People
Group Leader
Associate Professor · Co-Director - Centre for Biodiversity and Restoration Ecology
School of Biological Sciences
Phd Students
Chile | Contact Olivia
Direct and indirect effects of mammal control on forest invertebrate communities | PhD thesis
Nyree Fea
New Zealand | Contact Nyree
The responses of New Zealand's arboreal forest birds to invasive mammal control | PhD thesis
Implications for NZ bird conservation VUW news release and video interview, Mar 2019
Publications
Fea N & Hartley S (2018) The balancing act of nest survival: Survival of a small endemic bird in the face of ship rat predation and other risk factors. Avian Conservation and Ecology 13(2):11. article
Master's Students
Kiki Morse
Secondary supervisor: Stephanie Tomscha
Biodiversity corridors
Henry MacKenzie
Home ranges and behavioural ecology of urban rats
Media coverage
Tracking Inner City Rats podcast on Radio NZ, 06 Nov 2019
Secret Lives of Rats VUW news story, Nov 2019
Cherie Balls
New Zealand | Email Cherie
Understanding the distribution of introduced mammalian predators in an urban environment using monitoring tools and community trapping | MSc thesis
Roald Bomans
New Zealand | Contact Roald
Bioacoustic monitoring of New Zealand avifauna before and after aerial 1080 operations | MSc thesis
Birds Call Out 1080 Claim podcast on Radio NZ, April 2018
Katherine de Silva
New Zealand | Blog | LinkedIn | Contact Kat
Temporal dynamics and constraints in natural regeneration of native plant species in restored urban forests
The implementation of urban forest restoration activities has become a key tool over the last few decades throughout New Zealand to improve ecosystem services, function, resilience and biodiversity. However, the trajectory and success of restoration activities in degraded urban environments, may differ depending on the influencing characteristics of regional climate, micro-climate and the original planted composition of native species. Using a chronosequence approach, whereby space is substituted for time, we will determine how the regeneration dynamics of restoration plantings vary with climate and canopy composition differences among several cities. For more, see: Fixing Forests podcast on Radio NZ
Hannah Stilborn
New Zealand