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Exploring the impact of climate change on Māori
24 November 2021
Māori governance institutions are increasingly asserting their rangatiratanga (autonomy) to manage climate change risks and meet the well-being of whānau, hapū, and iwi. However, there is a shortage of guidance and understanding on how to prepare for and respond to this changing environment, and how...
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Mātauranga Māori
An update on our Better Border Biosecurity work
24 November 2021
Darren Ward and Quentin Paynter have been funded through Better Border Biosecurity (B3) to assess the non-target impact of biocontrol agents used in New Zealand over the past 100 years to control insect pests. The work will provide the EPA with information when assessing future applications for the ...
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Biosecurity
Celebrating our achievements
24 November 2021
Jo Carpenter was awarded the 2020 New Zealand Ecological Society award for Outstanding Publication on New Zealand Ecology. Her paper, ‘An avian seed dispersal paradox: New Zealand’s extinct megafaunal birds did not disperse large seeds’, was published in Proceedings of the Royal Society B.
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Celebrating our achievements
Space invaders – revising the management of weeds
24 November 2021
Weed management efforts often focus on single, ‘priority’ plant species because they have known, substantial and detrimental ecosystem impacts. However, globally, most ecosystems have been invaded by multiple non-native plant species.
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Weeds
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Conservation and climate change
31 August 2021
Island systems, such as New Zealand, are hotspots of endemic species found nowhere else – some 80% of vascular plants, 86% of molluscs, 81% of arthropods, 60% of vertebrates, 36% of mosses and liverworts, and 30% of lichens are endemic, and these are particularly vulnerable to extinction. Competitio...
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Biodiversity
Our contribution to environmental reporting for Aotearoa New Zealand – the story so far
31 August 2021
Since 2015, research organisations across New Zealand have contributed to a growing national cache of environmental reporting data under the 2015 Environmental Reporting Act, which brought into existence the requirement for cyclic national environmental ‘domain’ reports. This means the Ministry for ...
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Environment
Reconstructing long-term climate change
31 August 2021
Long-term palaeoecological and climate reconstructions provide baseline information to show how species and ecosystems have responded to climate change and human activities in the past. These palaeo-archives are increasingly being used to help inform conservation management plans and policies, incre...
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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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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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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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