Rachael Gallagher

Aug 28, 2024 | theconversation.com | Erin Roger |Jasmin Packer |Jodi Rowley |Rachael Gallagher |Thomas Mesaglio

Erin Roger is the former Chair of the Australian Citizen Science Association and is currently employed by the Atlas of Living Australia, at CSIRO. Jasmin G Packer is Vice President of Fungimap Inc., a not-for-profit citizen science organisation for Australia's native fungi, and a Research Fellow in the Environment Institute, University of Adelaide.

Aug 27, 2024 | conbio.onlinelibrary.wiley.com | Rachael Gallagher |Erin Roger |Cameron Slatyer |Jasmin Packer

INTRODUCTION Citizen science for biodiversity monitoring has arrived (Chandler et al., 2017; Fontaine et al., 2022). Recent initiatives demonstrate that, collectively, citizen scientists are capturing unprecedented volumes of data (Figure 1) (Aristeidou et al., 2021; Perry et al., 2022; Peter et al., 2019; Unger et al., 2021). In many cases, citizen scientists are inspired to halt extinctions and protect threatened species (Soroye et al., 2022; Steven et al., 2019).

Jun 21, 2024 | abc.net.au | Rachael Gallagher

The total area of degraded land in Australia is eight times the size of Tasmania. The need to replant diverse native species is more urgent than ever. But with a critical shortfall in the availability of native seeds, how can we replant degraded ecosystems and meet Australia’s ambitious international targets? Only 10% of native plants can be bought as seed – a big problem for nature repair. Here’s how we can make plantings more diverse (The Conversation, 10 June 2024)

Jun 27, 2023 | nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com | Brian S. Maitner |Rachael Gallagher |Jens-Christian Svenning |Melanie Tietje

Acknowledgements The authors wish to thank Daniel Falster for the development of the AusTraits database. JCS considers this work a contribution to his VILLUM Investigator project ‘Biodiversity Dynamics in a Changing World’ funded by VILLUM FONDEN (grant 16549) and JCS' Center for Ecological Dynamics in a Novel Biosphere (ECONOVO), funded by Danish National Research Foundation (grant DNRF173). WLE's contribution was supported by VILLUM FONDEN (grant no. 0025354).