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Future drought could drain primary sector profit
31 August 2021
New research has found that more intense future drought is likely to lead to drops in farm profit.
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Pūtaiao
New way to map pasture productivity
31 August 2021
Researchers have used remote sensing techniques to produce a national scale map of pasture productivity for New Zealand.
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Pūtaiao
A first for on-farm carbon certification
31 August 2021
Lake Hawea Station has been named as the first farm in New Zealand to have a carbon footprint certified by environmental certifications provider Toitū Envirocare, a subsidiary of Manaaki Whenua.
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Pūtaiao
A moth to a flame: species survival against the odds
31 August 2021
On 29 August 2020, a fire began near the Pūkaki Scientific Reserve in the South Island’s Mackenzie district. Fuelled by wilding pines, the fire burned through more than 3,000 hectares of drought-dry land on the shore of Lake Pūkaki, and destroyed most of the reserve.
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Invertebrates
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Getting to the root causes of soil erosion using high-res remote sensing
31 August 2021
Soil erosion processes are notably active in New Zealand: our steep slopes, generally weak sedimentary rocks, and high annual rainfall totals including frequent large rainfall events, underscored by a history of vegetation clearance for agriculture, mean that around 192 million tonnes of soil on agr...
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Celebrating our achievements
31 August 2021
Zhi-Qiang Zhang has significantly advanced global taxonomy by founding and leading two of the largest international journals in biodiversity research: Zootaxa and Phytotaxa. Zhi-Qiang is a worldleading authority on the systematics and ecology of mites and has made outstanding global contributions to...
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Towards a national strategy for soil
31 August 2021
Why a soil strategy? After all, we have spent a few decades now in the absence of a strategic direction. As often plays out, urgency of fundamental information occurs during times of policy or management decisions being made. However, once the decision is made, the pressure goes off and the perceive...
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What effects must be avoided, remediated or mitigated to maintain indigenous biodiversity?
7 July 2021
New Zealand’s indigenous biodiversity is unique and complex, and it is declining and threatened. People and companies are often uncertain about what they should or should not do to help maintain it. A new paper sets out some comprehensive and concise criteria to provide guidance on what biodiversity...
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Life history traits explain vulnerability of endemic forest birds and predict recovery after predator suppression
7 July 2021
New modelling has disentangled the limiting effects of predation, forest area, and food availability to predict the outcomes we can expect for different native bird species in a predator-free New Zealand.
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Using science to communicate the benefits of wilding conifer control
22 June 2021
Manaaki Whenua ecologist Norm Mason, with the support of the New Zealand Wilding Conifer Group, ran a series of workshops in the southern South Island to test a web-based tool for delivering forecasts of future wilding conifer control costs and ecosystem impacts.
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