Priscilla Wehi
New Zealand ethnobiologist, ecologist, conservation biologist and director of Te Pūnaha Matatini
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Priscilla M. Wehi is a New Zealand ethnobiologist and conservation biologist. As at July 2021 she is an associate professor at the University of Otago and on the first of that month officially undertook the role of director of Te Pūnaha Matatini, a centre of research excellence in complex systems and data analytics. During the COVID-19 pandemic in New Zealand Te Pūnaha Matatini scientists have developed mathematical models of the spread of the virus across the country that influence the New Zealand government's response to the outbreak. In 2021 Wehi was awarded the Hill Tinsley Medal.
Priscilla Wehi's Published Works
Published Works
- Importance of including cultural practices in ecological restoration (2017) (66)
- Traditional Plant Harvesting in Contemporary Fragmented and Urban Landscapes (2010) (52)
- A spatial analysis of indigenous cover patterns and implications for ecological restoration in urban centres, New Zealand (2007) (49)
- Biological flora of New Zealand 10. Phormium tenax, harakeke, New Zealand flax (2007) (42)
- Indigenous ancestral sayings contribute to modern conservation partnerships: examples using Phormium tenax. (2009) (41)
- Missing in translation: Maori language and oral tradition in scientific analyses of traditional ecological knowledge (TEK) (2009) (37)
- Cooperation‐mediated plasticity in dispersal and colonization (2016) (33)
- Isotopic fractionation in a large herbivorous insect, the Auckland tree weta. (2010) (29)
- Māori oral traditions record and convey indigenous knowledge of marine and freshwater resources (2018) (24)
- Human Perceptions of Megafaunal Extinction Events Revealed by Linguistic Analysis of Indigenous Oral Traditions (2018) (23)
- Kaitiakitanga, place and the urban restoration agenda (2019) (21)
- Does predation result in adult sex ratio skew in a sexually dimorphic insect genus? (2011) (20)
- Tolerance for Nutrient Imbalance in an Intermittently Feeding Herbivorous Cricket, the Wellington Tree Weta (2013) (18)
- Effects of climatically shifting species distributions on biocultural relationships (2019) (18)
- Kua takoto te mānuka: mātauranga Māori in New Zealand ecology (2020) (17)
- Marine resources in Māori oral tradition: He kai moana, he kai mā te hinengaro (2013) (16)
- Promoting social and environmental justice to support Indigenous partnerships in urban ecosystem restoration (2020) (15)
- The use of the Māori language in species nomenclature (2013) (14)
- Transforming Antarctic management and policy with an Indigenous Māori lens (2021) (13)
- Sex- and season-dependent behaviour in a flightless insect, the Auckland tree weta (Hemideina thoracica) (2013) (12)
- Ka mua, ka muri: the inclusion of mātauranga Māori in New Zealand ecology (2019) (12)
- Enhancing awareness and adoption of cultural values through use of Māori bird names in science communication and environmental reporting (2019) (11)
- ‘Get together, work together, write together’: a novel framework for conservation of New Zealand frogs (2019) (10)
- FORUM ARTICLE Exploring the concept of niche convergence in a land without rodents: the case of weta as small mammals (2011) (10)
- Rāhui and conservation? Māori voices in the nineteenth century niupepa Māori (2017) (8)
- Predator free New Zealand: Social, cultural, and ethical challenges (2019) (7)
- Leadership and diversity in the New Zealand Ecological Society (2019) (7)
- Island biocultural diversity and traditional ecological knowledge (2013) (7)
- Hormonal Correlates of Social Rank in an Asocial Species, the Common Brushtail Possum (Trichosurus vulpecula) (2006) (6)
- Harakeke (Phormium tenax) ecology and historical management by Maori: The changing landscape in New Zealand (2005) (6)
- Bringing back nature into cities : Urban land environments , indigenous cover and urban restoration (2007) (5)
- A short scan of Māori journeys to Antarctica (2021) (5)
- Predictors of relative abundance of tree weta (Hemideina thoracica) in an urban forest remnant (2015) (4)
- Male tree weta are attracted to cuticular scent cues but do not discriminate according to sex or among two closely related species (2017) (4)
- Indigenous plant naming and experimentation reveal a plant–insect relationship in New Zealand forests (2020) (3)
- Kuta (Eleocharis sphacelata, Cyperaceae), a Locally Important and Highly Valued Weaving Plant (2006) (3)
- Mātauranga as knowledge, process and practice in Aotearoa New Zealand (2020) (3)
- Diet selectivity in a terrestrial forest invertebrate, the Auckland tree wētā, across three habitat zones (2018) (2)
- Marine resources in M aori oral tradition : (2013) (2)
- Bringing nature back into cities: urban land environments, indigenous cover and urban restoration (2007) (2)
- Weaving place‐based knowledge for culturally significant species in the age of genomics: Looking to the past to navigate the future (2022) (2)
- Kiore (Rattus exulans) distribution and relative abundance on a small highly modified island (2020) (2)
- Interpreting past trophic ecology of a threatened alpine parrot, kea Nestor notabilis, from museum specimens (2022) (1)
- Reciprocal relationships: identity, tradition and food in the Kīngitanga Poukai He Manaakitanga: o te tuakiri, o te tikanga me te kai ki te Poukai o te Kīngitanga (2019) (1)
- Indigenisation of conservation education in New Zealand (2021) (1)
- Managing for cultural harvest of a valued introduced species, the Pacific rat (Rattus exulans) in Aotearoa New Zealand (2021) (1)
- The palatability of undyed carrot surface-coated with repellents, or dyed blue or green to a terrestrial macroinvertebrate (2017) (1)
- Sub-lethal exposure to a mammalian pesticide bait alters behaviour in an orthopteran (2020) (0)
- Sub-lethal exposure to a mammalian pesticide bait alters behaviour in an orthopteran (2020) (0)
- Negotiating greater Māori participation in Antarctic and Southern Ocean research, policy, and governance (2022) (0)
- Tradition and change: celebrating food systems resilience at two Indigenous Māori community events (2023) (0)
- Author Correction: Transforming Antarctic management and policy with an Indigenous Māori lens (2021) (0)
- Correction to: Human Perceptions of Megafaunal Extinction Events Revealed by Linguistic Analysis of Indigenous Oral Traditions (2018) (0)
- Indigenous knowledge projects Aotearoa New Zealand (2020) (0)
- Correction to: Human Perceptions of Megafaunal Extinction Events Revealed by Linguistic Analysis of Indigenous Oral Traditions (2018) (0)
- He rongo i te reo rauriki, i te reo reiuru – Discourse analysis and conversations of historical conservation in New Zealand newspapers (2015) (0)
- If Only They Could Speak (2018) (0)
- Human Perceptions of Megafaunal Extinction Events Revealed by Linguistic Analysis of Indigenous Oral Traditions (2018) (0)
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