Ecosystems

Taking a holistic look at environmental research.

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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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Farm scale assessment of the impacts of biodiversity enhancement on the financial and environmental performance of mixed livestock farms in New Zealand

In New Zealand, 25% of the remaining indigenous vegetation cover is found on mixed livestock farms located predominantly in hill country. Despite evidence that adding…
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Leveraging Motivations, Personality, and Sensory Cues for Vertebrate Pest Management

Managing vertebrate pests is a global conservation challenge given their undesirable socio-ecological impacts. Pest management often focuses on the ‘average’ individual, neglecting individual-level behavioural variation…
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Using long-term experimental restoration of agroecosystems in Aotearoa New Zealand to improve implementation of Nature-based Solutions for climate change mitigation

Tree planting has long played a major role in the New Zealand Government’s approach to climate mitigation and is increasingly understood as important for climate…
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BRIEF: Growing community capacity and capability for large-scale restoration in Te Tai Tokerau

Community-led restoration initiatives face significant challenges in acquiring funding, advice, training and administrative support. These initiatives are increasingly being supported by Restoration Collectives operating over…
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BRIEF: Ecosystem Restoration guide

We know we need to do more to protect, restore and connect Aotearoa New Zealand’s unique ecosystems and biodiversity, but where do we start? Land…
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Collective approaches to regeneration

A two-page summary of the report of the same name found HERE. More and more people are wanting to increase the impact of their environmental restoration…
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Crazy & Ambitious 4: Eco-index helps merino farms

Online presentation from Crazy & Ambitious 4: How partnership with Eco-index helps merino farms develop biodiversity targets, with Monica Schwass, New Zealand Merino Company.
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Te W’are o Ngā Manu Kōrero

Te W’are o Ngā Manu Kōrero – ‘e pukapuka tēnei e kōrero and mō ngā kaupapa tiaki mounga o Taranaki Mounga Project. Kua tu’ia ngā…
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Crazy & Ambitious 2 – 2019

A playlist of presentations given at New Zealand’s Biological Heritage Science Challenge conference, Crazy & Ambitious 2. 20 – 21 May 2019, Te Papa Wellington.
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Troubling travellers: are ecologically harmful alien species associated with particular introduction pathways?

Prioritization of introduction pathways is seen as an important component of the management of biological invasions. We address whether established alien plants, mammals, freshwater fish…
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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…
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Fire–vegetation feedbacks and alternative states: common mechanisms of temperate forest vulnerability to fire in southern South America and New Zealand

For two regions, we address the following questions: 1. What are the major plant species, physiognomic types and functional types characteristic of pyrophytic versus pyrophobic…
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Predicting and Assessing Progress in the Restoration of Ecosystems

We present here the rationale and a method for predicting the trajectory of restoration and assessing its progress toward a predetermined state, the endpoint, using…
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Susceptibility of native New Zealand Myrtaceae to the South African strain of Austropuccinia psidii: A biosecurity threat

Austropuccinia psidii, the cause of myrtle rust, has spread globally where Myrtaceae occur. Multiple strains of A. psidii have been identified, including a unique strain found…
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Protected, Restored, Connected

Online Presentations from Eco-index given at Crazy & Ambitious 3, 24 May 2022 1) John Reid (Ngāti Pikiao, Tainui; JD Reid Ltd) and Penny Payne…
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