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Effective Biodiversity Conservation Requires Dynamic, Pluralistic, Partnership-Based Approaches

Biodiversity loss undermines the long-term maintenance of ecosystem functions and the well-being of human populations. Global-scale policy initiatives, including the Convention on Biological Diversity, have…

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Designing Community Surveys for Behaviour Change Research: A Practical Guide

An impressive set of technologies and recommended management best practices have been developed for landscape management. All these proposed solutions will fail unless the public…

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Incursion response in New Zealand

Ecologists, land managers and policymakers continue to search for the most effective ways to manage biological invasions. An emerging lesson is that proactive management can…

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Methods for the extraction, storage, amplification and sequencing of DNA from environmental samples

Advances in the sequencing of DNA extracted from media such as soil and water offer huge opportunities for biodiversity monitoring and assessment, particularly where the…

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Webinar

Whare Taonga: Seed Solutions in a Changing World

A presentation from Marcus Rongowhitiao Shadbolt that sets the scene for why seed conservation is vital in this changing world. Given as part of the…

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Addressing Epistemic Injustice: Engaging Children as Environmental Communicators to Support the Long-Term Sustainability of Forest Ecosystems

Closure of a forest for biosecurity purposes led to the marginalisation and disconnection of Year 6 children from a local forest of significance to them…

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The value of volunteers

Volunteers play a crucial role in ecological restoration, and turnover can be a major challenge for not-for-profit organisations. Increased recruitment and training can tie up…

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Sharing knowledge to empower collective approaches to restoration

Community organisations have come to play a key role in biodiversity conservation and restoration over the last 30 years, with thousands of volunteer and kaitiaki…

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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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Evolution of the “world’s only alpine parrot”: Genomic adaptation or phenotypic plasticity, behaviour and ecology?

Climate warming, in particular in island environments, where opportunities for species to disperse are limited, may become a serious threat to cold adapted alpine species.…

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Demographic and psychographic drivers of public acceptance of novel invasive pest control technologies

Invasive mammals are a primary threat to New Zealand’s endemic species. In remote areas, aerial delivery of poison is the preferred method of pest management,…

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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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Convergence and divergence in science and practice of urban and rural forest restoration

Forest restoration has never been higher on policymakers’ agendas. Complex and multi-dimensional arrangements across the urban–rural continuum challenge restorationists and require integrative approaches to strengthen…

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Report

A systematic literature review of attitudes to pest control methods in New Zealand

This systematic literature review on attitudes to pest control methods in New Zealand has been funded as part of New Zealand’s Biological Heritage National Science…

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Te ao Māori values associated with the environment

The complexity of Māori values around environmental matters is specifically known at the iwi and hapū level and over successive generations Māori have developed thorough…

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Policy Briefing

BRIEF: Satisfaction with the condition of local waterways in Aotearoa New Zealand

Freshwater bodies are closely tied to the wellbeing of New Zealanders. But the quality of freshwater is one of the most serious environmental issues the…

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Effective Biodiversity Conservation Requires Dynamic, Pluralistic, Partnership-Based Approaches

Designing Community Surveys for Behaviour Change Research: A Practical Guide

Incursion response in New Zealand

Methods for the extraction, storage, amplification and sequencing of DNA from environmental samples

Whare Taonga: Seed Solutions in a Changing World

Addressing Epistemic Injustice: Engaging Children as Environmental Communicators to Support the Long-Term Sustainability of Forest Ecosystems

The value of volunteers

Sharing knowledge to empower collective approaches to restoration

Phospholipid fatty acid (PLFA) analysis as a tool to estimate absolute abundances from compositional 16S rRNA bacterial metabarcoding data.

Evolution of the “world’s only alpine parrot”: Genomic adaptation or phenotypic plasticity, behaviour and ecology?

Demographic and psychographic drivers of public acceptance of novel invasive pest control technologies

Indigenous Pacific Approaches to Climate Change, Aotearoa/New Zealand

Convergence and divergence in science and practice of urban and rural forest restoration

A systematic literature review of attitudes to pest control methods in New Zealand

Te ao Māori values associated with the environment

BRIEF: Satisfaction with the condition of local waterways in Aotearoa New Zealand

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