Cover image: Dr Peter Heenan presenting to high school students of Mangaia, Cook Islands, on the local native plants and lichens
Pūtaiao Issue 22. Next-gen science: Capability building in the Pacific
This issue outlines recent progress in developing controls for one of Aotearoa New Zealand’s most destructive but simultaneously best-loved introduced predators – the domestic cat. We also bring you news of weed biocontrol successes in the Pacific, a much-anticipated return of biological materials from Kew in London to our fungarium in Auckland, and a review of extensive work outlining how moa paleoecology can inform current conservation of native birds. There’s an update on research into the reddening of Aotearoa New Zealand’s glaciers in 2022 which is also a neat demolition of the post hoc fallacy – the often-mistaken notion that if something happens after an event, it must be caused by that event. We also – literally – delve into over 200 stomachs of rats caught in beech forests in the deep south, to find out what they prefer to eat.
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