Pro-Environmental Behaviour in Relation to Kauri Dieback: When Place Attachment Is Not Enough
The iconic kauri tree of Aotearoa New Zealand is under increasing threat due to the plant disease kauri dieback, with human activity believed to be…
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Elevating and Recognising Knowledge of Indigenous Peoples to Improve Forest Biosecurity
Current forest biosecurity systems and processes employed in many countries are, in large, constructs of Western principles, values and science knowledge that have been introduced…
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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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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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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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