Vehicles on New Zealand beaches: an annotated bibliography of research on physical and ecological impacts DOC Publication
- Author
- La Cock, Graeme D
- Year
- 2022
- Publisher / Organisation
- Department of Conservation
- Month
- October
- Pages
- 21
- Species
- Paphies ventricosa, toheroa, Paphies donacina, southern tuatua, Paphies tuatua, Tuatua
- Keywords
- Vehicles, green-lipped mussel, toheroa, tuatua, shellfish, saltmarsh wetland, dune,
- Summary
- A 1999 review of vehicle impacts on the biota of sandy beaches and coastal dunes in New Zealand found very little work had been done locally. Since then the New Zealand Coastal Policy Statement (2010) has been published, with a strong policy on managing vehicles on beaches. Requests for examples of New Zealand research on the topic led to this collation of material. Other than research on impacts on shellfish, there is still a paucity of work on impacts on other biota, including birds and vegetation with one quantitative study on each. However, there are some studies of impacts on habitat. Recent studies have used drone imagery, GIS spatial analysis and remote sensing techniques. Most of the work included in this bibliography comprises grey literature, mainly undergraduate and postgraduate work, reports by government agencies, councils, universities and Crown institutes. Five of the 38 items have been formally published in scientific journals, of which one contains quantitative research.