University of Canterbury. Dept. of Mathematics and Statistics
Abstract
Environment Southland (ES) aims to predict the environmental and economic risks posed
by particular species of weeds that are already established in the region or that are
currently absent but already naturalised elsewhere in New Zealand. A knowledge of
national weed distributions would facilitate national and regional reporting on changes in
weed distribution. This information on distribution changes can be used to monitor the
success of weed management strategies and to assist in developing models for
predicting weed risk. To this end ES contracted scientists at the University of Canterbury
and AgResearch Ltd to establish the feasibility of developing a readily accessible, userfriendly,
national database, to collate, hold and disseminate data about weed distributions
throughout New Zealand
