Data for the monitoring programme established in 2014 to monitor the Nationally Vulnerable sedge, Isolepis basilaris on the Tasman River delta at the head of Lake Pukaki. The monitoring programme was established in 2014 by Landcare Research in conjunction with Meridian Energy Ltd and the Department of Conservation and runs for three years. The three...

S-map is the new national soils database for New Zealand. When completed, it will provide a seamless digital soil map coverage for New Zealand. S-map is designed to be applied at any scale from farm to region to nation. Existing soil databases are patchy in scale, age and quality. Many maps do not adequately describe the underlying properties of the soil...

The National Land Resource Centre (NLRC) is a collaborative science centre that was initially formulated and developed by Landcare Research in July 2012. The NLRC is a collaborative partnership among a number of Crown Research Institutes (CRIs) including Landcare Research, AgResearch, Scion, Plant & Food Research, GNS Science and ESR. The NLRC...

SINDI (soil indicators) is a web-based tool designed to help you interpret the quality or health of a soil you have sampled. Refer SINDI terms and conditions for License information.

Subset of samples used to develop the intergranular mixing particle size distribution model (IMP model). The model is able to derive the soil water retention curve using particle size distribution and saturated water content. Additional details of the data and the model can be found at https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jhydrol.2020.124597

CenW is a generic growth and ecosystem gas exchange model that simulates photosynthetic carbon gain, water use and nitrogen cycling through plants and soil organic matter. The photosynthetic modelling uses a simple, yet physiologically based, description of photosynthesis together with simple assumptions about light interception. With appropriate...

The Systematics Collections Data (SCD) website provides access to specimen and culture data from the Allan Herbarium (CHR), the International Collection of Micro-organisms from Plants (ICMP), the National New Zealand Flax Collection (FLAX), the New Zealand Arthropod Collection (NZAC) and the New Zealand Fungal and Plant Disease Collection (PDD). SCD Terms...

The New Zealand National Vegetation Survey (NVS) databank is a world–leading repository for New Zealand’s plot–based vegetation data describing plant species occurrence and abundance, vegetation structure, and environment. Licencing and Terms of Use, refer: NVS Terms of Use and NVS Data Protocol

The Land Resource Information Systems (LRIS) Portal is a repository of authoritative New Zealand science datasets and information. It allows you to download environment data held specifically by Landcare Research for use in GIS and other applications that can handle geospatial data for mapping, querying and spatial analyses. There is strong focus on...

A new web site hosted by The Entomological Society of New Zealand is available at the following address https://bugz.ento.org.nz Archive of the Bibliography of New Zealand Terrestrial Invertebrates (Bugz). BUGZ as a collaborative project involving the University of Canterbury (School of Biological Sciences ), Manaaki Whenua - Landcare Research and uBio....

Environmental DNA, or eDNA, refers to the DNA that is shed or excreted from biological organisms, for example as skin, hair, faeces or urine. This powerful new technology is transforming how biological diversity is measured. A BioHeritage research team led out of the University of Auckland have developed Aotearoas first national biodiversity database - or...

The research team from the Passive surveillance network project (BioHeritage project 2.5) have established an iNaturalist presence to store publicly available data from the Find-a-pest app developed in the project. Please note the license terms and conditions as specified on iNaturalist, and Find-a-pest.