A5089445179- Pacific and Southeast Asian Studies
- Archaeology and ancient environmental studies
- Plant Pathogens and Resistance
- Pleistocene-Era Hominins and Archaeology
- Plant Pathogens and Fungal Diseases
- Historical and Cultural Archaeology Studies
- Yeasts and Rust Fungi Studies
- Maritime and Coastal Archaeology
- Forest Insect Ecology and Management
- Marine animal studies overview
- Isotope Analysis in Ecology
- Forest ecology and management
- Genetic diversity and population structure
- Indigenous Studies and Ecology
- Nematode management and characterization studies
- Fish Ecology and Management Studies
- Vehicle emissions and performance
- Insect-Plant Interactions and Control
- Wildlife Ecology and Conservation
- Plant Parasitism and Resistance
- Forensic Anthropology and Bioarchaeology Studies
- Aerodynamics and Fluid Dynamics Research
- Botany and Plant Ecology Studies
- Refrigeration and Air Conditioning Technologies
- Island Studies and Pacific Affairs
University of Otago
2011-2024
Oxford Archaeology
2020
Edinburgh Napier University
2014-2015
University of Wuppertal
2015
Tun Hussein Onn University of Malaysia
2015
The University of Melbourne
1989-2014
Centre d'Études Scientifiques et Techniques d'Aquitaine
2012
UMR BIOdiversity, GEnes & Communities
2012
Forest and Wood Products (Australia)
1999-2000
North-West University
2000
(1) The variations between vascular plant lists produced from the same wood by different observers, at seasons and using methods are described. (2) Three British woods were examined during 1982, with two observers per least recording times (April-May August-September). used to list species seen either on a walk through or found in randomly placed quadrats. Each method was of three woods. (3) No significant differences number recorded particular observer May September. Lower numbers early...
Extinctions can dramatically reshape biological communities. As a case in point, ancient mass extinction events apparently facilitated dramatic new evolutionary radiations of surviving lineages. However, scientists have yet to fully understand the consequences more recent upheaval, such as megafaunal extinctions that occurred globally over past 50 kyr. New Zealand was world's last large landmass be colonized by humans, and its exceptional archaeological record documents vast number...
A non-papillate, heterothallic Phytophthora species first isolated in 2001 and subsequently from symptomatic roots, crowns stems of 33 plant 25 unrelated botanical families 13 countries is formally described here as a new species. Symptoms on various hosts included crown stem rot, chlorosis, wilting, leaf blight, cankers gumming. This was Australia, Hungary, Israel, Italy, Japan, the Netherlands, Norway, South Africa, Spain, Taiwan, Turkey, United Kingdom States association with shrubs...
Abstract Archaeozoological data from two New Zealand regions, Greater Hauraki in northern North Island and Otago-Catlins southern South Island, are examined to document exploitation of the marine environment by Maori prior European settlement. Data 107 reliably dated archaeological assemblages summarized show range shellfish, finfish, bird mammal taxa that were harvested relative importance species within each these classes. Regional differences faunal spectra detected shown be attributable...
The phloem-feeding aphid Essigella californica represents a potential threat to the productivity of Pinus radiata plantations in south-eastern Australia. Five- and nine-year-old field trials were used characterize effects artificial natural aphid-induced (E. californica) defoliation, respectively, on shoot photosynthesis growth. Photosynthetic capacity (Amax) was significantly greater following 25% (D25) (13.8 µmol m−2 s−1) 50% (D50) (15.9 single-event upper-crown 3 weeks after defoliation...
The expansion of humans into previously unoccupied parts the globe is thought to have driven decline and extinction numerous vertebrate species. In New Zealand, human settlement in late thirteenth century AD led rapid demise a distinctive fauna, also number 'turnover' events where extinct lineages were subsequently replaced by closely related taxa. recent genetic detection an Australian little penguin ( Eudyptula novaehollandiae ) southeastern Zealand may potentially represent additional...
The evaluation of decayed wood in a tree trunk is essential for hazard assessment arboriculture. In this study, an IML-Resistograph was highly successful as field instrument its ability to locate and predict the presence decay eucalypts. A system using estimate area cross-section eucalypt evaluated use. data from F300S can be used part expert standing eucalypt.
Abstract Southern New Zealand is a cool‐temperate insular region, first colonized about 800 BP by hunter‐gatherers. Archaeological data, particularly from the site at Shag River Mouth, show that small villages, established early in settlement sequence, were occupied only briefly and 400 village habitation had ceased. Ethnographic observations some archaeological evidence villages re‐established late 200 BP. It argued these phases of sedentary largely reflect different responses to relative...
Unravelling prehistoric anthropogenic impacts on biodiversity represents a key challenge for biologists and archaeologists. New Zealand's endemic Stewart Island Shag (Leucocarbo chalconotus) comprises two distinct phylogeographic lineages, currently restricted to the country's south southeast. However, fossil archaeological remains suggest far more widespread distribution at time of Polynesian settlement ca. 1280 AD, encompassing much coastal South Island. We used modern ancient DNA,...
Abstract Presented here are the results of archaeoparasitological analysis habitation layers at Shag River Mouth, Otago coast. Two types helminth eggs were identified: The first type is Toxocara canis , associated with introduced kurī dog ( Canis familiaris ), which could have adversely affected local people and their dogs. other very closely resembles that Stringopotaenia psittacea critically endangered endemic kākāpō Strigops habroptilus ) parrot. represent South Island archaeo...
Abstract Much archaeological thinking about the interrelationships between subsistence, sedentism and socio-political organization has been carried out within an evolutionary framework. The classic model sees development of complex social linked to a rise in importance agriculture sedentary way life. New Zealand record offers challenges this model. is unusual case involving society moving from agricultural predominantly hunting gathering base then, following large-scale faunal depletions,...
Abstract Anecdotal data sources may constitute an important component of the information available about exploited species, as record keeping not have occurred until after exploitation began. Here, we aimed to fill any gaps in exploitative history sparid snapper (Pagrus auratus), using social and historical research methods. Social consisted interviews with recreational fishers, focusing on most largest they had caught. In addition, diary‐logs two fishers were analysed. Historical...
Abstract Neolithic arrival in the P acific involved, as other parts of world, translocation domesticated plants and animals by pottery‐making cultures prehistory. Globally uncommon, though, was abandonment pottery on some islands extirpation pig ( S us scrofa/verrucosus ) dog C anis familiaris – two largest mammalian quadrupeds introduced to O ceania from subsistence cultural systems. This paper examines pigs alau I slands a case study understand why an important domesticate has such uneven...
Abstract While terrestrial megafaunal extinctions have been well characterized worldwide, our understanding of declines in marine megafauna remains limited. Here, we use ancient DNA analyses prehistoric (<1450–1650 AD ) sea lion specimens from New Zealand's isolated Chatham Islands to assess the demographic impacts human settlement. These data suggest there was a large population lions, unique Islands, at time Polynesian This distinct mitochondrial lineage became rapidly extinct within...
Le site de Fa'ahia et Vaito'otia est bien connu pour livrer des matériaux d'une culture semblable sous nombreux aspects à ceux occupations préhistoriques anciennes Nouvelle-Zélande sites archaïques Polynésie orientale. Au cours fouilles, une vaste série ostéologique a été recueillie. poisson y prédomine avec quantités significatives tortues mammifères marins, suivis en moindres d'espèces rapportées telles que cochon, chien bovin. Les analyses la fluorine indiquent ce dernier intrus. Cet...