LERNZ Lake Ecosystem Restoration New Zealand
Linking lake restoration research with end users to achieve outcomes.
- New models and technologies to effectively manage harmful algal blooms.
- New pest fish management and control technologies.
- A city retrofit model
The aim of LERNZ is to identify and remediate threats to lake ecosystems. Through better knowledge of these threats and ways to manage them, improved methods for lake restoration can be developed.
Upcoming Events:
NZFSS Conference 2010
New Zealand Freshwater Sciences Society will be holding their conference in Christchurch this year. The dates will be 22-26 Nov, 2010. The focus is Freshwater Solutions.
To find out how to become an NZFSS member click here.
Recent News:
New Publications
LERNZ Newsletter No.15, June 2010
Collier, K.J., Hamilton, D.P., Vant, W., and Howard-Williams, C., 2010. Waters of the Waikato: Ecology of New Zealand’s Longest River. Environment Waikato/University of Waikato, 292 pp.
Hamilton, D.P. and Duggan, I.C., 2010. Plankton. Chapter 7. In: Waters of the Waikato: Ecology of New Zealand’s Longest River. K.J. Collier, D.P. Hamilton, W. Vant and C. Howard-Williams (Eds.) Environment Waikato/University of Waikato, pp. 117-132.
Hamilton, D.P., Vant, W. and Neilson, K. 2010. Lowland lakes. Chapter 13. In: Waters of the Waikato: Ecology of New Zealand’s Longest River. K.J. Collier, D.P. Hamilton, W. Vant and C. Howard-Williams (Eds.) Environment Waikato/University of Waikato, pp. 245-264.
Hicks, B.J, Ling, N. and Wilson, B. 2010. Introduced fish. Chapter 11. In: Waters of the Waikato: Ecology of New Zealand’s Longest River. K.J. Collier, D.P. Hamilton, W. Vant and C. Howard-Williams (Eds.) Environment Waikato/University of Waikato, pp. 209-228.
Howard-Williams, C., Vant, W., Collier, K.J. and Hamilton, D.P. 2010. Synthesis and conclusions. Chapter 16. In: Waters of the Waikato: Ecology of New Zealand’s Longest River. K.J. Collier, D.P. Hamilton, W. Vant and C. Howard-Williams (Eds.) Environment Waikato. Environment Waikato/University of Waikato, pp. 282-293.
Ling, N. 2009. Management of invasive fish. In: Invasive Species Management: A Handbook of Principles and Techniques Clout, M.N. and Williams, P.A. (Eds). Oxford University Press. pp. 185-249.
Hamilton, D.P., O’Brien, K.R., Burford, M.A., Brookes, J.D. and McBride, C.G. 2010. Vertical distributions of chlorophyll in deep, warm monomictic lakes. Aquatic Sciences-Research Across Boundaries 72: 295–307. (Read abstract)
Kusabs, I. and Quinn, J. 2009. Use of a traditional Māori harvesting method, the tau kōura, for monitoring kōura (freshwater crayfish, Paranephrops planifrons) in Lake Rotoiti, North Island, New Zealand. N.Z. J. Mar. Freshwat. Res. 43: 713-722. (Read abstract)
Landman, M.J., and Ling, N. 2010. Fish health changes in Lake Okaro, New Zealand: effects of nutrient remediation, season or eutrophication? Hydrobiologia.10.1007/s10750-010-0315-7. (Read abstract)
Özkundakci, D., Hamilton, D.P. and Gibbs, M. 2010. Hypolimnetic phosphorus and nitrogen dynamics in a small, eutrophic lake with a seasonally anoxic hypolimnion. Hydrobiologia DOI:10.1007/s10750-010-0358-9.
von Westernhagen, N., Hamilton, D.P., Pilditch, C.A. 2010. Temporal and spatial variations in phytoplankton productivity in surface waters of a warm-temperate, monomictic lake in New Zealand. Hydrobiologia DOI: 10.1007/s10750-010-0358-9.(Read abstract)
Pouwels, A., Hamilton, D.P., Arzberger, P.W., Kratz, T.K. and Lin, F-P. 2009. Use of lake sensor data in student education. Verhandlung Internationale Vereingung de Limnologie 30(5): 673-676.
Trolle, D., Zhu, G., Hamilton, D.P., Luo, L., McBride, C. and Zhang, L. 2009: The influence of water quality and sediment geochemistry on the horizontal and vertical distribution of phosphorus and nitrogen in sediments of a large, shallow lake. Hydrobiologia 627: 31-44. (Read abstract)
Wood, S.A., Prentice, M.J., Smith, K. and Hamilton, D.P., 2010. Low dissolved inorganic nitrogen and increased heterocyte frequency: precursors to Anabaena planktonica blooms in a temperate, eutrophic reservoir. Journal of Plankton Research, doi:10.1093/plankt/fbq048. (Read abstract)
Wood, S.A., Jentzsch, K., Rueckert, A., Hamilton, D.P. and Cary, S.C. 2009: Hindcasting cyanobacterial communities in Lake Okaro with germination experiments and genetic analyses. FEMS Microbiology Ecology 67(2): 252-260. (Read abstract)
Özkundakci, D., 2010. Speciation and dynamics of phosphorus in relation to lake restoration methods. Ph.D. thesis, Department of Biological Sciences, University of Waikato.
Zhang, C., 2010. High frequency monitoring and three-dimensional modelling of temporal variations in water quality of Lake Rotorua, New Zealand. M.Sc. thesis, Department of Biological Sciences, University of Waikato.
