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Links and publications

Links

Freshwater fish
Freshwater fish identifications
Whitebait identification
Whitebait connection
DoC native fish information
DoC pest fish information
Creating passage for migrating fish
Landcare Trust: Freshwater fish brochure
Landcare Trust: Freshwater fish brochure (Māori version)
Landcare Trust: Native fish in the city
Save the Longfin eel

Freshwater invertebrates

Stream invertebrate photos
Quick guides to identification
Photo guide to invertebrates

Birds and bats
Hamilton City bat survey

Water quality

Water quality in New Zealand

Stream restoration
Stream corridor restoration: principles, processes and practices
Reintroducing wood into streams (Australia)
Conducting watershed outreach campaigns (USA)
Landcare Trust: Stream fix brochure

Riparian planting
Hamilton City Council's gully restoration guide
Planting under willows
Stabilising characteristics of native plants (New Zealand)
Landcare Trust: Fixing stream edges

Stream monitoring and management
Stream Health Monitoring and Assessment Kit
Streambank stability (Australia)
Landcare Trust: Caring for catchments

Stormwater management and sustainable urban design
Installation and maintenance of rain gardens - do and don'ts
Treating stormwater with floating wetlands
Urban river contaminants: literature review
Urban greening manual
Urban stormwater and the ecology of streams (CRC report)

Educational material
Rivers and Us programme for schools
Wai Care - Together for healthy waterways
Silent Streams story
Streams in the city
Waterlink - resources for teachers

Kids stuff
Freshwater fish card game
Freshwater board game
Wild over waterways
Up the Creek
Creek clean up
Darby duck and the aquatic crusaders
Word Search
Waterlink - adventures for kids
Rusty's Big Adventure

Other environmental orgainsations
Hamilton Environment Centre
New Zealand Freshwater Sciences Society
New Zealand Native Freshwater Fish Society
New Zealand Landcare Trust
Waikato Biodiversity Forum

Other stream and river care groups
Albermale Stream
Oakley Creek
Waikato Rivercare
Mangaiti Gully Restoration Group


Hamilton urban stream publications

Aldridge, B.M.T.A. and B.J. Hicks. 2006. The distribution of fish in the urban gully system streams of Hamilton City. CBER Contract Report No. 48. Client report prepared for Environment Waikato and Hamilton City Council. Centre for Biodiversity and Ecology Research, Department of Biological Sciences, School of Science and Engineering, The University of Waikato, Hamilton.

Beard, S. 2008. Regional rivers water quality monitoring programme: Data report 2008. Environment Waikato, Hamilton.

Beard, S. 2011. Waikato River Water Quality Monitoring Programme: Data Report 2010. Tecnical report TR 2011/03, Environment Waikato, Hamilton.

Clarkson, B.D.; McQueen, J.C. 2004. Ecological restoration in Hamilton City, North Island, New Zealand. 16th International Conference, Society for Ecological Restoration, August 24-26, 2004, Victoria, Canada.

Clearwater, S.J.; Valler, T. 2012. Contaminants in Hamilton's urban stream sediments and ectoxicity to amphipods. Waikato Regional Council Technical Report 2012/38. Waikato Regional Council, Hamilton.

Collier, K.J.; Clarkson, B.D.; Aldridge, B.M.T.A.; Hicks, B.J. 2008. Can urban streams be restored? Linking vegetation restoration with urban stormwater mitigation. Proceedings of the New Zealand Water and Wastes Association conference, 15-16 May, Rotorua.

Collier, K.J.; Aldridge, B.M.T.A.; Hicks, B.J.; Kelly, J.; Macdonald, A; Smith, B.J.; Tonkin, J. 2009. Ecological values of Hamilton urban streams (North Island, New Zealand): constraints and opportunities for restoration. New Zealand Journal of Ecology 32: 177-189.

Collier, K.L.; Clements, B.L. 2011. Influences of catchment and corridor imperviousness on urban stream macroinvertebrate communities at multiple spatial scales. Hydrobiologia 664: 35-50.

Downs, T.; Clarkson, B.; Beard, C. 2000. Key ecological sites of Hamilton City. Site descriptions vols. I and II. Centre for Biodiversity and Ecology Research, The University of Waikato, Hamilton.

Hickey, C.; Macaskill, B.; Martin, M. Scarsbrook, M.; Williamson, B. 2001. Hamilton city stormwater: assessment of contaminant loads and impacts on the Waikato Rvier. NIWA client report HCC00210, NIWA, Hamilton.

Hicks, B.J.; G.B. Reynolds; J.L. Laboyrie; and C.D.H. Hill. 2001. Ecological and physical characteristics of the Te Awa O Katapaki Stream, Flagstaff, Waikato. CBER Contract Report 13. Prepared for CDL Land (NZ) Limited. Centre for Biodiversity and Ecology Research, Department of Biological Sciences, The University of Waikato, Hamilton. 19 pp.

Morgan, D.K.J.; Waas, J.R.; Innes, J. 2009. An inventory of mammalian pests in a New Zealand city. New Zealand Journal of Zoology 36: 23-33. 

Peters, M. 2008. Urban waterways. Survey of  Hamilton residents. New Zealand Landcare Trust, Hamilton.

Smith, B. Diversity of adult aquatic insects in Hamilton urban streams and seepages. Technical report 2007/20, Environment Waikato, Hamilton.

Tonkin & Taylor 2001. Hamilton City Council municipal stormwater discharges. Assessment of environmental effects. Tonkin & Taylor, Hamilton.

Vant, W. 2008. Trends in river water quality in the Waikato Region 1987-2007. Environment Waikato Technical Report 2008/33. Environment Waikato, Hamilton. 

Wilding, T. K. 1998. The state of Hamilton streams. Environment Waikato Technical Report 1997/17, Environment Waikato, Hamilton.


Williamson, B. 2001. Streams and lakes in and near Hamilton and the issues for stormwater disposal. NIWA client report HCC00213, NIWA, Hamilton.