Lydia Metcalfe

Lydia is an ecologist with extensive professional experience in ecological consulting, conservation, and restoration. She specialises in vegetation ecology and has worked as a botanist and vegetation ecologist across a wide range of ecosystems throughout Aotearoa New Zealand. Lydia has undertaken a diverse range of projects across Otago, Canterbury, and Southland, including ecological assessments, vegetation and habitat mapping, plot-based vegetation monitoring, and wetland delineation and mapping.