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• The use of seagrass (Zostera muelleri) habitat by Canada geese (Branta canadensis) in Waikato estuaries. 

  Ferries, Michal (The University of Waikato, 2021)

  Seagrass beds are highly biodiverse habitats delivering key ecosystem functions and services to mankind. Zostera muelleri is New Zealand’s single seagrass species, and occurs intertidally within several estuaries and ...

  

• FilmGrain 

  Simmons, Rowan; Apperley, Mark; Soo, Chin-En Keith (2019)

  Films are an integral part of our cultural zeitgeist, as time goes on, they have become more than entertainment, they have become a mirror that we point at ourselves in order to explore issues and our position in the world. ...

  

• Mapping Māori knowledge from the past to inform marine management futures 

  Paul-Burke, Kura; O'Brien, Tuwhakairiora; Burke, Joseph; Bluett, Charlie (New Zealand Association of Scientists, 2020)

  This article provides an overview of research which used mātauranga moana (Māori marine knowledge systems) to inform and assist Western science field research methods and surveys. Place-based Māori marine knowledge identified ...

  

• Small-Town Melancholy [Review of Gothic NZ: The Darker Side of Kiwi Culture by Misha Kavka, Jennifer Lawn, Mary Paul] 

  Hardy, Ann (2007)

  This book-an evocation of Gothic elements in New Zealand culture-rapidly announces itself as an impossible project, or at least, as a project dependent on an actively sympathetic disposition in its interpreters. It is, ...

  

• Using the stars to indigenize the public sphere: Matariki over New Zealand 

  Hardy, Anna; Whaanga, Hēmi (MDPI, 2019)

  As the rate of affiliation to Christian identity continues to decline in Aotearoa New Zealand (only 49 percent of the population said they were Christian in the last census), public space has become more receptive to other ...

  

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