The health of our plant-based productive ecosystems emerges from interactions among plant communities, microbes in and on plants, external stressors, and the broader landscape context at a variety of spatial scales.
Knowing what defines the health of a productive ecosystem is crucial to understanding how to protect them; how to undermine the persistence of undesirable components such as pests, weeds and diseases; and how to monitor whether sustainable ecosystem productivity is improving.
In essence, a healthy ecosystem is one that is relatively resistant to change and can also reassemble/reorganise following disruption – meaning it is also resilient to change.
Pou 1: Titirangi
Multi-scale integrators of ecosystem health
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Processes that promote ecosystem health across scales in the face of pathogen and pest attack
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A new framework to assess ecosystem health for Aotearoa New Zealand
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University of Canterbury
Researcher
Victoria University of Wellington