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Freshwater Macroinvertebrate Responses to Multiple Stressors: Interactions Between Fine Sediment Grain Size and Flow Velocity Reduction
Agricultural development has resulted in the degradation of freshwater ecosystems worldwide. Disentangling the individual and combined effects of agricultural stressors is crucial for future land-use management and restoration ... -
Mechanics of folding in central Otago : an investigation of the recent deformation of the Rock and Piller Range
Cenozoic deformation of the Central Otago Range and Basin province has been investigated to determine the mechanism of range formation. Mapping in the Rock and Pillar Range revealed macroscopic folds in schistosity which ... -
Social organisation, behaviour and population parameters of Bottlenose Dolphins in Doubtful Sound, Fiordland
Bottlenose dolphins in Doubtful Sound represent a unique opportunity for a relatively longterm study of wild, known individuals near the southern extent of their worldwide range, and unaffected by incidental mortality. In ... -
Gait stability during shod and barefoot walking and running on a treadmill assessed by correlation entropy
This study tests correlation entropy, 𝐾2, as a measure of stability for gait analysis. An average of 13 strides from 10 participants in each combination of one footwear (barefoot vs shod) condition and one gait mode ... -
Estimating the Technical Potential of Residential Demand Response in New Zealand: A Summary of Results
This report was prepared by researchers at the University of Otago as part of the GREEN Grid project funded by the Ministry of Business, Innovation and Employment. The report summarises our order-of-magnitude estimates of ... -
Early exposure to atrazine in zebrafish: intergenerational effects and animal personality
Animal personality (consistent inter-individual differences in behaviour over time and context) is important for an individual’s fitness. Acute exposure studies in adults show that endocrine disrupting chemicals (EDCs) can ... -
Hepcidin and Iron Deficiency: Novel Findings for Elite Female Rugby Sevens Players
Iron deficiency (ID), measured via serum ferritin (SF), is a common issue for female athletes due to inadequate dietary iron intakes, menstruation and exercise-induced iron losses. Elite female rugby sevens players are no ... -
Estimating Overdispersion in Sparse Multinomial Data
The phenomenon of overdispersion arises when the data are more variable than we expect from the fitted model. This issue often arises when fitting a Poisson or a binomial model. When overdispersion is present, ignoring it ... -
Stepping stones to others' minds : the relation between maternal mental and non-mental state input and social understanding in 15-, 24, and 33 month-old children
Recent research has shown that children under two years demonstrate some early social understanding. Previous research has also demonstrated that mother talk about mental states is a factor in older preschoolers' later ... -
Eocene turtles and whales from New Zealand
This thesis documents eleven specimens of Eocene turtles (Reptilia: Testudines: Dermochelyidae, Cheloniidae) and seven specimens of archaeocete whales (Mammalia: Cetacea: Basilosauridae) from New Zealand. All taxa derive ... -
Donor-Acceptor Cyclopropanes as Building Blocks for the Synthesis of Natural Product Scaffolds
The first chapter of this thesis provides an introduction to natural products and describes how they are a valuable source of bioactive compounds, which feature heavily in clinically used drugs. The recently reported ... -
Taipōrutu, Taonga Tuku Iho. Articulating a Mātauranga Māori ‘Sense of Place’.
Māori (the indigenous people of New Zealand) cultural values in relation to resource management within New Zealand, are often co-joined with a preservation framework. The practical implication of this, places identity as ... -
Submarine Eruptive Processes in the Brook St Terrane at Colac Bay, Southland, New Zealand
A sequence of volcanic and volcaniclastic rocks of the Brook Street Terrane crops out along the Southland coast from Howells Point, Riverton, into Colac Bay. This sequence provides an along-strike exposure, revealing lateral ... -
Marine Noise Pollution and Cetaceans: Making the Intangible Tangible through Participatory Sci-Art Exhibition
This thesis examines how to communicate the concept of marine noise pollution and its effect on cetaceans to the general public. Tackling a largely unknown and intangible subject, it investigates how to make these effects ... -
Communicating conservation with detection dogs
Public support and awareness is essential to effectively address conservation issues such as biodiversity decline in New Zealand. There is a need to develop approaches for enhancing public awareness and attracting new ... -
Deception Detection: Where do I look, Upper Face or Lower Face?
Human’s ability to detect deception has an unsettling result of around chance detection (Depaulo et al., 2003; Bond & DePaulo, 2008). Both Experiment 1 and 2 tracked participant’s eye fixations during the process of detecting ... -
Properties of Gibbs samplers for inference in genetic mark-recapture models
The aim of this thesis is to study the convergence properties of specific MCMC algorithms for sampling from a posterior distribution. The model considered incorporates the uncertainty in the assignment of a legitimate ... -
Acute and adaptive responses to endurance swimming in warm water
Human thermoregulation and exercise performance have been investigated extensively in warm terrestrial environments but not warm aquatic environments. Open-water swimming (OWS) is an increasingly popular sport, with more ... -
Taxonomy and genetic management of New Zealand's Leiopelma frogs
The taxonomic status of some of New Zealand’s endemic and threatened leiopelmatid frogs has been debated for years. I thus re-examined leiopelmatid diversity by studying the skeletal and external morphology of extinct and ...