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Upcoming

Freshwater Forum

A New Zealand Freshwater Management Forum to examine policies, issues, challenges and proposed changes to improve the management of New Zealand’s freshwater resources is to be held in Wellington on 15 & 16 February. { Read more }

National Wetland Restoration Symposium 2010

The 4th National Wetland Restoration Symposium, will be held in Rotorua on March 3rd-5th 2010. { Read more }

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Join NZFSS

If you would like to become a member of NZFSS, please fill out the membership application form and email or post this form to the Society treasurer.

LakesWater Quality Society AGM

LakesWater Quality Society is holding its AGM at 10am Monday, 1 February, 2010 (Auckland Anniversary weekend) at Pikiao Rugby League Clubrooms, Takinga St, Mourea, Rotorua. Professor David Hamilton is the guest speaker. Everyone is welcome.

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About NZFSS

The New Zealand Freshwater Sciences Society (NZFSS) aims to establish effective liaison between all persons interested in any aspect of fresh and brackish water research in New Zealand, and to encourage and promote these interests.

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News

The Water Research Strategy

The Water Research Strategy document has been developed by the Foundation for Research, Science and Technology (FRST) and Ministry for the Environment (MfE). It can be found...

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Featured Publication

Post DM, Palkovacs EP. Eco-evolutionary feedbacks in community and ecosystem ecology: interactions between the ecological theatre and the evolutionary play.

Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B, 2009, 364: 1629-1640.

The first featured publication is on a topic that will appeal to the more theoretically and philosophically minded ecologist.  It is a paper that tries to make the point that not only are organisms affected by their environments, but that normal organism functioning can alter the environment.  Thus, organisms create a feedback on their environment which is not only ecologically important, but has consequences on longer, evolutionary time scales.  Such feedbacks are termed “eco-evolutionary feedbacks” by the authors.

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