Ecosystems

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Isolation management to protect threatened native galaxiidfish species: Lessons from Aotearoa New Zealand

The use of barriers in freshwater systems to mitigate invasions, known as isolation management, has been increasingly implemented as a protection strategy for native fish.…

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Working together to scale ecosystem restoration: collective approaches to community action in Aotearoa New Zealand

Community groups are key drivers of ecosystem restoration in many countries. However, there is increasingly recognition that small scale restoration efforts are often insufficient to…

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New Zealand ecosanctuaries: types, attributes and outcomes

We define an ecosanctuary in a New Zealand context as ‘a project larger than 25 ha implementing multi-species, pest mammal control for ecosystem recovery objectives,…

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BRIEF: Providing new information to guide Ecosystem Reconstruction

The Eco-index initiative provides a digital toolkit to help decision-makers across many sectors to level-up their biodiversity planning & ecosystem reconstruction efforts.

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Restoring nature together / Te mahi ngātahi ki te whakaora ake i te ao tūroa

New Zealanders care greatly about Aotearoa’s biological heritage – our nature, our culture – and thousands of people invest time and effort to reverse its…

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Webinar

Crazy & Ambitious 4: Bio-cultural biodiversity monitoring

Online presentation from Crazy & Ambitious 4: Bio-cultural approach to biodiversity monitoring, with Dion Pou, Te Atatu Marae Whanau Committee and Rivercare Te Wai o…

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Diverse perspectives on the role of trout in Aotearoa New Zealand’s biological heritage

We present qualitative data from interviews undertaken with 13 freshwater knowledge holders. Interviewees included Māori knowledge holders, salmonid fishery managers, indigenous freshwater biodiversity managers, and…

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Crazy & Ambitious 3 – 2022

A playlist of presentations given at New Zealand’s Biological Heritage Science Challenge online conference, Crazy & Ambitious 3. 24 – 27 May 2022. This event…

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Suitability of invertebrate data for assessing groundwater ecosystem health

The focus of New Zealand’s Biological Heritage National Science Challenge Project 1.5 was improving knowledge of groundwater invertebrate biodiversity, specifically the abundance and distributions of…

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The ecology and management of mammal invasions in forests

Here we (1) review the ecological characteristics of mammal invasions in forests; (2) characterize the range of ecological impacts on forest communities and the economic…

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Scaling Climate Finance: Biodiversity Instruments

This Concept Paper identifies unrealised opportunities for increasing investment into projects and activities that preserve, support and expand Aotearoa New Zealand’s unique biological heritage. Redirecting…

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Ecological Networks Across Environmental Gradients

Ecological networks have a long history in ecology, and a recent increase in network analyses across environmental gradients has revealed important changes in their structure,…

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Native Biodiversity of Aotearoa Illustration

A stunning visual representation of some native New Zealand biodiversity, created by Georgia Wells (University of Waikato).

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Video

Host, Pathogen & Environment 2022

The ‘Host, Pathogen and Environment’ team is focusing on the ‘disease triangle’: host susceptibility, the pathogen and the right environment for disease expression. They are…

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Webinar

Guiding biodiversity efforts using a remote sensing and machine learning approach

The Eco-index team are developing novel remote sensing technology for understanding and guiding biodiversity enhancement efforts across Aotearoa New Zealand. Our goal is to autonomously…

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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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Isolation management to protect threatened native galaxiidfish species: Lessons from Aotearoa New Zealand

Working together to scale ecosystem restoration: collective approaches to community action in Aotearoa New Zealand

New Zealand ecosanctuaries: types, attributes and outcomes

BRIEF: Providing new information to guide Ecosystem Reconstruction

Restoring nature together / Te mahi ngātahi ki te whakaora ake i te ao tūroa

Crazy & Ambitious 4: Bio-cultural biodiversity monitoring

Diverse perspectives on the role of trout in Aotearoa New Zealand’s biological heritage

Crazy & Ambitious 3 – 2022

Suitability of invertebrate data for assessing groundwater ecosystem health

The ecology and management of mammal invasions in forests

Scaling Climate Finance: Biodiversity Instruments

Ecological Networks Across Environmental Gradients

Native Biodiversity of Aotearoa Illustration

Host, Pathogen & Environment 2022

Guiding biodiversity efforts using a remote sensing and machine learning approach

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

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