The New Zealand Littleneck Clam (Austrovenus stutchburyi) fishery in the Otago province of New Zealand is based in Papanui and Waitati Inlets. A single operator, Southern Clams Limited, has commercially harvested the ...

For more than a century, drawing has enjoyed a prominent position in clinical interviews with children. In surveys conducted in the United States, for example, drawing consistently ranks as one of the top 10 instruments ...

To date, only three gay male athletes have ever come out publicly during their professional sporting career in team sports. This reflects the pervasiveness of homophobia in sport and its power to silence and render invisible ...

This is the first study to quantify temporal and spatial variations in growth rates and productivity, inorganic N uptake and photosynthetic performance of the subtidal brown macroalga, Ecklonia radiata, in relation to an ...

The four symmetrical, closely related pyrazine-based bis-terdentate diamide ligands N,N'-bis(2-pyridylmethyl)pyrazine-2,3-dicarboxamide (H2 LM1), N,N'-bis[2-(2-pyridyl)ethyl]pyrazine-2,3-dicarboxamide (H2 LM2), ...

Inputs of nutrients and organic matter to wetlands from catchments influence water quality, which, in turn, determines the potential productivity of a wetland. While there are many studies of the effects of catchment ...

New Zealand's fourteen deep-water fiords have complex physical and hydrographic features as well as strong environmental gradients, all of which may influence the population structure of organisms that inhabit the fiords. ...

The Rotorua volcanic centre (RVC) forms a well-defined topographic depression ≈ 21 km by 22 km in diameter that is located along, and partly delineates, a structural embayment in the western margin of the central TVZ. The ...

The majority of New Zealand's endemic reptiles that have been studied with respect to patterns of reproduction show low rates of annual reproductive output, with extended gestation and great longevity. A well-studied example ...