What is a good decision in biosecurity?
An initial review of the literature identified three perspectives in decision quality research: normative, prescriptive and descriptive. • The normative approach aims to describe how…
Biosecurity - Control
Once pests have become established, how can we best control or eradicate them?
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BRIEF: Genetic Technologies and our environment – A public deliberation
How do you engage New Zealanders on important and complex issues, and encourage conversation, particularly around new technology advances to address environmental problems and the…
Webinar
Data governance and sovereignty
Wānanga 6: Data governance and sovereignty. Te Tiriti-guided national DNA reference library wānanga series Facilitators: Holden Hohaia, Ngāti Maru, Taranaki Whānui ki te Upoko…
Webinar
Crazy & Ambitious 4: The need for alternative control products for varroa
Online presentation from Crazy & Ambitious 4: The need for alternative control products for varroa, with David Wiessing
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Mātauranga Māori Framework for Surveillance – Issues Paper
Working with Tangata Kokiri and mana whenua, ‘an issues paper’, provides the foundation for potential impacts for mana whenua and their whanau/hapū, communities and other…
Video
How do Scientists Understand Myrtle Rust?
Conversations with six myrtle rust experts from Scion, Plant and Food and Beyond Myrtle Rust Commissioned by Centre for Indigenous Psychologies, and He Taonga Kē…
Publication
Healthy Bee, Sick Bee: The Influence of parasites, pathogens, predators and pesticides on honey bees
Phil Lester’s first book, The Vulgar Wasp, was about one of the world’s most hated insects. His second is about just the opposite – the honey…
Publication
High-Quality Assemblies for Three Invasive Social Wasps from the Vespula Genus
We sequenced and annotated the genomes of the common wasp (Vespula vulgaris), German wasp (Vespula germanica), and the western yellowjacket (Vespula pensylvanica). Our chromosome-level Vespula assemblies…
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Fitness in invasive social wasps: the role of variation in viral load, immune response and paternity in predicting nest size and reproductive output
Here we investigate how infections with Kashmir Bee Virus (KBV), immune response and intracolony genetic diversity (due to queen polyandry) affect nest size in the invasive common…
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Landholder participation in regional-scale control of invasive predators: an adaptable landscape model
We developed a spatially explicit model to estimate the effects of varying levels of landholder participation in landscape-scale programs to control invasive predators. We demonstrate…
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An overview of introduced predator management in inhabited landscapes.
We describe the rise of community predator control and large landscape projects aspiring for a ‘Predator Free New Zealand’, and how such an aspiration must…
Media
Newly-found myrtle rust putting Waitakere Ranges at risk
First, it was kauri dieback, now another disease is putting Auckland’s Waitakere Ranges under threat, myrtle rust has been found there for the first time.…
Publication
Characterising uncertainty in risk assessments for biological control: using case studies from New Zealand to inform future research
Areas of uncertainty in the assessment of risks and benefits in applications for new biological control agents submitted to the regulator for proposed introduction into…
Publication
Scale and complexity implications of making New Zealand predator-free by 2050
The goal to make New Zealand predator-free by 2050 has drawn strong praise and criticism, but these critiques have focused largely on economic or technological…
Webinar
Pest control perceptions: comparing pesticides with next-generation control methods
In our part of the BioHeritage National Science Challenge we have been investigating the use of next-generation pest control technologies, with a focus on RNA…
Presentation
Why understanding the biology of Phytophthora agathidicida matters – Jochem Vink
Presented as part of the Kaurilands Summit 2023, hosted by Ngā Rākau Taketake. To find out more about the Control, Protect, Cure research theme…
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