Publications
Muddy feet - Firth of Thames Ramsar site update 2004
Published by EcoQuest Education Foundation
This reports documents existing information about the southern Firth of Thames ecosystem and about the Ramsar site in particular, and can be obtained from Environment Waikato for $25.
Wetland types in New Zealand
P.N.Johnson; P.J.Gerbeaux, 2004, published by Department of Conservation
This book is the final output of a Ministry for the Environment project on coordinated monitoring of New Zealand wetlands. Its sets out to describe and illustrate how wetland types can be recognised and named using a classification system based primarily on wetland function at several sequential levels of hierarchy - from broadly defined hydrosystems, to wetland classes, then structural classes of vegetation and finally, wetland 'types' distinguished by their composition of dominant plants. The emphasis of the book is on inland freshwater wetlands, those near coastal estuaries and those of lake and river margins with fully aquatic systems of lakes and rivers covered in much less detail.
Please note, the pictures in these PDF files are black and white only. The book is printed in full colour and costs $40.
Part 1 (PDF, 562K)
Part 2 (PDF, 560K)
Part 3 (PDF, 588K)
Part 4 (PDF, 585K)
Part 5 (PDF, 596K)
Part 6 (PDF, 545K)
Part 7 (PDF, 467K)
Part 8 (PDF, 424K)
Part 9 (PDF, 303K)
Whangamarino wetland vegetation map methodology
Whangamarino wetland vegetation map methodology (PDF, 287K)
P.Reeves; R.Haskew, 2003, published by Department of Conservation
This report describes the methodology used to interpret aerial photography, ground-truth the interpreted images and produce a map showing vegetation change in the Whangamarino wetland.
A directory of wetlands in New Zealand
P Cromarty (compiler), D.A.Scott (Ed), 1996, published by Department of Conservation
The directory describes 73 significant wetlands and wetland complexes which are found from the far reaches of the North Island to the lower reaches of the South Island within New Zealand. It includes both wetlands on private land as well as those managed by local authorities and the Department of Conservation. The wetlands have been selected on the basis of criteria developed in relation to the Ramsar Convention.
Preliminary pages, introduction, general information and appendices (PDF, 231K)
The remainder of the text is divided into each Department of Conservation conservancy area:
Northland (PDF, 99K)
Auckland (PDF, 81K)
Waikato (PDF, 176K)
Bay of Plenty (PDF, 195K)
Tongariro/Taupo (PDF, 52K)
East Coast/Hawkes Bay (PDF, 71K)
Wanganui (PDF, 72K)
Wellington (PDF, 76K)
Nelson/Marlborough (PDF, 100K)
West Coast (PDF, 194K)
Canterbury (PDF, 433K)
Otago (PDF, 124K)
Southland (PDF, 123K)
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