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Nov 28, 2024 | 
onlinelibrary.wiley.com | Giorgia Vattiato |Manaaki Whenua |Patrick Garvey |Rachelle N Binny
1 Introduction Animal personality has been shown to influence characteristics that are important in a pest management context such as dietary preferences (Mella et al. 2015), reproduction (Réale et al. 2000), dispersal (Bremner-Harrison, Prodohl, and Elwood 2006) and risk-taking behaviours (Mella et al. 2015).
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Oct 29, 2024 | 
phys.org | Manaaki Whenua
Prehistoric Polynesian seafarers were highly skilled and undertook some of the longest and most technically demanding voyages in prehistory—but did they ever sail into very high latitudes with landfall in Antarctica, as some scholars have argued?
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Oct 7, 2024 | 
onlinelibrary.wiley.com | James McCarthy |Manaaki Whenua |Sarah Richardson |Insu Jo
1 Introduction Tree diseases caused by non-native pathogens represent a major pressure facing woody ecosystems world-wide (Liebhold et al. 1995). While pathogens have always been a threat to forests, anthropogenic processes such as the international plant trade, forest fragmentation and degradation, and climate change have enhanced the rates and severity of infection, threatening long-standing forest communities and species conservation (Fisher et al.
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Sep 26, 2024 | 
m.farms.com | Manaaki Whenua
By Manaaki WhenuaScientists at Manaaki Whenua—Landcare Research have worked closely with researchers from NIWA, AgResearch and Plant & Food Research to model the likely risks of a warming climate across different agricultural sectors in New Zealand. The study is published in the Journal of the Royal Society of New Zealand .
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Sep 25, 2024 | 
phys.org | Manaaki Whenua
Scientists at Manaaki Whenua—Landcare Research have worked closely with researchers from NIWA, AgResearch and Plant & Food Research to model the likely risks of a warming climate across different agricultural sectors in New Zealand. The study is published in the Journal of the Royal Society of New Zealand .
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Sep 9, 2024 | 
phys.org | Manaaki Whenua
Native shrublands were once common across the Canterbury Plains, but over time, conversion of land to other uses, including irrigated pasture, has contributed to their gradual decline. Now, a new study by scientists at Manaaki Whenua—Landcare Research has found that spillover of nutrients and water from adjacent intensive agriculture is facilitating invasions by exotic plants into reserves set up to protect the last remnants of these native shrublands.
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Jul 30, 2024 | 
phys.org | Manaaki Whenua
It's well-known that Aotearoa New Zealand's native ecosystems are under threat from introduced pest predators such as rats, cats, possums and stoats.
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Jul 8, 2024 | 
besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com | Insu Jo |Manaaki Whenua |Peter J. Bellingham |Norman W. H. Mason
1 INTRODUCTION Disturbance, whether natural or anthropogenic, can promote establishment of non-native plants by creating open space with little competition from existing plants or increased resource availability (Davis et al., 2000; Hobbs & Huenneke, 1992).
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May 27, 2024 | 
phys.org | Manaaki Whenua
In New Zealand, farmers and the largely urban general public are held to have differing views on what is meant by being a "good farmer." Anecdotally, farmers see themselves as stewards of the land for future generations, using management practices that would be considered environmentally sustainable, whereas the urban public disagrees with such a portrayal. But does a rural/urban difference of viewpoint about "good farmers" really exist?
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May 3, 2024 | 
bmcglobalpublichealth.biomedcentral.com | Manaaki Whenua
Daily counts of arrivals into New Zealand by country of origin were obtained from StatsNZ based on passenger arrival card data. Out of n = 207,518 arrivals between 8 June 2020 and 20 February 2022, there were 4060 (2.0%) whose arrival card country of origin could not be matched to a standard country name (see Additional file 1: Supplementary data description), or where the country did not have corresponding data in the Our World in Data dataset. These arrivals were assigned to ‘Unknown origin’.
