BRIEF: Ōpāwaho Heathcote River Network
Across Aotearoa New Zealand, collectives of community groups, iwi, councils, businesses, and others are joining forces to enhance ecosystem regeneration.
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Assessment of the ecohydrological functioning of Otakairangi Wetland, Northland
Otakairangi is the largest wetland remnant on the floodplain of Northland’s Wairua River near Hikurangi. Extensive peat deposits many metres deep accumulated over thousands of…
Webinar
Crazy & Ambitious: Te Karanga o Ngā Tuna
Online presentation from Crazy & Ambitious 4: Te Karanga o Ngā Tuna – Mana Whakahaere in Action, with Wikitōria Tāne, Poto Davis, Zane Eramiha and…
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Opinion: Without the right financial strategies, NZ’s climate change efforts will remain unfinished business
When it comes to climate change, money talks. Climate finance is critical for enabling a low-emissions transition. This involves investment and expenditure — public, private,…
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Past, present and two potential futures for managing New Zealand’s mammalian pests
In 2003, a review of how introduced mammals were managed as pests in New Zealand was published. Since then trends for the control of these mammals…
Publication
Microbes in the Anthropocene: spillover of agriculturally selected bacteria and their impact on natural ecosystems
We hypothesize that intensified agriculture selects for certain taxa and genes, which then ‘spill over’ into adjacent unmodified areas and generate a halo of genetic…
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Key Māori values strengthen the mapping of forest ecosystems services
Different value-belief systems influence the importance placed upon ecosystem services (ES) and their benefits, in particular cultural ecosystem services. We mapped forest values to interview…
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Achieving win-win outcomes for pastoral farming and biodiversity conservation in New Zealand
In this article, we explore options to enhance native biodiversity conservation within New Zealand pastoral systems. We argue that there is strong synergistic interdependence between…
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State-Of-The-Art Surveillance webinar
Surveillance is an essential part of protecting New Zealand’s economic assets and natural taonga from damaging exotic organisms. To strengthen our biosecurity system, researchers at BioHeritage…
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Promoting social and environmental justice to support Indigenous partnerships in urban ecosystem restoration
Urban ecological restoration typically employs western science approaches to restore degraded ecosystems. As yet, few restoration groups acknowledge the history of these degraded urban sites,…
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Potential for cascading impacts of environmental change and policy on indigenous culture
Global environmental and societal changes threaten the cultures of indigenous peoples and local communities (IPLC). Despite the importance of IPLC worldviews and knowledge to sustaining…
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Genotypic variation, phylogeography, unified species concept, and the ‘grey zone’ of taxonomic uncertainty in kānuka: recognition of Kunzea ericoides (A.Rich.) Joy Thomps. sens. lat. (Myrtaceae)
In vascular plant systematics there are sometimes conflicts between phenotypic and ecotypic variation and genetic differentiation that challenge species concepts, introduce taxonomic confusion, and create…
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SO2 scoping panel report
This report was put together by the Strategic Outcome 2 group, focused on environmental stewardship and kaitiakitanga. Scoping panel reports are documents that paint a…
Webinar
Sensing Wetlands
Kevan Cote explains how the Eco-index team are using remote sensing data (satellites and AI) to detect wetlands across Aotearoa. Presented at the Wetlands…
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Metabarcoding monitoring analysis: the pros and cons of using co-extracted environmental DNA and RNA data to assess offshore oil production impacts on benthic communities
Sequencing environmental DNA (eDNA) is increasingly being used as an alternative to traditional morphological-based identification to characterize biological assemblages and monitor anthropogenic impacts in marine…
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