Research and monitoring in Ulva Island-Te Wharawhara Marine Reserve

Monitoring

Research

Selected publications related to the marine reserve:

• New Zealand’s great white sharks: how science is revealing their secrets, by Alison Ballance. Publisher: Potton & Burton, 2017.
• Light limitation within southern New Zealand kelp forest communities. By M Desmond et al, 2015.
• Overthrowing a regime shift: displacement of sea urchins by abalone in a kelp forest ecosystem. By Stephen Wing et al, 2015.
• Distribution of the New Zealand scallop (Pecten novaezealandiae) within and surrounding a customary fisheries area (external site). By Brenton Twist, Christopher Hepburn et al, 2015.
• Pecten novaezealandiae at its southern limit: habitat dynamics and ecology within Paterson Inlet, Stewart Island (external site). Brenton Twist MSc thesis, 2015. 
• Ulva Island-Te Wharawhara Marine Reserve Habitat mapping, 2015. Report prepared for the Department of Conservation by eCoast Limited (in preparation).
• Ulva Island-Te Wharawhara Marine Reserve BUV survey, 2014. Report prepared for the Department of Conservation by eCoast Limited (in preparation).
• Mass-transfer gradients across kelp beds influence Macrocystis pyrifera growth over small spatial scales. By Tiff Stephens and Christopher Hepburn 2014.
• Regional population connectivity, oceanic habitat, and return migration revealed by satellite tagging of white sharks, Carcharodon carcharias, at New Zealand aggregation sites. By Clinton Duffy, Malcolm Francis et al (2012) in Global Perspectives on the Biology and the Life History of the White Shark, CRC Press 301–318.
• The third dimension: vertical habitat use by white sharks, Carcharodon carcharias, in New Zealand and in oceanic and tropical waters of the southwest Pacific Ocean. By Malcolm Francis, Clinton Duffy et al (2012) in Global Perspectives on the Biology and the Life History of the White Shark. CRC Press 319–342.
• Stewart Island/Rakiura Conservation Management Strategy and Rakiura National Park Management Strategy (PDF, 2.850K).
• Relative abundance, size and age structure, and stock status of blue cod in Paterson Inlet of BCO 5 in 2010 (PDF, 2,380K) (external site). New Zealand Fisheries Assessment Report 2014/14.
• Ngā Tipa o Te Whaka ā Te Wera Mātaitai. Stratified survey of the Paterson Inlet customary scallop (Pecten novaezelandiae) fishery, 2013 (PDF, 765K).
• Freshwater Estuary Fine Scale Monitoring 2012/3. Prepared for Environment Southland by Barry Robertson and Leigh Stevens.
• Environment Southland – Review of State of the Environment Water Quality Monitoring Programme, April 2010.By Aquanet Consulting Ltd.
• Stewart Island Non-Indigenous Species Port Survey 2009 (surveying work was carried out in 2006). Prepared for MAF Biosecurity New Zealand.
• Results of an attempt to control and eradicate Undaria pinnatifida in Southland, New Zealand, April 1997–November 2004 (PDF, 1,550K) (external site). Department of Conservation, 2009.
• Advice on the Development of Appropriate Monitoring Conditions for Marine Farm Sites in Southland (PDF, 3,540K). Cawthron report 2008.
• Exposure to waves enhances the growth rate and nitrogen status of the giant kelp Macrocystis pyrifera. By Christopher Hepburn et al, 2007.
• Stewart Island Non-Indigenous Species Port Survey (surveying work was carried out in 2006). Prepared for MAF Biosecurity New Zealand.
• Baseline Ecological Monitoring of the Ulva Island/Te Wharawhara Marine Reserve (PDF, 1,320K) (external site). By Stephen Wing, 2006.
• Toxic and noxious phytoplankton in Big Glory Bay, Stewart Island, New Zealand. By
  Lincoln MacKenzie, Cawthron Institute, 1991.
• Baseline monitoring report on fish for the proposed Paterson Inlet (Waka a Te Wera) Marine Reserve, Stewart Island (Rakiura; 1994-1998). By WL Chatterton and RJ Davidson 2003. Prepared by Davidson Environmental Limited for Department of Conservation, Southland. Survey and Monitoring Report No. 168.
• A study on salmon farming in Big Glory Bay (PDF, 1,930K) was produced by the DSIR for the Southland Catchment Board (Roper et al. 1988). 
• Soft-bottom assemblages of Paterson Inlet, Stewart Island, 1981. By RC Willan. New Zealand Journal of Zoology 8(2): 229-248.
• The marine algae of Stewart Island. By Nancy Adams et al, 1974. Records of the Dominion Museum 8: 185-245.
• Marine algae of Stewart Island: a list of species 1974. By Nancy Adams et al.
• Algae Nova-Zelandicae Exsiccatae: 14 Fascicles. By Victor Lindauer.