A5030124798- Plant and animal studies
- Genetic diversity and population structure
- Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies
- Species Distribution and Climate Change
- Plant and Fungal Species Descriptions
- Animal and Plant Science Education
- Botany, Ecology, and Taxonomy Studies
- Wildlife Ecology and Conservation
- Plant Parasitism and Resistance
- Plant Pathogens and Fungal Diseases
- Rangeland and Wildlife Management
- Flowering Plant Growth and Cultivation
- Environmental DNA in Biodiversity Studies
- Botany and Plant Ecology Studies
- Lichen and fungal ecology
- Plant Diversity and Evolution
- Bryophyte Studies and Records
- Digital Storytelling and Education
- Plant Pathogens and Resistance
Royal Botanic Garden Sydney
2018-2025
The University of Queensland
2023-2025
Agriculture and Food
2023-2025
Royal Botanic Gardens Victoria
2021-2024
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
2019-2023
Australian National Botanic Gardens
2021
Australian National University
2021
The University of Sydney
2017-2019
In many geographic regions grasslands have been heavily cleared and degraded, which represents a challenge for translocating threatened flora back into these landscapes. As most plant species require animals pollination, pollinators are potentially key limitation re-establishing populations. For the Critically Endangered orchid Diuris fragrantissima , we identify pollinator(s), survey at candidate translocation sites, test if remnant size affects bee richness, pollination rates can be...
Generalized guidance such as “local is best” has prevailed regarding seed sourcing strategies for ecological restoration in the past. A shift currently underway this guidance, moving toward using pre‐adapted material face of human induced climate change and species‐specific to maximize success self‐sustainability plantings. Meanwhile, population‐level genetic data proving an increasingly valuable tool achieve this, providing biologists insights into evolutionary history processes that impact...
ABSTRACT In situ management aims to preserve species and their genetic integrity within natural habitat. To achieve this, conservation strategies must strike a balance between safeguarding diversity, mitigating environmental risks, addressing practical constraints. Here, we present clear reproducible framework that addresses these goals. We applied this the Nightcap reserves in Gondwanan Rainforests of Australia, UNESCO World Heritage site impacted by 2019/20 Black Summer fires. analyzed...
Abstract In some biogeographic regions, many threatened plant species occur in habitats that periodically experience bushfire. However, we currently have relatively little information on how important plant–animal and plant–fungus interactions are affected by these fires. For the sexually deceptive orchid Caladenia tessellata test whether pollination rate, frequency of florivory, mycorrhizae associates with differ between burnt unburnt sites. Interestingly, rates were unaffected fire,...
The relationship between intra-specific and inter-specific patterns processes over evolutionary time is key to ecological investigations. We examine this taking an approach of focussing on the association vegetation floristic classifications, summaries processes, genetic structuring. Applying innovative, multispecies, standardised population genomic approach, we test mapping schemes structuring variation across a large, environmentally heterogenous region in eastern Australia. show that...
Context Given the effort and resources that go into collecting maintaining seed collections, it is crucial we maximise their usefulness. Conservation, restoration research rely heavily on good quality collections in order to establish new populations, create habitat, minimise extinction address scientific questions. Aims Although viability, excellent metadata genetic representativeness make for provide 10 detailed reasons why maintenance of separate maternal lines further increases...
In this article, we describe our students-as-partners process for bringing undergraduate and academic staff together to develop a mobile application (app) - CampusFlora use across campuses. Our project at the University of Sydney, Australia, was conceived as way improve botanical literacy biology students by engaging undergraduates online maps plant locations coupled with information relevant curriculum. Through continuous improvements app system, have expanded user-base well beyond life...
Caladenia colorata D.LJones is an endemic endangered species from south eastern Australia.883 plants were symbiotically propagated and translocated into four sites within one property where the pollinator was present, vegetation matched wild sites.Demographic monitoring showed 80% survival of with natural pollination fruit set.In addition, 580 seedlings recruited across these sites, seed set seedling recruits first recorded in 2019.Introduced populations are now considered self-sustaining,...
Recent molecular evidence supports the transfer of two Australian endemic species, Austrocynoglossum latifolium (R.Br.) R.R.Mill and Cynoglossum suaveolens R.Br., to genus Hackelia Opiz as H. latifolia (R.R.Mill) Dimon & M.A.M.Renner, comb. nov., nov. comprises morphological entities that, although sharing procumbent-prostrate habit production elongated internodes frondose bracts in inflorescence, differ a range qualitative quantitative micro-morphological characters. has few, widely...
Molecular evidence supports the transfer of Conoscyphus Mitt. from Lophocoleaceae to Acrobolbaceae, which is unexpected on basis morphological and further disrupts circumscription Acrobolbaceae. differs other Acrobolbaceae in possessing a stem perigynium conspicuous perianth that forms tube, large underleaves produce rhizoids fascicle underleaf disc, shoots grow inverted when hanging free substrate. However, shares with granular brown oil bodies, multistratose capsule, absence terminal...
Abstract The relationship between intra-specific and inter-specific patterns processes over evolutionary time is key to ecological investigations. We examine this from a novel perspective, focussing on the association floristic classifications, summary of processes, genetic structuring. Applying an innovative, multispecies, standardised population genomic approach we test vegetation mapping schemes landscape-level estimates gene flow across large, environmentally heterogenous region. show...