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Abundance and diversity of herbaceous weeds in sheep/beef pastures, South Island, New Zealand
This study compared species diversity, abundance and size of broad-leaved herbaceous weeds on 28 South Island sheep/beef farms that employed either organic, integrated management (IM) or conventional management (CM) systems. ...
Cross‐cultural environmental research and management: Challenges and progress
The Royal Society of New Zealand encouraged this Forum on cross-cultural environmental research and management following the publication of a special issue of the New Zealand Journal of Zoology in September 2009 called ...
Estimating and Correcting for Bias in Population Assessments of Sooty Shearwaters
We investigated the precision and accuracy of an infrared burrowscope for detecting sooty shearwater (Pufffinus griseus) chicks at 13 plots from 3 islands in southern New Zealand in 2003. We partially excavated burrows ...
Reduction of bias when estimating bird abundance within small habitat fragments
We used the distance detection function from five-minute point counts entirely within large woody vegetation patches to derive a method of truncating counts of birds detected close to the observer to estimate their relative ...
Looking after your ground: resource management practice by Rakiura Maori Titi harvesters
The annual harvest of Titi, Puifinus griseus, on islands adjacent to Rakiura (Stewart Island) by Rakiura Maori is one of the last large-scale customary uses of native wildlife in New Zealand. This study investigates whether ...
Recovery of a sooty shearwater (Puffinus griseus) breeding area after habitat destruction
We describe the recovery of an 88-m² area of sooty shearwater breeding habitat on Northeast Island, The Snares, New Zealand, during the eight breeding seasons after it was completely destroyed by excavation in December ...
Local people see and care most? Severe depletion of inshore fisheries and its consequences for Māori communities in New Zealand
Overfishing has the potential to adversely affect the ecological stability, economic value, social and spiritual integrity of a given area. Of these contexts, relatively little emphasis in literature is placed on the social ...
Austral seabirds: challenges and opportunities for research and conservation
This paper draws together the themes of papers on procellariiform biology contained within this special issue of the Papers and Proceedings ofthe Royal Society ofTasmania which is a tribute to Irynej Skira. The role of ...
Assessing the monitoring of sooty shearwater (Puffinus griseus) abundance in southern New Zealand
Recent declines of many seabird populations have placed increased emphasis on determining the status of potentially threatened species. However, the burrow-nesting habits and inter-annual fluctuation in breeding numbers ...
Intensification of New Zealand agriculture: Implications for biodiversity
Intensification of New Zealand agricultural practices is an ongoing and accelerating process which potentially threatens the environment, biodiversity and even the sustainability of agricultural production. However, neither ...