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Closing the ‘window of vulnerability’
21 February 2024
Most commercial forests in Aotearoa New Zealand are clear-fell harvested. Trees of harvest age are cut down in areas called coupes or compartments. In many forests, these compartments often include steep hillsides, which go from being forested for decades to being bare and visible almost overnight. ...
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Enhancing soils, water, and land
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Keeping urban soils spongy
21 February 2024
Manaaki Whenua researchers are assessing the impact of urban development on soils, quantifying if urbanisation is making soils less spongy. Urbanisation is associated with increased stormwater run-off, largely due to an increase in impervious surfaces. When coupled with less spongy greenspaces and e...
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Enhancing soils, water, and land
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Maximising use of ‘surplus’ soils and sediments
21 February 2024
Manaaki Whenua researchers have developed the first ever AoNZ guide to help improve the management of surplus soils. These are the soils left behind after excavations and widespread soil disturbance associated with building and infrastructure developments, or natural processes such as landslips. Typ...
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How farming and changing irrigation affect nitrogen and phosphorus runoff
21 February 2024
Irrigation to increase pasture and crop yields is often associated with an increase in nutrient inputs through fertiliser and changing management practices. Use of these practices has raised concerns about nutrient losses and their potential environmental impacts, especially for water quality.
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SedNetNZ supports land and water planning
21 February 2024
Researchers from Manaaki Whenua have been working closely with regional councils in AoNZ to apply the SedNetNZ model to support land and water planning.
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Linking soil quality indicators to land use pressure and water quality
21 February 2024
For the first time in AoNZ researchers have been able to link soil and water quality to land-use pressures by including the use of land valuation data.
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Antarctic soils in from the cold
21 February 2024
Manaaki Whenua researchers have made a significant contribution to future research on the properties of Antarctic soils.
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Connecting data back to tangata whenua
21 February 2024
Connecting data back to the whenua is at the heart of a new Manaaki Whenua project. Across our collections, Manaaki Whenua holds and cares for a rich array of more than 820,000 specimen samples from invertebrates, to fungi, to flora and fauna and taonga plant species.
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Celebrating our achievements
21 February 2024
Anne Sutherland, James Shepherd, David Pairman (LUM team); Dan Richards (Early Career Researcher), Stella Belliss (LUM team), Chris Phillips (Individual/Lifetime Achievement)
Missing: Laise Harris, Graeme Curwen, James Ardo, Anne Sutherland, Brent Martin, Christine Martelletti. (LUM team)
At the an...
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Farming the ‘F1’ way
21 February 2024
Helping farmers optimise technology in the farm management cycle to be their most productive.
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