Ecological monitoring

We offer a range of ecological monitoring tools.

Sam Fraser-Baxter heads out with a NIWA research team keeping a close eye on these vulnerable transition zones.

NIWA is helping to ensure that New Zealand’s unique and iconic freshwater species are healthy, abundant and thriving.

Tiny, translucent eels may hold the answers to one of the fish world’s great mysteries. Zen Gregor investigates.

How healthy is your stream? SHMAK - the New Zealand Stream Health Monitoring and Assessment Kit - has been designed to help you find out.

Few New Zealand lakes retain their indigenous vegetation, and the condition of many lakes is under threat from land-use changes and the invasion of alien aquatic plants.

This manual prescribes a set of sampling and analysis protocols applicable to most of the common stream habitats in New Zealand.

These guidelines outline a recommended minimum set of methods for a community group interested in following habitat changes in an estuary.

Over the past decade, NIWA has published many popular articles that deal with estuaries - this overview is intended to bring together and make whole sense of the information published to date in the various popular articles.