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Empowering Kaitiakitanga and Environmental Stewardship (SO2)
Empowering New Zealanders to demand and enact environmental stewardship and kaitiakitanga requires understanding the underlying values and drivers that lead some people to... -
Living Labs
The AUT Living Laboratories programme is a ‘spin-off’ project from the BioH NSC Tranche 1 “Farming and Nature Conservation” NSC project. Here, the team are addressing science... -
Public Perceptions of New Pest Control Methods
One of the nation’s largest surveys on public attitudes toward new pest control technologies has shown that most New Zealanders support the need for pest control. Carried out in... -
Pathways to Ecosystem Regeneration (SO6)
Our teams are aiming to quantify social-ecological linkages for use in managing, protecting and restoring land and water ecosystems. Many thousands of New Zealanders put in time... -
State of the art surveillance (SO4)
Automation can improve biosecurity surveillance systems Surveillance is an essential part of protecting New Zealand’s economic assets and natural taonga from damaging exotic... -
Conservation & Restoration (Theme 7)
It’s a huge challenge to conserve and restore kauri and native plants vulnerable to myrtle rust for future generations. It requires knowledge of multiple stages of the life... -
Eco-index (SO1)
A novel approach to guiding biodiversity restoration We know we need to do more to protect, restore and connect Aotearoa New Zealand’s unique ecosystems and biodiversity, but... -
Mobilising for Action (Theme 2)
Data and resources relating to Theme 2: Mobilising for Action -
Oranga (Theme 1)
Māori worldviews are essential for establishing priorities and allowing the co-production of knowledge in response to threats to taonga rākau (treasured tree) species. In the... -
Risk Assessment & Ecosystem Impacts (Theme 3)
We need to understand kauri dieback and myrtle rust better if we want to protect our ngahere (forest). That’s why the goal of the Risk Assessment & Ecosystem Impacts team is... -
Myrtle Rust Science Stocktake
A list of past and current research focused on biology, impacts and management of myrtle rust (Austropuccinia psidii). Builds on work previously undertaken by the BioHeritage... -
Control, Protect, Cure (Theme 5)
The myrtle rust and kauri dieback spaces desperately need a suite of fully integrated management tools and approaches to saving our ngahere (forest). To this end, Ngā Rākau... -
Host Pathogen and Environment (Theme 6)
This research theme is focusing on the ‘disease triangle’: host susceptibility, the pathogen and the right environment for disease expression. Plants and pathogens can both be... -
Integrated Surveillance (Theme 4)
Many of our native species are slowly and silently tracking towards extinction. In order to reverse the decline of our natural bioheritage, we must be able to ‘see it’.... -
Whiria Ngā Aho Te Whāriki: Using litigation as a tool in the pursuit of ranga...
This Report has been developed as part of the New Zealand Biological Heritage National Science Challenge and is intended to contribute to the Adaptive Governance and Policy... -
Restoring Urban Freshwater Diversity Survey data (SO2)
Two surveys were conducted with the joint aim of demonstrating the benefits of applying a systematic behaviour change framework and providing foundational knowledge to inform... -
BioHeritage Challenge
Biological Heritage National Science Challenge Our Mission Reverse the decline of New Zealand's biological heritage, through a national partnership to deliver a step change in... -
He Tangata, He Taiao, He Ōhanga (SO3)
A values-based biosecurity risk assessment framework for Aotearoa. Aotearoa is home to incredibly valuable production and indigenous landscapes. To protect them we must... -
Invertebrate community data across five stressor gradients
Invertebrate community data (taxon abundances) for sites across five stressor gradients in New Zealand: drying, flooding, eutrophication, sediment and acid mine drainage.... -
Diatom response to nutrient enrichment
Data associated with the paper: Diatom resource requirements change with lake nutrient limitation and enrichment. Gregersen R. Simon K.S. New Zealand Journal of Marine and...