| Code: | PRJP0000075 |
| Title: | Mangrove Mortality at Piako, N.Z. |
| Institution: | Hauraki Catchment Board HCB (now Environment Waikato) and The University of Auckland, Dept Botany, Phytopathology Unit (Auck U.). |
| Address: | Hauraki District, North Island, New Zealand (N.Z.). |
| Coordinator: | - |
| Address: | - |
| Date-commence: | January 1969 |
| Duration: | 2 years |
| Locations: | - |
| Sponsors: | HCB (Research scholarship) and Auck U. (Masters Studentship Award). |
| Collabs: | - |
| Objectives: | Determine cause and extent of mangrove mortality associated with Phytophthora sp pathogenicity. |
| Phytophthora was mildly pathogenic on stressed Avicennia marina mangrove trees and operated synergistically with a complex of other ecological factors including salinity, mud anoxia, excess sedimentation, flooding and frost damage. The importance of A. marina to stopbank protection near valuable dairy farmland was discovered. |
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Sedimentation
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Biology
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Water chemistry
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General
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Microscopy
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Geography
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New Zealand
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South Pacific
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