Dr Kiri Joy Wallace

Research Fellow

Qualifications: BSc (U. of Delaware), MSc (U. of Delaware), PhD (U. of Waikato)

Personal Website: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Kiri_Wallace

About Kiri Joy

I am passionate about restoration of native ecosystems, especially in urban areas. Going hand-in-hand with that, I like to restore people's connection with nature, helping them enjoy and benefit from it! Research involving society and the environment sparks my interest and allows me to shine, whatever a specific project may entail.

Thank you for any interest you may have in my research group but I am not currently taking any new students.

Research Supervised

PhD

• Rai, Bibishan (in progress). Restoring the structure, stability and functioning of soil food webs in urban forests in New Zealand.
• Hasan, Fevziye (in progress). Investigating species traits, interactions, and ecosystem services of novel dung beetle communities in New Zealand grasslands

MSc (Research)

• Mitchell, Grace (in progress).
• Hall, Monique (2020). First Class Honours. Enrichment planting of late successional plant species within restored urban forests.
• Busbridge, Sarah (2020). First Class Honours. Urban forest restoration ecology: Factors influencing native tree regeneration and practitioner decision-making processes.
• de Silva, Kat (2019). Temporal Development and Regeneration Dynamics of Restored Urban Forests. (co-supervised at Victoria University of Wellington)

Research Interests

I have a specific interest in urban forest restoration ecology and am a Plantings Research Aim Leader in the MBIE funded research programme People, Cities & Nature. 

I am also a co-lead of the BioHeritage Eco-index for Aotearoa programme.

The third thread of my work involves socio-ecological research through the BioHeritage Pathways to Ecosystem Regeneration programme.

Keywords

Biology; Ecology; Environment; Environmental Impacts

Restoration Ecology, Urban Ecology, Forest Ecology

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