Ecosystems

Report

A joint declaration regarding a unified approach to: Principles of Environmental Data Architecture in Aotearoa NZ

On 10 August, 2021, the Biological Heritage National Science Challenge’s Eco-index programme facilitated an online workshop across various government agencies, universities, CRIs, councils and businesses…

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Publication

Ecological State Assessment Tool (ESAT): a cross-cultural natural resource management tool from Aotearoa, New Zealand

A cross-cultural approach to conservation and natural resource management will enable resource managers to access the full potential of dual knowledge epistemologies and facilitate genuine…

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The recovery of functional diversity with restoration

Ecological restoration aims at recovering biodiversity in degraded ecosystems, and it is commonly assessed via species richness. However, it is unclear whether increasing species richness…

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Is provenance or phylogeny a better predictor of growth and survival of a soil pathogen in leaf litter?

Exotic plants have the potential to increase pathogen inoculum that can affect native plants. New Zealand’s iconic kauri tree (Agathis australis) is threatened by disease…

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Policy Briefing

Vulnerability of freshwater ecosystems to tipping points

Identifying ecosystem characteristics that underpin vulnerability will facilitate more directed management and better policy to protect against tipping points. University of Canterbury Professor of Freshwater…

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Publication

Tuākana/Teina Water Warriors Project: A collaborative learning model integrating mātauranga Māori and science

The Water Warriors is a collaborative project between Te Pā o Rākaihautū and Hagley Community College that was established to look after the waterways and…

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Community type and disturbance type interact to determine disturbance response: implications for extending the environmental filter metaphor

Ecological disturbances act as environmental filters by removing species with particular characteristics, resulting in community types associated with different disturbance histories. However, studies to date…

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Upscaling restoration of native biodiversity: A New Zealand perspective

Efforts are being made to upscale restoration of New Zealand’s native ecosystems. Success depends, however, on consideration of several key issues that need to be…

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Complementarity of indigenous and western scientific approaches for monitoring forest state

Cross-cultural environmental monitoring systems inform on a broad suite of indicators relevant to both scientific and local communities. In this study, we used forest-plot-based survey…

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Presentation

Extracting and cryopreserving embryonic axes

Presented at the Australian Academy of Science Fenner Conference on the Environment, online conference 2021. Cryopreservation offers a method of conserving exceptional species long term…

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Publication

DNA metabarcoding as a tool for invertebrate community monitoring: a case study comparison with conventional techniques

When conserving native biodiversity, it is particularly important to consider invertebrates, a diverse and functionally important component of biodiversity. However, their inclusion in monitoring and…

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Video

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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Report

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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Publication

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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Publication

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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A joint declaration regarding a unified approach to: Principles of Environmental Data Architecture in Aotearoa NZ

Ecological State Assessment Tool (ESAT): a cross-cultural natural resource management tool from Aotearoa, New Zealand

The recovery of functional diversity with restoration

Is provenance or phylogeny a better predictor of growth and survival of a soil pathogen in leaf litter?

Vulnerability of freshwater ecosystems to tipping points

Tuākana/Teina Water Warriors Project: A collaborative learning model integrating mātauranga Māori and science

Community type and disturbance type interact to determine disturbance response: implications for extending the environmental filter metaphor

Upscaling restoration of native biodiversity: A New Zealand perspective

Complementarity of indigenous and western scientific approaches for monitoring forest state

Extracting and cryopreserving embryonic axes

DNA metabarcoding as a tool for invertebrate community monitoring: a case study comparison with conventional techniques

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

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