Coastal turfs of Otago: monitoring plan Technical Report
- Author
- Gretchen E Brownstein, Norman Mason, Adrian Monks
- Editor
- Elise Arnst
- Year
- 2022
- Publisher / Organisation
- Otago Regional Council / Manaaki Whenua – Landcare Research
- Number
- LC4218
- Month
- October
- Pages
- 35
- Keywords
- turf, Otago, monitoring
- Summary
- Otago Regional Council (ORC) engaged Manaaki Whenua – Landcare Research to prepare a monitoring plan for the coastal turf communities (a naturally uncommon ecosystem) in Otago as part of the ORC’s wider workstream to develop naturally uncommon ecosystem monitoring. This report identifies representative sampling sites and monitoring methods for the timely detection of ecological changes in coastal turf communities.