Manaaki Whenua - Landcare Research
New Zealand's foremost environmental research organisation.
New insights into climate change
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.
More: Discovery, Issue 18 »International year of Biodiversity
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Science in Focus - 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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