Projects | Ngā Hinonga
Human impacts and ecological transformation
Prehistoric ecological impacts of Pacific rat
Using newly discovered coprolites to study the diets of New Zealand's first invasive mammal
Tracking past human impact on islands by improving palaeoecological reconstructions with PalEnDNA analysis
Revealing the past occurrence of “ghost taxa” and unlocking past records from “silent sites”
Dating the prehistoric Moriori settlement on Rekohu (Chatham Islands)
Exploring an anomoly in the settlement timing of East Polynesia
Fire in New Zealand ecosystems
Understanding increased fire frequencies following human settlement as a novel driver in New Zealand ecosystems
Dating the initial arrival of humans on pristine island ecosystems
Establishing the timing and sequence of events in the human settlement of new landmasses is key to understanding drivers of ecological impact
Conservation palaeoecology
Prehuman vegetation baselines for restoration
Determing what was here before, to help guide restoration for the future
Long-term ecological change
QUAVONZ: Quaternary Vegetation of New Zealand
Establishing a database for New Zealand’s vegetation history over the past 50,000 years
Refining statistical sightings models for inferring event timings in palaeoecological records
Modelling prehistoric extinction and introduction events using Bayesian analysis of radiocarbon dates
Resolving ‘ghost’ diversity in pollen records
Increasing our ability to resolve under-represented plant taxa in pollen records
Long-term vegetation and climate history of the subantarctic islands
Assessing ecological change on New Zealand’s subantarctic islands since the last glaciation
