Job title: Senior Lecturer
Phone: 64 9 373 7599 ext 88367
Office: HSB 551 City Campus
Postal: School of Environment, The University of Auckland, Private Bag 92019, Auckland
Email: n.mitchell@auckland.ac.nz

MA Oxford (1971), MSc UCNW (1973), PhD Newcastle-upon-Tyne (1976)

Research Interests:

• Species-climate interactions and the effects of climate change
• Restoration ecology and biodiversity management
• Ecological management of production environments
• Soil ecology and AM fungi

Recent Research Projects:

• Ecological restoration of Tiritiri Matangi island and other islands.
• Analysis of the distribution and spread of native and invasive species together with the consequences of climate change.
• Soil ecology and the restoration of damaged soils
  

Burke, S., Mitchell, N.D. 'People as Ecological Participants in Ecological Restoration.', Restoration Ecology, 14, p348-350, 2007

Clark, H., Mitchell, N.D., Newton, P.C.D. , Campbell, B.D. 'The sensitivity of New Zealand's managed pastures to climate change.' In, Warrick, R.A., Kenny, G.J., Harman, J.J. (eds), 'The effects of climate change and variation in New Zealand', p65-77. 2001.

Craig, J.L., Mitchell, N.D. and Saunders, D.A. (eds.).  Nature Conservation 5. Nature conservation in production environments: managing the matrix.  730pp.  Surrey Beatty, Chipping Norton. 2000.

Mitchell, N., P. Espie, R. Hankin. 'Rational landscape decision-making: the use of meso-scale climatic analysis to promote sustainable land management.' Landscape and Urban Planning 67: 131-140. 2004.

Mitchell, N. D. 'Environmental restoration and restoration of past environments - the unreachable goal.  Environmentalica 16:17-27. 2002.

Warwick, R.A., Mullan, A.B., Kenny, G.J., Mitchell, N.D., Newton, P.C.D., Parshotam, A., Porteus, A.S., Salinger, M.J., Thompson, C.S., Tate, K.R., Ye, W. ‘The CLIMPACTS synthesis report’, Hamilton, IGCI, 19p, 2001.

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