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An historical archive of the news announcements from the home page (just a few might be non-trivial).
10 June 2008: Call for nominations for the 20 most outstanding restoration projects in Australasia. The closing date is June 16. More details....
5 June 2008: Details of this year's annual conference at Unitec, Auckland, are now avialable on the conference website. More details....
18 December 2007: The final draft Communication Strategy for the society, prepared by Karen Denyer and introduced at the AGM last month, is now available for members' comments. More details....
13 September 2007: Newsletter 122 is now available. Highlights are full details on the 2007 annual conference and an invited article by Darryl MacKenzie titled "Detectability: more to it than meets the eye". More details....
27 June 2007: New Zealand Journal of Ecology issue 31(1) is now published and available online. More details...
28 November 2007: Podcasts of the talks from the all-day "Feathers to Fur" symposium are now available as the first New Zealand Ecological Science podcasts. I am in the process of shifting this website to a larger server to accommodate these files. Please note that because of this, the current website address of the podcasts page is temporary and the subscription function on the podcasts pages is not yet functional.
25 November 2007: The successful NZES "Feathers to Fur" conference was last week. Did you miss some of the talks because you were in another session, or did you miss the conference? No worries. In the NZES past conferences webpages, you can now browse all the conference abstracts and view PDFs of the slides from most of the talks. Podcasts of the audio of the Feathers to Fur symposium should be available very soon.
18 November 2007: The NZES conference starts today! Be sure to check out the final programme and abstracts, now online. Don't miss out on the "Feathers to Fur" symposium reviewing 20-years of progress in New Zealand ecology. If you cannot make it to the conference, selected conference talks and podcasts of Tuesday's keynote symposium will be available online soon. More details....
23 October 2007: Order a sexy, suave stylish conference t-shirt! Only t-shirts pre-ordered through the conference website will be available for collection at the conference. Click quick. Click straight. Click here!
17 October 2007: Have you registered for the conference yet? Be sure to check out the draft programme and abstracts, now online. Don't miss out on the "Feathers to Fur" symposium reviewing 20-years of progress in New Zealand ecology. More details....
10 September 2007: An exciting programme has been put together for this year's NZES conference. But be quick. Early bird registration and abstract submissions close 28 September. More details...
26 June 2007: The website for the 2007 conference, "Feathers to Fur: the ecological transformation of Aotearoa", is now available. More details....
26 June 2007: Newsletter 121 is now available. It includes full details on the 2007 annual conference. More details....
7 June 2007: The last article of 31(1) in press is now online, comparing native forest succession through gorse and kānuka. More details...
24 May 2007: Four more in-press articles have been added for NZ Journal of Ecology issue 31(1): snails, kauri trees, Darwin's barberry, and ungulates versus ratite herbivory. More details...
29 April 2007: In-press articles of NZ Journal of Ecology issue 31(1) are now going online as they are completed. Just added are articles on consumption by Wellington tree weta of the rodent bait diphacinone, suppression of tree regeneration in Pureora Forest by red deer, a capture-mark-recapture protocol for measuring the population density of ship rats, behavioural responses of geckos to translocation, and a technique for marking eggs for predation studies using Rhodamine B. More details...
30 March 2007: Newsletter 120 is now available. It includes more details on this year's conference and an article by Rich Leschen, president of the New Zealand Entomological Society. More details...
8 March 2007: Preliminary details of the 2007 annual conference are available, a new Citation Search option has been added to the New Zealand Journal of Ecology webpages, and the 2007 NZES council is now listed on the Contacts page.
27 January 2007: All articles from NZ Journal of Ecology issue 30(3) are now online. More details...
7 February 2007: Newsletter 119 is now available (a bit late, after being lost in a spam filter). It includes an article by statistician Darryl MacKenzie on getting the most from your field data. More details...
26 October 2006: In-press articles of NZ Journal of Ecology issue 30(3) are now going online as they are completed. Just added are articles on weta and the evolution of fleshy fruit, kiwifruit dispersal by silvereyes, the effects of fire on plant phenology in Patagonian shrublands, riparian vegetation gradients along a South Westland river, and the influence of pastoral management on plant biodiversity in the South Island high country. More details...
25 October 2006: Newsletter 118 is now out. It includes the society's press release about South Island high country land tenure review, as well as biographies of Matt McGlone, Colin Meurk, and Dave Kelly, all of whom received top society awards at the recent Wellington conference. More details...
26 August 2006: We hope to see you in Wellington this week for our 2006 joint conference of the NZ Ecological Society and the Ecological Society of Australia at Victoria University of Wellington, 28 August–1 September 2006. More details...
19 July 2006: The early birds now have all the cheap worms but you can still register for the 2006 joint conference of the NZ Ecological Society and the Ecological Society of Australia at Victoria University of Wellington, 28 August–1 September 2006. More details...
19 July 2006: The latest two NZJEcol issues, 30(1) and 30(2), are now printed and available online. Issue 30(1) is a special issue from the recent Nigel Barlow symposium. More details...
25 May 2006: The May newsletter (issue 117) is now available online. Included are details on our up-coming Wellington conference with the Ecological Society of Australia, and the President's Annual Report, advocating that the society should engage more widely with national environmental decision making. More details...
5 June 2006: Last day for abstract submissions for the 2006 joint conference of the NZ Ecological Society and the Ecological Society of Australia at Victoria University of Wellington, 28 August Ð 1 September 2006. More details...
24 April 2006: Two more in-press NZJEcol articles are on-line, an article on intraspecific adoption and foster feeding of fledglings in the North Island robin and an article on measuring stoat and ship rat capture success against micro-habitat factors. More details...
20 March 2006: Four more in-press NZJEcol articles are now on-line. Included is an article from the special Nigel Barlow issue, 30(1), on population models for guiding reintroductions of extirpated bird species back to the New Zealand mainland. Newly available in 30(2) are articles on environmental limits to light use efficiency in wineberry and tree fuchsia canopies, negative effects of beech scale honeydew on terrestrial litter decomposition, and a review of the impacts of the mammalian poison brodifacoum on non-target wildlife. More details...
29 March 2006: The March newsletter (issue 116) is now available online. Included are details on our up-coming Wellington conference with the Ecological Society of Australia, and an invited article by University of Auckland postgraduate Derek Craig on paradigms in restoration. More details...
15 February 2006: Check out the official website for the 2006 joint conference of the NZ Ecological Society and the Ecological Society of Australia at Victoria University of Wellington, 28 August – 1 September 2006. More details...
7 February 2006: Five more in-press NZJEcol articles are now on-line, including four articles from the special Nigel Barlow issue, 30(1), including Charlie Krebs' article on "Ecology after 100 years: Progress and pseudo-progress". Newly in press for 30(2) is Peter Williams' review of seed dispersal by blackbirds. More details...
15 January 2006: Check out the flyer for the 2006 joint conference of the NZ Ecological Society and the Ecological Society of Australia at Victoria University of Wellington, 28 August – 1 September 2006. More details...
17 December 2005: The first two in-press NZJEcol articles for issue 30(2) are now on-line, on how Peraxilla mistletoe pollination is highest on forest edges and on the discovery of non-native palm pollen in short-tailed bat guano. More details...
5 November 2005: Newsletter issue 114 is now available. Included is the first of a new Invited Article series, titled "Ecological consultants—filling a niche" by Judith Roper-Lindsay. More details...
30 October 2005: The last two in-press NZJEcol articles for 29(2) are now on-line, on the recovery of rural Waikato kahikatea fragments following retirement from grazing and the effects of a blood-sucking mite on the growth of North Island robin chicks. More details...
1 October 2005: New in-press articles for NZ Journal of Ecology issue 29(2) now on-line: the effects of red deer on tree growth in the Wairarapa and the effects of 1080 bait on invertebrates in Whirinaki Forest Park. More details...
13 September 2005: In-press articles from NZ Journal of Ecology issue 29(2) are online as they are completed. Now online are articles on the benefits of 1080 poisoning of possums for tree fuchsia, mate guarding and territory defense behaviours in stitchbirds (hihi), and mosquito breeding in phytotelmata in native forests (phtyo what?? check it out). More details...
11 September 2005: Abstracts from past annual conferences are now available. This includes abstracts and selected PowerPoint talks from our recent Nelson conference with the New Zealand Freshwater Sciences Society. These files are available until 1 December 2005. More details...
5 June 2005: Newsletter issue 113 is now available. Included is David Wardle's analysis of how well the Marsden Fund is serving NZ ecological research. More details...
7 April 2005: Newsletter issue 112 is now available. Included are details of the annual conference in Nelson this August. More details...
31 December 2004: Issue 28(2) of the New Zealand Journal of Ecology is now available online (as is the full text of all issues). More details...
15 December 2004: Presentation notes and background materials from the NZ Significant Natural Areas workshop, edited by Judith Roper-Lindsay, are available in the new eResources area. More details...
05 August 2004:
The programme for the NZES Annual Conference is now available online. More details...
22 July 2004:
Students in Christchurch can take the free Landcare Research Green Bus to the Invercargill conference. Also, don't forget applications are now open for Student Travel Subsidies for the conference. More details...
8 June 2004:
Issue 109 of the Newsletter is now available. Included is
a frank discussion of the NZ government's PBRF assessment of university researchers. More details...
24 May 2004:
Registration and abstract submission is now open for the annual NZES conference,
to be held in Invercargill in the first week of September. The deadline for abstract submission and early bird registration
is 25 June so best be quick. More details...
22 December 2003:
The Society submitted comments on the Department of Conservation's
draft statements of General Policy, which will guide the department for the next 15-20 years.
More details...
22 August 2003:
TuiTime, the Society's ecological education website, has been upgraded -
new format, more activities, more information, completely revised game.
Go to www.tuitime.org.nz to check it out.
30 April 2003:
The Society has been awarded funds from the
Terrestrial and Freshwater Biodiversity Information System (TFBIS) Programme of the
Government's Biodiversity Strategy.
Over the next year, we will bring all issues of both
the NZ Journal of Ecology(1978-), and our earlier Proceedings (1953-1977), to this
website as fully searchable, full-text pdf files. Also, our Hot Science
service will be greatly enlarged. Watch this space!
6 March 2003:
The NZES website is growing! Thanks to our new host,
The Royal Society of New Zealand, we now have more space,
which we will soon start filling with NZ Journal of Ecology articles.
19 February 2003:
Issue 104 of
the NZES Newsletter is now available on-line. The upcoming meetings list is updated.
Twelve new articles have been added to Hot Science,
which summarises international publications on NZ ecology.
14 December 2002:
Issue 26(2) of the NZ Journal of Ecology is out.
Abstracts from this issue are available online. More details...
20 November 2002:
The Links page has
been fully revised and expanded. You can now find everything
from academia to regional councils, species recovery programmes to
community conservation, and moas to soft scale insects. More details...
6 November 2002:
The November 2002 Newsletter (Issue 103) is
now available for download as a pdf file. Also, pdf files of all NZES newsletters back
to 1998 are now available. More details...
25 October 2002:
The program has been announced for
the Ecology 2002 conference in Cairns this December, including a full list of talks and
abstracts. More details...
15 September 2002
Two new additions have been made to the NZES website:
Try out our new search engine, supplied by www.freefind.com.
You can now search on one or more keywords in the full NZES website, or limit your search to just
the NZ Journal of Ecology, just the NZES Newsletter, or just NZ Hot Science.
New Zealand Hot Science is now available in a fully searchable web-format, as well as a
pdf file to download. Hot Science aims to list and summarise all NZ
science published internationally since 2000. Hot Science is now listed alphabetically by first
author, as well as being fully searchable. There are a lot of international papers still to be
added, and more are published all the time. Your submissions are encouraged to make Hot Science
comprehensive and up-to-date. Click here to go to Hot Science.
14 July 2002
The NZES Council is investigating the
possibility of a discounted group fare for members intending to travel to Cairns
for the December ESA/NZES meeting. Prospective travellers
need to contact the travel agent by 10 August
with their travel information. More details....
29 June 2002
The New Zealand Ecological Society is calling for
nominations for this year's Te Tohu Taiao - Award for Ecological
Excellence and the NZES Award for Best Publication by a
New Researcher.
The Te Tohu Taiao - Award for Ecological
Excellence (previously the NZES award) is made annually to recognise society members who have made an outstanding
contribution to the study and application of ecological science. The award is made
to the person(s) who have published the best original research into the ecology of
New Zealand, and its dependencies (including the Ross Dependency), in the previous
two calendar years, or the person(s) who have made the most outstanding contribution
to applied ecology, particularly conservation and management, in New Zealand and
its dependencies over the same period. Nominations close on 30 September 2002.
The NZES Award for Best Publication by a New Researcher is awarded to a New Zealand
researcher less than three years after their graduation. Nominations must include four copies
of the nominated paper, which must have the nominee as the first author. Nominations
close on 30 August 2002.
All nominations and queries about NZES awards and prizes should
be emailed to the NZES Awards Convener, Susan Wiser, at
WiserS@LandcareResearch.co.nz, or posted to Susan at Landcare Research, Private Bag 69, Lincoln.
For more information on NZES awards and prizes, see our Awards webpage.
1 June 2002
The New Zealand Ecological Society website has received a facelift and upgrade, building
on the foundations laid by past webmasters Anthony Mitchell and James
Ross. This website is built for your use. Please let us know what you think, and what additional features you would like to see.
After such a substantial upgrade, it is possible that some parts will behave badly on some computer operating systems and applications. Please let the webmaster
know if you find any dead links
or pages that appear strange or function oddly. For anything
more complicated than a dead link, it would help if you included
the type of computer hardware and software you were using at
the time. Thanks.
16 May 2002
Today marked the launch of TuiTime,
the NZES educational website exploring
New Zealand biodiversity through the adventures of the native bird, Tiaki tui.
Featured are educational activities and resources for children and teachers, as well as
an amazing interactive TuiTime game.
For more details, please read the media release, or fly straight to
www.tuitime.org.nz. For information
on how to help with the further development and promotion of TuiTime, please see
our Education webpage.
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