Weather associated with myrtle rust on the North Island east coast
The aim of this study was to use a modelling approach to examine winter temperatures in New Zealand, particularly on the east coast of the…
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Restoring nature together: Pathways to Ecosystem Regeneration brochure
Successes, challenges, and finding better ways. Our team members have expertise in ecology, sociology, environmental politics, mātauranga and environmental restoration. Our programme originates within…
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Following Rapoport’s Rule: the geographic range and genome size of bacterial taxa decline at warmer latitudes
We sought to test whether stream bacterial communities conform to Rapoport’s Rule, a pattern commonly observed for plants and animals whereby taxa exhibit decreased latitudinal…
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Influences of fire–vegetation feedbacks and post‐fire recovery rates on forest landscape vulnerability to altered fire regimes
In the context of ongoing climatic warming, forest landscapes face increasing risk of conversion to non‐forest vegetation through alteration of their fire regimes and their…
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Biocultural Hysteresis Inhibits Adaptation to Environmental Change
Indigenous peoples and local communities (IPLC) often use natural resources as both a reason and mechanism for environmental management, yet a number of environmental, social,…
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Can seed banking assist in conserving the highly endemic New Zealand indigenous flora?
Globally, plant species are facing numerous threats; an issue particularly acute for island floras, which often exhibit high levels of endemism. Ex situ conservation in…
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Advances in cryopreservation of Syzygium maire (swamp maire, maire tawake) zygotic embryos, a critically endangered tree species endemic to New Zealand
Syzygium maire is a threatened Myrtaceae tree species endemic to New Zealand. Due to its highly recalcitrant seed, cryopreservation is the only viable long-term ex situ…
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Carbon stocks and fluxes in New Zealand Myrtaceae
Understanding the potential impacts of myrtle rust on the integrity of natural forest ecosystems thus hinges on understanding the contribution of the Myrtaceae to the…
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Characterisation of a Novel Double-Stranded RNA Virus from Phytophthora pluvialis in New Zealand
A new dsRNA virus from the oomycete Phytophthora pluvialis has been characterised and designated as *Phytophthora pluvialis* RNA virus 1 (PplRV1). Understanding of the potential impacts…
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Phospholipid fatty acid (PLFA) analysis as a tool to estimate absolute abundances from compositional 16S rRNA bacterial metabarcoding data.
Microbial biodiversity monitoring through the analysis of DNA extracted from environmental samples is increasingly popular because it is perceived as being rapid, cost-effective, and flexible concerning the…
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Evolution of the “world’s only alpine parrot”: Genomic adaptation or phenotypic plasticity, behaviour and ecology?
Climate warming, in particular in island environments, where opportunities for species to disperse are limited, may become a serious threat to cold adapted alpine species.…
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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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Farm scale assessment of the impacts of biodiversity enhancement on the financial and environmental performance of mixed livestock farms in New Zealand
In New Zealand, 25% of the remaining indigenous vegetation cover is found on mixed livestock farms located predominantly in hill country. Despite evidence that adding…
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Leveraging Motivations, Personality, and Sensory Cues for Vertebrate Pest Management
Managing vertebrate pests is a global conservation challenge given their undesirable socio-ecological impacts. Pest management often focuses on the ‘average’ individual, neglecting individual-level behavioural variation…
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Unintended consequences of planting native and non-native trees in treeless ecosystems to mitigate climate change
Naturally treeless ecosystems are being replaced by native and non-native trees worldwide, often through deliberate afforestation using forestry tree species. By introducing species having novel…
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Te Taiao Collectives Network – Wānanga Summary Reports
Te Taiao Collectives Network was established as a pilot project to understand the potential for a shared learning network to support collectives to achieve their…
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