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BOOK: Healthy bee, sick bee: the influence of parasites, pathogens, predators and pesticides on honey bees

In this book, entomologist Phil Lester explores the wonderfully complex and sometimes brutally efficient life history of honey bees, and the problems they face in…
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An analysis of wetland loss between 2001/02 and 2015/16

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: Freshwater for our taonga

Online presentation from Crazy & Ambitious 4: Freshwater for our taonga, with Jane Kitson, Kitson Consulting, Helen Warburton, University of Canterbury, Erina Watene, BioHeritage Pou…
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Conservation and Restoration 2021

It’s a huge challenge to conserve and restore kauri and native plants vulnerable to myrtle rust for future generations. It requires Te Ao Māori world…
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Toitoi Manawa – Myrtle Ora Surveillance, Monitoring and Management Strategy

Myrtle Rust impacts on our environment but is also impacted on our native and natural eco- systems. Our strategy plan, “Toitoi Manawa” means to motivate,…
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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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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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Introduction to Eco-index (August 2021)

Dr Kiri Joy Wallace and Konny Brown introduce the Eco-index Prgoramme as part of the Te Pūtahi Rangahau Taiao – Environmental Research Institute, University of…
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Policy Briefing

Briefing to the incoming ministers for the Environment and Conservation

This brief was created by the Adaptive Governance and Policy Group (Strategic Outcome 7), BioHeritage National Science Challenge, Ngā Koiora Tuku Iko. This Challenge aims…
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Public willingness to engage in backyard conservation in New Zealand: Exploring motivations and barriers for participation

Citizen science and participatory conservation offer benefits to urban wildlife and help foster human–nature relationships in cities. To optimize conservation and social outcomes it is…
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Resistance of New Zealand Provenance Leptospermum scoparium, Kunzea robusta, Kunzea linearis, and Metrosideros excelsa to Austropuccinia psidii

Resistance to the pandemic strain of Austropuccinia psidii was identified in New Zealand provenance Leptospermum scoparium, Kunzea robusta, and K. linearis plants. Only 1 Metrosideros…
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Collective approaches to ecosystem regeneration in Aotearoa – Summary

More and more people are wanting to increase the impact of their environmental restoration efforts. This could be by joining up with other groups, increasing…
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