SAVVY Express: Hannah Franklin - preventing effluent contamination in rivers
Channel: Science Media Centre (NZ)
Date: 2016-11-03

Hannah Franklin, PhD student at Lincoln University, explains her research about which native plants absorb effluent most efficiently when planted next to streams or rivers around farm land. She found that leafy plants like flax and cabbage trees tend to absorb more nitrogen than trees, so planting these species could improve river health.

Recorded in Christchurch at the New Zealand Ecological Society Conference, Nov 2015, as part of Science Media SAVVY Express.