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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Invasive macrophytes induce context‐specific effects on oxygen, pH, and temperature in a hydropeaking reservoir
Dense macrophyte beds are known to produce extreme diurnal oxygen and temperature conditions in shallow lakes. However their influences in managed hydropeaking reservoirs has received…
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Ecosystem-size relationships of river populations and communities
Knowledge of ecosystem-size influences on river populations and communities is integral to the balancing of human and environmental needs for water. The multiple dimensions of…
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Conservation translocations of fauna in Aotearoa New Zealand: a review
There have been numerous declines and extinctions of native fauna in Aotearoa New Zealand since human settlement. Against this background of loss there have been…
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BROCHURE: The Eco-index: A tool to guide investment in biodiversity restoration
We have expertise in Aotearoa New Zealand ecology, sustainability, economics, social science, communication, database infrastructure, artificial intelligence, statistical modelling and strategy. Our 2020-2024 programme is…
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Farming with Native Biodiversity – Rauropi Māori me ahuwhenua
We believe farming can help Aotearoa New Zealand’s natural environment thrive. And this is essential to us all thriving. Our goal is to develop…
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Crazy & Ambitious 4: Social-ecological relationships driving ecosystem regeneration
Online presentation from Crazy & Ambitious 4: Social-ecological relationships driving ecosystem regeneration, with Danielle Shanahan, Zealandia and Joanne Clapcott, Cawthron Institute.
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Te maunga e tautari mai naa
Te maunga e tautari mai naa – he pukapuka teenei e whakamaanawa ana i ngaa mahi tiaki kiwi na Maia Hauata (Ngāti Apakura, Waikato-Maniapoto, Ngāti…
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Crazy & Ambitious 4 – 2024
A playlist of presentations given at New Zealand’s Biological Heritage Science Challenge conference, Crazy & Ambitious 3. 24 – 27 May 2022, at Te Papa,…
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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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