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Andrii Medvediuk, 123RF
Stay up to date with new evidence and mātauranga Māori from cross-institute, transdisciplinary teams of Aotearoa New Zealand’s best agricultural and environmental scientists, working to future proof farming and improve the vitality of te Taiao.
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Summary: Can Regen Ag Promote Ecosystem-Based Solutions for Climate Change Adaptation?
Nature’s contributions to adaptation are the ecological properties and functions which people can manage and govern to regulate risks from climate change (and related hazards)…
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Sediment phosphorus buffering in streams at baseflow: A meta-analysis
Phosphorus (P) pollution of surface waters remains a challenge for protecting and improving water quality. Central to the challenge is understanding what regulates P concentrations…
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Measuring the benefits of management actions: Mitigation effectiveness monitoring design (proof of concept phase)
A five-step process was developed to answer the key question asked of Working Group 1:’Have the mitigation actions resulted in improved freshwater outcomes?’. To assist…
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Handrails through the Swamp? A Pilot to Test the Integration and Implementation Science Framework in Complex Real-World Research
The socio-environmental challenges the world faces are ‘swamps’: situations that are messy, complex, and uncertain. The aim of this paper is to help disciplinary scientists…
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Stressor-Response Framework
Illustrating the relationship between land use, stressor type, stressor level and impacts
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Te Pūtahitanga: A Tiriti-Led Science-Policy Approach for Aotearoa New Zealand
A multi-disciplinary group of Māori researchers produced this report recommending the appointment of Māori Chief Science Advisors and the development of Tiriti-based guidelines for science…
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Estimating and modelling the risk of redox-sensitive phosphorus loss from saturated soils using different soil tests
Phosphorus (P) loss from agricultural soils can negatively affect water quality. Models and management to decrease losses increasingly focus on P that is available and…
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The impact of cattle grazing and treading on soil properties and the transport of phosphorus, sediment and E. coli in surface runoff from grazed pasture
Contaminant loss from grazed pasture can negatively affect freshwater quality. There is, however, little data on the impact of different levels of grazing/treading on contaminant…
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Projected wine grape cultivar shifts due to climate change in New Zealand
Climate change has already been affecting the regional suitability of grapevines. This has significant implications for New Zealand. We modeled key crop phenological stages to…
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Land use and water quality (Editorial)
The issue of land use and land-use intensity has long been linked to water quality globally. Changing land use in New Zealand, especially in pastoral…
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National-scale implementation of mandatory freshwater farm plans: A mechanism to deliver water quality improvement in productive catchments in NZ?
Reducing agriculturally derived diffuse contaminant losses (via non-point sources) from land to water has proven difficult for decades. Owing to the diversity and complexity of…
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Towards best-practice inclusion of cultural indicators in decision making by Indigenous Peoples
The purpose of this article is to explore the state of knowledge of cultural indicators internationally and in Aotearoa New Zealand. Cultural indicators are a…