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Insects as mini‐livestock: New Zealand's public attitudes toward consuming insects

Kōtuitui: New Zealand Journal of Social Sciences Online, Volume 18, Issue 3, Page 310-326, September 2023., 2023
ABSTRACT Insects are a relatively sustainable food source with a high protein content, and an alternative food option for the growing global population. However, while entomophagy (eating insects) is a growing food trend on the global stage, very few studies focus on New Zealanders’ perceptions of it.
Penny Payne, Alyssa Ryan, Susanna Finlay‐Smits   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Pastoral agriculture, a significant driver of New Zealand's economy, based on an introduced grassland ecology and technological advances

Journal of the Royal Society of New Zealand, Volume 53, Issue 3, Page 259-303, June 2023., 2023
ABSTRACT The New Zealand economy is export‐driven and heavily reliant on the productivity of the pastoral sector. The transformation of native forest and tussock grassland ecologies to temperate grasslands occurred rapidly with the arrival of Europeans.
John R. Caradus, Stephen L. Goldson, Derrick J. Moot, Jacqueline S. Rowarth, Alan V. Stewart   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

How to build a lichen: from metabolite release to symbiotic interplay

New Phytologist, Volume 238, Issue 4, Page 1362-1378, May 2023., 2023
Summary Exposing their vegetative bodies to the light, lichens are outstanding amongst other fungal symbioses. Not requiring a pre‐established host, ‘lichenized fungi’ build an entirely new structure together with microbial photosynthetic partners that neither can form alone.
Gregor Pichler, Lucia Muggia, Fabio Candotto Carniel, Martin Grube, Ilse Kranner   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

A phylogenetic survey of the ascomycete genus Arthrorhaphis (Arthrorhaphidaceae, Lecanoromycetes) including new species in Arthrorhaphis citrinella sensu lato

TAXON, Volume 71, Issue 5, Page 936-962, October 2022., 2022
Abstract The genus Arthrorhaphis is a group of ascomycetes comprising lichenised and non‐lichenised taxa from temperate to arctic‐alpine regions in both hemispheres. Nine species and two infraspecific taxa are currently recognised. Their delimitation, inter‐relationships, and phylogenetic placement remain poorly understood.
Andreas Frisch, Yoshihito Ohmura, Håkon Holien, Mika Bendiksby   +3 more
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Ergot alkaloids in New Zealand pastures and their impact

New Zealand Journal of Agricultural Research, Volume 65, Issue 1, Page 1-41, February 2022., 2022
ABSTRACT In identifying endophytes for use in pastures in New Zealand there have been two strategies used, either exclusion of ergopeptine and lolitrem alkaloids or, retaining some ergopeptine expression to enhance the stability of natural defences against invertebrate pests. Both have their strengths and weaknesses.
John R. Caradus, Stuart D. Card, Sarah C. Finch, David E. Hume, Linda J. Johnson, Wade J. Mace, Alison J. Popay   +6 more
wiley   +1 more source

Diversity begets diversity: Phorophyte and microsite relations of foliicolous lichens in the lowland rain forest at Los Tuxtlas Biosphere Reserve (Veracruz, Mexico)

Ecological Research, Volume 36, Issue 2, Page 313-328, March 2021., 2021
In this study, we examine whether the principle of “diversity begets diversity” applies for phorophyte‐epiphyte relationships in tropical forests, using foliicolous lichen communities as an example of a specialized epiphyte guild. Foliicolous lichens exhibited subtle phorophyte preferences, with community composition more diverging on phorophytes with ...
Paola Martínez Colín, Robert Lücking, María de los Ángeles Herrera‐Campos   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Three overlooked species of Bacidia from insular Laurimacaronesia

Nordic Journal of Botany, Volume 39, Issue 3, March 2021., 2021
We discuss the taxonomy of three species of Bacidia occurring in insular Laurimacaronesia. Two of them, B. amylothelia (Vain.) Vain. and B. endoleucoides (Nyl.) Zahlbr., which were previously described from Angola and Madeira, respectively, are found here to belong in Bacidia s. str. (Ramalinaceae).
Stefan Ekman, Tor Tønsberg, Pieter P. G. van den Boom   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Protein markers for Candida albicans EVs include claudin‐like Sur7 family proteins

Journal of Extracellular Vesicles, Volume 9, Issue 1, September 2020., 2020
ABSTRACT Background: Fungal extracellular vesicles (EVs) have been implicated in host‐pathogen and pathogen‐pathogen communication in some fungal diseases. In depth research into fungal EVs has been hindered by the lack of specific protein markers such as those found in mammalian EVs that have enabled sophisticated isolation and analysis techniques ...
Charlotte S Dawson, Donovan Garcia‐Ceron, Harinda Rajapaksha, Pierre Faou, Mark R Bleackley, Marilyn A Anderson   +5 more
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Epiphyll specialization for leaf and forest successional stages in a tropical lowland rainforest

Journal of Vegetation Science, Volume 31, Issue 1, Page 118-128, January 2020., 2020
We studied the dynamics of epiphyll communities using leaf chronosequences in forest gaps and closed forest. Species sets on young leaves were nested within sets on older leaves, while species turnover among leaves was high within and between gaps and forest.
Anna Mežaka, Maaike Y. Bader, Noris Salazar Allen, Glenda Mendieta-Leiva, Monika Wulf   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Effects of habitat quality and fine‐scale spatial structure on epiphytic lichen and bryophyte communities

Journal of Ecology, Volume 114, Issue 3, March 2026.
Host‐tree identity, particularly bark physico‐chemical traits, emerged as the dominant driver of epiphytic lichen and bryophyte community composition in this closed‐canopy temperate forest system, while microclimate plays a subordinate role. Spatial structure and proximity contributed additional effects for both groups, but for lichens, habitat ...
Theresa Möller, Stefan Kaufmann, Markus Hauck   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source