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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. ...
Indicators for co-management of production landscape: Joining science, traditional and local knowledge, policy expertise, and consumers for sustainability
Achievement of sustainability requires a “social contract” – a collective agreement to not reduce the opportunities and well-being of current and future generations. People will collaborate if they feel respected, have ...
The Agriculture Research Group on Sustainability Programme: The Design of A Longitudinal and Transdisciplinary Study of Agricultural Sustainability in New Zealand
This report provides an overview of the key design features of the Agriculture Research Group on Sustainability (ARGOS) programme. This ongoing long-term research project started in 2003, involving a group of around 20 ...
New Zealand farmer and orchardist attitude and opinion survey 2008 : characteristics of organic, modified conventional (integrated) and organic management, and of the sheep/beef, horticulture and dairy sectors
The core of the ARGOS research design is a longitudinal panel study of New Zealand farms (including orchards in the case of the kiwifruit sector). Panels of 12 farms were selected to represent conventional, integrated and ...
A Marine Cultural Health Index for the sustainable management of mahinga kai in Aotearoa – New Zealand
He Kōhinga Rangahau is the research report series of Te Tiaki Mahinga Kai, a national coalition of tangata kaitiaki, researchers, and managers dedicated to sustained enhancement of the cultural, economic, social, and ...
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 ...