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New Zealand Rabbit Proneness
Manaaki Whenua – Landcare ResearchRabbit numbers counted by pest destruction boards to measure the affect of control operations are used to assess the relationship between recorded elements of land resources (parent material, soils, vegetation, slope, erosion) and rabbit populations. The results of the study clearly confirm the often observed concentration of high rabbit populations on the...Created 10 September 2021 • Updated 3 March 2025 -
South Island National Pasture Productivity
Manaaki Whenua – Landcare ResearchThe New Zealand National Pasture Productivity map is a multi-temporal approach to estimating pasture (dry matter) yield in New Zealand's grassland area. The approach uses a model generated from collected historical records of pasture yield in 21 locations around New Zealand.It was hypothesised that yield of a paddock planted with pasture species would...Created 10 September 2021 • Updated 3 March 2025 -
S-map Nitrogen Leach Susceptibility Aug 2024
Manaaki Whenua – Landcare ResearchThe susceptibility of the soil to nitrogen leaching - the process whereby excess nutrients not held by the clay and organic matter complex of the soil leach beyond the root zone and contaminate groundwater. The susceptibility rating is based on the capacity of the soil to store water and the attenuation of nitrogen through denitrification associated with...Created 3 September 2024 • Updated 3 March 2025 -
North Island National Pasture Productivity
Manaaki Whenua – Landcare ResearchThe New Zealand National Pasture Productivity map is a multi-temporal approach to estimating pasture (dry matter) yield in New Zealand's grassland area. The approach uses a model generated from collected historical records of pasture yield in 21 locations around New Zealand.It was hypothesised that yield of a paddock planted with pasture species would...Created 10 September 2021 • Updated 3 March 2025 -
S-map - a soil spatial information system for New Zealand (current)
Manaaki Whenua – Landcare ResearchThis layer shows the coverage of S-map polygons, labelled with their Soil mapunit – a unique identifier of one or more polygons with the same soil information. The S-map primary map layer of soil classes (i.e. delineated areas that are labelled with the soil family names) is no longer freely available to commercial users. Access to this data and...Created 3 September 2024 • Updated 3 March 2025 -
S-map Soil Texture Aug 2024
Manaaki Whenua – Landcare ResearchSoil texture is the dominant texture class in the control zone (usually the upper 60 cm) of the soil profile as defined in Webb & Lilburne (2011). This layer is a "dissolved" representation of the soil texture attribute for S-map, where neighbouring S-map polygons have been combined if they have the same value of the attribute. Refer to document Smap...Created 3 September 2024 • Updated 3 March 2025 -
S-map Soil Depth Aug 2024
Manaaki Whenua – Landcare ResearchSoil depth is defined according to a traditional agronomic concept of soil depth (Webb & Lilburne 2011). Note that while the layer defining soil depth may cause some restriction in root penetration, it does not necessarily define the base of the potential rooting depth. This layer is a "dissolved" representation of the soil depth attribute for S-map...Created 3 September 2024 • Updated 3 March 2025 -
S-map Relative Bypass Flow Susceptibility Aug 2024
Manaaki Whenua – Landcare ResearchRelative bypass flow is the potential susceptibility of water infiltrating at the soil surface to bypass the soil matrix as it drains through the soil. This is where the infiltrating water rapidly ‘short circuits’ the soil by percolating along preferential pathways (i.e., macropores, cracks, fissures, decayed-root channels). The vulnerability of land to...Created 3 September 2024 • Updated 3 March 2025 -
S-map Soil Classification (soilorder) Aug 2024
Manaaki Whenua – Landcare ResearchNZSC Order is the first level of the NZ soil classification (Hewitt, 2010). This layer is a "dissolved" representation of the NZSC soil order attribute for S-map, where neighbouring S-map polygons have been combined if they have the same value of the attribute. Refer to document Smap Data Dictionary Dissolved Layers.pdf at...Created 3 September 2024 • Updated 3 March 2025 -
S-map Soil Drainage Aug 2024
Manaaki Whenua – Landcare ResearchSoil drainage is a relatively simple classification of the soil profile that describes the likelihood of seasonal wetness (Webb & Lilburne 2011). It is based on the occurrence within specific depths of redox segregation and low chroma colours indicative of waterlogging and reduction (Milne et al. 1995). This layer is a "dissolved" representation of...Created 3 September 2024 • Updated 3 March 2025 -
Wellington Region Tsunami Evacuation Zones
Greater Wellington Regional CouncilTsunami evacuation maps containing three zones; red, orange and yellow, corresponding to different threat levels for the development of tsunami evacuation plans, public awareness, self evacuation and official civil defence emergency management or emergency services evacuations in the event of a tsunami. The zones were digitised onto orthophoto coverage...Created 2 February 2022 • Updated 2 February 2022 -
Active Faults from GNS database in the Wellington Region, NZ
Greater Wellington Regional CouncilActive Faults from GNS database. See also http://data.gns.cri.nz/af/. Last updated from GNS sources in Jan 2020.Created 2 February 2022 • Updated 2 February 2022 -
Community Emergency Hubs in the Wellington Region
Greater Wellington Regional CouncilCivil Defence Centres in the Wellington Region. Locations and details updated from lists at https://www.getprepared.nz/my-community/community-emergency-hubs/ on 29 June 2021.Created 2 February 2022 • Updated 2 February 2022 -
GWRC Flood Hazards Areas for the Wellington Region
Greater Wellington Regional CouncilCombined regional flood hazards extent for rivers and streams in the Wellington Region. Data supplied in Feb 2017 from GWRC Flood Protection Dept for the GWRC public flood hazard maps project. Extra extent data supplied by KCDC and WCC was added in May 2017. If you want more information about Flood Risk in the Western part of the Region, please contact...Created 2 February 2022 • Updated 2 February 2022
