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GUBIC: The global urban biological invasions compendium for plants Open

Daijiang Li, Luke J. Potgieter, Myla F. J. Aronson, Irena Axmanová, Benjamin Baiser , et al. · 2025

Urban areas are foci for the introduction of non‐native plant species, and they often act as launching sites for invasions into the wider environment. Although interest in biological invasions in urban areas is growing rapidly, and the ext…

GUBIC: the global urban biological invasions compendium for plants Open

Daijiang Li, Luke J. Potgieter, Myla F. J. Aronson, Irena Axmanová, Benjamin Baiser , et al. · 2024

1. Urban areas are foci for the introduction of non-native plant species, and they often act as launching sites for invasions into the wider environment. Although interest in biological invasions in urban areas is growing rapidly, and the …

Epiphyte-host relationships of remnant and recombinant urban ecosystems in Hamilton, New Zealand: the importance of Dicksonia squarrosa (G.Forst.) Sw., whekī Open

Hannah C. Rogers, Bruce D. Clarkson · 2023

More than a thousand iNaturalist NZ observations were compiled and analysed to determine common vascular epiphyte-host relationships in Hamilton, North Island, New Zealand. Dicksonia squarrosa supported the most epiphytes, followed …

Restoration Strategies for Three Dacrycarpus dacrydioides (A.Rich.) de Laub., Kahikatea Remnants in Hamilton City, New Zealand Open

Hannah C. Rogers, Bruce D. Clarkson · 2022

Identifying appropriate restoration strategies is vital for successful urban remnant restoration, but projects often lack consistent methods that distinguish them. In New Zealand, there are unique opportunities to restore depleted Dacrycar…

The right tree in the right place? A major economic tree species poses major ecological threats Open

Peter J. Bellingham, Elise Arnst, Bruce D. Clarkson, Thomas R. Etherington, L. J. Forester , et al. · 2022

Tree species in the Pinaceae are some of the most widely introduced non-native tree species globally, especially in the southern hemisphere. In New Zealand, plantations of radiata pine ( Pinus radiata D. Don) occupy c . 1.6 million ha and …

Reversing Biodiversity Decline in Aotearoa New Zealand Open

Bruce D. Clarkson · 2022

Reflections on the history of and prognosis for reversing biodiversity in Aotearoa New Zealand are provided from the perspective of a 40-year involvement in terrestrial ecology and its interface with central and local government policy dev…

Habitat provision is a major driver of native bird communities in restored urban forests Open

Elizabeth Elliot Noe, John Innes, Andrew D. Barnes, Chaitanya Joshi, Bruce D. Clarkson · 2022

Urbanization, and the drastic loss of habitat it entails, poses a major threat to global avian biodiversity. Ecological restoration of urban forests is therefore increasingly vital for native bird conservation, but control of invasive pred…

Restoration Trajectories and Ecological Thresholds during Planted Urban Forest Successional Development Open

Kiri Joy Wallace, Bruce D. Clarkson, Bridgette Farnworth · 2022

Successfully reconstructing functioning forest ecosystems from early-successional tree plantings is a long-term process that often lacks monitoring. Many projects lack observations of critical successional information, such as the restorat…

Wallace et al 2022 Data and R code - Urban Forest Restoration Open

Kiri Joy Wallace, Bruce D. Clarkson, Bridgette Farnworth · 2022

Data for our paper "Restoration trajectories and ecological thresholds during planted urban forest successional development"

A tenuous link: Information transfer between urban ecological research and restoration practice Open

Sarah A. Busbridge, Bruce D. Clarkson, Kiri Joy Wallace · 2021

Despite a growing theoretical understanding of restoration ecology, this scientific knowledge is not typically well linked to restoration practitioner decision-making. Urban restoration projects are increasing worldwide due to the myriad e…

The “desire to have it all”: multiple priorities for urban gardens reduces space for native nature Open

Elizabeth Elliot Noe, Bruce D. Clarkson, Ottilie Stolte · 2021

The majority of the world’s population now lives in cities, where reduced levels of native biodiversity, coupled with fewer opportunities for people to experience nature, are expected to result in an urban public increasingly disconnected …

Can we make the UN Decade on Ecosystem Restoration count? Open

Tein McDonald, Bruce D. Clarkson · 2020

Preparations are mounting across the globe for the start of the United Nations Decade on Ecosystem Restoration (2021–2030). The United Nations Environment Programme team is working with multiple partner non-profit organisations across Aust…

Restoring mature-phase forest tree species through enrichment planting in New Zealand’s lowland landscapes Open

Adam Forbes, Kiri Joy Wallace, Hannah L. Buckley, Bradley S. Case, Bruce D. Clarkson , et al. · 2020

New Zealand's formerly extensive lowland native forests have been comprehensively cleared or modified, and large areas of secondary-growth vegetation have subsequently established.These areas are comprised of native, exotic, and mixed tree…

The Hobart Declaration on EcoHealth: Ecological restoration that supports human health Open

James Aronson, Neva Goodwin, L Orlando, L Wickwire, Keith Bradby , et al. · 2020

The world is witnessing global environmental degradation, displacement and undermining of Indigenous communities, accelerating climate change, and rising public health costs. Environmental degradation and public health are intrinsically li…

Urban forest restoration ecology: a review from Hamilton, New Zealand Open

Kiri Joy Wallace, Bruce D. Clarkson · 2019

Restoration of urban forest improves quality of life for city residents and is important for boosting native biodiversity. However, the scientific knowledge required to inform successful restoration is largely lacking for urban forest ecos…

Forest canopy restoration has indirect effects on litter decomposition and no effect on denitrification Open

Kiri Joy Wallace, Daniel C. Laughlin, Bruce D. Clarkson, Louis A. Schipper · 2018

Forest restoration has potential to recover degraded ecosystem functions in disturbed environments. Decomposition and denitrification are two critical functions involved in forest nutrient cycling that are often compromised in degraded eco…

Rangitoto Island field trip, Auckland Open

David J. Lowe, Peter J. de Lange, Phil Shane, Bruce D. Clarkson · 2017

Rangitoto, Māori for ‘blood red sky’ (also ‘lava, scoria’), derives from the phrase Ngā Rangi-i-totongia-a Tama-te-kapua (the full name for the island) meaning “the day the blood of Tamatekapua was shed”, referring to a battle between Tama…

Exotic weeds and fluctuating microclimate can constrain native plant regeneration in urban forest restoration Open

Kiri Joy Wallace, Daniel C. Laughlin, Bruce D. Clarkson · 2017

Restoring forest structure and composition is an important component of urban land management, but we lack clear understanding of the mechanisms driving restoration success. Here we studied two indicators of restoration success in temperat…

Exotic weeds and fluctuating microclimate can constrain native plant regeneration in urban forest restoration Open

Kiri Joy Wallace, Daniel C. Laughlin, Bruce D. Clarkson · 2017

We studied two indicators of ecological restoration success in temperate rainforests: native tree regeneration and epiphyte colonization. Our analyses, including structural equation modeling using R, identified the biotic and abiotic condi…

Guidebook for Rangitoto Island AQUA field trip, Auckland, 2016 Open

David J. Lowe, Phil Shane, Peter J. de Lange, Bruce D. Clarkson · 2017

Rangitoto is arguably Auckland’s most beautiful and omnipresent landscape feature. It is a symmetrical, ~6-km wide, basaltic shield volcano that last erupted ~550‒500 cal. yr BP (c. 1400‒1450 AD), not long after the arrival and settlement …

What controls native plant regeneration in urban forest restoration? Open

Kiri Joy Wallace, Daniel C. Laughlin, Bruce D. Clarkson · 2017

Introduction to special section on New Zealand restoration Open

David Norton, Laura Young, Bruce D. Clarkson · 2016

Despite only 800 years of human occupation, New Zealand has suffered from a rate and scale of ecosystem transformation and species extinction rarely matched elsewhere. However, New Zealand's biodiversity is on the cusp of a major recovery …

Taranaki Biodiversity Priorities Forum discussion report Open

Catherine Kirby, Bruce D. Clarkson · 2016

On February 26th 2016 the Taranaki Biodiversity forum for regional priority setting was attended by around 75 people who represented Taranaki Biodiversity Trust members and interested parties. The objective of the forum was to identify pri…

Restoration planting in urban environments Open

Bruce D. Clarkson, Rebecca Johanna Bylsma · 2016

Since the year 2000 we have been involved in numerous restoration planting projects in urban environments. Our work has focussed mainly on sites within the city of Hamilton, but we have also been involved with projects in other New Zealand…

Testing methods to establish the latesuccessional native tree Beilschmiedia tawa in monocultures of the weed Tradescantia fluminensis Open

Kiri Joy Cutting, Bruce D. Clarkson, Daniel C. Laughlin · 2015

Urban restoration plantings are often infested by the introduced groundcover Tradescantia fluminensis, which can lead to suppression of "enrichment plantings" of late-successional native tree seedlings that are planted under early-successi…

Pattern and process of vegetation change (succession) on two northern New Zealand island volcanoes Open

Bruce D. Clarkson, Beverley R. Clarkson, James O. Juvik · 2015

Pattern and process of vegetation change (succession) were compared on two northern North Island volcanoes: Whakaari (White Island) and Rangitoto Island where the endemic woody tree Metrosideros excelsa is the primary colonizer of raw volc…

A global analysis of the impacts of urbanization on bird and plant diversity reveals key anthropogenic drivers Open

Myla F. J. Aronson, Frank A. La Sorte, Charles H. Nilon, Madhusudan Katti, Mark A. Goddard , et al. · 2014

Urbanization contributes to the loss of the world's biodiversity and the homogenization of its biota. However, comparative studies of urban biodiversity leading to robust generalities of the status and drivers of biodiversity in cities at …

Compensating for ecological harm - the state of play in New Zealand Open

Marie A. Brown, Bruce D. Clarkson, Barry Barton · 2014

Ecological compensation involves measures to create positive conservation outcomes intended to offset the residual impacts of development (e.g. restoration planting, pest control). Rarely, however, have the exchanges arranged been subject …

Report to Hamilton City Council on the context for decision-making relating to the 5.1 hectares of public land adjoining Waiwhakareke Natural Heritage Park Open

Bruce D. Clarkson, Kemble Jonathan Pudney, Ian C. Duggan, David P. Hamilton, Catherine Kirby , et al. · 2014

The purpose of this document is to assist council in its decision-making on the future use of the 5.1 hectares of "Smart Subdivision" land. It further develops the previous submission included within the staff report (pages 59-62) and give…

Referee report. For: Ultimate drivers of native biodiversity change in agricultural systems [v1; indexed, http://f1000r.es/21m] Open

Bruce D. Clarkson · 2013

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