Les Basher
Landcare Research
46 Papers
506 Citations
Les Basher is an academic researcher from Landcare Research. The author has contributed to research in topics: Sediment & Erosion. The author has an hindex of 21, co-authored 46 publications.
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Papers
BOTANICAL BRIEFING Fire, Forest Regeneration and Links with Early Human Habitation: Evidence from New Zealand
TL;DR: There is an indication of an increase in fire frequency in the late Holocene, and a clear signal associated with people approx.
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Suspended Sediment Yields from New Zealand Rivers
D. Murray Hicks,Ude Shankar,Alistair I McKerchar,Les Basher,Ian H. Lynn,Mike Page,Murray Jessen +6 more
TL;DR: In this article, Wrenz et al. used an empirical, raster-type GIS model for predicting suspended sediment yield from any river in New Zealand, which is mostly based on suspended sediment gaugings and flow records, but includes data from lake and fiord bed sedimentation studies.
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Measurement of river bank and cliff erosion from sequential LIDAR and historical aerial photography
TL;DR: The methodology and errors involved in determining the meander migration rates and amount of sediment produced by river bank and cliff erosion over five decades along a 16-and 28-km reach of the Waipaoa River, New Zealand, are described in this paper.
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Integrated catchment management—interweaving social process and science knowledge
Andrew Fenemor,Chris Phillips,Will Allen,Roger G. Young,Garth Harmsworth,Breck Bowden,Les Basher,P. A. Gillespie,Margaret Kilvington,Robert J. Davies-Colley,John R. Dymond,Anthony Cole,G Lauder,Tim Davie,Robert T. Smith,S Markham,Neil Deans,B Stuart,Maggie Atkinson,Anne G.E. Collins +19 more
TL;DR: The Motueka Integrated Catchment Management (ICMIM) project as mentioned in this paper was based on the idea that achieving ecosystem resilience at a catchment scale requires active measures to develop community resilience.
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Shallow landslides and vegetation at the catchment scale: A perspective
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors provide a perspective on the science underpinning the challenges land and catchment managers face in trying to reduce shallow landslide hazard, manage catchment sediment budgets, and develop tools for catchment targeting of vegetation.
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