
Counting Kākahi – Connected 2014 Level 3
Water scientist Hannah Rainforth combines traditional knowledge from local kaumātua with field research methods to investigate the decline of native freshwater mussels (kākahi) in the Whanganui River, discovering a concerning lack of juveniles necessary for the population to survive.
- water science
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- Nature of science
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- Non-fiction
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- mussels
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- Whanganui River
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- filter feeders
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- freshwater
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- glochidia
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- juveniles
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- larvae
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- population
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- kākahi


