Atmospheric analysis

This is a special series of stories put out to the media in the 2012/2013 summer.

Compiled by NIWA from the United Nations report "Keeping Track of Our Changing Environment: From Rio to Rio+20 (1992-2012)".

A summary of the LakeSPI method.

LakeSPI delivers information that is directly applicable to lake-ecosystem conservation and management.

LakeSPI can be used in many ways depending on what the interests or management needs are for a lake.

LakeSPI (Lake Submerged Plant Indicators) is based on the principle that New Zealand lakes can be characterised by the composition of native and invasive plants growing in them, and the depths to which these plants grow.

Mangrove forests, which are important parts of estuarine ecosystems in a number of ways, are sensitive to changing sea level.