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Developing land-use decision-making frameworks in partnership with Māori essential
16 August 2022
A recent study involving Manaaki Whenua Kaihautū Māori Dr Nikki Harcourt and Senior Researcher Dr Melissa Robson-Williams, has found it is essential to co-develop land-use decision-making frameworks in genuine partnership with Māori if they are to be of any use.
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Ecosystem services: landscape appreciation and social media
16 August 2022
Ecosystem services – defined as the benefits people obtain from natural environments and healthy ecosystems – are broadly categorised into four main groups: regulating services such as air purification and pollination; provisioning services such as food, energy, and medicinal resources; supporting s...
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Celebrating our achievements
16 August 2022
In April 2022, Dr Bev Clarkson was awarded the Loder Cup by the Minister of Conservation, Minister Kiritapu Allan, at the Department of Conservation offices in Hamilton.
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Celebrating our achievements
Changing our SOCS: Could increases in soil carbon offset farm-scale emissions in Aotearoa?
16 August 2022
He Waka Eke Noa is the primary food and fibre sector’s climate action partnership, working with farmers and with iwi and Māori partners to implement a framework by 2025 to reduce agricultural greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions and build the agriculture sector’s resilience to climate change.
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Soil carbon
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ICMP: the good of small things
19 May 2022
Manaaki Whenua is the custodian of almost a third of Aotearoa New Zealand’s Nationally Significant Databases and Collections. These include biological resources such as reference species collections, and are important scientific, cultural and historical public assets.
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Using genomics data to unlock precision pest control
19 May 2022
Pest control of invasive mammalian species – rats, mice, stoats, possums, and the rest – is a key priority for Aotearoa New Zealand to prevent further decline of our iconic, endangered native species, and to support the Predator Free 2050 initiative. One limitation of current vertebrate toxins for p...
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Ancient DNA provides a fascinating insight into Aotearoa’s rodent history
19 May 2022
Aotearoa has at least 34 species of introduced mammals with established feral populations. For some of these introduced mammals we have reasonable documentation about how and when they arrived because they were deliberately introduced, but for those that snuck their way uninvited to our shores in t...
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Hungry mice deplete biodiversity of ecosanctuaries
19 May 2022
If it weren’t for the mice, then caterpillars, spiders, wētā, beetles and even earthworms would be abundant in Aotearoa New Zealand’s ecosanctuaries.
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How destructive could myrtle rust be to our trees?
19 May 2022
Aotearoa New Zealand has 37 native Myrtaceae species, including pōhutukawa and rātā, mānuka and kānuka, ramarama and swamp maire, of which 25 are endemic. But there are many other non-native myrtle species in New Zealand, including eucalypts, feijoa, bottlebrushes, lilly pilly, and monkey apple.
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Wetland vegetation: the plots thicken
19 May 2022
Manaaki Whenua’s wetland research team is currently working towards a ‘classification’ of wetland vegetation. This will turn hundreds of wetland data plot sheets into sets of recognisable ‘communities’, which can then be linked to soil nutrient gradients.
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