What defines a healthy and productive ecosystem?

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

Project 1.1

Multi-scale integrators of ecosystem health

Learn more about Project 1.1

Pou 1: Titirangi

Project 1.2

Processes that promote ecosystem health across scales in the face of pathogen and pest attack

Learn more about Project 1.2

Pou 1: Titirangi

Project 1.3

A new framework to assess ecosystem health for Aotearoa New Zealand

Learn more about Project 1.3

Pou Leaders

Prof Jason Tylianakis

Prof Jason Tylianakis

Roles

Researcher

Institution

University of Canterbury

Projects
Project 1.2
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Dr Julie Deslippe

Dr Julie Deslippe

Roles

Researcher

Institution

Victoria University of Wellington

Projects
Project 1.3
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