Lake Hatuma Ecological Monitoring 2005 / prepared by Geoff Walls.

"June 2006"

"Environmental Management Group Technical Report, Internal, Environmental Monitoring Section."

Contract document prepared for Hawke's Bay Regional "Council ... May 2006."

Includes bibliographical references (p. 22).

Regular monitoring of ecological condition and trend is built into the planned management of Lake Hatuma, Hawkegass Bay, by the Hawke's Bay Regional Council. In December 1999, a regime for monitoring the ecological condition and trend of the lake was set up on contract for the Hawke's Bay Regional Council by Geoff Walls. This was done using the experience gained in establishing a similar monitoring regime in Pekapeka Swamp, Hawke's Bay, a year earlier. It also had the benefit of the local knowledge of adjacent landowners and Department of Conservation staff. Baseline surveys of vegetation and fauna were carried out at the same time. That work was reported upon (Lake Hatuma Ecological Monitoring, 1999). A companion report provides more background information and forms a monitoring plan (Lake Hatuma Ecological Monitoring Plan, February 2000). In early December 2001 and again in early December 2003, the monitoring programme was repeated, using the same sites and methods, and was reported upon. In October 2005, the monitoring programme was repeated as before. This document chronicles the monitoring results and draws comparisons with those obtained in 1999, 2001 and 2003. - Intro.

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