A5016514282- Plant and animal studies
- Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies
- Wildlife Ecology and Conservation
- Avian ecology and behavior
- Animal Ecology and Behavior Studies
- Insect and Arachnid Ecology and Behavior
- Land Use and Ecosystem Services
- Animal Behavior and Reproduction
- Urban Green Space and Health
- Insect and Pesticide Research
- Wildlife-Road Interactions and Conservation
- Marine animal studies overview
- Animal Vocal Communication and Behavior
- Plant Parasitism and Resistance
- Species Distribution and Climate Change
- Human-Animal Interaction Studies
- Forest Management and Policy
- Animal and Plant Science Education
- Urban Agriculture and Sustainability
- Bird parasitology and diseases
- Biological Control of Invasive Species
- Animal Nutrition and Physiology
- Yersinia bacterium, plague, ectoparasites research
- Animal Disease Management and Epidemiology
- Insect-Plant Interactions and Control
University of Auckland
2016-2025
Unitec Institute of Technology
2023
Education New Zealand
2022
Manaaki Whenua – Landcare Research
2004-2007
Case Western Reserve University
2003
Monash University
1998-2002
Food availability is a primary driver of avian population regulation. However, few studies have considered the effects what essentially massive supplementary feeding experiment: practice wild bird feeding. Bird has been posited as an important factor influencing structure communities, especially in urban areas, although experimental evidence to support this almost entirely lacking. We carried out 18-mo study at 23 residential properties investigate on local assemblages. Our regime was based...
Journal Article College Education and the Midcentury GI Bills Get access Marcus Stanley Case Western Reserve University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The Quarterly of Economics, Volume 118, Issue 2, May 2003, Pages 671–708, https://doi.org/10.1162/003355303321675482 Published: 01 2003
The practice of garden bird feeding is a global phenomenon, involving millions people and vast quantities food annually. Many engage in the assuming that birds gain some benefit from they provide, yet recent studies have revealed potential for detrimental impacts as well. However, there still paucity information on feeding, including ubiquity these among within feeder-visiting species. Consistency feeder use likely an important determinant this. Individual species make frequent feeders are...
The interaction between Depressaria pastinacella (parsnip webworm) and wild parsnip (Pastinaca sativa), in its native Europe longstanding nonindigenous range the midwestern United States, is characterized by chemical phenotype matching, ostensibly mediated reciprocal selective responses. first appearance of D. on P. sativa New Zealand 2004 provided an opportunity to quantify impacts a coevolved herbivore calibrate rates phytochemical response host plant. Webworms 2006 reduced seed production...
Climate change may facilitate alien species invasion into new areas, particularly for from warm native ranges introduced areas currently marginal temperature. Although conclusions modelling approaches and experimental studies are generally similar, combining the two has rarely occurred. The aim of this study was to validate distribution models by conducting field trials in sites differing suitability as predicted models, thus increasing confidence their ability assess risk. Three recently...
Abstract The Argentine ant, Linepithema humile (Mayr), is a highly invasive global pest. It has been just over twenty years since ants were fi rst discovered in New Zealand. Through the result of human-mediated dispersal, they are now relatively widespread, but patchily distributed, many North Island towns and cities, also several locations South Island. This review provides short history ant invasion within Zealand research conducted to date. suggests that still only at beginning their...
Wild bird feeding often results in high densities of birds, potentially facilitating transmission disease. birds are major reservoirs many zoonotic diseases, and although a number avian disease outbreaks have been linked to feeders, urban bird‐feeding its role systems remains poorly studied. We examined the impacts typical supplementary practices on health status feeder‐visiting at experimental stations an area New Zealand. Over 18‐month period, we screened captured non‐feeding properties...
Global environmental change and humanity's growing demands for resources have generated concerns regarding how much pressure Earth systems can absorb without drastic, potentially irreversible consequences. In natural resource production systems, tipping points generate immediate threats to human well-being. However, empirically exploiting conceptual point models, applying that learning management has proven challenging. We argue primary industries are characterized by a set of social...
Abstract The global pet trade provides a pathway for introduced species to invade new environments. Most studies use data as an indirect proxy propagule pressure exerted by the trade. Instead, we quantify reported rate of loss captive birds, assess factors that might influence this rate, simulate survival and retrieval birds overall cumulative on environment. We used online listings lost estimate exerts establishment bird in Aotearoa–New Zealand. Listings from two popular websites were...
Despite extensive research on avian vocal learning, we still lack a general understanding of how and when this ability evolved in birds. As the closest living relatives earliest Passeriformes, New Zealand wrens (Acanthisitti) hold key phylogenetic position for furthering our evolution learning because they share common ancestor with two learners: oscines parrots. However, abilities remain unexplored. Here, test presence prerequisite behaviors one extant species wrens, rifleman (Acanthisitta...
Climate change may exacerbate the impacts of plant invasions by providing opportunities for new naturalisations and alien species to expand into regions where previously they could not survive reproduce.Although climate is expected favour invasive plants in every case, Aotearoa-New Zealand a large pool potential weeds already exists this country predicted be an 'invasion hotspot' under change.In particular, ornamental garden originating from warmer native ranges are likely naturalise become...
Overlap in the form of sexual signals such as pheromones raises possibility reproductive interference by invasive species on similar, yet naive native species. Here, we test potential for through heterospecific mate attraction and subsequent predation males females a sexually cannibalistic praying mantis. Miomantis caffra is New Zealand, where it widely considered to be displacing only mantis species, Orthodera novaezealandiae, mechanisms behind this displacement are unknown. We demonstrate...
Abstract Invasive soil‐borne pathogens are a major threat to forest ecosystems worldwide. The newly discovered soil pathogen, P hytophthora ‘taxon A gathis’ ( PTA ), is serious endemic kauri gathis australis : raucariaceae) in N ew Z ealand. This study examined the potential for feral pigs act as vectors of . We investigated whether snouts and trotters carry contaminated with , using these results determined probability that vector. screened on from 457 various baiting techniques molecular...
ESR Endangered Species Research Contact the journal Facebook Twitter RSS Mailing List Subscribe to our mailing list via Mailchimp HomeLatest VolumeAbout JournalEditorsSpecials 19:1-10 (2012) - DOI: https://doi.org/10.3354/esr00453 Distribution, group characteristics and movements of Critically Maui’s dolphin Cephalorhynchus hectori maui Marc Oremus1, Rebecca M. Hamner1,2, Martin Stanley3, Phillip Brown3, C. Scott Baker1,2, Rochelle Constantine1,* 1School Biological Sciences, University...