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2021 Braided Rivers seminar presentations

2021 Seminar

Thanks to this year’s sponsors:

Click the links to each paper listed below to download a PDF of the Powerpoint presentation.

Topic: Habitats

Speaker Affiliation Topic
Sonny Whitelaw BRaid  (web pages):  Brief history of river management |  Defining a ‘braidplain’
Duncan Gray ECan

Braided river ecosystems: physical habitat, ecological complexity and the management conundrum

(published ECan report –  2021: Grove et al; Agricultural land use change in mid-Canterbury hill and high country, 1990- 2019: implications for indigenous biodiversity and ecosystem health )
Helen Greenep (presented by Philip Grove) ECan

Land use change of braided river margins

(published ECan report – 2021: Greenep and Parker; 2021: Land use change on the margins of lowland Canterbury braided rivers, 2012-2019)
David Owen (presented by Leigh Griffiths) &               Matt Surman ECan Braided River Revival Whakahaumanu ngā awa ā pākahi and steering the river management ship
Adrian Meredith ECan Important features of the “wet” part of braided rivers – important habitats of fishes, invertebrates and algae
Jo Hoyle NIWA Effects of flood harvesting on fine sediment deposition in braided rivers
Grant Davey BRaid/ ARRG The plight of the foothills-fed Canterbury braided rivers

Topic: Birds

Nick Ledgard BRaid Case studies of ‘ideal’ habitat enhancement
Ellery Mayence DOC Incorporating food web research into a braided river adaptive management project: overview of the next five years on the Waiau Toa/Clarence River
Colin O’Donnell DOC

Distribution and long term population trends of banded dotterels on braided rivers in New Zealand
Dan Burgin WMIL

Threats faced by shorebirds along flyways and wintering grounds
Ann-Kathryn Schlesselmann Landcare Research Tōrea /South Island pied oystercatcher on the move
Jean Jack ECan River bird surveys and gravel extraction under the RMA

Topic: Pests, predators, futures, and forum

Andy Spanton

Selwyn District Council

 Rakaia Catchment Habitat Environmental Enhancement Society restoration projects

Ini-Isabée Gunn                   & Lauren Smith

 LINZ Expanding weed and pest control operations in Rakaia River – What next?
Brent Barrett Boffa Miskell The commercialisation horizon of new pest tracking and control technology
Sonny Whitelaw BRaid Climate change and biodiversity project
Day 1: Seminar at Lincoln University

Day 1: Seminar at Lincoln University

Day 2: Site visit Ashley Rakahuri River

Day 2: Site visit Ashley Rakahuri River