Impact of Long-Term Exposure to High Chlorine and to Low pH Solutions during Chlorine Regeneration of Ammonia-Loaded Zeolite by Roberto Martin Narbaitz, Tianguang Zhang, Grace Oluwatomisin Akerele, Majid Sartaj, Jason Downey

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Leptospermum hoipolloi (Myrtaceae), a new species from Aotearoa / New Zealand, segregated from Leptospermum scoparium s. l. by Schmid L.M.H., de Lange P.J., Marshall A.J.

“…The new species is endemic to Te Ika a Maui / North Island and the northern part of Te Wai Pounamu / South Island of Aotearoa / New Zealand. The new species is morphologically distinguished from L. scoparium s. str. by the distinctly sericeous, narrower, and longer (up to 30 × 6 mm) lanceolate to elliptic lanceolate leaves, larger (up to 30 mm in diameter) flowers (these white, pink-tinged, pink-streaked or red); capsules up to 15.1 × 14.1 mm (unopened) and 16.6 × 18.0 mm (opened). …”
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Feasibility of Casein to Record Stable Isotopic Variation of Cow Milk in New Zealand by Kavindra Wijenayake, Russell Frew, Kiri McComb, Robert Van Hale, Dianne Clarke

“…As uniform feeding and fertilizer practices were applied throughout the sampling period, the subtropical (North Island) and temperate (South Island) climates were reflected in the variation of <i>δ</i>¹³C and <i>δ</i>¹⁵N. …”
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Late Holocene landscape change history related to the Alpine Fault determined from drowned forests in Lake Poerua, Westland, New Zealand by R. M. Langridge, R. Basili, L. Basher, A. P. Wells

“…Lake Poerua is a small, shallow lake that abuts the scarp of the Alpine Fault on the West Coast of New Zealand's South Island. Radiocarbon dates from drowned podocarp trees on the lake floor, a sediment core from a rangefront alluvial fan, and living tree ring ages have been used to deduce the late Holocene history of the lake. …”
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Data-driven customer segmentation and personalized information provision in public transit by Basu, Abhishek Arunasis

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Model-based PEEP optimisation in mechanical ventilation by Chiew Yeong Shiong, Chase J, Shaw Geoffrey M, Sundaresan Ashwath, Desaive Thomas

“…The trials and use of the data were approved by the New Zealand South Island Regional Ethics Committee.</p> <p>Results</p> <p>Median absolute percentage fitting error to the data when estimating time-variant <it>E_drs</it>is 0.9% (IQR = 0.5-2.4) and 5.6% [IQR: 1.8-11.3] when estimating constant <it>E_lung</it>. …”
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Spatial and Temporal Enhancement of Colour Development in Apples Subjected to Reflective Material in the Southern Hemisphere by Kerstin Funke, Michael Blanke

“…Fuji and Pacific Rose apple trees without hail nets in the Northern Part of the South Island (41° S) of NZ. Fruit colour (blush) was determined by scoring and colourimeter during fruit maturation and at harvest, and fruit quality was determined at harvest by standard methods. (4) <i>Results:</i> (a) In cv. …”
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Spatial and temporal analysis of extreme storm-tide and skew-surge events around the coastline of New Zealand by S. A. Stephens, R. G. Bell, I. D. Haigh

“…Extreme events more commonly impacted the east coast of the North Island of NZ during blocking weather types, and the South Island and west coast of the North Island during trough weather types. …”
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The Hapuku Rock Avalanche: Breaching and evolution of the landslide dam and outflow channel revealed using high spatiotemporal resolution datasets by Andrea Wolter, Caleb Gasston, Regine Morgenstern, Jason Farr, Brenda Rosser, Chris Massey, Dougal Townsend, Jon Tunnicliffe

“…The Hapuku landslide was the largest rock avalanche triggered by the 2016 Mw 7.8 Kaikōura earthquake sequence, occurring ∼9 km upstream of the main highway and rail corridor on the South Island of New Zealand. It dammed the Hapuku River, which rapidly formed a lake behind the 80 m-high deposit. …”
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A unified meta‐ecosystem dynamics model: Integrating herbivore‐plant subwebs with the intermittent upwelling hypothesis by Bruce A. Menge, Sarah A. Gravem, Erin Richmond, Mae M. Noble

“…Experiments at 10 sites ranging from persistent upwelling to persistent downwelling regimes ran for 26–29 months in Oregon and California, and New Zealand (NZ) South Island. For the MH subweb, results were consistent with the GWH: herbivory declined and macrophytes increased with increasing nutrients. …”
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Eocene (46–44 Ma) Onset of Australia‐Pacific Plate Motion in the Southwest Pacific Inferred From Stratigraphy in New Caledonia and New Zealand by Edoardo Dallanave, Pierre Maurizot, Claudia Agnini, Rupert Sutherland, Christopher J. Hollis, Julien Collot, Gerald R. Dickens, Valerian Bachtadse, Dominic Strogen, Hugh E. G. Morgans

“…We integrate records from New Caledonia with recent magnetostratigraphic data from South Island, New Zealand, where marked variations in terrigenous input occurred during the early and middle Eocene. …”
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Drivers of Spatial Distributions of Basking Shark (Cetorhinus maximus) in the Southwest Pacific by Brittany Finucci, Clinton A. J. Duffy, Tom Brough, Malcolm P. Francis, Marco Milardi, Matthew H. Pinkerton, Grady Petersen, Fabrice Stephenson

“…Areas of high basking shark habitat suitability included the east and west coasts of the South Island, Puysegur Ridge, and Auckland Island slope. …”
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Metabarcoding fecal samples to investigate spatiotemporal variation in the diet of the endangered Westland Petrel (Procellaria westlandica) by Marina Querejeta, Marie-Caroline Lefort, Vincent Bretagnolle, Stéphane Boyer

“…We used a noninvasive metabarcoding approach to characterize the diet of the Westland Petrel (Procellaria westlandica), which is an endangered burrowing species, endemic to the South Island of New Zealand. We collected 99 fresh fecal samples in 2 different seasons and in 2 different subcolonies. …”
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Three-dimensional coseismic deformation of the 2016 MW7.8 Kaikuora, New Zealand earthquake obtained by InSAR and offset measurements by Jiao Liu, Guohong Zhang, Jiaqing Wang, Guangtong Sun, Yingfeng Zhang, Yanzhao Wang, Chunyan Qu, Xinjian Shan

“…The 2016 MW7.8 Kaikoura earthquake struck the northern part of south Island, New Zealand, within the active and complex Australia–Pacific plate boundary system. …”
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Genomic Stock Structure of the Marine Teleost Tarakihi (Nemadactylus macropterus) Provides Evidence of Potential Fine-Scale Adaptation and a Temperature-Associated Cline Amid Panmi... by Yvan Papa, Mark A. Morrison, Maren Wellenreuther, Maren Wellenreuther, Peter A. Ritchie

“…Outlier-based, presumably adaptive variation suggests fine-scale adaptive structure between locations around central New Zealand off the east (Wairarapa, Cape Campbell, and Hawke’s Bay) and the west coast (Tasman Bay/Golden Bay and Upper West Coast of South Island). Allele frequencies from 55 loci were associated with at least one of six environmental variables, of which 47 correlated strongly with yearly mean water temperature. …”
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Modelled glacier equilibrium line altitudes during the mid-Holocene in the southern mid-latitudes by C. Bravo, M. Rojas, B. M. Anderson, A. N. Mackintosh, E. Sagredo, P. I. Moreno

“…We focus on the middle latitudes of the Southern Hemisphere, specifically Patagonia and the South Island of New Zealand. Climate conditions for the MH were obtained from PMIP2 model simulations, which in turn were used to force a simple glacier mass balance model to simulate changes in ELA. …”
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Multi-Layered High Permeability Conduits Connecting Onshore and Offshore Coastal Aquifers by Bradley A. Weymer, Phillipe A. Wernette, Phillipe A. Wernette, Mark E. Everett, Potpreecha Pondthai, Marion Jegen, Aaron Micallef, Aaron Micallef

“…This study presents a first attempt to bridge this gap by combining three complementary near-surface electromagnetic methods to image groundwater pathways within braided alluvial gravels along the Canterbury coast, South Island, New Zealand. We show that collocated electromagnetic induction, ground penetrating radar, and transient electromagnetic measurements, which are sensitive to electrical contrasts between fresh (low conductivity) and saline (high conductivity) groundwater, adequately characterize hydrogeologic variations beneath a mixed sand gravel beach in close proximity to the Ashburton River mouth. …”
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Modelling the variation in wood density of New Zealand-grown Douglas-fir by Mark O. Kimberley, Russell B McKinley, David J. Cown, John R. Moore

“…After adjusting for age and temperature, wood density was also positively related to soil carbon (C) to nitrogen (N) ratio in South Island stands where data on soil C:N ratio were available. …”
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Surveying abundance and stand type associations of Formica aquilonia and F. lugubris (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) nest mounds over an extensive area: Trialing a novel method by Kerry M. BORKIN, Ron W. SUMMERS, Len THOMAS

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Autonomous Detection of Mouse-Ear Hawkweed Using Drones, Multispectral Imagery and Supervised Machine Learning by Narmilan Amarasingam, Mark Hamilton, Jane E. Kelly, Lihong Zheng, Juan Sandino, Felipe Gonzalez, Remy L. Dehaan, Hillary Cherry

“…The imagery was obtained at numerous spatial resolutions from a highly infested study site located in the McKenzie Region of the South Island of New Zealand in January 2021. The spatial resolution of 0.65 cm/pixel (acquired at a flying height of 15 m above ground level) produced the highest overall testing and validation accuracy of 100% using the RF, KNN, and XGB models for detecting hawkweed flowers. …”
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