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Showing 1 to 20 of 31 for “"Tauranga"”.
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Investigating groundwater derived nutrient fluxes within Tauranga harbour, New Zealand
… to quantify SGD and related nutrient fluxes into Tauranga Harbour, a coastal lagoon system, on the largely volcanic North Island of New Zealand. A ²²⁶Ra mass balance quantified SGD fluxes at the harbour scale, resulting in a range of SGD flux rates between 0.53 cm d⁻¹ and 3.09 x10⁶ m³ d⁻¹. When …
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Māori wards in Tauranga Moana and Aotearoa: Liminal local government democracy
… including elected Council members from Tauranga Moana and members of Te Rangapū Mana Whenua o Tauranga Moana Partnership, were conducted. Additionally, participant observations took place at three public meetings on Māori wards. The way the current form of local government representative …
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Transport and retention of benthic marine invertebrates in the Southern Tauranga Basin
… and retention of benthic invertebrate larvae in Tauranga Harbour, a large (218 km2), shallow (mean depth = 2.8 m) meso-tidal estuary. Previous studies indicate that residence times extracted from hydrodynamic modelling vary throughout the harbour, due to residual circulation patterns caused by …
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Environmental aspects of storm runoff discharge from a timber port, Tauranga, New Zealand
… associated with the log operation at the Port of Tauranga Ltd. Based upon field data and rainfall records, about a half of the annual precipitation over the log handling areas is converted to surface runoff (117,000 m³a⁻¹). Annual runoff volume per hectare of wharf surface is estimated as 7,500 …
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The physical and ecological impacts of mangrove expansion and mangrove removal: Tauranga Harbour, New Zealand
… of their expansion within three embayments of Tauranga Habour: Welcome Bay, Waikareao Estuary and Waikaraka Estuary. Removal of mangrove vegetation within Waikaraka Estuary provided an ideal site to assess the physical changes that occur in response to this activity. Detailed field measurements …
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Ecological effects of turbidity variations in and around dredging areas in the Port of Tauranga
… barrier-enclosed shallow lagoon. The study area, Tauranga Harbour (New Zealand) is a system affected by multiple stressors such as urban developments, industry, forestry, agricultural land use and a port facility. The Port of Tauranga is the largest export port in New Zealand and carries out …
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Remote sensing of dynamics and aboveground biomass of seagrass in Tauranga Harbor (Bay of Plenty), New Zealand
… The work used field validation data from Tauranga Harbor, New Zealand, and specifically targeted mapping, change detection, and estimation of seagrass distribution and biomass. The relatively small and patchy meadows of Zostera muelleri in this harbor can be mapped using a three-category …
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The ecology of ray species in an urbanised estuary: Seasonality, habitat use and pollutant exposure in Tauranga Harbour
… Second, seasonality in habitat use within the Tauranga Harbour system was examined using monthly counts of the feeding excavations of Myliobatis tenuicaudatus. This study expanded previous estimations of seasonality and feeding habitat choice in estuaries. It determined that …
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Ngaitamarawaho and the Office of Treaty Settlements: Aligning the Hapu Raupatu Grievance to the Settlement Process
Ngaitamarawaho is the Hapu of Ngatiranginui from Tauranga who suffered the greatest loss of land at the hands of Governor Grey. In generations past, the Tupuna stated categorically, Queen Victoria took our land, Grey created the Raupatu and Ngaiterangi were the kupapa that made it possible. This …
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Impact of black swan grazing and anthropogenic contaminants on New Zealand seagrass meadows
… observations and measurements were conducted in Tauranga Harbour where more than a third of the seagrass meadows disappeared between 1959 to 1996. Observations have shown that black swans graze intensively on Zostera muelleri meadows during high tide and were most numerous in the harbour during …
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Measuring and modelling estuarine macroalgae blooms and water column nutrients
… models as well as observation data from Tauranga Harbour (North Island, New Zealand). Based on long-term monitoring datasets of water column nutrients, temperature and irradiance, the Ulva tissue nitrogen concentration is modelled using an algebraic short-term equilibrium solution to a …
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Nutrient dynamics in shallow tidally-dominated estuaries
… are shallow tidally-dominated estuaries in Tauranga Harbour located on the Bay of Plenty Coast, New Zealand. Tauranga Harbour is the site of a large commercial port surrounded by urban development. The primary aim of this thesis was to determine the variations of dissolved inorganic nitrogen …
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How can landscape architecture create living environments that promote access to public transport, housing, and green spaces : A dissertation submitted in partial fulfilment of the requirements for the Degree of Master of Landscape Architecture at Lincoln University
… models of proposed land use types and extent in Tauranga City to create equitable outcomes for all its residents.
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(Re)Designing food waste systems using the design frameworks of chefs: An exploration of the potential application in the New Zealand context: The case of 'Good Neighbour'
… social enterprise, The Good Neighbour Trust in Tauranga, New Zealand, and critically analyses the Five Phase Culinary Design Model. While our tacit knowledge is a crucial part of the culinary experience it is limiting within the wider context of food design. With the experience gained during …
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Dredge spoil dispersion from an inner shelf dump-mound
… shelf in 11-17 m water depth, 3 km offshore from Tauranga Harbour, New Zealand. Graphic and volumetric analysis of bathymetric changes over the dump-mound and its near vicinity, between 1978 and 1988, showed that based on echo-sounding surveys a high reduction in dump-mound volume occurs in the …
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Tīmata whakaora, kickstarting recovery - Using bivalves to bioremediate degraded estuarine sediments
… following disturbance. Two field experiments in Tauranga Harbour, Aotearoa New Zealand were conducted, first a controlled disturbance-recovery translocation trial (after acute disturbance) and second, a large-scale translocation across a gradient of environmental (chronic) stress. In the first …
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Impact on the North Island freight infrastructure in the event of a disruption of the Ports of Auckland
… as an import port in comparison to Port of Tauranga (POT) that has traditionally had an export focus. This last fact is of great importance, as in a case of a disruption of the POAL, any import consigned to the Auckland and northern region will need to be redirected through POT in a quick …
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Mauri oho, mauri tu, mauri ora: Enhancing Maori health and wellbeing through a critical engagement with social marketing
… four Maori groups and various kaiarahi hauora in Tauranga Moana to examine and articulate a series of collective responses to research issues. As a result of this research, my findings indicate that Maori continue to articulate a desire to live by principles and practices espoused through holistic …
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Ngā Wai E Rere Nei: The Physical and Symbolic Representations of Embodied Waters of Birth and Mourning
… to the wider body of knowledge or mātauranga, in which water, is fundamental to concepts of human and environmental life and death. The thesis examines the tikanga, meaning knowledge, values and practices, regarding the embodied waters, related to human procreation and death. The …
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New Zealand seagrass (Zostera muelleri) response to acute sedimentation: Linking non-structural carbohydrate reserves to resilience
… to catastrophic burial (acute) events in Tauranga Harbour, New Zealand. Non-structural carbohydrates (NSC) are synthesised and stored in seagrass tissues when photosynthetic outputs exceed metabolic demands and, in turn, are mobilised when photosynthesis is unable to meet metabolic …
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