Research into food, livelihoods and biodiversity

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  Begg, S.S., De Ramon N’Yeurt, A. and Iese, V., 2022. Rainfall and land use impacts on water quality and communities in the Waimanu River Catchment in the South Pacific: the case of Viti Levu, Fiji. Regional Environmental Change, 22(3), p.105. Link

  Belleville, B., Iru, R., Tsiritsi, C. and Ozarska, B., 2020. Planing characteristics of Papua New Guinea timber species from plantations and regrowth forests. European journal of wood and wood products, 78, pp.343-349. Link

  Bird, Z., Iese, V., Des Combes, H.J., Alungo, B. and Wairiu, M., 2023. Assessing rural household’s food groups-and-sources and dietary diversity pattern in Malaita Province. Scientific Reports, 13(1), p.13251. Link

  Bird, Z., Iese, V., Des Combes, H.J., Wairiu, M. and Yuen, L.B., 2022. Assessing the impacts of climate change on domestic crop production: Experience and perception of local farmers in North Malaita, Solomon Islands. Link

  Bird, Z., Wairiu, M., Combes, H.J.D. and Iese, V., 2021. Religious and cultural-spiritual attributions of climate-driven changes on food production: a case study from North Malaita, Solomon Islands. Beyond Belief: Opportunities for Faith-Engaged Approaches to Climate-Change Adaptation in the Pacific Islands, pp.39-56. Link

  Belleville, B., Lancelot, K., Galore, E. and Ozarska, B., 2020. Assessment of physical and mechanical properties of Papua New Guinea timber species. Maderas. Ciencia y tecnología, 22(1), pp.3-12. Link

  Ramita, I., Dowa, E., Booth, M., Kohun, P., Ayalew, W. and Glatz, P., 2017. Feasibility of farming poultry, pigs and fish using local feeds in Papua New Guinea. feed, p.23. Link

  Dwyer, P.D. and Minnegal, M., 2022. The provenance of diagnostic specimens of the ‘New Guinea Singing Dog'. Memoirs of the Queensland Museum, Nature, (63). Link

  Dwyer, P.D. and Minnegal, M., 2021. Relationship between wild-living and village-living dogs in New Guinea. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 118(12), p.e2020432118. Link

  Dwyer, P.D. and Minnegal, M., 2020. Person, place or pig: animal attachments and human transactions in New Guinea. In Animals in Person (pp. 37-60). Routledge. Link

  Dwyer, P.D., Parnaby, H.E. and Minnegal, M., 2021. A 19th century New Ireland dog, Canis familiaris novaehiberniae Lesson, 1827 and the status of Canis hallstromi Troughton, 1957. Records of the Australian Museum, 73(4), pp.131-136. Link

  Guariguata, L., Hickey, G.M., Murphy, M.M., Guell, C., Iese, V., Morrissey, K., Duvivier, P., Herberg, S., Kiran, S. and Unwin, N., 2023. Understanding the links between human health, ecosystem health, and food systems in Small Island Developing States using stakeholder-informed causal loop diagrams. PLOS Global Public Health, 3(9), p.e0001988. Link

  Guell, C., Brown, C.R., Navunicagi, O.W., Iese, V., Badrie, N., Wairiu, M., Saint Ville, A., Unwin, N. and Community Food and Health (CFaH) team Kiran Sashi Samuels T. Alafia Hambleton Ian Tukuitonga Colin Donato-Hunt Connie Kroll Florian Nugent Rachel Forouhi Nita G. Benjamin-Neelon Sara, 2022. Perspectives on strengthening local food systems in Small Island Developing States. Food Security, 14(5), pp.1227-1240. Link

  Guell, C., Brown, C.R., Iese, V., Navunicagi, O., Wairiu, M. and Unwin, N., 2021. “We used to get food from the garden.” Understanding changing practices of local food production and consumption in small island states. Social Science & Medicine, 284, p.114214. Link

  Halliday, C., Morrissey, K., Saint Ville, A., Guell, C., Augustus, E., Guariguata, L., Iese, V., Hickey, G., Murphy, M.M., Haynes, E. and Tescar, R.P., 2023. Trends in food supply, diet, and the risk of non-communicable diseases in three Small Island Developing States: implications for policy and research. Frontiers in Sustainable Food Systems, 7, p.1058540. Link

  Haynes, E., Augustus, E., Brown, C.R., Guell, C., Iese, V., Jia, L., Morrissey, K. and Unwin, N., 2022. Interventions in Small Island Developing States to improve diet, with a focus on the consumption of local, nutritious foods: a systematic review. BMJ Nutrition, Prevention & Health, 5(2), p.243. Link

  Iese, V., Kiem, A.S., Mariner, A., Malsale, P., Tofaeono, T., Kirono, D.G., Round, V., Heady, C., Tigona, R., Veisa, F. and Posanau, K., 2021. Historical and future drought impacts in the Pacific islands and atolls. Climatic Change, 166(1-2), p.19. Link

  Iese, V., Wairiu, M., Hickey, G.M., Ugalde, D., Salili, D.H., Walenenea Jr, J., Tabe, T., Keremama, M., Teva, C., Navunicagi, O. and Fesaitu, J., 2021. Impacts of COVID-19 on agriculture and food systems in Pacific Island countries (PICs): Evidence from communities in Fiji and Solomon Islands. Agricultural Systems, 190, p.103099. Link

  Iese, V., Halavatau, S., N’Yeurt, A.D.R., Wairiu, M., Holland, E., Dean, A., Veisa, F., Patolo, S., Havea, R., Bosenaqali, S. and Navunicagi, O., 2020. Agriculture under a changing climate. Climate change and impacts in the Pacific, pp.323-357. Link

  Lavery, T. H., Holland, A., Jino, N., Judge, A., Judge, H., Onga, P. & Sese, K. (2023). Vangunu giant rat (Uromys vika) survives in the Zaira Community Resource Management Area, Solomon Islands. Ecology and Evolution, 13(11)

  Lavery, T.H., DeCicco, L.H., Olson, K.V., Holland, P.S. and Moyle, R.G., 2023. Phylogeography of Solomon Islands blossom bats reflects oceanic divides and Pleistocene connections. Journal of Biogeography, 50(5), pp.920-931. Link

  Lavery, T.H., DeCicco, L.H., Richmond, J.Q., Tigulu, I.G., Andersen, M.J., Boseto, D. and Moyle, R.G., 2021. New Faunal Records from a World Heritage Site in Danger: Rennell Island, Solomon Islands1. Pacific Science, 75(3), pp.407-420. Link

  Lavery, T.H., Leary, T.N., Shaw, C., Tahi, M., Posala, C. and Pierce, R., 2020. Ecology and conservation of bats in Temotu Province, Solomon Islands and Torba Province, Vanuatu. Pacific Conservation Biology, 27(1), pp.27-38. Link

  Lavery, T.H., Alabai, M., Esau, T., Fuiberi, S., Johnson, R.N., Kekeubata, E., MacLaren, D., Waneagea, J. and Flannery, T.F., 2020. Integrating traditional knowledge, science and conservation in the search for undescribed mammals on Malaita, Solomon Islands. Pacific Conservation Biology, 26(4), pp.404-411. Link

  Lavery, T.H., Posala, C.K., Tasker, E.M. and Fisher, D.O., 2020. Ecological generalism and resilience of tropical island mammals to logging: a 23 year test. Global Change Biology, 26(6), pp.3285-3293. Link

  McCullough, J.M., DeCicco, L.H., Herr, M.W., Holland, P., Pikacha, D., Lavery, T.H., Olson, K.V., DeRaad, D.A., Tigulu, I.G., Mapel, X.M. and Klicka, L.B., 2023. A Survey of Terrestrial Vertebrates of Tetepare Island, Solomon Islands, Including Six New Island Records1. Pacific Science, 76(4), pp.411-435. Link

  Patay, D., Ravuvu, A., Iese, V., Wilson, D., Mauli, S., Maelaua, J., Reeve, E., Farmery, A., Farrell, P., Johnson, E. and Thow, A.M., 2023. Catalysing sustainable development through regional food system governance: Strengthening the translation of regional food system policy guidance to national level in the Pacific. Sustainable Development. Link

  Pikacha, P.G., Boseto, D., Tigulu, I., Boseto, H., Hurutarao, J. and Lavery, T.H., 2023. An Indigenous perspective on the conservation of an insular endemic: the prehensile-tailed skink Corucia zebrata on the Solomon Islands. Oryx, 57(1), pp.30-39. Link

  Roberts, A., Lobâo, M., Sine, M. and Ayalew, W., 2017. Growth performance of juvenile genetically improved farmed tilapia (GIFT) fed diets with two levels of rice bran or a high-energy broiler concentrate mixed with cassava meal. feed, p.252. Link

  Sine, M., Ayalew, W., Tapat, D., Booth, M. and Gebo, S., 2017. Growth performance of juvenile genetically improved farmed tilapia (GIFT) fed on broiler concentrate mixed with sweetpotato or cassava meal. feed, p.244. Link

  Suti, E., Hoatson, L., Tafunai, A. and Cox, J., 2021. Livelihoods, leadership, linkages and locality: The Simbo for Change project. Asia Pacific Viewpoint, 62(1), pp.15-26. Link