There’s no business like snow business
On a still and sunny summer day when most Kiwis were looking longingly towards the beach, two NIWA staff had their eyes firmly on the Southern Alps.
Freshwater Update 86 brings you the latest information from our Freshwater & Estuaries Centre.
Riparian trees strongly modify stream habitat – most notably by shading. Riparian shading keeps stream water cool and inhibits the growth of nuisance aquatic algae and plants (Figure 1). Most of New Zealand’s approximately 400,000 km of stream length was originally heavily shaded by native riparian forest but clearing trees for agriculture and other uses has exposed many streams to direct solar heating.