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Leveraging Motivations, Personality, and Sensory Cues for Vertebrate Pest Management

Managing vertebrate pests is a global conservation challenge given their undesirable socio-ecological impacts. Pest management often focuses on the ‘average’ individual, neglecting individual-level behavioural variation…

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Germline progenitors and oocyte production in the honeybee queen ovary

Understanding the reproduction of honeybee queens is crucial to support populations of this economically important insect. Here we examine the structure of the honeybee ovary…

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Summary

BRIEF: TrapSim Plus

Supporting informed decision-making in community predator control planning Predator control groups face the challenge of having to choose which control methods and efforts to use,…

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Database architecture, process, and pathways

Wananga 3: Database architecture, process, and pathways Te Tiriti-guided national DNA reference library wānanga series Facilitators: Dr David Medyckyj-Scott (Manaaki Whenua) & Nick Spencer…

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De-novo assembly of a reference genome for a critically threatened Aotearoa New Zealand tree species, Syzygium maire (Myrtaceae)

Aotearoa New Zealand’s swamp forests have experienced significant habitat loss in fewer than two hundred years. Many of the country’s tree species are endemic with…

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Crazy & Ambitious 4: Risk assessment – weeds

Online presentation from Crazy & Ambitious 4: Risk assessment – weeds, with Imogen Bassett, Auckland Council.

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Mātauranga Māori Framework for Surveillance – Issues Paper

Working with Tangata Kokiri and mana whenua, ‘an issues paper’, provides the foundation for potential impacts for mana whenua and their whanau/hapū, communities and other…

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Tool or Model

WEBPAGE: Being Manuhiri – Resources for environment and recreation organisations

Several favourite walking, tramping, cycling, kayaking, and boating spots in Aotearoa NZ are now co-managed by Māori organisations and government agencies. These co-governance and co-management…

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Ancient Rongoā Māori practices to fight Kauri dieback are part of a broader revival of indigenous traditional practices in NZ

Traditional Rongoā Māori health practitioners claim indigenous treatments are curing Kauri trees of dieback and the Government is investing.

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Professor Peter Dearden was part of a panel discussing genetic methods for pest control

Skip to 1.55min to hear Peter Dearden speak at the Primary Industries Summit.

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The potential for the use of gene drives for pest control in New Zealand: a perspective.

Genetic technologies such as gene editing and gene drive systems have recently emerged as potential tools for pest control. Gene drives, in particular, have been…

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Introduction of a male-harming mitochondrial haplotype via ‘Trojan Females’ achieves population suppression in fruit flies

Here, we provide proof-of-concept for the Trojan Female Technique (TFT), by showing that introduction of a male fertility-impairing mtDNA haplotype into replicated populations of Drosophila…

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Austropuccinia psidii, causing myrtle rust, has a gigabase-sized genome shaped by transposable elements

Austropuccinia psidii has a broad host range with more than 480 myrtaceous species. Since first detected in Australia in 2010, the pathogen has caused the near…

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Experimental high-density trapping of social wasps: target kairomones for workers or gynes for drones?

Social wasps are amongst the most loathed exotic predators in New Zealand, with widespread adverse impacts on native ecosystems and fauna. Sustainable alternatives to pesticides…

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Variability in phosphite sensitivity observed within and between seven Phytophthora species

Phosphite is used to control and manage many phytophthora diseases in horticultural systems worldwide and natural ecosystems in Australia, Africa, New Zealand and parts of…

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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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Leveraging Motivations, Personality, and Sensory Cues for Vertebrate Pest Management

Germline progenitors and oocyte production in the honeybee queen ovary

BRIEF: TrapSim Plus

Database architecture, process, and pathways

De-novo assembly of a reference genome for a critically threatened Aotearoa New Zealand tree species, Syzygium maire (Myrtaceae)

Crazy & Ambitious 4: Risk assessment – weeds

Mātauranga Māori Framework for Surveillance – Issues Paper

WEBPAGE: Being Manuhiri – Resources for environment and recreation organisations

Ancient Rongoā Māori practices to fight Kauri dieback are part of a broader revival of indigenous traditional practices in NZ

Professor Peter Dearden was part of a panel discussing genetic methods for pest control

The potential for the use of gene drives for pest control in New Zealand: a perspective.

Introduction of a male-harming mitochondrial haplotype via ‘Trojan Females’ achieves population suppression in fruit flies

Austropuccinia psidii, causing myrtle rust, has a gigabase-sized genome shaped by transposable elements

Experimental high-density trapping of social wasps: target kairomones for workers or gynes for drones?

Variability in phosphite sensitivity observed within and between seven Phytophthora species

Weather associated with myrtle rust on the North Island east coast

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