• Widespread army ant aversion among East African jumping spiders (Salticidae) 

  Nelson, X.; Aguilar-Argüello, S.; Jackson, R. (2020)

  Jumping spiders (Salticidae) typically prey on a variety of arthropods of similar size to themselves, but rarely on ants. Using 28 salticid species from East Africa, we first investigated vision-based aversion to ants by ...

• Sound production in bark and ambrosia beetles 

  Bedoya, C.L.; Hofstetter, R.W.; Nelson, X.J.; Hayes, M.; Miller, D.R.; Brockerhoff, E.G. (Informa UK Limited, 2019)

  © 2019, © 2019 Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group. Bark and ambrosia beetles and pinhole borers (Coleoptera: Curculionidae: Scolytinae and Platypodinae) are two subfamilies of weevils that use acoustic ...

• A comparison of pedigree, genetic and genomic estimates of relatedness for informing pairing decisions in two critically endangered birds: Implications for conservation breeding programmes worldwide 

  Galla, Stephanie Joy; Moraga, R.; Brown, L.; Cleland, S.; Hoeppner, M.P.; Maloney, R.F.; Richardson, A.; Slater, L.; Santure, A.W.; Steeves, T.E. (Wiley, 2020)

  Conservation management strategies for many highly threatened species include conservation breeding to prevent extinction and enhance recovery. Pairing decisions for these conservation breeding programmes can be informed ...

• A machine learning examination of hydroxyl radical differences among model simulations for CCMI-1 

  Nicely, J.M.; Duncan, B.N.; Hanisco, T.F.; Wolfe, G.M.; Salawitch, R.J.; Deushi, M.; Haslerud, A.S.; Jöckel, P.; Josse, B.; Kinnison, D.E.; Klekociuk, A.; Manyin, M.E.; Marécal, V.; Morgenstern, O.; Murray, L.T.; Myhre, G.; Oman, L.D.; Pitari, G.; Pozzer, A.; Quaglia, I.; Revell, Laura E.; Rozanov, E.; Stenke, A.; Stone, K.; Strahan, S.; Tilmes, S.; Tost, H.; Westervelt, D.M.; Zeng, G. (Copernicus GmbH, 2020)

  Abstract. The hydroxyl radical (OH) plays critical roles within the troposphere, such as determining the lifetime of methane (CH4), yet is challenging to model due to its fast cycling and dependence on a multitude of ...

• South Island high country: let’s get it right this time 

  Brower, Ann; Harding, Michael A.C.; Head, N.J.; Walker, Susan (New Zealand Ecological Society, 2020)

  New Zealand has a unique opportunity to reshape the future of 1.2 million hectares, or 5% of the country. Since 1990, land clearance and development in the South Island high country have removed large areas of native ...

• Research performance and age explain less than half of the gender pay gap in New Zealand universities 

  Brower A; James A (Public Library of Science (PLoS), 2020)

  We use a globally unique dataset that scores every individual academic’s holistic research performance in New Zealand to test several common explanations for the gender pay gap in universities. We find a man’s odds of ...

• Halogen (Cl, F) release during explosive, effusive, and intrusive phases of the 2011 rhyolitic eruption at Cordón Caulle volcano (Chile) 

  Schipper CI; Castro J; Kennedy B; Christenson B; Aiuppa A; Alloway B; Forte P; Seropian G; Tuffen H (Volcanica, 2019)

  We investigate sulphur, chlorine and fluorine release during explosive, effusive and intrusive phases the 2011- 2012 Cordón Caulle eruption, with a focus on the halogens. Analysis of melt inclusions, pyroclasts and lava ...

• Stimulant diversion risk among college students treated for ADHD: Primary care provider prevention training. 

  Molina BSG; Kipp HL; Joseph HM; Engster SA; Harty SC; Dawkins M; Lindstrom RA; Bauer DJ; Bangalore SS (Elsevier BV, 2019)

  OBJECTIVES:To address increasing rates of stimulant misuse in college students, this study developed an evidence-based, brief clinical practice intervention for primary care providers (PCPs) to reduce stimulant medication ...

• Alloy-Free Band Gap Tuning across the Visible Spectrum 

  Makin RA; York K; Durbin SM; Senabulya N; Mathis J; Clarke R; Feldberg N; Miska P; Jones CM; Deng Z; Williams L; Kioupakis E; Reeves RJ (American Physical Society (APS), 2019)

  We present evidence, from theory and experiment, that ZnSnN2 and MgSnN2 can be used to match the band gap of InGaN without alloying—by exploiting cation disorder in a controlled fashion. We base this on the determination ...

• Modelling emission trends from non-constant time series of PM10 concentrations in Christchurch, New Zealand 

  Appelhans T; Sturman A; Zawar-Reza P (INDERSCIENCE ENTERPRISES LTD, 2010)

  This paper presents an attempt to model the trend of emissions through analysis of a time series of PM10 concentrations in Christchurch, New Zealand. Emissions are not constant over time, but show high seasonality. ...

• Free propagation phase-contrast breast CT provides higher image quality than cone-beam breast-CT at low radiation doses: a feasibility study on human mastectomies 

  Pacilè S; Dullin C; Baran P; Tonutti M; Perske C; Fischer U; Albers J; Arfelli F; Dreossi D; Pavlov K; Maksimenko A; Mayo SC; Nesterets YI; Taba ST; Lewis S; Brennan PC; Gureyev TE; Tromba G; Wienbeck S (Springer Science and Business Media LLC, 2019)

  © 2019, The Author(s). In this study we demonstrate the first direct comparison between synchrotron x-ray propagation-based CT (PB-CT) and cone-beam breast-CT (CB-CT) on human mastectomy specimens (N = 12) including different ...

• Footprint methods to separate N2O emission rates from adjacent paddock areas 

  Mukherjee S; McMillan AM; Sturman AP; Harvey M; Laubach J (SPRINGER, 2015)

  Using micrometeorological techniques to measure greenhouse gas emissions from differently treated adjacent plots is a promising avenue to verify the effect of mitigation strategies at the field scale. In pursuing such an ...

• The application of high-resolution atmospheric modelling to weather and climate variability in vineyard regions 

  Sturman A; Zawar-Reza P; Soltanzadeh I; Katurji M; Bonnardot V; Parker AK; Trought MCT; Quénol H; Le Roux R; Gendig E; Schulmann T; Ollat N (Universite de Bordeaux, 2017)

  Grapevines are highly sensitive to environmental conditions, with variability in weather and climate (particularly temperature) having a significant influence on wine quality, quantity and style. Improved knowledge of ...

• A conservation genetic study of Rafflesia speciosa (Rafflesiaceae): Patterns of genetic diversity and differentiation within and between islands 

  Pelser PB; Nickrent DL; Barcelona JF (Naturalis Biodiversity Center, 2018)

  Rafflesia speciosa is a threatened endo-holoparasitic species. It has several populations in the Central Panay Mountain Range (CPMR) of Panay island and a single population on Negros Island. Because R. speciosa is the only ...

• Early Cretaceous greywacke from Colville Knolls, New Zealand 

  Mortimer N; Adams CJ; Wright IC (Informa UK Limited, 2019)

  Blocks of greywacke sandstone were dredged from the Colville Knolls, on the margin of the Zealandia continent, in 1989. Re-examination shows them to be quartz-poor feldspathic litharenites similar to those recorded from ...

• The future of parentage analysis: From microsatellites to SNPs and beyond 

  Flanagan SP; Jones AG (Wiley, 2019)

  © 2018 John Wiley & Sons Ltd Parentage analysis is a cornerstone of molecular ecology that has delivered fundamental insights into behaviour, ecology and evolution. Microsatellite markers have long been the king of ...

• Insights From a Decade of Research on Coral Reef—Atmosphere Energetics 

  McGowan H; Sturman A; Saunders M; Theobald A; Wiebe A (American Geophysical Union (AGU), 2019)

  All Rights Reserved. Coral reefs cover approximately 0.10 to 0.25% of the marine environment and yet are home to around 25% of marine species and support the livelihoods of more than 500 million people. They face a wide ...

• Interactive community responses to disturbance in streams: disturbance history moderates the influence of disturbance types 

  Eveleens RA; McIntosh AR; Warburton HJ (Wiley, 2019)

  Both disturbance history and disturbance type act to structure communities through selecting for particular species traits but they may also interact. For example, flooding selects for species with flood-resistant traits ...

• The community foehn classification experiment 

  Mayr GJ; Plavcan D; Armi L; Elvidge A; Grisogono B; Horvath K; Jackson P; Neururer A; Seibert P; Steenburgh JW; Stiperski I; Sturman A; Večenaj Ž; Vergeiner J; Vosper S; Zängl G (American Meteorological Society, 2018)

• Trashcano: developing a quantitative teaching tool to understand ballistics accelerated by explosive volcanic eruptions 

  Wadsworth F; Unwin H; Vasseur J; Kennedy B; Holzmueller J; Scheu B; Witcher T; Adolf J; Cáceres F; Casas A; Cigala V; Clement A; Colombier M; Cronin S; Cronin M; Dingwell D; Guimarães L; Höltgen L; Kueppers U; Seropian G; Stern S; Teissier A; Vossen C; Weichselgartner N (Volcanica, 2018)

  Accurate predictions of volcanological phenomena, such as the trajectory of blocks accelerated by volcanic explosions, require quantitative skills training. Large outdoor experiments can be useful to convey concepts of ...

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