Te Māra Tautāne
Te Māra Tautāne is a collaborative research project between hapū members of Te Māhurehure in the Rūātoki Valley, and researchers at the Centre for Indigenous…
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Toitū te Ngahere Lesson Plan
Toitū te Ngahere, the Arts in Schools for Forest Health project, was a collaborative research project involving university researchers, five primary schools and their communities,…
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Dots Mark the Spot
On the footsteps of kauri forest users with bingo dabbers — a novel participatory mapping method with Aotearoa’s park rangers. A storymap outlining research where,…
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The Differential Psychology of Environmental Protection/Exploitation
This article reviews and discusses available evidence on key individual differences associated with protection and exploitation of the natural environment. The discussion centers on personality…
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Biodiversity brought to Fonterra farms
A new project supported by Fonterra’s Living Water Partnership with the Department of Conservation will help on-farm advisors grow their understanding of biodiversity, with a…
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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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A joint declaration regarding a unified approach to: Principles of Environmental Data Architecture in Aotearoa NZ
On 10 August, 2021, the Biological Heritage National Science Challenge’s Eco-index programme facilitated an online workshop across various government agencies, universities, CRIs, councils and businesses…
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Approaches for estimating benefits and costs of interventions in plant biosecurity across invasion phases
Non-native plant pests cause billions of dollars in damages. It is critical to prevent or reduce these losses by intervening at various stages of the…
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Mobilising for Action: Introduction to the Special Issue
Mobilising for Action (MFA) is a transdisciplinary project consisting of social researchers and community knowledge holders and practitioners, largely situated in Aotearoa|New Zealand, but also…
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Interweaving Multiple Knowledges to Support Children’s Participation and Engagement in Biosecurity and Forest Health: Toitū te Ngahere
The arts, mātauranga Māori, and the environmental and social sciences might seem like unusual bedfellows for engaging children in biosecurity. But this article proposes that…
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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Metabarcoding monitoring analysis: the pros and cons of using co-extracted environmental DNA and RNA data to assess offshore oil production impacts on benthic communities
Sequencing environmental DNA (eDNA) is increasingly being used as an alternative to traditional morphological-based identification to characterize biological assemblages and monitor anthropogenic impacts in marine…
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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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What does myrtle rust resilience look like for Māori?
The fungus that causes myrtle rust, Austropuccinia psidii, arrived in New Zealand in 2017. To date, it has been recorded infecting many ecologically, culturally, and…
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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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