Information stocktakes of fifty-five environmental attributes across air, soil, terrestrial, freshwater, estuaries and coastal waters domains
- Author
- Lohrer D et al.
- Year
- 2024
- Journal / Source
- Prepared by NIWA, Manaaki Whenua Landare Research, Cawthron Institute, and Environet Limited for the Ministry for the Environment. NIWA report no. 2024216HN (project MFE24203).
- Publisher / Organisation
- Ministry for the Environment
- Pages
- 745 pp
- Summary
- plus 47 co-authors From dune extent chapter: Preamble: Aotearoa has multiple types of dune systems that are broadly characterised based on the origin of sand, location (e.g., coastal vs. terrestrial), and the physical activity that led to the structure of these systems (e.g., active, stable, volcanic, inland). While all dune systems in Aotearoa are important and endangered, we interpret this attribute to predominantly refer to coastal active and/or stable sand dunes as these systems have received the greatest share of attention relating to ecological integrity and because our professional expertise is within the estuaries and coastal waters domain. However, the issues and pressures related to the decrease of coastal dune extent can be broadly applied to all dune systems. Also note that dune ‘extent’ is encompassed under dune ‘condition index’ given extent is one indicator of dune condition.