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LCR_LTEL

@LCR_LTEL

Long-term Ecology Research Lab @mwlr_nz. Tweets by @jmwilmshurst

 Christchurch, New Zealand
Joined July 2014
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Wetlands are a rapidly diminishing habitat globally but are key to supporting diverse biota. We show how #LiDAR can be used to reveal the potential (currently under-estimated) risk of anthropogenic drainage in existing #wetlands @OliviaRata @MWLR newzealandecology.org/nzje/3…
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Need a helpful guide to assess distance from ecological baselines and change over time in your palaeoecological records? new paper led by @OliviaRata with worked examples and code in 'baselines' at github.com/orb16/baselines journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.…
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New dietary study led by Alex Boast on coprolites and historic scats from endangered kākāpō identifies #palaeoecological surprises among the 24 Orders, 56 Families, and 57 native plant genera unrecorded in their modern diet #kakapo #metabarcoding #pollen frontiersin.org/articles/10.…
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Our new paper, led by Anna Walentowitz @ArchipelagoAnna, uses pollen records from islands around the world to document the introduction and establishment of non-native species #pollen #palaeoecology doi.org/10.1111/ele.14196 @mwlr_nz Congratulations @ArchipelagoAnna !
Long‐term trajectories of non‐native vegetation on islands globally

Long‐term trajectories of non‐native vegetation on islands globally

Trajectories of non-native vegetation started to rise within the past 1000 years globally. These trajectories differ between islands and partly depend on individual human settlement histories.

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Hearty congratulations to friend, colleague and inspiring researcher Phil Lyver @mwlr for being a newly elected Ngā Ahurei a Te Apārangi Fellow. Tīhei mauriora!
Royal Society Te Apārangi (@royalsocietynz) profile pictureRoyal Society Te Apārangi@royalsocietynz15 Mar 2023
Ka rawe! Congratulations to our latest Ngā Ahurei Fellows elected to our Academy for distinction in research and advancement of science, technology or the humanities: bit.ly/3Fr8UkS
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New research combining historical observations and palaeoecological records of kākāpō with probabilistic extinction-date estimators reveals different and shifting drivers of decline across NZ over 800 yrs before its near extinction in the 1990s #kakapo doi.org/10.1016/j.gecco.2023…
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‘The original art galleries’: protecting New Zealand’s hidden Māori rock art theguardian.com/world/2022/d…
‘The original art galleries’: protecting New Zealand’s hidden Māori rock art

‘The original art galleries’: protecting New Zealand’s hidden Māori rock art

Few know of the drawings scattered across Aotearoa, some of them dating from first arrival of humans, but iwi and scientists are working to change that

theguardian.com
Check out what our PhD student Jacqui Vanderhoorn's plans are for creating a database of New Zealand's pollen records in her talk "QUAVONZ: The Quaternary Vegetation of New Zealand Database" this afternoon at 2pm. Good luck Jacqui! @mwlr #nzes2022
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Watch out for Jo Carpenter's @mwlr presentation at 11:30 today on Palaeoecological and historical observations of kākāpo reveal shifting drivers of decline over 800 years #nzes2022
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Another warm welcome, this time to @KierenJMitchell who joins our LTEL team as a new palaeoecologist. So great to have our ancient DNA lab cranking again and to have such a fantastic new palaeoecology team at @mwlr_nz. Watch this space 😊
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A warm welcome aboard to Alex Boast who joins our Long Term Ecology Lab as a new palaeoecologist. Great to see our palaeoecology team growing again!
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HOTRUNZ is a new open access 1km resolution monthly 1910–2019 time series of interpolated temp and rainfall grids from NZ (with associated uncertainty). Available to start exploring your long-term biological trends against now! essd.copernicus.org/articles… @MWLR
HOTRUNZ: an open-access 1 km resolution monthly 1910–2019 time series of interpolated temperature...

HOTRUNZ: an open-access 1 km resolution monthly 1910–2019 time series of interpolated temperature...

Abstract. Long time series of temperature and rainfall grids are fundamental to understanding how these environmental variables affect environmental or ecological patterns and processes such as plant...

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This is a magic story about inter-generational sharing of knowledge about Māori rock art: a little-known national taonga stuff.co.nz/pou-tiaki/300593…

Māori rock art: A little known national taonga

At 70, Alex Solomon is only now learning about the Māori rock art that has quietly existed in the area he was born, raised, and still lives in today.

stuff.co.nz
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The @mwlr_nz Long Term Ecology Lab @lcr_ltel is seeking to recruit a specialist palaeoecologist to work at the interface between palaeoecological and ecological applications to help inform current conservation issues in NZ. bit.ly/3FMl2f3
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Rare opportunity in high-profile environmental leadership to take the helm of NZ's Crown Research Institute for land, environment and biodiversity. “Kia mauriora te whenua me tōna Taiao” Make the life-force and vitality of the land strong. amytea.co.nz/chief-executive…
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Farewell @larusnz from @LCR_LTEL as you leave @mwlr_nz for @uniofadelaide. We wish you all the best for the exciting opportunities that lie ahead. What a brilliant 13 yrs we have shared - we will miss you heaps but look forward to collaborating over the ditch. Ka kite ano e hoa!
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A great opportunity to come and work with an awesome team of ecologists! @MWLR @_fleecepants @McCarthyEcology @OliviaRata @jmwilmshurst and many others (who aren't on twitter ;-) landcareresearch.co.nz/disco…
Species & ecosystem conservation

Species & ecosystem conservation

We aim to understand how ecosystems function and how to manage them sustainably.

landcareresearch.co.nz
Manaaki Whenua Landcare Research (@mwlr_nz) profile pictureManaaki Whenua Landcare Research@mwlr_nz6 Apr 2022
We're seeking an early to mid-career plant ecologist who can integrate field data with spatial & temporal analyses to address questions relating to a range of ecosystems (inc. naturally uncommon, regen. shrublands, indig. forests). bit.ly/3JbMu5R #scijobs #ecology
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📢The latest issue of PAGES Magazine on "Using Paleoecology in Restoration Ecology" is out and available to read/download👏🎉! We hope you enjoy it👉 pastglobalchanges.org/public… @pages_ecn @acme_pages @vics_pages @WCRP_CLIVAR @WCRP @diverse_K @LandUse_LC6k
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A new flagship species of hyalospheniid testate amoeba from New Zealand with an unusual story of overlooked description under a preoccupied name and subsequent oversight for nearly one century. Welcome: Apodera angatakere! onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/… @pseudopodyrlife @mwlr_nz
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How far did extinct vertebrates move seeds? besjournals.onlinelibrary.wi… Allometric relationships between body morphology & function were used to model seed dispersal functions in extinct birds: turns out moa dispersed seeds in their poop further than any extant native animal in NZ!
Moa coprolite (preserved faeces)

ALT Moa coprolite (preserved faeces)

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