Associate Professor Rachael Gallagher

Associate Professor Rachael Gallagher

Associate Professor in Plant Conservation & Ecology,
Hawkesbury Institute for the Environment

Biography

Qualifications

  • PhD Macquarie University

Organisational Unit (School / Division)

  • Hawkesbury Institute for the Environment

Contact

Email: Rachael.Gallagher@westernsydney.edu.au
Phone:
Mobile:
Location: Hawkesbury

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Publications

Chapters in Books

  • Leishman, M., Gallagher, R., Catford, J., Grice, T., Morgan, J. and Setterfield, S. (2017), 'Invasive plants and pathogens in Australia', Australian Vegetation, Cambridge University Press 9781107118430.
  • Leishman, M. and Gallagher, R. (2015), 'Will alien plant invaders be advantaged under future climates?', Biological Invasions in Changing Ecosystems: Vectors, Ecological Impacts, Management and Predictions, De Gruyter Open 9783110438659.

Journal Articles

  • Lieurance, P., Mills, C., Tetu, S. and Gallagher, R. (2024), '[In Press] Putting seed traits into pellets : using seed mass data to improve seed encapsulation technology for native plant revegetation', Journal of Applied Ecology, .
  • Westoby, M., Andrew, S., Gallagher, R. and Schrader, J. (2024), 'Species gain and loss per degree celsius', Oikos, vol 2024, no 4 .
  • Andres, S., Standish, R., Lieurance, P., Mills, C., Harper, R., Butler, D., Adams, V., Lehmann, C., Tetu, S., Cuneo, P., Offord, C. and Gallagher, R. (2023), 'Defining biodiverse reforestation : why it matters for climate change mitigation and biodiversity', Plants, People, Planet, vol 5, no 1 , pp 27 - 38.
  • Maitner, B., Gallagher, R., Svenning, J., Tietje, M., Wenk, E. and Eiserhardt, W. (2023), 'A global assessment of the Raunkiaeran shortfall in plants : geographic biases in our knowledge of plant traits', New Phytologist, vol 240, no 4 , pp 1345 - 1354.
  • Gallagher, R., Allen, S., Govaerts, R., Rivers, M., Allen, A., Keith, D., Merow, C., Maitner, B., Butt, N., Auld, T., Enquist, B., Eiserhardt, W., Wright, I., Mifsud, J., Espinosa-Ruiz, S., Possingham, H. and Adams, V. (2023), 'Global shortfalls in threat assessments for endemic flora by country', Plants, People, Planet, vol 5, no 6 , pp 885 - 898.
  • Alfonzetti, M., Doleac, S., Mills, C., Gallagher, R. and Tetu, S. (2023), 'Characterizing effects of microbial biostimulants and whole-soil inoculums for native plant revegetation', Microorganisms, vol 11, no 1 .
  • Adeleye, M., Haberle, S., Gallagher, R., Andrew, S. and Herbert, A. (2023), 'Changing plant functional diversity over the last 12,000 years provides perspectives for tracking future changes in vegetation communities', Nature Ecology and Evolution, vol 7, no 2 , pp 224 - 235.
  • Alfonzetti, M., Tetu, S., Mills, C. and Gallagher, R. (2023), 'Assessing the efficacy of extruded seed pellets and microbial amendments for native revegetation', Restoration Ecology, vol 31, no 3 .
  • Coleman, D., Gallagher, R., Falster, D., Sauquet, H. and Wenk, E. (2023), 'A workflow to create trait databases from collections of textual taxonomic descriptions', Ecological Informatics, vol 78 .
  • Price, O., Mikac, K., Wilson, N., Roberts, B., Critescu, R., Gallagher, R., Mallee, J., Donatiou, P., Webb, J., Keith, D., Letnic, M. and Mackenzie, B. (2023), 'Short-term impacts of the 2019-20 fire season on biodiversity in eastern Australia', Austral Ecology, vol 48, no 1 , pp 3 - 11.
  • Adeleye, M., Andrew, S., Gallagher, R., van der Kaars, S., De Deckker, P., Hua, Q. and Haberle, S. (2023), 'On the timing of megafaunal extinction and associated floristic consequences in Australia through the lens of functional palaeoecology', Quaternary Science Reviews, vol 316 .
  • Adams, V., Butt, N., Allen, S., Pressey, R., Engert, J. and Gallagher, R. (2023), 'Protected, cleared, or at risk : the fate of Australian plant species under continued land use change', Biological Conservation, vol 284 .
  • Schrader, J., Wright, I., Kreft, H., Dixon, K., Gallagher, R., Andrew, S., Weigelt, P. and Westoby, M. (2023), '[In Press] Trait filtering in island floras : a conceptual framework', Journal of Biogeography, .
  • Ensbey, M., Legge, S., Jolly, C., Garnett, S., Gallagher, R., Lintermans, M., Nimmo, D., Rumpff, L., Scheele, B., Whiterod, N., Woinarski, J., Ahyong, S., Blackmore, C., Bower, D., Burbidge, A., Burns, P., Butler, G., Catullo, R., Chapple, D., Dickman, C., Doyle, K., Ferris, J., Fisher, D., Geyle, H., Gillespie, G., Greenlees, M., Hohnen, R., Hoskin, C., Kennard, M., King, A., Kuchinke, D., Law, B., Lawler, I., Lawler, S., Loyn, R., Lunney, D., Lyon, J., MacHunter, J., Mahony, M., Mahony, S., McCormack, R., Melville, J., Menkhorst, P., Michael, D., Mitchell, N., Mulder, E., Newell, D., Pearce, L., Raadik, T., Rowley, J., Sitters, H., Southwell, D., Spencer, R., West, M. and Zukowski, S. (2023), 'Animal population decline and recovery after severe fire : relating ecological and life history traits with expert estimates of population impacts from the Australian 2019-20 megafires', Biological Conservation, vol 283 .
  • Keller, A., Ankenbrand, M., Bruelheide, H., Dekeyzer, S., Enquist, B., Erfanian, M., Falster, D., Gallagher, R., Hammock, J., Kattge, J., Leonhardt, S., Madin, J., Maitner, B., Neyret, M., Onstein, R., Pearse, W., Poelen, J., Salguero-Gomez, R., Schneider, F., Toth, A. and Penone, C. (2023), 'Ten (mostly) simple rules to future-proof trait data in ecological and evolutionary sciences', Methods in Ecology and Evolution, vol 14, no 2 , pp 444 - 458.
  • Gallagher, R., Allen, S., Mackenzie, B., Keith, D., Nolan, R., Rumpff, L., Gosper, C., Pegg, G., Van Leeuwen, S., Ooi, M., Yates, C., Merow, C., Williams, R., Nikolopoulos, E., Beaumont, L. and Auld, T. (2022), 'An integrated approach to assessing abiotic and biotic threats to post-fire plant species recovery : lessons from the 2019-2020 Australian fire season', Global Ecology and Biogeography, vol 31, no 10 , pp 2056 - 2069.
  • Ward, M., Southwell, D., Gallagher, R., Raadik, T., Whiterod, N., Lintermans, M., Sheridan, G., Nyman, P., Suarez-Castro, A., Marsh, J., Woinarski, J. and Legge, S. (2022), 'Modelling the spatial extent of post-fire sedimentation threat to estimate the impacts of fire on waterways and aquatic species', Diversity and Distributions, vol 28, no 11 , pp 2429 - 2442.
  • Mokany, K., McCarthy, J., Falster, D., Gallagher, R., Harwood, T., Kooyman, R. and Westoby, M. (2022), 'Patterns and drivers of plant diversity across Australia', Ecography, vol 2022, no 11 .
  • Stephens, R., Sauquet, H., Guerin, G., Jiang, M., Falster, D. and Gallagher, R. (2022), 'Climate shapes community flowering periods across biomes', Journal of Biogeography, vol 49, no 7 , pp 1205 - 1218.
  • Andrew, S., Gallagher, R., Wright, I. and Mokany, K. (2022), 'Assessing the vulnerability of plant functional trait strategies to climate change', Global Ecology and Biogeography, vol 31, no 6 , pp 1194 - 1206.
  • Keith, D., Allen, S., Gallagher, R., Mackenzie, B., Auld, T., Barrett, S., Buchan, A., English, V., Gosper, C., Kelly, D., McIllwee, A., Melrose, R., Miller, B., Neldner, V., Simpson, C., Tolsma, A., Rogers, D., Van Leeuwen, S., White, M., Yates, C. and Tozer, M. (2022), 'Fire-related threats and transformational change in Australian ecosystems', Global Ecology and Biogeography, vol 31, no 10 , pp 2070 - 2084.
  • Campbell, B., Yirralka Rangers, .., Yol?u Knowledge Custodians, .., Gallagher, R. and Ens, E. (2022), 'Expanding the biocultural benefits of species distribution modelling with Indigenous collaborators : case study from northern Australia', Biological Conservation, vol 274 .
  • De Kauwe, M., Sabot, M., Medlyn, B., Pitman, A., Meir, P., Cernusak, L., Gallagher, R., Ukkola, A., Rifai, S. and Choat, B. (2022), 'Towards species-level forecasts of drought-induced tree mortality risk', New Phytologist, vol 235, no 1 , pp 94 - 110.
  • Rudbeck, A., Sun, M., Tietje, M., Gallagher, R., Govaerts, R., Smith, S., Svenning, J. and Eiserhardt, W. (2022), 'The Darwinian shortfall in plants : phylogenetic knowledge is driven by range size', Ecography, vol 2022, no 8 .
  • Esperon-Rodriguez, M., Tjoelker, M., Lenoir, J., Baumgartner, J., Beaumont, L., Nipperess, D., Power, S., Richard, B., Rymer, P. and Gallagher, R. (2022), 'Climate change increases global risk to urban forests', Nature Climate Change, vol 12, no 10 , pp 950 - 955.
  • Farrell, C., Livesley, S., Arndt, S., Beaumont, L., Burley, H., Ellsworth, D., Esperon-Rodriguez, M., Fletcher, T., Gallagher, R., Ossola, A., Power, S., Prokopavicius, R., Rayner, J., Rymer, P., Staas, L., Szota, C., Williams, N. and Leishman, M. (2022), 'Can we integrate ecological approaches to improve plant selection for green infrastructure?', Urban Forestry and Urban Greening, vol 76 .
  • Graham, V., Auld, T., Beaumont, L., Bell, L., Dunford, S., Gallagher, R., Hancock, N., Leishman, M., Mitchell, P., Staas, L. and Hughes, L. (2021), 'Embedding biodiversity research into climate adaptation policy and practice', Global Change Biology, vol 27, no 19 , pp 4935 - 4945.
  • Gallagher, R., Allen, S., Mackenzie, B., Yates, C., Gosper, C., Keith, D., Merow, C., White, M., Wenk, E., Maitner, B., He, K., Adams, V. and Auld, T. (2021), 'High fire frequency and the impact of the 2019-2020 megafires on Australian plant diversity', Diversity and Distributions, vol 27, no 7 , pp 1166 - 1179.
  • Schrader, J., Shi, P., Royer, D., Peppe, D., Gallagher, R., Li, Y., Wang, R., Wright, I. and Wright, I. (2021), 'Leaf size estimation based on leaf length, width and shape', Annals of Botany, vol 128, no 4 , pp 395 - 406.
  • Rossetto, M., Yap, J., Lemmon, J., Bain, D., Bragg, J., Hogbin, P., Gallagher, R., Rutherford, S., Summerell, B. and Wilson, T. (2021), 'A conservation genomics workflow to guide practical management actions', Global Ecology and Conservation, vol 26 .
  • Butt, N., Chauvenet, A., Adams, V., Beger, M., Gallagher, R., Shanahan, D., Ward, M., Watson, J. and Possingham, H. (2021), 'Importance of species translocations under rapid climate change', Conservation Biology, vol 35, no 3 , pp 775 - 783.
  • Tierney, D., Gallagher, R., Allen, S. and Auld, T. (2021), 'Multiple analysis redirect management and restoration priorities for a critically endangered ecological community', Austral Ecology, vol 46, no 4 , pp 545 - 560.
  • Venn, S., Gallagher, R. and Nicotra, A. (2021), 'Germination at extreme temperatures : implications for alpine shrub encroachment', Plants, vol 10, no 2 .
  • Andrew, S., Mokany, K., Falster, D., Wenk, E., Wright, I., Wright, I., Merow, C., Adams, V. and Gallagher, R. (2021), 'Functional diversity of the Australian flora : strong links to species richness and climate', Journal of Vegetation Science, vol 32, no 2 .
  • Jung, M., Arnell, A., De Lamo, X., Garcia-Rangel, S., Lewis, M., Mark, J., Merow, C., Miles, L., Ondo, I., Pironon, S., Ravilious, C., Rivers, M., Schepashenko, D., Tallowin, O., Van Soesbergen, A., Covaerts, R., Boyle, B., Enquist, B., Feng, X., Gallagher, R., Maitner, B., Meiri, S., Mulligan, M., Ofer, G., Roll, U., Hanson, J., Jetz, W., Di Marco, M., McGowan, J., Rinnan, D., Sachs, J., Lesiv, M., Adams, V., Andrew, S., Burger, J., Hannah, L., Marquet, P., McCarthy, J., Morueta-Holme, N., Newman, E., Park, D., Roehrdanz, P., Svenning, J., Violle, C., Wieringa, J., Wynne, G., Fritz, S., Strassburg, B., Obersteiner, M., Kapos, V., Burgess, N., Schmidt-Traub, G. and Visconti, P. (2021), 'Areas of global importance for conserving terrestrial biodiversity, carbon and water', Nature Ecology and Evolution, vol 5, no 11 , pp 1499 - 1509.
  • Gallagher, R., Butt, N., Carthey, A., Tulloch, A., Bland, L., Clulow, S., Newsome, T., Dudaniec, R. and Adams, V. (2021), 'A guide to using species trait data in conservation', One Earth, vol 4, no 7 , pp 927 - 936.
  • Falster, D., Gallagher, R., Wenk, E., Wright, I., Indiarto, D., Andrew, S., Baxter, C., Lawson, J., Allen, S., Fuchs, A., Monro, A., Kar, F., Adams, M., Ahrens, C., Alfonzetti, M., Angevin, T., Apgaua, D., Arndt, S., Atkin, O., Atkinson, J., Auld, T., Baker, A., Von Balthazar, M., Bean, A., Blackman, C., Bloomfeld, K., Bowman, D., Bragg, J., Brodribb, T., Buckton, G., Burrows, G., Caldwell, E., Camac, J., Carpenter, R., Catford, J., Cawthray, G., Cernusak, L., Chandler, G., Chapman, A., Cheal, D., Cheesman, A., Chen, S., Choat, B., Clinton, B., Clode, P., Coleman, H., Cornwell, W., Cosgrove, M., Crisp, M., Cross, E., Crous, K., Cunningham, S., Curran, T., Curtis, E., Daws, M., DeGabriel, J., Denton, M., Dong, N., Du, P., Duan, H., Duncan, D., Duncan, R., Duretto, M., Dwyer, J., Edwards, C., Esperon-Rodriguez, M., Evans, J., Everingham, S., Farrell, C., Firn, J., Fonseca, C., French, B., Frood, D., Funk, J., Geange, S., Ghannoum, O., Gleason, S., Gosper, C., Gray, E., Groom, P., Grootemaat, S., Gross, C., Guerin, G., Guja, L., Hahs, A., Harrison, M., Hayes, P., Henery, M., Hochuli, D., Howell, J., Huang, G., Hughes, L., Huisman, J., Ilic, J., Jagdish, A., Jin, D., Jordan, G., Jurado, E., Kanowski, J., Kasel, S., Kellermann, J., Kenny, B., Kohout, M., Kooyman, R., Kotowska, M., Lai, H., Laliberte, E., Lambers, H., Lamont, B., Lanfear, R., Van Langevelde, F., Laughlin, D., Laugier-Kitchener, B., Laurance, S., Lehmann, C., Leigh, A., Leishman, M., Lenz, T., Lepschi, B., Lewis, J., Lim, F., Liu, U., Lord, J., Lusk, C., Macinnis-Ng, C., McPherson, H., Magallon, S., Manea, A., Lopez-Martinez, A., Mayfeld, M., McCarthy, J., Meers, T., Van der Merwe, M., Metcalfe, D., Milberg, P., Mokany , K., Moles, A., Moore, B., Moore, N., Morgan, J., Morris, W., Muir, A., Munroe, S., Nicholson, A., Nicolle, D., Nicotra, A., Niinemets, U., North, T., O?Reilly-Nugent, A., O?Sullivan, O., Oberle, B., Onoda, Y., Ooi, M., Osborne, C., Paczkowska, G., Pekin, B., Guilherme Pereira, C., Pickering, C., Pickup, M., Pollock, L., Poot, P., Powell, J., Power, S., Prentice, I., Prior, L., Prober, S., Read, J., Reynolds, V., Richards, A., Richardson, B., Roderick, M., Rosell, J., Rossetto, M., Rye, B., Rymer, P., Sams, M., Sanson, G., Sauquet, H., Schmidt, S., Schonenberger, J., Schulze, E., Sendall, K., Sinclair, S., Smith, B., Smith, R., Soper , F., Sparrow, B., Standish, R., Staples, T., Stephens, R., Szota, C., Taseski, G., Tasker, E., Thomas, F., Tissue, D., Tjoelker, M. and et al, .. (2021), 'AusTraits : a curated plant trait database for the Australian flora', Scientific Data, vol 8, no 1 .
  • Andres, S., Powell, J., Emery, N., Rymer, P. and Gallagher, R. (2021), 'Does threatened species listing status predict climate change risk? : a case study with Australian Persoonia (Proteaceae) species', Global Ecology and Conservation, vol 31, no 6 .
  • Kattge, J., Bonisch, G., Diaz, S., Lavorel, S., Prentice, I., Leadley, P., Tautenhahn, S., Werner, G., Aakala, T., Abedi, M., Acosta, A., Adamidis, G., Adamson, K., Aiba, M., Albert, C., Alcantara, J., Alcazar C, C., Aleixo, I., Ali, H., Amiaud, B., Ammer, C., Amoroso, M., Anand, M., Anderson, C., Anten, N., Antos, J., Apgaua, D., Ashman, T., Asmara, D., Asner, G., Aspinwall, M., Atkin, O., Aubin, I., Baastrup-Spohr, L., Bahalkeh, K., Bahn, M., Baker, T., Baker, W., Bakker, J., Baldocchi, D., Baltzer, J., Banerjee, A., Baranger, A., Barlow, J., Barneche, D., Baruch, Z., Bastianelli, D., Battles, J., Bauerle, W., Bauters, M., Bazzato, E., Beckmann, M., Beeckman, H., Beierkuhnlein, C., Bekker, R., Belfry, G., Belluau, M., Beloiu, M., Benavides, R., Benomar, L., Berdugo-Lattke, M., Berenguer, E., Bergamin, R., Bergmann, J., Bergmann Carlucci, M., Berner, L., Bernhardt-Romermann, M., Bigler, C., Bjorkman, A., Blackman, C., Blanco, C., Blonder, B., Blumenthal, D., Bocanegra-Gonzalez, K., Boeckx, P., Bohlman, S., Bohning-Gaese, K., Boisvert-Marsh, L., Bond, W., Bond-Lamberty, B., Boom, A., Boonman, C., Bordin, K., Boughton, E., Boukili, V., Bowman, D., Bravo, S., Brendel, M., Broadley, M., Brown, K., Bruelheide, H., Brumnich, F., Bruun, H., Bruy, D., Buchanan, S., Bucher, S., Buchmann, N., Buitenwerf, R., Bunker, D., Burger, J., Burrascano, S., Burslem, D., Butterfield, B., Byun, C., Marques, M., Scalon, M., Caccianiga, M., Cadotte, M., Cailleret, M., Camac, J., Camarero, J., Campany, C., Campetella, G., Campos, J., Cano-Arboleda, L., Canullo, R., Carbognani, M., Carvalho, F., Casanoves, F., Castagneyrol, B., Catford, J., Cavender-Bares, J., Cerabolini, B., Cervellini, M., Chacon-Madrigal, E., Chapin, K., Chapin, F., Chelli, S., Chen, S., Chen, A., Cherubini, P., Chianucci, F., Choat, B., Chung, K., Chytry, M., Ciccarelli, D., Coll, L., Collins, C., Conti, L., Coomes, D., Cornelissen, J., Cornwell, W., Corona, P., Coyea, M., Craine, J., Craven, D., Cromsigt, J., Csecserits, A., Cufar, K., Cuntz, M., da Silva, A., Dahlin, K., Dainese, M., Dalke, I., Dalle Fratte, M., Dang-Le, A., Danihelka, J., Dannoura, M., Dawson, S., De Beer, A., De Frutos, A., De Long, J., Dechant, B., Delagrange, S., Delpierre, N., Derroire, G., Dias, A., Diaz-Toribio, M., Dimitrakopoulos, P., Dobrowolski, M., Doktor, D., Drevojan, P., Dong, N., Dransfield, J., Dressler, S., Duarte, L., Ducouret, E., Dullinger, S., Durka, W., Duursma, R., Dymova, O., E-Vojtko, A., Eckstein, R., Ejtehadi, H., Elser, J., Emilio, T., Engemann, K., Erfanian, M., Erfmeier, A., Esquivel-Muelbert, A., Esser, G., Estiarte, M., Domingues, T., Fagan, W., Fagundez, J., Falster, D., Fan, Y., Fang, J., Farris, E., Fazlioglu, F., Feng, Y., Fernandez-Mendez, F., Ferrara, C., Ferreira, J., Fidelis, A., Finegan, B., Firn, J., Flowers, T., Flynn, D., Fontana, V., Forey, E., Forgiarini, C., Francois, L., Frangipani, M., Frank, D., Frenette-Dussault, C., Freschet, G., Fry, E., Fyllas, N., Mazzochini, G., Gachet, S., Gallagher, R., Ganade, G., Ganga, F., Garcia-Palacios, P., Gargaglione, V., Garnier, E., Garrido, J., Gasper, A., Gea-Izquierdo, G., Gibson, D., Gillison, A., Giroldo, A., Glasenhardt, M., Gleason, S., Gliesch, M., Goldberg, E., Goldel, B., Gonzalez-Akre, E., Gonzalez-Andujar, J., Gonzalez-Melo, A., Gonzalez-Robles, A., Graae, B., Granda, E., Graves, S., Green, W., Gregor, T., Gross, N., Guerin, G., Gunther, A., Gutierrez, A., Haddock, L., Haines, A., Hall, J., Hambuckers, A., Han, W., Harrison, S., Hattingh, W., Hawes, J., He, T., He, P., Heberling, J., Helm, A., Hempel, S., Hentschel, J., Herault, B., Heres, A., Herz, K., Heuertz, M., Hickler, T., Hietz, P., Higuchi, P., Hipp, A., Hirons, A., Hock, M., Hogan, J., Holl, K., Honnay, O., Hornstein, D., Hou, E., Hough-Snee, N., Hovstad, K., Ichie, T., Igic, B., Illa, E., Isaac, M., Ishihara, M., Ivanov, L., Ivanova, L., Iversen, C., Izquierdo, J., Jackson, R., Jackson, B., Jactel, H., Jagodzinski, A., Jandt, U., Jansen, S., Jenkins, T., Jentsch, A., Jespersen, J., Jiang, G., Johansen, J., Johnson, D., Jokela, E., Joly, C., Jordan, G., Joseph, G., Junaedi, D., Junker, R., Justes, E., Kabsems, R., Kane, J., Kaplan, Z., Kattenborn, T., Kavelenova, L., Kearsley, E., Kempel, A., Kenzo, T., Kerkhoff, A., Khalil, M., Kinlock, N., Kissling, W., Kitajima, K., Kitzberger, T., Kjoller, R., Klein, T., Kleyer, M., Klimesova, J., Klipel, J., Kloeppel, B., Klotz, S., Knops, J., Kohyama, T., Koike, F., Kollmann, J., Komac, B., Komatsu, K., Konig, C., Kraft, N., Kramer, K., Kreft, H., Kuhn, I., Kumarathunge, D., Kuppler, J., Kurokawa, H., Kurosawa, Y., Kuyah, S., Laclau, J., Lafleur, B., Lallai, E., Lamb, E., Lamprecht, A., Larkin, D., Laughlin, D., Le Bagousse-Pinguet, Y., Le Maire, G., Le Roux, P., Le Roux, E., Lee, T., Lens, F., Lewis, S., Lhotsky, B., Li, Y., Li, X., Lichstein, J., Liebergesell, M., Lim, J., Lin, Y., Linares, J., Liu, C., Liu, D., Liu, U., Livingstone, S., Llusia, J., Lohbeck, M., Lopez-Garcia, A., Lopez-Gonzalez, G., Lososova, Z., Louault, F., Lukacs, B., Kukes, P., Luo, Y., Lussu, M., Ma, S., Maciel Rabelo Pereira, C., Mack, M., Maire, V., Makela, A., Makinen, H., Malhado, A., Mallik, A., Manning, P., Manzoni, S., Marchetti, Z., Marchino, L., Marcilio-Silva, V., Marcon, E., Marignani, M., Markesteijn, L., Martin, A., Martinez-Garza, C., Martinez-Vilalta, J., Maskova, T., Mason, K., Mason, N., Massad, T., Masse, J., Mayrose, I., McCarthy, J., McCormack, M., McCulloch, K., McFadden, I., McGill, B., McPartland, M., Medeiros, J., Medlyn, B., Meerts, P., Mehrabi, Z., Meir, P., Melo, F., Mencuccini, M., Meredieu, C., Messier, J., Meszaros, I., Metsaranta, J., Michaletz, S., Michelaki, C., Migalina, S., Milla, R., Miller, J., Minden, V., Ming, R., Mokany, K., Moles, A., Molnar, A., Molofsky, J., Molz, M., Montgomery, R., Monty, A., Moravcova, L., Moreno-Martinez, A., Moretti, M., Mori, A., Mori, S., Morris, D., Morrison, J., Mucina, L., Mueller, S., Muir, C., Muller, S., Munoz, F., Myers-Smith, I., Myster, R., Nagano, M., Naidu, S., Narayanan, A., Natesan, B., Negoita, L., Nelson, A., Neuschulz, E., Ni, J., Niedrist, G., Nieto, J., Niinemets, U., Nolan, R., Power, S., Reich, P., Tissue, D., Tjoelker, M. and Wright, I. (2020), 'TRY plant trait database : enhanced coverage and open access', Global Change Biology, vol 26, no 1 , pp 119 - 188.
  • Alfonzetti, M., Rivers, M., Auld, T., Le Breton, T., Cooney, T., Stuart, S., Zimmer, H., Makinson, R., Wilkins, K., Delgado, E., Dimitrova, N. and Gallagher, R. (2020), 'Shortfalls in extinction risk assessments for plants', Australian Journal of Botany, vol 68, no 6 , pp 466 - 471.
  • Ossola, A., Hoeppner, M., Burley, H., Gallagher, R., Beaumont, L. and Leishman, M. (2020), 'The Global Urban Tree Inventory : a database of the diverse tree flora that inhabits the world's cities', Global Ecology and Biogeography, vol 29, no 11 , pp 1907 - 1914.
  • Carthey, A., Blumstein, D., Gallagher, R., Tetu, S. and Gillings, M. (2020), 'Conserving the holobiont', Functional Ecology, vol 34, no 4 , pp 764 - 776.
  • Gallagher, R., Falster, D., Maitner, B., Salguero-Gomez, R., Vandvik, V., Pearse, W., Schneider, F., Kattge, J., Poelen, J., Madin, J., Ankenbrand, M., Penone, C., Feng, X., Adams, V., Alroy, J., Andrew, S., Balk, M., Bland, L., Boyle, B., Bravo-Avila, C., Brennan, I., Carthey, A., Catullo, R., Cavazos, B., Conde, D., Chown, S., Fadrique, B., Gibb, H., Halbritter, A., Hammock, J., Hogan, J., Holewa, H., Hope, M., Iversen, C., Jochum, M., Kearney, M., Keller, A., Mabee, P., Manning, P., McCormack, L., Michaletz, S., Park, D., Perez, T., Pineda-Munoz, S., Ray, C., Rossetto, M., Sauquet, H., Sparrow, B., Spasojevic, M., Telford, R., Tobias, J., Violle, C., Walls, R., Weiss, K., Westoby, M., Wright, I., Wright, I. and Enquist, B. (2020), 'Open science principles for accelerating trait-based science across the Tree of Life', Nature Ecology and Evolution, vol 4, no 3 , pp 294 - 303.
  • Burley, H., Beaumont, L., Ossola, A., Baumgartner, J., Gallagher, R., Laffan, S., Esperon-Rodriguez, M., Manea, A. and Leishman, M. (2019), 'Substantial declines in urban tree habitat predicted under climate change', Science of the Total Environment, vol 685 , pp 451 - 462.
  • Dudley, A., Butt, N., Auld, T. and Gallagher, R. (2019), 'Using traits to assess threatened plant species response to climate change', Biodiversity and Conservation, vol 28, no 7 , pp 1905 - 1919.
  • Adams, V., O'Donnell, J., Burley, A., Lawson, J., Auld, T., Brazill-Boast, J., Laws, C. and Gallagher, R. (2019), 'Planning for success : why conservation programs need a strategic program for recovering species', Conservation Science and Practice, vol 1, no 9 .
  • Gallagher, R., Allen, S., Wright, I. and Wright, I. (2019), 'Safety margins and adaptive capacity of vegetation to climate change', Scientific Reports, vol 9, no 1 .
  • Maher, T., Mirzaei, M., Pascovici, D., Wright, I., Haynes, P. and Gallagher, R. (2019), 'Evidence from the proteome for local adaptation to extreme heat in a widespread tree species', Functional Ecology, vol 33, no 3 , pp 436 - 446.
  • Le Breton, T., Zimmer, H., Gallagher, R., Cox, M., Allen, S. and Auld, T. (2019), 'Using IUCN criteria to perform rapid assessments of at-risk taxa', Biodiversity and Conservation, vol 28, no 4 , pp 863 - 883.
  • Duursma, D., Gallagher, R. and Griffith, S. (2019), 'Variation in the timing of avian egg-laying in relation to climate', Ecography, vol 42, no 3 , pp 565 - 577.
  • Taseski, G., Beloe, C., Gallagher, R., Chan, J., Dalrymple, R. and Cornwell, W. (2019), 'A global growth-form database for 143,616 vascular plant species', Ecology, vol 100, no 3 .
  • Butt, N. and Gallagher, R. (2018), 'Using species traits to guide conservation actions under climate change', Climatic Change, vol 151, no 2 , pp 317 - 332.
  • Duursma, D., Gallagher, R. and Griffith, S. (2018), 'Effects of El Nino Southern Oscillation on avian breeding phenology', Diversity and Distributions, vol 24, no 8 , pp 1061 - 1071.
  • Kendal, D., Dobbs, C., Gallagher, R., Beaumont, L., Baumann, J., Williams, N. and Livesley, S. (2018), 'A global comparison of the climatic niches of urban and native tree populations', Global Ecology and Biogeography, vol 27, no 5 , pp 629 - 637.
  • Gaskett, A. and Gallagher, R. (2018), 'Orchid diversity : spatial and climatic patterns from herbarium records', Ecology and Evolution, vol 8, no 22 , pp 11235 - 11245.
  • Duursma, D., Gallagher, R., Price, J. and Griffith, S. (2018), 'Variation in avian egg shape and nest structure is explained by climatic conditions', Scientific Reports, vol 8, no 1 .
  • Wright, I., Wright, I., Dong, N., Maire, V., Prentice, I., Westoby, M., Diaz, S., Gallagher, R., Jacobs, B., Kooyman, R., Law, E., Leishman, M., Niinemets, U., Reich, P., Sack, L., Villar, R., Wang, H. and Wilf, P. (2017), 'Global climatic drivers of leaf size', Science, vol 357, no 6354 , pp 917 - 921.
  • Dunning, L., Liabot, A., Olofsson, J., Smith, E., Vorontsova, M., Besnard, G., Simpson, K., Lundgren, M., Addicott, E., Gallagher, R., Chu, Y., Pennington, R., Christin, P. and Lehmann, C. (2017), 'The recent and rapid spread of Themeda triandra', Botany Letters, vol 164, no 4 , pp 327 - 337.
  • Haque, M., Nipperess, D., Gallagher, R. and Beaumont, L. (2017), 'How well documented is Australia's flora? : understanding spatial bias in vouchered plant specimans', Austral Ecology, vol 42, no 6 , pp 690 - 699.
  • Duursma, D., Gallagher, R. and Griffith, S. (2017), 'Characterizing opportunistic breeding at a continental scale using all available sources of phenological data : an assessment of 337 species across the Australian continent', The Auk, vol 134 , pp 509 - 519.
  • Gallagher, R. (2016), 'Correlates of range size variation in the Australian seed-plant flora', Journal of Biogeography, vol 43, no 7 , pp 1287 - 1298.

Current Projects

Title: Understanding the impact of dieback on koala populations in NSW- literature review
Funder:
  • NSW Department of Planning and Environment
Western Researchers: Rachael Nolan, Matthias Boer, Belinda Medlyn, Rachael Gallagher, Ben Moore and Brendan Choat
Years: 2023-06-21 - 2024-06-03
ID: P00028774
Title: ARC CoE: Integrating physiological responses to drought into plant extinction risk assessment and conservation [Via University of Queensland]
Funder:
  • Australian Research Council (ACRG)
Western Researchers: Ian Wright and Rachael Gallagher
Years: 2024-01-31 - 2025-12-31
ID: P00028996
Title: Restoring diverse native vegetation using drone-based precision seeding
Funder:
  • Macquarie University Non Cat 1
  • Australian Research Council (ACRG)
  • Royal Botanic Gardens and Domain Trust
  • AirSeed Technologies
  • University of Tasmania
Western Researchers: Rachael Gallagher
Years: 2022-04-22 - 2026-04-21
ID: P00027531
Title: ARC CoE for Plant Success in Nature and Agriculture [Via Uni of Qld]
Funder:
  • Australian Research Council (ACRG)
  • University of Western Sydney
Western Researchers: Ian Wright and Rachael Gallagher
Years: 2022-01-31 - 2027-12-31
ID: P00027678
Title: NSW Biodiversity Conservation Trust (BCT) Research Strategy proposal
Funder:
  • NSW Biodiversity Conservation Trust
Western Researchers: Rachael Gallagher
Years: 2022-11-01 - 2025-11-01
ID: P00028119

Previous Projects

Title: AusTraits: A National database on the traits of Australia's complete flora [Via UNSW]
Funder:
  • Australian Research Data Commons Limited
Western Researchers: Rachael Gallagher and Belinda Medlyn
Years: 2021-01-01 - 2023-06-30
ID: P00028180
Title: Considering biodiversity in natural product supply chains
Funder:
  • Blackmores Limited
Western Researchers: Rachael Gallagher, Benjamin Smith and Paul Rymer
Years: 2023-03-01 - 2023-06-30
ID: P00028501
Title: CSIRO/Atlas of Living Australia Bushfire Recovery Citizen Science Partnership [Via CSIRO]
Funder:
  • Department of Agriculture, Water and the Environment
Western Researchers: Rachael Gallagher
Years: 2021-09-09 - 2023-03-31
ID: P00027533
Title: Lianas in a CO2-rich World [Via Uni of Nottingham]
Funder:
  • The Royal Society
Western Researchers: Belinda Medlyn, Matthias Boer and Rachael Gallagher
Years: 2019-10-15 - 2022-10-14
ID: P00027772
Title: Threatened plant nominations under EPBCA
Funder:
  • World Wide Fund for Nature Australia
Western Researchers: Rachael Gallagher
Years: 2022-09-14 - 2023-09-14
ID: P00027857

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