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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.

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.

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...