Datasets
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Arthurs Pass plant trait data - flammability
Manaaki Whenua – Landcare ResearchPlant trait data associated with Budha-Magar et al (2024a). If you make use of this data, we ask if you can cite Budha-Magar et al (2024) for the methods, and this data set Budha-Magar et al (2024b) References: Budha-Magar S, Day N, Buckley HL, Burge OR, Richardson SJ, Schwilk DW, Ross RR, Curran TJ 2024a. Plant morphological traits and leaf nutrient...Created 23 April 2025 • Updated 23 April 2025 -
Effects of Phosphite on Arbuscular Mycorrhizal Fungal Colonisation in Kauri...
Manaaki Whenua – Landcare ResearchDNA metabarcoding data targeting arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi (AMF) from kauri (Agathis australis) root samples, for investigating the effects of phosphite treatment on AMF colonisation of roots.Created 23 April 2025 • Updated 23 April 2025 -
Can a mate-finding Allee effect be elicited to help eradicate invasive mammals?
Manaaki Whenua – Landcare ResearchSupporting material for manuscript submitted to "Ecography", entitled, "Can a mate-finding Allee effect be elicited to help eradicate invasive mammals?"Created 23 April 2025 • Updated 23 April 2025 -
Effects of untrapped lands on the control of predators and associated monetary costs
Manaaki Whenua – Landcare ResearchComputer scripts for or manuscript submitted to "New Zealand Journal of Ecology", entitled, "Effects of untrapped lands on the control of predators and associated monetary costs."Created 23 April 2025 • Updated 23 April 2025 -
Code for A History of Open Temperature and Rainfall with Uncertainty in New...
Manaaki Whenua – Landcare ResearchPython code used to process data in the production of A History of Open Temperature and Rainfall with Uncertainty in New Zealand (HOTRUNZ): an open access 1 km resolution monthly 1910-2019 time-series of interpolated temperature and rainfall grids with associated uncertaintyCreated 1 February 2024 • Updated 23 April 2025 -
2019/20 Australian Bushfires - Dust on Southern Alps
Manaaki Whenua – Landcare ResearchGeospatial layer of predicted concentration of red dust generated by bushfires in Australia in late 2019. Layer resolution is 10 m and generated from Sentinel-2 imagery from 1 November 2019 to 31 March 2020 over areas of permanent snow and ice from GLIMS (see geopackages).Created 23 April 2025 • Updated 23 April 2025 -
Using detection dogs for surveillance of invasive dama wallaby (Notamacropus...
Manaaki Whenua – Landcare ResearchThis data corresponds to a trial to determine the detection probability and surveillance sensitivity of doh-handler teams searching for dama wallaby fecal pellets in North Island, New Zealand. Reference: Latham ADM, Latham MC, Peace J, Gormley A. 2024. Using detection dogs for surveillance of invasive dama wallaby (Notamacropus eugenii) in North Island,...Created 23 April 2025 • Updated 23 April 2025 -
Austropezia in Pezizellaceae s.l.
Manaaki Whenua – Landcare ResearchPhylogeny showing Austropezia and related unnamed species from New Zealand belong in Han et al. (2014) Clade 3, part of Pezizellaceae sensu lato.Created 1 February 2024 • Updated 23 April 2025 -
Harnessing fear of predators and competitors as deterrents for an invasive predator
Manaaki Whenua – Landcare ResearchBehavioural data collected from a pen trial and field trial of an audio playback experiment on domestic cats (Felis catus), Two experimental arenas (open and close) and five treatments (human talking, dog barking, cat yowling, cricket chirping as positive control, and silence control) were used in the pen trial, and two treatments were used in the field...Created 23 April 2025 • Updated 23 April 2025 -
Leaching losses from diverse pasture
Manaaki Whenua – Landcare ResearchThis is a dataset of lysimeter drainage and nitrogen and phosphorus leaching from 5-8 species diverse pasture across different soil types, climate, and management intensities, with a subset of ryegrass-clover lysimeters for comparison. These data were collected as part of a Ministry for Primary Industries Sustainable Land Management and Climate Change...Created 23 April 2025 • Updated 23 April 2025 -
Annulohypoxylon in Aotearoa New Zealand
Manaaki Whenua – Landcare ResearchThese notes are based on PDD specimens and ICMP cultures of Annulohypoxylon from which DNA sequences are available. These specimens represent five species of Annulohypoxylon, four of which are unnamed. These exclude the endemic A. nothofagi, for which no DNA sequences are available.Created 23 April 2025 • Updated 23 April 2025 -
New Zealand fungi and slime moulds
Manaaki Whenua – Landcare ResearchNew Zealand fungi and slime moulds : pdfs containing photos, descriptions and comments based on specimens collected by Ann Bell and Dan Mahoney at PDD (NZ Systematics Collection Data). The pdf links relate to fungi and slime moulds collected by Ann Bell and Dan Mahoney in New Zealand. The primary emphasis has been identification by morphological means....Created 1 February 2024 • Updated 23 April 2025 -
Plant Names Database Quarterly Changes February 2025
Manaaki Whenua – Landcare ResearchSummary data on changes to data in the Plant Names Database in the following classes: the addition of new names for formal deprecation of duplicate names changes to the status of the name as preferred name or synonym for a taxon updating the origin or occurrence of a taxon within New Zealand applying changes to the classification of a taxon updating the...Created 23 April 2025 • Updated 23 April 2025 -
NZ landfill emissions 2017-2024
Manaaki Whenua – Landcare ResearchLandfill emissions This presents information on how a bottom-up estimate of methane from NZ landfills was generated. Original code is available on Github at https://github.com/manaakiwhenua/stocking-rates MfE has documentation on NZ-specific emissions factors here: https://environment.govt.nz/assets/publications/climate-change/New-Zealands-Greenhouse-Gas-...Created 23 April 2025 • Updated 23 April 2025 -
CHELSA NZ growing season
Manaaki Whenua – Landcare ResearchPlease see https://github.com/manaakiwhenua/chelsa-growing-season for documentationCreated 23 April 2025 • Updated 23 April 2025 -
Soil Climate Research Station Data
Manaaki Whenua – Landcare ResearchAntarctic soil climate data collected from 9 stations and 2 boreholes located in the McMurdo Sound region of Antarctica. The climate stations were established starting in 1999 through 2011. Four of the stations are in the Dry Valleys and four are located along the coast. The ninth station is located on Mt. Fleming near the polar plateau. Each climate...Created 23 April 2025 • Updated 23 April 2025 -
New Zealand Environmental Data Stack (NZEnvDS)
Manaaki Whenua – Landcare ResearchA standardised collection of environmental spatial layers for biodiversity modelling and site characterisation. These spatial layers were published in: McCarthy, J. K., Leathwick, J. R., Roudier, P., Barringer, J. R. F., Etherington, T. R., Morgan, F. J., Odgers, N. P., Price, R. H., Wiser, S. K., Richardson, S. J. (2021) New Zealand Environmental Data...Created 1 February 2024 • Updated 23 April 2025 -
Dataset: Personality, sex, and capture biases: challenges for mesopredator...
Manaaki Whenua – Landcare ResearchData used to for analysis and to create figures and tables presented in the related publication.Created 1 February 2024 • Updated 23 April 2025 -
Interim wetland faunal sampling protocols: nematodes and earthworms
Manaaki Whenua – Landcare ResearchInterim guidance on sampling for nematodes and earthworms in wetlands where evidence of fauna adapted to wet conditions is requiredCreated 23 April 2025 • Updated 23 April 2025 -
Pacific Metrosideros occurrence data
Manaaki Whenua – Landcare ResearchOccurrences of Metrosideros species across the south-central Pacific Methods are fully described in the following open access paper: Etherington TR, Dawson M, Sutherland A, McCarthy J 2025. Open data for biogeography research of the genus Metrosideros across the south-central Pacific region. Pacific Conservation Biology 31(2): PC24075....Created 23 April 2025 • Updated 23 April 2025