Ecosystems

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Public willingness to engage in backyard conservation in New Zealand: Exploring motivations and barriers for participation

Citizen science and participatory conservation offer benefits to urban wildlife and help foster human–nature relationships in cities. To optimize conservation and social outcomes it is…

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Resistance of New Zealand Provenance Leptospermum scoparium, Kunzea robusta, Kunzea linearis, and Metrosideros excelsa to Austropuccinia psidii

Resistance to the pandemic strain of Austropuccinia psidii was identified in New Zealand provenance Leptospermum scoparium, Kunzea robusta, and K. linearis plants. Only 1 Metrosideros…

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Collective approaches to ecosystem regeneration in Aotearoa – Summary

More and more people are wanting to increase the impact of their environmental restoration efforts. This could be by joining up with other groups, increasing…

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Applied research to progress and support close-to-market pest control tools and their strategic application

A review of recently developed and close-to-market-tools for pest management, and identification of the key research required to support their incremental improvement.

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Policy Briefing

Satisfaction with the condition of local waterways in Aotearoa New Zealand

Freshwater bodies are closely tied to the wellbeing of New Zealanders. But the quality of freshwater is one of the most serious environmental issues the…

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Bacteria as Emerging Indicators of Soil Condition

Bacterial communities are important for the health and productivity of soil ecosystems and have great potential as novel indicators of environmental perturbations. To assess how…

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Symmetric assembly and disassembly processes in an ecological network

The processes whereby ecological networks emerge, persist and decay throughout ecosystem development are largely unknown. Here we study networks of plant and arbuscular mycorrhizal fungal…

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Methods for the extraction, storage, amplification and sequencing of DNA from environmental samples

Advances in the sequencing of DNA extracted from media such as soil and water offer huge opportunities for biodiversity monitoring and assessment, particularly where the…

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Report

Vulnerability of New Zealand Myrtaceae species to natural infection by Austropuccinia psidii (myrtle rust)

Current knowledge about the vulnerability of New Zealand’s native myrtle species to Austropuccinia psidii comes from resistance screening of young seedlings performed with artificial inoculation…

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Te Taiao Collectives

When you’re investing in a restoration programme, you’re investing not only in te taiao and benefits for nature, but you’re also investing in people and…

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The value of volunteers

Volunteers play a crucial role in ecological restoration, and turnover can be a major challenge for not-for-profit organisations. Increased recruitment and training can tie up…

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Protecting the unseen majority: Land cover and environmental factors linked with soil bacterial communities and functions in New Zealand

In this study, we tested for the impacts of land-cover type (native forest, planted forest with exotic conifers, and pastoral agriculture) on soil bacterial communities…

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Temporal variation in soil bacterial communities can be confounded with spatial variation

Investigating temporal variation in soil bacterial communities advances our fundamental understanding of the causal processes driving biological variation, and how the composition of these important…

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Opportunities for modern genetic technologies to maintain and enhance Aotearoa New Zealand’s bioheritage

In the past few years genetic technologies springing from advances in DNA sequencing (so-called high-throughput sequencing), and/or from CRISPR/Cas9 gene editing, have been proposed as…

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The connection between people, nature and wellbeing in Wellington, Part 1

New research shows health benefits for Wellington’s backyard trappers – time spent involved in backyard and reserve trapping is improving the health of Wellingtonians. …

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Modelling movement and landscape connectivity of New Zealand native birds in highly structured agroecosystem networks

Understanding how spatial heterogeneity affects movement and dispersal is critical for maintaining functional connectivity in agroecosystems. Least-cost path models are popular conservation tools to quantify…

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Public willingness to engage in backyard conservation in New Zealand: Exploring motivations and barriers for participation

Resistance of New Zealand Provenance Leptospermum scoparium, Kunzea robusta, Kunzea linearis, and Metrosideros excelsa to Austropuccinia psidii

Collective approaches to ecosystem regeneration in Aotearoa – Summary

Applied research to progress and support close-to-market pest control tools and their strategic application

Satisfaction with the condition of local waterways in Aotearoa New Zealand

Bacteria as Emerging Indicators of Soil Condition

Symmetric assembly and disassembly processes in an ecological network

Methods for the extraction, storage, amplification and sequencing of DNA from environmental samples

Vulnerability of New Zealand Myrtaceae species to natural infection by Austropuccinia psidii (myrtle rust)

Te Taiao Collectives

The value of volunteers

Protecting the unseen majority: Land cover and environmental factors linked with soil bacterial communities and functions in New Zealand

Temporal variation in soil bacterial communities can be confounded with spatial variation

Opportunities for modern genetic technologies to maintain and enhance Aotearoa New Zealand’s bioheritage

The connection between people, nature and wellbeing in Wellington, Part 1

Modelling movement and landscape connectivity of New Zealand native birds in highly structured agroecosystem networks

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