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| EFSAP Environmental Flows Strategic Allocation Platform |
EFSAP is designed to assist with quantifying instream (physical habitat for fish) and out-of-stream (reliability of supply) consequences of different minimum flow and allocation limits... Read More | EFSAP was developed by NIWA as a water allocation decision support tool. The main uses of this tool have been in response to the introduction... Read More | Freshwater Biodiversity | Water allocation, stream habitat, scenarios | |
| FIF Forest Investment Framework |
Forest Investment Framework (FIF) enables decision-makers to identify sub-catchments or regions across New Zealand and assess their viability of purchasing land and its conversion to... Read More | The Forest Investment Framework (FIF), previously called the Forest Investment Finder, has been developed to enable the assessment of key ecosystem services provided by planted... Read More | Land Ecosystem Services Freshwater Biodiversity | Forest ecosystem services, timber viability, pimus radiata, impedance layers, revenue layers, carbon sequestration, avoided erosion, provision of habitats, roading costs | |
| FENZ Freshwater Ecosystems of New Zealand |
FENZ consists of a large set of spatial data layers and supporting information on New Zealand's rivers, lakes and wetlands. The database aims to support... Read More | The Freshwater Ecosystems of NZ (FENZ) geo-database provides an independent, national representation of the biodiversity values and pressures on New Zealand's rivers, lakes and wetlands.... Read More | Biodiversity Freshwater | Biodiversity, Freshwater ecosystems | |
| InVEST Integrated Valuation of Ecosystem Services and Trade-offs |
The Integrated Valuation of Ecosystem Services and Trade-offs (InVEST) tool is a suite of free open source software models for the mapping and valuing of... Read More | InVEST is the main tool developed by the natural capital project in partnership with several academic collaborators including Stanford Department of Biology, the Chinese Academy... Read More | Freshwater Coastal Biodiversity Land Community | ||
| LUCI Land Utilisation and Capability Indicator |
Land Utilisation and Capability Indicator (LUCI) is a tool that allows users to explore the capability of a landscape to provide a variety of ecosystem... Read More | The Land Utilisation and Capability Indicator (LUCI) model allows the mapping of ecosystem services from the sub-field to national scale, and modelling of the impact... Read More | Land Ecosystem Services Freshwater Biodiversity | Ecosystem services, Land capability, indicators, Water quality, Soil, Sediment, River flow, Phosphorus, Other Services, Nitrogen, Management outcome, Land use, Land cover Greenhouse gas fluxes, Climate scenarios, Biodiversity |
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| Marxan | Marxan is a conservation planning software that allows a systematic approach to the design of efficient conservation areas. Read More | Marxan is a suite of tools designed to help decision makers find good solutions to conservation planning problems. Initially designed to address conservation area design... Read More | Land Biodiversity Coastal | Biodiversity, conservation planning, priorities | |
| RiVAS River Values Assessment System |
RiVAS is designed to provide an explicit and standardised method to develop assessment criteria and significance thresholds for multiple in and out of river values.... Read More | The RiVAS tool (and its underlying method) uses a multi-criteria analysis (MCA) approach and aims to: Establish criteria to assess the river value; Identify significance thresholds... Read More | Biodiversity Community Freshwater | river, values, planning, significance | |
| SSYE Suspended Sediment Yield Estimator |
A New Zealand national GIS ‘layer’ to enable reconnaissance-scale estimation of suspended-sediment yields from New Zealand’s rivers and streams. It has been developed by NIWA... Read More | SSYE uses a raster-based GIS layer of specific suspended-sediment yield (SSY, t/km2/y) from New Zealand’s rivers and streams has been generated based on gauged sediment... Read More | Land Natural Hazards Biodiversity | sediment, sediment yield, river, stream | |
| TEC tool Threatened Environment Classification |
The Threatened Environment Classification Tool was created to make LENZ (Land Environments of New Zealand) accessible to key biodiversity managers. It is an extension to... Read More | The Threatened Environment Classification is an interactive GIS tool which helps planners identify and set a value on New Zealand‘s threatened environments. Landcare Research has... Read More | Land Biodiversity | LENZ, biodiversity, threatened, land environments | |
| Vertebrate Pest Control Decision Support System | This DSS is designed to assist a wide range of possible end-users in determining the most appropriate choices of control tools for a particular vertebrate... Read More | This DSS has been developed to assist a wide range of possible end-users in determining the most appropriate choices of control tools for a particular... Read More | Biosecurity Biodiversity | vertebrate pests, pest control, tools, biodiversity | |
| WISE Waikato Integrated Scenario Explorer |
WISE is an integrated spatial decision support system is intended to support regional policy development, planning and resource management. It allows future scenarios to be... Read More | The* Waikato Integrated Scenario Explorer (WISE)* is an Integrated Spatial Decision Support System (ISDSS) designed specifically for New Zealand which focuses on the Waikato region. It... Read More | Land Urban Systems Biodiversity Freshwater Ecosystem Services | regional policy, planning, resource management | |
| Zonation | Zonation identifies areas important for retaining habitat quality and connectivity for multiple species, indirectly aiming at species’ long-term persistence. Read More | The ZONATION tool provides methods and software for ecologically based land use planning including decision support for spatial conservation resource allocation. Zonation is used to... Read More | Biodiversity Ecosystem Services | biodiversity, prioritisation, |