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.

Stream Health Monitoring and Assessment Kit (SHMAK)

Stream Health Monitoring and Assessment Kit (SHMAK) helps land owners and community groups monitor the ecological health of local streams using simple, but scientifically sound, methods.

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.