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Managing biodiversity information: development of New Zealand's National Vegetation Survey databank

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2000, Managing biodiversity information: development of New Zealand's National Vegetation Survey databank: New Zealand Journal of Ecology, v. 25, iss. 2, p. 1-17.

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Abstract: The National Vegetation Survey (NVS) databank is designed to safeguard the investment of millions of dollars spent over the last 50 years collecting, computerising and checking New Zealand vegetation data and to optimise the potential knowledge gains from these data. Data such as these can be synthesised across a range of spatial and temporal scales, allow novel ecological questions to be considered, and can underpin land management and legal reporting obligations. The NVS databank builds largely on the base of data collected under the auspices of the New Zealand Forest Service from the 1940s to 1987. In more recent years, it has incorporated data from Protected Natural Area (PNA) surveys and from new and remeasured plots [...]

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