This study looks at likely impacts of assumed values of climate change on plantation productivity, focusing on the relationships between climate and forest productivity.

This project explores the accounting systems for forests and their products. It examines guidance on forestry, national greenhouse gas inventories and accounting systems under the Kyoto Protocol and raises a number of issues.

Research and analysis to underpin and support climate change policy implementation, forest management decision-making and future policy development. Build future capacity by having final year BForSc students carry out basic analysis as Management Case Studies.

The objective of this report is to identify how New Zealand planted forest
management could change to effectively manage carbon sequestration and
carbon-price risk. This study involved evaluating existing knowledge in a literature review, and carrying out a comprehensive stand and estate-level modelling exercise. Results were used to identify core knowledge gaps and provide a research plan for addressing these gaps.

The objective of this research was to develop datasets for New Zealand building materials for use in research, policy analysis and building code development.

The goal of this research is developing a theoretically robust but practically applicable methodology for valuing forests and forest land in New Zealand in the presence of carbon pricing.

This report presents the results of a MAF-commissioned feasibility study of voluntary greenhouse gas reporting of agricultural emissions. Voluntary greenhouse gas reporting (VGGR) is the voluntary monitoring and reporting of agricultural greenhouse gas emissions at the enterprise (farm) level.

A paper discussing biocontrol systems as a mainstream pest management tool for the productive and environmental sectors in the light of adapting to changing climate.

This study provides expert opinion and case study examples of the likely responses of biological control agents and systems to key climate change threats with a focus on the impact on the productive part of the land-based sectors.

This report identifies a range of impacts arising from a changing climate that affects rural water infrastructure. Climate change will impact on both the performance and long-term operations of irrigation schemes and rural water supply schemes.

This paper focuses on the possible threat that four key pests pose to New Zealand's plantation forestry resource under climate change.

A report documenting experimental work and modelling to assess the impact of global change (increased temperature and elevated atmospheric CO2) on the germination and growth of C4 grass species, particularly kikuyu.

With projected increases in temperature and incidences of droughts and floods, pastures are likely to become more vulnerable to weeds and poor pasture persistence to become an increasingly significant issue. This on-farm study investigates whether increasing the diversity of sown pasture species can increase the pasture resilience and resistance to weeds under different climatic conditions. Thirty paddocks were selected in Northland, Waikato, Taranaki and North Canterbury.

A trend detection study examing frost occurrence in New Zealand in response to feedback from kiwifruit and viticulture industries that frost management is a key tool to adapting to climate change.

This study provides improved estimates of fire danger for New Zealand under
future climate. Fire danger ratings for two projection periods (the 2050s, 2040-
2059; and 2080s, 2070-2089) were estimated using monthly changes in weather
inputs (temperature, humidity, wind speed and rainfall).

Evaluation of the impact and direct effect of climate change on the productivity of New Zealand's planted forest systems.