Welcome to our website! Our group is carrying out research on several aspects of parasite ecology and evolution, on a variety of host and parasite taxa, and using a range of experimental, genetic and ...

Principal Investigators Robert Poulin and Devon Keeney are awarded a NZ$774,000 grant from the Marsden Fund to investigate the evolutionary constraints on host specificity from 2008 to 2011.

Botany is a 21st century subject built on a rich heritage contributed to and developed by many. Although botany was taught at the University of Otago from the outset, it was in 1924 that the Botany ...

Kylie Bennett, Anthony Bennett, Andrew Saunders, Sheryll Malthus, Karen Knightbridge, Tamara Dixon, Heather Yates, Nandika Currey and Megan Fidler have all contributed to the project to date. Dr ...

Kate Chopin is best known in the literary world of today as author of the novel The Awakening. Highly controversial in its time, The Awakening deals with the condition of the nineteenth century woman ...

I will begin this essay by defining the terms abject and abjection. I will then proceed to outline how Kristeva's theory of abjection works by summarising the main points of The Powers Of Horror: An ...

Keen to learn more about what one of New Zealand’s leading postgraduate research universities has to offer you? Here you can create your own PDF introductory guide. In addition to information covering ...

The DMP tool helps you create research data management plans to meet University and funding requirements.

For each study there is generally a file of detector coordinates xxxxtrap.txt and a file of detection (capture) data xxxxcapt.txt. Please use these files only for experimentation with the software.

‘She was curled up on the divan in my apartment…and she wasn’t my aunt, grandmother, or a visiting fireman. She was Lulu, the cutest, hottest belly-dancer this side of Farouk…’. So begins Marc Brody’s ...

Each entry (e.g. A9) records the detector at which a known animal (ID) was observed on the given occasion (sample time). '.' indicates no detection. Each detector has known x-y coordinates. For ...

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