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• Executive Summary
• 1.0 Introduction
• 2.0 Methods
• 3.1 The Oceanography of the New Zealand Marine Ecoregion
• 3.2 Cetaceans, seals, and seabirds
• 3.3 Fishes
• 3.4 Benthic invertebrates, algae, and plants
  • 1. Kermadec Ridge
  • 2. Trench (hadal) environments
  • 3. South Norfolk Ridge and the Three Kings Rise
  • 4. The Three Kings Islands and shelf, Spirits Bay, and Pandora Bank
  • 5. Cavalli seamounts
  • 6. West coast harbours of the North Island
  • 7. Rocky coast of the northeast North Island
  • 8. Active submarine volcanoes and hydrothermal vents
  • 9. Hauraki Gulf/Bay of Plenty estuaries
  • 10. Ranfurly Bank
  • 11. Convergent margin cold seeps
  • 12. Deep sea wood habitats
  • 13. Rocky coast seagrass habitats
  • 14. Marlborough Sounds
  • 15. Cook Strait
  • 16. Bryozoan coral beds
  • 17. Farewell Spit region
  • 18. Kaikoura shallow water
  • 19a. Chatham Rise
  • 19b. Chatham Islands
  • 20. Fiordland
  • 21. Foveaux Strait/Stewart Island/Snares plateau shelf
  • 22. Subantarctic plateaus and islands
  • 23. Southeastern continental margin/Deep Western Boundary Current
  • 24. Macquarie Ridge
  • Biogenic carbonate/bryozoan habitats
  • Topographic generated soft sediment refugia
  • Non-geniculate coralline algae
  • Kelp forests
  • Mangroves
  • Seagrasses
  • Photic zone rock wall suspension feeding assemblages
  • Deep rock wall/high gradient hard bottom habitats
    deeper than 200m
  • Brachiopod communities
  • References and further reading
• 3.5 Information gaps
• 3.6 Future steps for the future of Biodiversity
• 4.0 Discussion
• 5.0 References
• Appendix 1
• Appendix 2
• Appendix 3
• Appendix 4

References and further reading

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