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Research
Current Projects
- Ministry for the Environment - Sustainable Management Fund
Project Brief: Empowering coastal communities to adapt to climate change. Download Report [12 Kb PDF]
- Ministry for the Environment - Sustainable Farming Fund
Project Brief: Adapting productive coastal landuses to Climate Change. Download Report [12 Kb PDF]
Past Projects
- Development of reliable techniques for raising low-cost spinifex
seedlings for dune revegetation programmes - seed collection, handling
and germination techniques as well as vegetative propagation.
- Spinifex phenology - flowering and seeding studies
- Fertiliser requirements of existing spinifex and pingao cover on
coastal foredunes, Bay of Plenty
- Restoration of exposed sites - establishment of mixtures of spinifex
and marram grass on foredunes at Santoft, Rangitikei
- Restoration of exposed sites - establishment of natural sand-binding
plants on mechanically-shaped dunes in Oakura, Taranaki
- Restoration of exposed sites - establishment of spinifex and pingao
on unstable dunes at Te Henga/Bethells Beach, Auckland
- Establishment of indigenous plant communities on foredunes and
backdunes at South Brighton, Christchurch
- Restoration of indigenous plant communities on semi-stable and
stable sand dunes
- Propagation and establishment of Euphorbia glauca (shore spurge)
- Review of rabbit and hare control methods on sand dunes
Research Reports
- Bergin, D.O., 2008. Performance of Indigenous Species Three Years After Planting on a Backdune, Ohiwa Spit, Eastern Bay of Plenty. Environmental Restoration Ltd Contract Report ERL08/02, 24pp. Download Report [2.3 Mb PDF]
- Bergin, D.O., 2008. Establishment of the Indigenous Sand Binder Spinifex /(Spinifex Sericeus)/ Along the Sand Dunes of Christchurch. Environmental Restoration Ltd Contract Report ERL08/03, 27pp. Download Report [2.1 Mb pdf]
- Performance of indigenous sand-binders planted on a reshaped foredune at Oakura Beach, New Plymouth, David Bergin, Elizabeth Miller, Ensis, Rotorua; John Leslie, Paul Jamieson, New Plymouth District Council. Download Report [2.4 Kb PDF]
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