Corruption is increasingly seen as a pivotal issue on which, depending on their response to it, societies rise, decline, or (even) collapse. Accounting’s 10 millennia role in generating trust and information for decision ...

Supplementary feeds are offered to grazing dairy cows to increase dry matter and metabolizable energy intakes; however, offering feed supplements reduces pasture dry matter intake, a phenomenon known as substitution. The ...

Simultaneously managing multiple pest species within one control operation is the most beneficial way to effectively manage New Zealand’s introduced mammalian pest species. Multi-species pest control can reduce multiple ...

Understanding the mechanisms that generate and regulate bacterial biodiversity is a key focus of microbial ecology. Indeed, understanding how bacterial communities will respond to varying environmental stressors, pollution ...

Dairy winter forage grazing is a common practice within the Canterbury region of New Zealand. However, until recently there was a lack of knowledge about the concentration and amount of nitrate-N (NO₃⁻-N) leached from dairy ...

Coriaria is the most widespread and vigorous genus of nodulated, nitrogen fixing plants in the native flora of New Zealand. The following study is concerned with the impact that Coriaria, and in particular C. arborea, has ...

Field experiments were conducted at Lincoln College, Canterbury, from 1979-81 to assess the effect of peas (pisum sativum) on subsequent crops and evaluate factors influencing their N-fixing activity. In two trials, ...

The work presented in this thesis was carried out in three phases: a study phase, an observation phase and an application phase. In the first phase, estimates of nitrous oxide emissions from New Zealand were made with two ...

Insect-proofing of wool is usually carried out by application of insecticides during dyeing. Inefficiencies in absorption of insecticide onto wool lead to aqueous effluent containing low levels of insecticide with a ...

A range of Proteaceous shrubs and other nursery plants were grown in containers with soilless media and various N levels. Plants demonstrated a range of responsiveness. Supplying soilless media with Osmocote (26% N) and ...