Lake Ōkataina – Bay of Plenty

David Culliford and Alice Morrison are students at the University of Waikato based at the University’s Coastal Field Centre in Tauranga. During the summer of 2012,...

Any group of living and non-living things interacting with each other can be considered as an ecosystem. Within ecosystems are habitats. A habitat is the natural...

Aotearoa has world-famous lakes – for example, Lakes Taupō, Rotorua and Wakatipu – but there are a huge number tucked away that most of us probably...