Ecosystems

Taking a holistic look at environmental research.

Policy Briefing

Planning for tipping points and enhancing resilience in production landscapes.

KEY MESSAGES 1. A social-ecological system, which emerges when people interact with the natural environment, can cross a tipping point to a self-reinforcing degraded state,…
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Restoring mature-phase forest tree species through enrichment planting in New Zealand’s lowland landscapes 

To restore secondary forests, depauperate remnant forests and create new forests that have complex structure, high biomass, and natural canopy tree diversity, mature-phase canopy and…
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Conservation & Restoration 2022

It’s a huge challenge to conserve and restore kauri and native plants vulnerable to myrtle rust for future generations. It requires Te Ao Māori world…
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Coming together to amplify ecosystem regeneration

More and more people are joining together as collectives to increase the scope and impact of their regeneration projects. When iwi, hapū, local environmental groups,…
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The Eco-index research programme: Aotearoa New Zealand’s answer for effective investment in biodiversity restoration

Catherine Kirby is the Communication & Relationships Manager for the Eco-index research programme as well as Programme Manager for the People, Cities & Nature research programme, part of…
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Scientists’ Warning to Humanity on Threats to Indigenous and Local Knowledge Systems

The knowledge systems and practices of Indigenous Peoples and local communities play critical roles in safeguarding the biological and cultural diversity of our planet. Globalization,…
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Report

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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Policy Briefing

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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