Results from a Survey of Rural Decision Makers undertaken between March and July 2013. The overall sample is 1,528, with participants representing a variety of rural enterprises and all 16 regions.

ARCHIVED DATABASE OF E.G. WHITE MOTH STUDIES WAIMAKARIRI BASIN (1961-1963, 1987-1989) AND MACKENZIE BASIN (1991-1996, 1998-2000) The tussock grassland database for 43 Canterbury sites extends to 61 spring-autumn trapping sequences (35 sites x 1 year each; 8 sites x 2-5 years each) based on standardised light-trapping methods. The archived database...

This resource is no longer available. The NZ Lizards Database is (was) a searchable online system that provides access to a wealth of information describing the lizard species of New Zealand and will be useful to organisations and individuals alike. This project was funded by the New Zealand Government's Terrestrial and Freshwater Biodiversity Information...

The first NZ Colony Loss and Survival (COLOSS) survey of beekeepers was first carried out in spring 2015 by Landcare Research. The survey was funded by MPI and the beekeeping industry to deliver a “baseline” of information about the status of bees and the challenges that beekeepers face. The survey was largely based on international COLOSS surveys,...

The third biennial Survey of Rural Decision Makers was run in September 2017. The survey addressed the same topics as the previous two surveys (2015 and 2013) but we have continued to refine the questions to make them more relevant to farmers. It builds on an earlier surveys conducted in 2013 and 2015.

A searchable database of published and unpublished articles and references relevant to wild rabbits and their management in New Zealand.

Landcare Research conducted the second Survey of Rural Decision Makers in 2015 to help build a better picture of what drives these decisions and what New Zealand’s farming environment might look like in the future. The survey covers the entire spectrum of primary industry and lifestyle farming and includes a wide variety of topics. It builds on an earlier...

The ant distribution database is a searchable tool that contains distribution and collection records for all ant species in New Zealand (native and exotic), as well as global distribution for invasive ant species.

The Ecological Traits database began life as a repository of information for projects on New Zealand weeds, and wetland plants. It holds a list of all native and all naturalised higher plant species. Most effort to date has been on entering data on the naturalised flora and this information is updated from time to time. The web delivery of this database...

The research team from the High-tech solutions to invasive mammal pests (BioHeritage project 2.3) have published the refined transcriptome of the Brushtail Possum as described in the 2019 Data in Brief paper by White, Trought and Hopkins entitled 'The mixed liver and heart transcriptome dataset of the New Zealand brushtail possum, Trichosurus vulpecula'...

Reference: Mead A 2019. 1.1. Matauranga Maori Characteristics of New Zealand's Biodiversity - A Literature Review. This paper reports on the findings of a literature review conducted on the wellbeing of indigenous knowledge holders as part of the Biological Heritage Challenge project 1.1 'Matauranga Maori Characterisations of New Zealand's Biodiversity:...