New Zealand Journal of Ecology

Editor-in-Chief: Thomas Etherington

Managing Editor: James Brock

Technical Editors: Kat Collier and Kate Lee

The New Zealand Journal of Ecology is a peer-reviewed journal publishing ecological research relevant to Aotearoa New Zealand and the South Pacific. It has been published since 1952 (as a 1952 issue of New Zealand Science Review and as the Proceedings of the New Zealand Ecological Society until 1977).

The Journal is published by the New Zealand Ecological Society and is covered by Current Contents/Agriculture, Biology and Environmental Science, GEOBASE, Geo Abstracts, Google Scholar and Web of Knowledge.

Journal Metrics for 2022

Impact factor 1.6, 5-year Impact factor 1.9, Scopus CiteScore 3.7

Latest Special Issue:

Volume 47, issue 2, 2023. New Zealand native frogs: a special tribute to honour Phil Bishop (1957-2021)

All New Zealand Journal of Ecology special issues can be viewed in the Special Issues archive

Publishers of the New Zealand Journal of Ecology

Review Article

Fire, grazing and the evolution of New Zealand grasses

Matt S. McGlone

George L. W. Perry

Gary J. Houliston

Henry E. Connor

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Research Article

Thermal environment of New Zealand’s gradual and abrupt treeline ecotones

Ellen Cieraad

Matt McGlone

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Simulating long-term vegetation dynamics using a forest landscape model: the post-Taupo succession on Mt Hauhungatahi, North Island, New Zealand

Timothy Thrippleton

Klara Dolos

George L. W. Perry

Jürgen Groeneveld

Björn Reineking

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When belowground rumbles: a plant’s interactions with antagonists are robust to earthquake-induced shifts in the below-ground environment

Roseanna Gamlen-Greene

John Clemens

Justin Morgenroth

Marcus Lechner

William Godsoe

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Prey capture behaviour by pygmy bluetongue lizards with simulated grazing

Melissa Pettigrew

C. Michael Bull

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Habitat complexity and management intensity positively influence fledging success in the endangered hihi (Notiomystis cincta)

Troy Makan

Isabel Castro

Alastair W. Robertson

Michael K. Joy

Matthew Low

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Habitat use by kiore (Rattus exulans) and Norway rats (R. norvegicus) on Kapiti Island, New Zealand

Gary N. Bramley

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Multiple paternity and differential male breeding success in wild ship rats (Rattus rattus)

Carolyn King

Tom Winstanley

John Innes

Dianne Gleeson

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How can we detect introduced mammalian predators in non-forest habitats? A comparison of techniques

Georgina A. Pickerell

Colin F. J. O’Donnell

Deborah J. Wilson

Philip J. Seddon

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A principles-based decision tree for future investigations of native New Zealand birds during aerial 1080 operations

Clare J. Veltman

Ian M. Westbrooke

Ralph G. Powlesland

Terry C. Greene

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Anticoagulant rodenticide brodifacoum detected in dead nestlings of an insectivorous passerine

Bryce M. Masuda

Penny Fisher

Ian G. Jamieson

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Efficacy of bird repellents at deterring North Island robins (Petroica australis longipes) and tomtits (P. macrocephala toitoi) from baits

B. Kay Clapperton

Dai K. J. Morgan

Tim D. Day

Kerry E. Oates

Alison M. Beath

Neil R. Cox

Lindsay R. Matthews

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Declining eastern rockhopper (Eudyptes filholi) and erect-crested (E. sclateri) penguins on the Antipodes Islands, New Zealand

Johanna A. Hiscock

B. Louise Chilvers

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Factors influencing occupancy of modified artificial refuges for monitoring the range-restricted Banks Peninsula tree weta Hemideina ricta (Anostostomatidae)

Mike H. Bowie

Warwick J. Allen

Jill McCaw

Rachel van Heugten

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Compensating for ecological harm – the state of play in New Zealand

Marie A. Brown

Bruce D. Clarkson

R.T. Theo Stephens

Barry J. Barton

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Short Communication

Changes in Australian brushtail possum (Trichosurus vulpecula) den site use following density reduction

Belinda I. Whyte

James G. Ross

Hannah L. Buckley

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Use of forensic genetics to detect a potential incursion of the brushtail possum onto Great Barrier Island

Ana Ramón-Laca