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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 ...
Long peptide vaccines for the treatment of melanoma
Melanoma is the most serious form of skin cancer, with New Zealand having the world’s highest incidence rates. It is characterised by an aggressive clinical behaviour, associated with metastasis to distant organs and poor ...
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 ...
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 ...
Biocultural conservation of marine ecosystems: Examples from New Zealand and Canada
Place-specific knowledge systems, combined with hands-on resource use and a long-term commitment to sustaining resources and ecosystems, are vitally important in restoring the planet to health. This approach is already an ...
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 ...
'Business as Usual': Contextualising the GM/Organic Conflict within the History of New Zealand Agriculture
The article presents a research that focuses on analysis of genetic manipulation as a sociologically challenging technology crisis. While the overt rationale for the agri-food approach is to illuminate the theoretical ...
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 ...
Australian snow tourist's perceptions of climate change: Implications for the Queenstown Lakes region of New Zealand
This qualitative research has emerged from the sustained discussion of the future of winter alpine tourism in the Australasian context. The ski industries of Australia and New Zealand are intertwined, with research requiring ...
The Dimensional Landscape Model: Exploring Differences in Expressing and Locating Landscape Qualities
Landscape quality assessments provide information for developers, decision-makers and designers as to what is significant about a given landscape. However, assessment methods that rely on disciplinary expertise can fail ...