Coastal Restoration Trust of New Zealand

Coastal Dune Ecosystem Reference Database

Shallow coastal lakes in New Zealand: assessing indicators of ecological integrity and their relationships to broad-scale human pressures

Author
Drake D, Kelly DJ, Schallenberg M, Enright M
Year
2009
Journal / Source
NIWA Client Report CHC2009-004
Pages
67 pp
Keywords
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Summary
We collected baseline biological, chemical and physical data from 45 shallow coastal New Zealand lakes (<10 m depth and usually within 25 km of the coastline) for evaluation as potential indicators of lake ecological integrity (EI). The 45 lakes of this study are geographically representative of the ~900 shallow coastal lakes in New Zealand, and the large and complex data set assembled here provides unique, detailed information about of a group of lakes that have received very little attention in the past.
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