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Horizontal portability: A proposal for representing place-based relational values in research and policy
3 April, 2025
In his latest article, Fish Futures Programme Co-Leader Marc Tadaki and his colleagues explore a new way to understand and…
Habitat suitability of Aotearoa New Zealand for the recently invaded gold clam (Corbicula fluminea)
2 September, 2024
Fish Futures scientists Calum MacNeil and Finnbar Lee, together with Rose Somerville analysed where the gold clam is most likely…
“The absence of normal” – Is it time for a Biocontamination Index for freshwater fauna in Aotearoa-New Zealand?
28 July, 2024
Nearly 90% of its freshwater fish species are unique to the Aotearoa-New Zealand (A-NZ). When humans arrived aound 1280 AD…
Strangers in a strange land; freshwater fish introductions, impacts, management and socio-ecological feedbacks in a small island nation – the case of Aotearoa New Zealand
26 July, 2024
Invasive non-native species are a major threat to native biodiversity, especially in freshwater ecosystems. Aotearoa New Zealand has a unique…
Isolation management to protect threatened native galaxiid fish species: Lessons from Aotearoa New Zealand
15 July, 2024
Photo: Sjaan Bowie Using barriers in freshwater systems, known as isolation management, has become an increasingly popular strategy to protect…
Tracking research trends on southern hemisphere amphidromous galaxiids
31 March, 2023
Fish Future's Finnbar Lee, Nixi Boddy and Prof Angus McIntosh explore how research on six Southern Hemisphere fish species has…
Trait variation in brown trout: unpacking morphological differences in a global invader
31 January, 2023
In ecology and evolution, the small population idea suggests that smaller populations have less genetic diversity, which leads to less…
Transforming freshwater politics through metaphors: Struggles over ecosystem health, legal personhood, and invasive species in Aotearoa New Zealand
10 January, 2023
In environmental science and politics, metaphors are everywhere. Scientists might describe rivers, for example, as ecosystems, drains, or zombies, which…
Sea to the mountains: quantifying freshwater eel and trout diet reliance on marine subsidies from upstream migrating fish
1 April, 2022
Fish Futures Simon Stewart, Robin Holmes, Yvonne Vadeboncoeur and Sarah Bury and Sarah Crump looked at how migrating fish from…