Ecosystems

Taking a holistic look at environmental research.

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What is the role of biodiversity in mediating the effects of climate change on New Zealand’s future agroecosystems?

Climate change will have far-reaching negative impacts on all aspects of Earth’s state and functions, including ongoing biodiversity decline and threats to agricultural production. These…
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Towards robust and repeatable sampling methods in eDNA‐based studies

DNA-based techniques are increasingly used for measuring the biodiversity (species presence, identity, abundance and community composition) of terrestrial and aquatic ecosystems. While there are numerous…
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Protected land: Threat of invasive species

A letter written and published in response to the report “One -third of global protected land is under intense human pressure”, discussing that the index…
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Te Mahi Tiaki Taiao – Supporting taiao groups to care for their people and environment

A report on the trial of Te Kete Hononga for Reconnecting Northland.   This study is one of three exemplar studies of restoration collectives within…
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Sharing knowledge to empower collective approaches to restoration

Community organisations have come to play a key role in biodiversity conservation and restoration over the last 30 years, with thousands of volunteer and kaitiaki…
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Presentation

A round table exploration of Indigenous rights and participation in plant pathology

Marsh A, Parata H, Ashby T. 2023. A round table exploration of Indigenous rights and participation in plant pathology. International Congress of Plant Pathology. 21/08/2023…
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Centring Indigenous knowledge systems to re-imagine conservation translocations

Now more than ever, creative solutions that bring together diverse ways of knowing and seeing the world are needed to restore and enhance biocultural diversity…
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Te Taiao Collectives: Communities joining forces for ecosystem restoration

Community-based restoration and regeneration are increasingly common pathways for collective action on interconnected social and environmental issues. As community initiatives gain pace, the need for…
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Relational values provide common ground and expose multi-level constraints to cross-cultural wetland management

The unprecedented level of threat facing many of the world’s natural and cultural systems calls for the collaboration of multiple interest groups to engage in…
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Integrative analysis of stressor gradients reveals multiple discrete trait‐defined axes underlie community assembly

The generalizable functional attributes of organisms (traits) relate strongly to their environment across multiple levels of biological organization, making trait-based approaches a powerful mechanistic framework…
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The propagation of disturbances in ecological networks

Network science has revealed that the architecture of many complex biological, physical, and social systems facilitates the direct and indirect propagation of disturbances. Ecological disturbances,…
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Current knowledge and potential impacts of climate change on New Zealand’s biological heritage

While global climate change is impacting biota across the world, New Zealand’s maritime climate is highly variable and relatively mild, so climate change is sometimes…
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BOOK: Indigenous Pacific Approaches to Climate Change

Situating Māori Ecological Knowledge (MEK) within traditional environmental knowledge (TEK) frameworks, this book recognizes that indigenous ecological knowledge contributes to our understanding of how we…
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Summary

BRIEF: Pathways to Ecosystem Regeneration

New Zealander’s care greatly about nature, and each year communities and likeminded individuals show the power of collective efforts: In some suburbs, as many as…
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Considering a future spatial framework for wetland mapping and monitoring in New Zealand

The Ministry for the Environment, Department of Conservation, and the Biological Heritage National Science Challenge co-funded research to look at contemporary losses of wetland extent…
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Crazy & Ambitious 4: Kanakana ki Mataura

Online presentation from Crazy & Ambitious 4: Kanakana ki Mataura, with Riki Parata, Hannah Thorburn and Luka Whaitiri Finn, Hokonui Rūnanga Kaupapa Taiao.
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