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Land use impacts on soil invertebrate biodiversity
Soil invertebrates COI DNA metabarcoding data, analysis code, and outputs, relating to the paper Andrew Dopheide, Andreas Makiola, Kate H. Orwin, Robert J. Holdaway, Jamie R.... -
Ashley Dene lysimeter experiment 1
Processed DNA metabarcoding data and analysis code from an experiment to investigate temporal effects of labile carbon inputs on bacterial and fungal biodiversity in urine... -
Expert scores for biodiversity benefits of NZ farm actions
The New Zealand Sustainability Dashboard project aims to deliver a proof-of-concept for an online biodiversity assessment tool for New Zealand (NZ) farms by July 2018. We... -
Biodiversity tool simulations
ata simulations (and R-code) used to show how an evidence-based tool, designed for biodiversity assessments within New Zealand farm businesses, can be applied to: (1) explore... -
Stakeholder feedback on farm biodiversity tool
This dataset supports a journal article evaluating New Zealand stakeholder perspectives on: (a) sharing farm biodiversity data; (b) behavioural factors likely to influence... -
Survey data for NZ farmland biodiversity priorities
These data were derived as part of a case-study, which aimed to give a broad range of stakeholders involved in managing New Zealands agricultural landscape a voice in setting... -
Educational tool demo for nature-friendly food
This demo illustrates one potential design for a proposed educational tool to invite young New Zealander to explore, experiment and engage with real-world challenges that... -
Insect-Plant associations
Records and images of associations between plants (mostly NZ natives) and invertebrate feeding damage -
Introductory summaries: NZ biodiversity tool development
Summary documents outlining the background and process for developing a prototype biodiversity assessment tool for NZ farms, as well as an invitation to participate. -
Online surveys: Help Tell the NZ Biodiversity Story
Two surveys were conducted in 2017 to collect data on NZ priorities for use in development of a prototype biodiversity assessment tool. The online prioritisation exercise was... -
Effectiveness of management actions
The New Zealand Sustainability Dashboard project aims to deliver a proof-of-concept for an online biodiversity assessment tool for New Zealand (NZ) farms. We engaged a panel of... -
Prioritisation workshop for biodiversity tool
The New Zealand Sustainability Dashboard project aims to deliver a proof-of-concept for an online biodiversity assessment tool for New Zealand (NZ) farms by July 2018. We ran a... -
Scoping relevant biodiversity tool components
As part of the first step in a proof-of-concept for co-designing a biodiversity assessment tool for New Zealand farms, the New Zealand Sustainability Dashboard research team has... -
Policy brief | Co-design evidence-based tools
Outlining a transparent and robust co-design process for developing online sustainability assessment tools, which we tested with a proof-of-concept tool for biodiversity... -
Value of evidence-based prioritised actions
This report illustrates the value of evidence-based prioritisation of management actions for improving biodiversity and wider environmental outcomes on NZ farms. Using farm and... -
Policy brief | Evidence synthesis
Citation: MacLeod CJ, Brandt AJ, Collins K, Dicks LV, Shackelford G, Wordley C, Sutherland W (2019). Cost-effective mechanisms for ensuring New Zealand makes best use of global... -
Data - Biases in the metabarcoding of plant pathogens
We investigated and analysed the causes of differences between next-generation sequencing metabarcoding approaches and traditional DNA cloning in the detection and... -
Species wood density data
Species-specific wood density data for New Zealand trees as used in the following analysis: Holdaway RJ, Easdale T, Carswell FE, Richardson SJ, Peltzer DA, Mason NWH, Brandon A,... -
LUCAS natural forest plot-level biomass and ecosystem driver data
Plot-level biomass and ecosystem driver data as used in the following analysis: Holdaway RJ, Easdale T, Carswell FE, Richardson SJ, Peltzer DA, Mason NWH, Brandon A, Coomes DA.... -
New Zealand Bark Thickness 2015
We measured the bark thickness of 82 New Zealand tree species and tested whether variation in bark thickness was related to variation in other plant traits and whether...
