Department of Pest Management and Conservation
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The Department of Pest Management and Conservation carries out research and teaching in the following specialist areas: Animal behavior; Conservation and biodiversity; Ecological restoration; Evolutionary biology; Fire ecology; Molecular ecology; Plant microbiology; Plant pathology; Remediation of degraded and contaminated land; Soil ecology; Sustainable agriculture and ecosystem services; Wildlife and pest management.
Recent Submissions
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Operation COBRA: Developing a new protocol for measuring spider biodiversity in New Zealand pastures
(Lincoln University, 2019)Research in conservation biology, ecology, and agroecology requires accurate knowledge of species distributions. Arthropods are often ignored or under-sampled in biodiversity and conservation assessments due to the large ... -
Diphacinone with cholecalciferol for controlling possums and ship rats
(Taylor & Francis on behalf of the Royal Society of New Zealand, 2019-08-28)Potent second-generation anticoagulant rodenticides such as brodifacoum have been used as more effective alternatives to first-generation anticoagulants, such as warfarin. A combination of diphacinone at 0.005% and ... -
Assessing subspecies status of leopards (Panthera pardus) of northern Pakistan using mitochondrial DNA
(PeerJ, 2019-07-16)Despite being classified as critically endangered, little work has been done on leopard protection in Pakistan. Once widely present throughout this region, leopards are now sparsely distributed, and possibly extinct from ... -
Identification of potential invertebrate bioindicators of restoration trajectory at a quarry site in Hunua, Auckland, New Zealand
(New Zealand Ecological Society, 2019)In 2009, the New Zealand company Winstone Aggregates initiated a restoration planting scheme to mitigate the ecological damage caused by mining at the Hunua Quarry, near Papakura, New Zealand. By employing several collection ... -
When mining the habitat of a rare carnivorous landsnail leads to a wealth of knowledge gain for the whole genus
(Open Science Centre, University of Jyväskylä, 2018)Powelliphanta is a genus of large land snails endemic to New Zealand. The twelve recognised species and numerous sub-species in that genus are known for their bright and colourful shells as well as their carnivorous habits. ...
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