Zealand Institute for Plant and Food Research Limited
Keywords Biological Control Agents, weeds, invertebrate pests, pests
The New Zealand Drought Monitor is a system for keeping track of drought conditions across New Zealand based on a standardised climate index.
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NIWA
Keywords drought, climate, hazard, weather, rainfall
National daily river flow forecasts for 24-hour periods across New Zealand.
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NIWA
Keywords River, river flow, forecast, flood, modelling
The NGMP is a groundwater quality dataset, collected regularly through collaborations with regional council personnel from 110 sites across all 15 regions of New Zealand, since 1990. The network attai...
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New Zealand’s depth to hydrogeological basement map. Depth to hydrogeological basement can be loosely defined as the ‘base of aquifers’; or more strictly as ‘the depth to where primary porosity and pe...
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GNS Science
Keywords Groundwater resources, New Zealand
ESR monitors New Zealand’s wastewater for the presence of SARS-CoV-2 – the virus that causes COVID-19. Check the weekly wastewater surveillance report from sampling across the country.
The Aquifer Potential Map is a preliminary map (version 1.0). This work was carried out as part of the GNS Science Groundwater Resources of New Zealand research programme, and future plans within this...
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GNS Science
Keywords Maps, Database, New Zealand, Raoul Island, Aquifer Potential
Monthly data of 1km x 1km rainfall recharge to groundwater, from Jan-2000 – Dec-2014. The National Groundwater Recharge Model (NGRM) was developed to demonstrate the utility of satellite data and glob...
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GNS Science
Keywords New Zealand, rainfall recharge, water table, model-derived
This dataset is a model-derived steady-state mean water table at the New Zealand nationwide scale with a resolution of 250m x 250m. These data are described in Westerhoff et al. (2018) – URL: https://...
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GNS Science
Keywords New Zealand, groundwater, water table, aquifer, model-derived
A water quality restoration tool that can help reduce levels of sediment, nutrients and microbes. This can the water quality exiting the wetland and the ecology of downstream water bodies.
Includes about 500 aquatic invertebrate taxa. There's 16 broad trait categories that are divided into subcategories.
Many of New Zealand's fish species (like inanga and tuna) undertake significant migrations as part of their life-cycle. However, instream infrastructure such as culverts and dams, can delay or prevent...
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These calendars cover 41 key freshwater fish species and are designed to help people working near freshwater minimise the impact of their work on the fish. Includes spawning and migration periods.
Tau kōura is a traditional Māori fishing method commonly used to harvest kōura or freshwater crayfish in areas where they are abundant.
Catchment Land Use for Environmental Sustainability (CLUES) model is a GIS-based system that predicts the effects of land-use change and farm practice scenarios on water quality and socio-economic ind...
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Citizen science database for information on fish passage assessment, catch & release, NZ flood pics and snow depth.
URQIS is a resource developed in 2012 that provides stormwater and urban stream quality data to the public by accessing a database of urban runoff quality data collected from all over New Zealand.
New Zealand Flood Pics (NZFP) is a photographic archive of flooding for Aotearoa New Zealand. Its purpose is to collate photographs from floods that can support evidence-based decision-making for indi...
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NIWA
Keywords flooding, citizen-science, PHOTOGRAPHS, database
Fact sheets on impacts of sediment on freshwater and estuarine and freshwater fish species using existing scientific information and expert scientific knowledge.
Our Land and Water was one of New Zealand’s 11 National Science Challenges, aimed at addressing critical issues in primary production and the sustainable management of land and water resources. Funded...
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AgResearch
Keywords land use change, Environment, water quality, Climate Change, Environmental management
New Zealand’s Biological Heritage National Science Challenge (BioHeritage) – Ngā Koiora Tuku Iho – is one of the country’s 11 National Science Challenges. Established in 2014, BioHeritage tackles one ...
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Manaaki Whenua - Landcare Research
Keywords Ecosystems, Mātauranga Māori, Biodiversity, Biosecurity, Pest management, resilience, genomics, conservation, restoration, invasive species, communities