Results from a Survey of Rural Decision Makers undertaken between March and July 2013. The overall sample is 1,528, with participants representing a variety of rural enterprises and all 16 regions.

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...

ARCHIVED DATABASE OF E.G. WHITE MOTH STUDIES WAIMAKARIRI BASIN (1961-1963, 1987-1989) AND MACKENZIE BASIN (1991-1996, 1998-2000) The tussock grassland database for 43 Canterbury sites extends to 61 spring-autumn trapping sequences (35 sites x 1 year each; 8 sites x 2-5 years each) based on standardised light-trapping methods. The archived database...

A Lucid 3 interactive key for identifying any of the 53 species of Coprosma currently recognised in New Zealand. The key is illustrated with 500 images of species and the features used to identify them and has a factsheet for each species that provides a list of distinct features, comparisons with similar species, description, habitat and distribution...

Data supporting the paper: Asymmetric competition causes multimodal size distributions in spatially structured populations. Jorge Velázquez, Robert B. Allen, David A. Coomes, Markus P. Eichhorn. Proc. R. Soc. B 2016 283 20152404; doi:10.1098/rspb.2015.2404. Published 27 January 2016 These resources (data files) represent snapshots of data extracted from...

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.

This resource is no longer available. The NZ Lizards Database is (was) a searchable online system that provides access to a wealth of information describing the lizard species of New Zealand and will be useful to organisations and individuals alike. This project was funded by the New Zealand Government's Terrestrial and Freshwater Biodiversity Information...

The first NZ Colony Loss and Survival (COLOSS) survey of beekeepers was first carried out in spring 2015 by Landcare Research. The survey was funded by MPI and the beekeeping industry to deliver a “baseline” of information about the status of bees and the challenges that beekeepers face. The survey was largely based on international COLOSS surveys,...

The third biennial Survey of Rural Decision Makers was run in September 2017. The survey addressed the same topics as the previous two surveys (2015 and 2013) but we have continued to refine the questions to make them more relevant to farmers. It builds on an earlier surveys conducted in 2013 and 2015.

A searchable database of published and unpublished articles and references relevant to wild rabbits and their management in New Zealand.

Landcare Research conducted the second Survey of Rural Decision Makers in 2015 to help build a better picture of what drives these decisions and what New Zealand’s farming environment might look like in the future. The survey covers the entire spectrum of primary industry and lifestyle farming and includes a wide variety of topics. It builds on an earlier...

The ant distribution database is a searchable tool that contains distribution and collection records for all ant species in New Zealand (native and exotic), as well as global distribution for invasive ant species.

The Ecological Traits database began life as a repository of information for projects on New Zealand weeds, and wetland plants. It holds a list of all native and all naturalised higher plant species. Most effort to date has been on entering data on the naturalised flora and this information is updated from time to time. The web delivery of this database...

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...