Biodiversity monitoring in agricultural landscapes is important for assessing the effects of both land use change and activities that influence farmland biodiversity. Despite a considerable increase in citizen science approaches to biodiversity monitoring in recent decades, their potential in farmland-specific contexts has not been systematically examined. This paper therefore provides a comprehensive review of existing citize...

Rag1 −/− mice, lacking functional B and T cells, have been extensively used as an adoptive transfer model to evaluate neuroinflammation in stroke research. However, it remains unknown whether natural killer (NK) cell development and functions are altered in Rag1 −/− mice as well. This connection has been rarely discussed in previous studies but might have important implications for data interpretation. In contrast, the NOD-Rag...

Although several studies have suggested that anti-inflammatory strategies reduce secondary infarct growth in animal stroke models, clinical studies have not yet demonstrated a clear benefit of immune modulation in patients. Potential reasons include systematic differences of post-ischemic neuroinflammation between humans and rodents. We here performed a systematic review and meta-analysis to summarize and compare the spatial a...

Contamination of drinking and recreational water bodies by toxic cyanobacteria is a significant water management issue in many countries. Until recently, knowledge of the occurrence of cyanotoxins and species responsible for cyanotoxin production in New Zealand was limited. In this study a total of 266 water and cyanobacterial mat samples collected from 227 different water bodies between 2001 to 2004 were analysed for cyanotox...

New records of planktonic cyanobacteria in New Zealand freshwaters are reported. Identified for the first time were one genus, Sphaerocavum , represented by one species, and one species of Apha‐nocapsa , five species of Microcystis , and three of Anabaena. Microcystis panniformis has previously been recorded only from tropical or subtropical regions. Descriptions, drawings, and photographs of species are presented.