Biosecurity – Prevention – Page 3 – Biological Heritage NZ

Publication

Understanding and Managing Social-Ecological Tipping Points in Primary Industries

Global environmental change and humanity’s growing demands for resources have generated concerns regarding how much pressure Earth systems can absorb without drastic, potentially irreversible consequences.…

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Assessing the role of plant trade networks in the vulnerability of forest nurseries to plant pathogens

Pathogen damage is responsible for a considerable reduction in profit to the New Zealand forest industry. An assessment of pathogen prevalence, propagation and production methods,…

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Summary

BRIEF: Find a Pest

How can we support early detection of new pests and increase our understanding of the distribution and density of existing pests? Through harnessing citizen science!

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Report

Gap analysis for risk assessment and decision making in the biosecurity system

The research programme “He Tangata, He Taiao, He Ōhanga (Strategic Outcome 3,Bioheritage National Science Programme) aims to incorporate information from a holistic set of values…

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Summary

BRIEF: Evaluating New Technology for Biosecurity Surveillance

Biosecurity surveillance helps prevent the establishment of, control, and eradication of unwanted and damaging organisms in Aotearoa New Zealand. Existing surveillance either relies on the…

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Webinar

Crazy & Ambitious 4: Co-design for community surveillance

Online presentation from Crazy & Ambitious 4: Co-design for community surveillance, with Te Poari Newton, Stevee Raureti, Brayden Hohaia, and Serene Ratu, from Kāwai Kaimai.…

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Crossing Frontiers in Tackling Pathways of Biological Invasions

We review the state of the art, highlight recent advances, identify pitfalls and constraints, and discuss major challenges in four broad fields of pathway research…

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Evaluating the efficacy of regionalisation in limiting high-risk livestock trade movements

Using bovine tuberculosis (bTB) in New Zealand as a case example, we develop a novel network simulation model to predict how much the frequency of…

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Webinar

A matter of trust: perceptions of the value of risk assessment

There are dozens of published pest risk assessments and pest risk assessment frameworks, but only a fraction of those published are actually used in decision-making.…

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Publication

Healing Fragmentation of Forest Biosecurity Networks: A Conceptual and Reflexive Mapping Analysis of Postcolonial Relations that Matter in Aotearoa|New Zealand and Cymru|Wales

Scientific biosecurity has become an important approach for managing the threats to Kauri trees and plant management in Aotearoa|New Zealand and Cymru|Wales, more generally. However,…

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Strong fitness differences impede coexistence between an alien water fern (Azolla pinnata R. Br.) and its native congener (Azolla rubra R. Br.) in New Zealand

Despite considerable evidence that alien plants impact the fecundity, productivity and abundance of native plant species, support for alien plant species causing the widespread decline…

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Considering unseen arrivals in predictions of establishment risk based on border biosecurity interceptions

Assessing species establishment risk is an important task used for informing biosecurity activities aimed at preventing biological invasions. Propagule pressure is a major contributor to…

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Report

A review of environmental values for New Zealand biosecurity risk assessment

Biosecurity refers to keeping the environment free of unwanted organisms and controlling, managing or eradicating them should they arrive in the country. The New Zealand…

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Report

Summary of risk-based decisions in biosecurity

Risk-based decision-making is a key component of an effective biosecurity system. This report summarises the main decision types made within New Zealand’s biosecurity system, with…

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Webinar

Crazy & Ambitious 4: What is a good decision in biosecurity?

Online quick-fire presentation from Crazy & Ambitious 4: ‘What is a good decision in biosecurity?’, with Melanie Newfield.

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Video

Crazy & Ambitious – 2017

A playlist of presentations given at New Zealand’s Biological Heritage Science Challenge inaugural conference, Crazy & Ambitious. 8-10 May 2017, Te Papa Wellington

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Biosecurity - Prevention

Understanding and Managing Social-Ecological Tipping Points in Primary Industries

Assessing the role of plant trade networks in the vulnerability of forest nurseries to plant pathogens

BRIEF: Find a Pest

Gap analysis for risk assessment and decision making in the biosecurity system

BRIEF: Evaluating New Technology for Biosecurity Surveillance

Crazy & Ambitious 4: Co-design for community surveillance

Crossing Frontiers in Tackling Pathways of Biological Invasions

Evaluating the efficacy of regionalisation in limiting high-risk livestock trade movements

A matter of trust: perceptions of the value of risk assessment

Healing Fragmentation of Forest Biosecurity Networks: A Conceptual and Reflexive Mapping Analysis of Postcolonial Relations that Matter in Aotearoa|New Zealand and Cymru|Wales

Strong fitness differences impede coexistence between an alien water fern (Azolla pinnata R. Br.) and its native congener (Azolla rubra R. Br.) in New Zealand

Considering unseen arrivals in predictions of establishment risk based on border biosecurity interceptions

A review of environmental values for New Zealand biosecurity risk assessment

Summary of risk-based decisions in biosecurity

Crazy & Ambitious 4: What is a good decision in biosecurity?

Crazy & Ambitious – 2017

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