• Managing fire and biodiversity in the wildland-urban interface: A role for green firebreaks 

  Curran, Timothy J.; Perry, G. L. W.; Wyse, Sarah . V.; Alam, Md (MDPI, 2018-06)

  In the wildland-urban interface, the imperative is often to protect life and property from destructive fires, while also conserving biodiversity. One potential tool for achieving this goal is the use of green firebreaks: ...
• Farmland, food, and bioenergy crops need not compete for land 

  Littlejohn, C. P.; Curran, Timothy J.; Hofmann, Rainer; Wratten, Stephen D. (Solutions Journal, 2015-05)

  The need to mitigate the effects of climate change has resulted in some governments setting mandates to attain targets for bioenergy production. Recently, there has been concern that the large-scale use of first-generation ...
• Secondary poisoning risk for encapsulated sodium nitrite, a new tool for possum control 

  Shapiro, Lee; Blackie, Helen; Arthur, D.; Ross, James G.; Eason, Charles (New Zealand Ecological Society, 2018)

  Brushtail possums (Trichosurus vulpecula) present an ongoing threat to New Zealand’s environment and economy. Research into additional control techniques is vital to ensure that a variety of efficient tools are available ...
• Investigating variation in associations with belowground micro-organisms of historic and current white clover germplasm 

  John, Ramana (Lincoln University, 2018-03-12)

  White clover (Trifolium repens) is regarded as one of the most important forage legume in temperate regions of the world, and is very important to the New Zealand pastoral industries. The symbiotic relationship between ...
• Using Burkholderia sp. as a biocontrol agent in kiwifruit plants against Neofusicoccum parvum 

  Wu, Shixi (Lincoln University, 2017)

  Actinidia chinensis (kiwifruit) is an important horticultural crop in New Zealand. A fungal pathogen, Neofusicoccum parvum (teleomorph Botryosphaeria), was found causing fruit drop symptoms in kiwifruit orchards. To target ...

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