Crazy & Ambitious 3 – 2022
A playlist of presentations given at New Zealand’s Biological Heritage Science Challenge online conference, Crazy & Ambitious 3. 24 – 27 May 2022. This event…
Biosecurity - Prevention
Research focussed on keeping potentially destructive species out of Aotearoa.
Webinar
Publication
Integrating invasive species policies across ornamental horticulture supply chains to prevent plant invasions
Ornamental horticulture is the primary pathway for invasive alien plant introductions. We critically appraise published evidence on the effectiveness of four policy instruments that tackle…
Publication
Alien and native plant richness and abundance respond to different environmental drivers across multiple gravel floodplain ecosystems
Alien and native richness and cover were shaped by different variables, so managing the ecosystem (e.g. flow regime) to mitigate aliens would not necessarily promote…
Publication
Positioning Research to Improve Tree-Biosecurity Relations
Management of biosecurity threats to forests and indigenous trees needs to address the legacy of colonising practices that have prohibited diverse knowledges from being included.…
Report
Social Discount Rates in Cost Benefit Analysis of Regional Pest Management Plans: Guidance and Recommendations for the Uninitiated
Decisions concerning pest management frequently carry long-term consequences for the environment and human interests. This situation then leads to a pertinent question: should we value…
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.…
Publication
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,…
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!
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…
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…
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.…
Publication
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…
Publication
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…
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.…
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,…
Publication
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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