Category: Biodiversity

Browse over 34,000 nationally-significant freshwater fish observations covering sample sites up and down New Zealand.
Hosted By NIWA
Categories Biodiversity, Freshwater
Keywords Biodiversity, Fish, Freshwater, River
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The National Vegetation Survey (NVS) databank is a world-leading repository for New Zealand’s plot-based vegetation data describing plant species occurrence and abundance, vegetation structure, and en...
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Hosted By Manaaki Whenua – Landcare Research
Categories Biodiversity, Land
Keywords Terrestrial Ecology, Terrestrial plants, Land, Vegetation, New Zealand
Data Quality Good
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The Margot Forde Genebank (MFG) has New Zealand’s largest seed collection and the most diverse forage collection in the world. The MFG database holds over 48,000 public accessions of 2500 mostly tempe...
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Hosted By AgResearch
Categories Land, Biodiversity
Keywords Grassland, Pasture, Environment, Agriculture, Global taonga
Learn about this nationally-significant marine invertebrate collection - featuring over 300,000 samples collected from around New Zealand, the Antarctic and Pacific.
Hosted By NIWA
Categories Biodiversity, Ocean
Keywords Marine Invertebrates, collection, invertebrates, biodiversity
Data Quality Good
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Access millions of marine biodiversity and species distribution data from New Zealand's EEZ, the Ross Sea (Antarctica), the Southern Ocean south of New Zealand and surrounding seas.
Hosted By NIWA
Categories Biodiversity, Ocean
Keywords biodiversity, ocean, marine
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Dive into LakeSPI (Lake Submerged Plant Indicators) - a lake information and management tool used to assess and report on the ecological condition of New Zealand lakes.
Hosted By NIWA
Categories Biodiversity, Freshwater
Keywords biodiversity, freshwater, lake, plants
Ngā Rauropi Whakaoranga provides access to referenced information on how Māori used plants and other organisms to live in Aotearoa - New Zealand, particularly before the arrival of Europeans. It now a...
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Hosted By Manaaki Whenua Landcare Research
Category Biodiversity
Keywords Biodiversity, Land
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The Allan Herbarium contains plant species from around the world but specialises in indigenous and exotic plants of the Aotearoa – New Zealand region and the South Pacific. There are over 620,000 spec...
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Hosted By Manaaki Wheuna Landcare Research
Category Biodiversity
Keywords Biodiversity, Terrestrial plants, New Zealand
Data Quality Good
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The New Zealand Land Cover Database (LCDB) is a multi-temporal, thematic classification of New Zealand's land cover. It identifies 33 mainland land cover classes (35 classes once the offshore Chatham ...
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Hosted By Manaaki Whenua Landcare Research
Categories Land, Biodiversity
Keywords Land Cover, Biodiversity, Vegetation, New Zealand
Data Quality Good
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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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Hosted By The New Zealand Institute for Plant and Food Research Limited
Keywords pests, plant pathogens, biosecurity, invaders, eradication
Data Quality Medium
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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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Hosted By The New Zealand Institute for Plant and Food Research Limited
Keywords Biological Control Agents, weeds, invertebrate pests, pests
The National Forestry Herbarium contains plants significant to plantation and indigenous forestry in New Zealand, including a wide range of native and amenity species.
Hosted By Scion
Categories Biodiversity, Land
Keywords trees, exotic species, indigenous species, forestry
Biota of New Zealand provides access to taxonomic and nomenclature data associated with Aotearoa – New Zealand’s biodiversity collections of fungi, land invertebrates and plants. Biota of New Zealand ...
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Hosted By Manaaki Whenua Landcare Research
Categories Land, Biodiversity
Keywords Terrestrial plants, Land, Fungi, Micro organisms, Biodiversity, Land invertebrates, Plant pathogens, Plants
Data Quality Good
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These Biodiversity Memoirs are illustrated reference works that capture New Zealand's distinctive marine fauna and flora.
Hosted By NIWA
Categories Ocean, Biodiversity
Keywords marine flora, marine fauna, biodiversity
NIWA's public platform for exploring and downloading open science data, discovering and building apps, and engaging to solve important issues. You can analyze and combine Open Data sets using maps, as...
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Hosted By NIWA
Keywords GIS, Geospatial
Data Quality Good
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Traits are defined as the components of organisms that can be measured and have an effect on ecosystem health. This trait database for marine benthic invertebrates is a powerful tool for assessing bio...
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Hosted By NIWA
Categories Biodiversity, Ocean
Keywords marine, Biodiversity
Data Quality Medium
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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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Hosted By 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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Hosted By Manaaki Whenua - Landcare Research
Keywords Ecosystems, Mātauranga Māori, Biodiversity, Biosecurity, Pest management, resilience, genomics, conservation, restoration, invasive species, communities