Ecosystems

Taking a holistic look at environmental research.

Merino lambs

The New Zealand Merino Company signs on to partner with Eco-index

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Wilding conifers

New BioHeritage project: A horizon scan for weeds in Aotearoa

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Cultural Yakama Nation Group Pic

Cultural exchange spotlights kanakana conservation

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Learning from restoration collectives

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Eight ways to improve native vegetation on private land

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How many are too many snails?

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Partnering to bring nature back to our cities

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Do feral cats like trees just as much as our natives do?

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Collating international pest data to protect Aotearoa’s biodiversity

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Report

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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Publication

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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Report

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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Publication

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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Summary

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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Video

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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Webinar

Guiding biodiversity efforts using a remote sensing and machine learning approach

The Eco-index team are developing novel remote sensing technology for understanding and guiding biodiversity enhancement efforts across Aotearoa New Zealand. Our goal is to autonomously…
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