scholarly journals Flood Hydraulics and Impacts on Invasive Vegetation in a Braided River Floodplain, New Zealand

2012 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Brian Caruso ◽  
Alex Ross ◽  
Claire Shuker ◽  
Tim Davies
Keyword(s):  
New Zealand ◽  
Braided River ◽  
River Floodplain

He awa whiria—A “Braided River”: An Indigenous Māori Approach to Mixed Methods Research

2021 ◽  
pp. 155868982098402
Author(s):  
Rhiannon Martel ◽  
Matthew Shepherd ◽  
Felicity Goodyear-Smith
Keyword(s):  
Mixed Methods ◽  
New Zealand ◽  
North American ◽  
Mixed Methods Research ◽  
Mixed Methodology ◽  
Braided River ◽  
Research Framework ◽  
Research Philosophy

While literature on mixed methodology predominantly focuses on North American and European philosophical stances, non-Eurocentric worldviews and indigenous philosophies are also relevant to mixed methods research. This article aims to present the indigenous Māori worldview ( te ao Māori) and how this lends itself to mixed methods research, in a New Zealand European and Māori partnership, to conduct bicultural research. The authors use the Māori metaphor He awa whiria (braided river) to describe combining the strengths of two distinct worldviews into a “workable whole.” A framework brings together these two different paradigms as equals, incorporating both numerical and opinion-driven results. The authors illustrate this with a research example of creating a bicultural research framework, underpinned by mixed methods research philosophy.

Diet of mammalian predators in braided river beds in the central South Island, New Zealand

2004 ◽  
Vol 31 (6) ◽  
pp. 631 ◽  
Author(s):  
Elaine C. Murphy ◽  
Rachel J. Keedwell ◽  
Kerry P. Brown ◽  
Ian Westbrooke
Keyword(s):  
New Zealand ◽  
Bird Species ◽  
Gut Contents ◽  
Frequency Of Occurrence ◽  
Braided River ◽  
Braided Rivers ◽  
Rabbit Haemorrhagic Disease ◽  
Mammalian Predators ◽  
Mustela Furo ◽  
Haemorrhagic Disease

In New Zealand, five of the six endemic bird species that breed primarily in South Island braided river beds are classed as threatened. A major cause of decline for these species is predation by introduced mammals, and predator-trapping programs are undertaken in the braided rivers of the Mackenzie Basin to protect them. Trapping programs carried out between September 1997 and April 2001 provided the opportunity to investigate predator diet from the gut contents of 375 cats (Felis catus), 371 ferrets (Mustela furo) and 86 stoats (Mustela erminea). As a percentage frequency of occurrence of the main prey items, cat diet consisted of lagomorphs (present in 70% of guts), birds (in 47%), lizards (30%) and invertebrates (36%). Ferret diet consisted of lagomorphs (69%) and birds (28%). Stoat diet consisted of lagomorphs (50%), birds (51%), lizards (21%) and invertebrates (23%). The frequency of occurrence of birds in all three predators was higher in the spring/summer of 1997 – immediately after rabbit haemorrhagic disease (RHD) was introduced – than in any other previous diet study on these braided rivers. This suggests that RHD did lead to increased predation pressure on birds, at least in the short term.

Conifer and cycad distribution in the Miocene of southern New Zealand

2007 ◽  
Vol 55 (2) ◽  
pp. 143 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mike Pole
Keyword(s):  
New Zealand ◽  
Late Cretaceous ◽  
New Genus ◽  
Early Miocene ◽  
Braided River ◽  
Widespread Species ◽  
Low Diversity

One hundred and nineteen samples were investigated from Early Miocene localities of the St Bathans Paleovalley in the Manuherikia Group in Central Otago and the Gore Lignite Measures of the East Southland Group in Southland for their content of conifer and cycad macrofossils. In total, these contained 16 species of conifer in 12 genera. They include the first New Zealand record of Papuacedrus and a new genus of cycad. A specimen previously described as Podocarpaceae-Taxaceae is now regarded as being in the Taxaceae, and is the first clear record of this family in New Zealand. The ranges of Araucaria taieriensis (known from the Late Cretaceous) and Kakahuia (known from the Paleocene) are extended to the Early Miocene. Retrophyllum vulcanense was the most widespread species in the gravel-dominated braided river environment of the St Bathans Paleovalley, and was dominant in some low-diversity communities. Dacrycarpus dacrydioides was the second most widespread species in the Valley. One sample stands out as being distinctly different, as it contains the only record of Papuacedrus and Dacrydium while Retrophyllum is absent. The taxonomic make-up of the Gore Lignite Measures is different, possibly due to the very different peat and clay-dominated soils with poorer drainage. In contrast to the St Bathans paleovalley, Araucariaceae and Dacrydium appear more important in the Gore Lignite Measures.

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