Zoology
Recent Deposits
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Behaviour of Foraging Bumble Bees Across Morphological and Environmental Contexts
Bumble bees as pollinators are being produced at an industrial scale and are used throughout the world to pollinate agricultural crops in glasshouses. The agricultural crops they are exposed to are often monocultural and ... -
Perceptions of Wildlife in New Zealand And Persuasive Documentary Filmmaking Techniques
Understanding the current knowledge and perceptions of your audience is important when creating persuasive communication. The aim of the creative component of this thesis, a 25-minute film, is to encourage responsible cat ... -
Impact of sedimentation on the survival and availability of spawning grounds for brown trout (Salmo trutta L.) in the Central Otago streams
In the past few decades, rapid agriculturalization and urbanization have caused a massive increase in sediment concentrations within streams all over the world. This represents a potential threat to aquatic organisms. ... -
The Icing on the Communication: Text or Video?
Learning is lifelong, life-wide and life-deep (Tal & Dierking, 2014) and whilst science is everywhere, opportunities for scientific learning are missed every day. However, when it comes to learning, the learner must be ... -
Stream rehabilitation within agricultural riverscapes
Modern agriculture is necessary to feed our growing global population, yet agriculture is also the most extensive cause of freshwater ecosystem degradation. Accordingly, determining how to maintain or improve freshwater ... -
Perception of Three Agricultural Applications of Genetic Engineering
Global food security is a challenge that must be faced in the next few decades, food production must increase whilst maintaining or, ideally, improving environmental sustainability of agriculture for food. Genetically ... -
Fire and ice: Genomic insights into the evolution, biogeography and extinction of modern penguins
Islands of the vast Southern Ocean host abundant endemic wildlife populations representing important breeding grounds for many seabirds. With contrasting geological, glacial and human-impact histories, these islands represent ... -
SciArt and Environmental Restoration: The role of intentionality in audience engagement
Science and art share a long history of interaction, and their practitioners contribute to wide-ranging collaborative projects. Interactions between these disciplines have demonstrated the value of using art to communicate ... -
New Zealanders' Perceptions of Green-Lipped Mussels and Sustainability
We need to change the way we eat. Compounded by issues such as land-use intensification, the impacts of climate change and the overfishing of the ocean, our ability to feed an evergrowing population is becoming compromised. ... -
The Effects of Accents on Conservation Attitudes Towards Native Species
This thesis aims to answer the question of whether people are more likely to want to conserve a flagship national species after hearing a distressing message about that species from someone with an associated accent, as ... -
The Genetic Analysis of Lasaea hinemoa: The Story of an Evolutionary Oddity
Lasaea is a genus of molluscs that primarily consists of minute, hermaphroditic bivalves that occupy rocky shores worldwide. The majority of Lasaea species are asexual, polyploid, direct developers. However, two Australian ... -
Defining Minimum Founder Population Sizes to Improve Genetic Diversity Retention in Captive-Bred Stocks of Otago Skink, Oligosoma otagense
Captive breeding programmes are becoming an increasingly used management method for conserving species where extinction is otherwise likely due to significant in situ threats and marginal translocation possibilities. ... -
Foraging strategies and breeding success in the Little Penguin, Eudyptula minor : a comparative study between different habitats
Little Penguins breeding at different locations in New Zealand exhibit great differences in breeding success which is likely to be related to different foraging strategies. During the 2000/2001 breeding season, foraging ... -
Motivations and Attitudes of New Zealand Conservation Volunteers
Conservation in New Zealand is a massive enterprise, combining government, public, and private efforts. Volunteers work across these sectors to restore the unique flora and fauna of this island archipelago. In light of ... -
Source of Expertise Affects Perceived Credibility of an Interview Used in a Medical Documentary
This thesis is composed of two integrated components: a creative project and original academic research. The creative component is a 25-minute medical documentary called Fairy Steps. Fairy Steps follows a 4-year-old girl ... -
Using Esri Story Map ArcGIS to Support Community-led Natural Resource Managment
This thesis investigates a potential platform for communities and environmental management groups to compile and communicate their environmental data. With natural resource management shifting from government-led to ... -
Short term impacts of physical instream restoration works on the invertebrate community in Waituna Creek, measured by Surber and kick-net sampling methods.
Due to anthropogenic activity, many rivers have been degraded and have lost structural diversity. Rivers restorations are commonly undertaken in order to reinstate the lost habitat heterogeneity. In New Zealand, freshwater ... -
Behavioural and ecological factors affecting the trappability of two skink species in Nelson
The syntopic skink species Oligosoma infrapunctatum and O. lineoocellatum appear to have different trappability estimates at Lake Station, Nelson. Long-term mark-recapture data has shown that O. lineoocellatum has a ... -
Lipid physiology in beluga (Huso huso L.) - the relationship between developmental stages, 11-ketotestosterone levels and ovarian lipid uptake
In egg-laying fish, survival of the embryonic and initial larval stages depends on accumulation of substantial reserves of yolk and lipid within the egg during oocyte growth. In sturgeon, a non-teleost basal ray-finned ... -
Framing Entertainment and Wild Gorillas: Effects on Public Perception and Endangered Status A Conceptual Review
Schroepfer, Rosati, Chartrand, and Hare (2011) found that the use of chimpanzees in entertainment leads people to believe that they are not endangered and that they would make suitable pets. As gorillas have also featured ...