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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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