At the Wangaloa Coal Mine, South-East Otago, ArcGIS is being used to manage, integrate, analyse and visualise the diverse range of datasets being generated from an interdisciplinary research team. GIS will assist with ...

Agricultural expansion is a major threat to the indigenous biodiversity of New Zealand’s tussock grasslands. Options for integrating biodiversity conservation with agricultural management is a topic that requires further ...

Reintroduction of threatened species to predator-free offshore islands has long been advocated in New Zealand as a prime management tool for conservation. They also provide a good experimental framework to investigate ...

Hector’s dolphin (Cephalorhynchus hectori) is the only endemic dolphin species to New Zealand waters. From population estimates, it has been established that this species is one of the rarest of the world’s cetaceans and ...

Measurements of vegetation structure (the three dimensional placement of the vegetation biomass) and structural diversity (the number of vegetation layers present and the abundance of vegetation within them) are required ...