Artificial retreats are increasingly used to sample animal populations and in attempts to boost animal numbers in degraded habitats. Here, I test potential applications of artificial retreats for lizards inhabiting a coastal ...

Agriculture is a major source of diffuse contamination of surface waters by nutrients, sediment and pesticides, and streams located in agricultural regions are particularly exposed to these kinds of stressors. I combined ...

The aim of this study was to determine whether mating behaviour varies with head size in the alpine weta, Hemideina maori, from the Rock and Pillar range. The specific objectives are to : 1) determine the relative proportion ...

In the first decade of the new millennium, New Zealand played host to an unusual phenomenon. Benzylpiperazine (BZP), a legal and potent stimulant, was freely sold in shops throughout the country. Benzylpiperazine containing ...

The aim of this thesis is to analyze the science of taxonomy, its development through time, and how effectively it is communicated to the non-scientific public. Taxonomy is the science of classification of organisms of any ...

New Zealand is unique among industrialized countries in that, in the absence of farming subsidies, farm management is governed largely by consumers in Europe, the United States and Japan, where the majority of agricultural ...

This thesis examines metaphysical themes in the historical neurosciences and implements those themes in a work of creative non-fiction for the purpose of communicating science to the public. Contemporary science communication ...