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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A comparison of the ability of PLFA and 16S rRNA gene metabarcoding to resolve soil community change and predict ecosystem functions
Soil bacterial community structure has traditionally been measured using phospholipid fatty acid (PLFA) profiling. However, with the development of high-throughput sequencing technologies and metabarcoding techniques,…
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Understanding and Managing Social-Ecological Tipping Points in Primary Industries
Global environmental change and humanity’s growing demands for resources have generated concerns regarding how much pressure Earth systems can absorb without drastic, potentially irreversible consequences.…
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Little Adaptive Potential in a Threatened Passerine Bird
Threatened species face numerous threats, including future challenges triggered by global change. A possible way to cope with these challenges is through adaptive evolution, which…
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Soil microbial functional gene dataset associated with Agathis australis
Agathis australis (kauri), is currently facing a threat from Phytophthora agathidicida, causing kauri dieback disease and reducing the kauri tree population. Only 1% of the…
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Thesis: Exploring the impacts of Phytophthora agathidicida on soil bacterial communities associated with kauri (Agathis australis)
This study used 16S rRNA gene sequencing to examine the impact of P. agathidicida on the soil bacteria of ~700 kauri trees in the Waitākere…
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Perspectives on the Impact of Sampling Design and Intensity on Soil Microbial Diversity Estimates
Soil bacterial communities have long been recognized as important ecosystem components, and have been the focus of many local and regional studies. However, there is…
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Polygenic basis for adaptive morphological variation in a threatened Aotearoa New Zealand bird, the hihi (Notiomystis cincta)
To predict if a threatened species can adapt to changing selective pressures, it is crucial to understand the genetic basis of adaptive traits, especially in…
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Genomic data of different resolutions reveal consistent inbreeding estimates but contrasting homozygosity landscapes for the threatened Aotearoa New Zealand hihi
Inbreeding can lead to a loss of heterozygosity in a population and when combined with genetic drift may reduce the adaptive potential of a species.…
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Indigenous Pacific Approaches to Climate Change, Aotearoa/New Zealand
Situating Māori Ecological Knowledge (MEK) within traditional environmental knowledge (TEK) frameworks, this book recognizes that indigenous ecological knowledge contributes to our understanding of how we…
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Managing and protecting native biodiversity on-farm – what do sheep and beef farmers think?
Despite one-third of New Zealand’s landmass being protected as public conservation land, the country still faces significant conservation challenges. Nearly 50% of the country’s landmass…
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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,…
Summary
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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