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​New Zealand’s native plants may help to reduce bacterial contamination caused by dairy effluent, a new study suggests. ​Researchers from the Bio-Protection Research Centre, ESR, and the University of Canterbury…

​Invasion ecology has long suggested exotic species can become successful by escaping their natural enemies. A long-running Bio-Protection Research Centre experiment challenges this, showing that exotic plants dominate their communities,…

​Genetic and genomic technologies have potential to enhance New Zealand’s bioheritage, but we shouldn’t expect to see “de-extinctions” or gene drives any time soon, say authors of a paper in…