Manaaki Whenua - Landcare Research

New Zealand's foremost environmental research organisation.

New insights into climate change

Dr Margaret Barbour is studying the exchange of carbon between vegetation and the atmosphere.

Cutting edge technology is helping Landcare Research staff gain revolutionary insights into New Zealand’s soils and leaves and the role our plants play in global climate change.

It’s courtesy of the new stable isotope Tuneable Diode Laser Absorption Spectrometer – the only one of its type in the Southern Hemisphere – that’s now up and running and supporting the work of Landcare Research’s internationally respected Global Change Process scientists.

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International year of Biodiversity

Beetle2010 has been declared the International Year for Biodiversity More details ».

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Science in Focus - Wildlife Ecology and Epidemiology

Wildlife Ecology and Epidemiology

The Wildlife Ecology & Epidemiology Team comprises 25 staff with expertise in animal pest ecology, modelling, epidemiology, and control strategies. Our work on pests and diseases include, marsupials (possums and wallabies), mustelids (stoats and ferrets), rodents (rats and mice), ungulates (deer, pigs and thar), birds (starlings and mynas), lagomorphs (rabbits and hares), and diseases as problems (bovine tuberculosis and avian malaria) and as biocontrols (rabbit haemorrhagic disease).

Work focuses on protecting native ecosystems and primary industry through improved understanding of pest responses to management, and the role of pests as disease carriers. This understanding is then used to develop better pest management regimes.

Research has been undertaken for central government (e.g. Foundation for Research, Science and Technology, Department of Conservation), local government (e.g. Southland Regional Council, Environment Canterbury), national agencies (e.g. Animal Health Board, Foundation for Arable Research), international agencies (e.g. United Nations Development Programme, British Ecological Society, The Nature Conservancy), government agencies (Chile, Argentina, New Caledonia, Mauritius), and private companies and conservation initiatives.


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Soil Horizons Issue 19. Special Issue: Soil Carbon Antarctic soils New: Fauna of New Zealand Number 65 Izatha (Lichen Tuft Moths) TFBIS funded specimen information – Aphids

Upcoming events

21/09/2010 - NZARM 57th Annual Conference 26/10/2010 - EIANZ Annual Conference: Call for Papers 22/11/2010 - Biodiversity: 2010 and Beyond 29/11/2010 - 2010 Australian Systematic Botany Society Conference

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