Ecosystems

Taking a holistic look at environmental research.

Reading the tea leaves for climate change

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Scientists striving for easy-grow forests

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A Restoration Ambassador for rural New Zealand

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The climate crisis is also a biodiversity crisis

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In response to invasive aquatic weeds, should freshwater mussels go with the flow?

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The persistence of degraded freshwater communities

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Cape to City looks for thriving ecosystems amid mānuka plantations

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Kevan Cote AgResearch

Ngā Pī Ka Rere spotlight: Kevan Cote, using machine learning to answer ecological questions

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Tea bags

Master’s student brings Tea Bag Index method to kauri forests

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Mātauranga Māori: shaping marine and freshwater futures

This special issue brings together rich and diverse experiences and opinions on how mātauranga Māori is informing current, and can inform future, research and decision-making…
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Caring for our special places and relationships

This guidance presents a briefing on the research undertaken by Tapsell (2022) which explored the dual issue of care (for each other and for the…
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Using DNA meta barcoding to assess New Zealand’s terrestrial biodiversity

High throughput DNA sequencing technology has enabled entire biological communities to be characterised from DNA derived from pools of organisms, such as bulk-collected invertebrates, or…
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Can threatened species adapt in a restored habitat? No expected evolutionary response in lay date for the New Zealand hihi.

Many bird species have been observed shifting their laying date to earlier in the year in response to climate change. However, the vast majority of…
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Interactions between Unionida and non-native species: A global meta-analysis

Understanding the multiple agents of decline is important for the conservation of globally threatened Unionida (Class Bivalvia), but threats from non‐native species have received limited…
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The threat of a major tree pathogen to forest soil mesofauna food webs and ecosystem functioning

This research focuses on the impact of Phytophthora agathidicida on the soil mesofauna community structure, functional feeding groups and energy fluxes in kauri forests, for kauri…
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Using soil bacterial communities to predict physico-chemical variables and soil quality

Soil ecosystems consist of complex interactions between biological communities and physico-chemical variables, all of which contribute to the overall quality of soils. Despite this, changes…
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