Summary
Are you interested in doing research that will help to conserve New Zealand lizards?
It is important that conservation of New Zealand's native skink fauna is underpinned by research. The aim of this research plan is to communicate research priorities for the conservation of North Island skinks to the academic and herpetological community. In doing so, we hope to encourage research that has high conservation relevance and can be fed directly into management.
New Zealand is home to 33 species of native skinks that occur nowhere else on the planet. Skinks (and geckos) were abundant prior to human colonisation of New Zealand and played a significant role in ecosystem functioning. However, many are now threatened and restricted primarily (or totally) to offshore islands that are free of introduced mammalian predators.
Many skink populations that remain on the main islands are at risk from mammalian predation and habitat modification. For some species, very little is known about population sizes and ecology, and other species are still being discovered.
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