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It is estimated that something like 90% of New Zealand's biodiversity lives in the sea. In contrast to on land we are still in the pioneer and discovery phase of marine biology and ecology. Virtually everyday a new species is discovered form our marine environment. We bring you here a selected series of papers which examine this incredible diversity of the sea around us.
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Don’t stop thinking about tomorrow, an article by roger Grace for Dive NZ magazine, March 2010.
Added to archive on 03/01/2010 and placed in the following categories:
Education High School | Experiencing Marine Reserves | Fisheries Management NZ | Marine Biodiversity NZ | Mountains to Sea Conservation Trust | MPA's and Networks NZ | Marine Reserve Research and Monitoring NZ |
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Subantarctic Marine Protection Planning forum summary letter
Added to archive on 06/17/2009 and placed in the following categories:
Marine Biodiversity NZ | Regional Biodiversity Info Reports | MPA's and Networks NZ | MPA Proposals and Applications |
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The Subantarctic Marine Protection Planning Forum invites the public to comment on a consultation document describing proposed options for marine protected areas around New Zealand’s Subantarctic Islands.
Added to archive on 06/17/2009 and placed in the following categories:
Marine Biodiversity NZ | Regional Biodiversity Info Reports | MPA's and Networks NZ | MPA Proposals and Applications |
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This document contains a descriptions of several aspects of the ecology and history of the Three Kings Islands. It discusses the human history of the islands, the abundance of marine and land inhabitants.
Added to archive on 06/21/2007 and placed in the following categories:
Marine Biodiversity NZ |
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This report was a result of the Department of Conservation requesting an assessment of the potential effects of Pacific oyster farms on populations of estuarine birds. This report is the culmination of a collaborative study by the Northland Polytechnic and Department of Conservation primarily at Houhora Harbour during the period 1994-99, together with supplementary data collected in 2004. It describes numbers and behaviour of coastal bird species in and around the oyster farm in that harbour and evaluates the implications of further oyster farming proposals for this and other harbours.
Added to archive on 06/21/2007 and placed in the following categories:
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This report was commissioned in anticipation of a review by Northland Regional Council of the management of Whangarei Harbour as the Council was proposing to reclassify a substantial part of the harbour as a “Marine 1 Management Area”. Wildland Consultants Ltd were commissioned to carry out a rapid survey of the distribution(s) of bird species and their habitats in Whangarei Harbour. This report summarises the findings of that survey.
Added to archive on 06/21/2007 and placed in the following categories:
Marine Biodiversity NZ |
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This leaflet aims to inform the parties engaged in the debate over mangrove control, rather than support one side or another. It includes facts about mangroves, attempting to resolve some apparent confusion. It also discusses the consequences of proposed courses of action and the likelihood of achieving those goals.
Added to archive on 06/21/2007 and placed in the following categories:
Marine Biodiversity NZ |
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This report was the product of a desktop literature review which was carried out for the Department of Conservation by NIWA, collating and summarising the available information on the ecological and natural features of the Northland region, to assist with decision making on a potential marine protected area network for the region. The review aims to provide an integrated description and assessment of the regions ecological values and condition, within which information gaps are identified, so they can could be used as an underpinning information document for the potential establishment of a marine protected area network.
Added to archive on 06/21/2007 and placed in the following categories:
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This report records four hundred and fifty-two species of marine fauna from Parengarenga, New Zealand’s northernmost harbour. The authors found the fauna in Parengarenga’s subtidal channels exhibits a zonation corresponding to decreasing salinity and wave exposure from the harbour mouth to the headwaters. The intertidal flats are dominated by Zostera seagrass meadows with smaller areas of bare quartz sand near the harbour entrance. Around the upper reaches of the harbour there is said to be extensive mangrove forest between mid and high tide levels, with salt marsh and minor salt meadow mostly above mean high tide. Extensive areas of intertidal Zostera-covered quartz sand flats bathed in clear, warm water and periodically influenced by eddies from the East Auckland Current provide an unusual habitat for New Zealand. It is home to low numbers of subtropical gastropods, seldom seen intertidally or on sand elsewhere in the country.
Added to archive on 06/21/2007 and placed in the following categories:
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This is a table of species that have been identified by the authors as adventive in New Zealand from studies of the published literature, unpublished reports, personal communications to the authors, and the taxonomic experience and distributional knowledge of the authors. The table shows the probable native range of the species and the probable date of introduction.
Added to archive on 06/21/2007 and placed in the following categories:
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