A national ecosystem typology sets out ecosystem types and names so that there is a common language. MfE commissioned Manaaki Whenua Landcare Research to investigate a unifying ecosystem typology that would bring together all of the domains in New Zealand.
A national ecosystem typology sets out ecosystem types and names so that there is a common language. MfE commissioned Manaaki Whenua Landcare Research to investigate a unifying ecosystem typology that would bring together all of the domains in New Zealand.
The resulting report, Investigating a unifying ecosystem typology for all New Zealand recommends the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) Global Ecosystem Typology as the best typology to meet international obligations for reporting, and provide a framework for a broad range of applications at regional and national scales.
Researchers from Manaaki Whenua, NIWA, ESR and Cawthron also produced domain specific roadmaps setting out for groundwater, lakes, rivers, wetlands, terrestrial and estuarine & marine the current state of typologies and recommended next steps for development of a national typology.
Documents
Appendix 2 Other countries crosswalks to the IUCN GET
Appendix 3 Crosswalks of naturally uncommon ecosystems
Appendix 4 Challenges with the development and implementation of a unifying typology
Road map to update the existing typology for terrestrial ecosystems
Roadmap to an updated ecosystem for rivers
Roadmap to an updated ecosystem for the marine and estuary domain
Roadmap to an updated groundwater ecosystem typology