Ecological monitoring

LakeSPI: Keeping tabs on lake health

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.

Stream periphyton monitoring manual

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

Estuary monitoring by communities

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

NZ estuaries

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.