Rachael V. Gallagher

Postdoctoral Fellow
Plant Invasion & Restoration Ecology Lab
Department of Biological Sciences
Macquarie University
Sydney, Australia

• 1: Background
• 2: Current Research
• 3: Publications
• 4: Conference Presentations
• 5: Grants & Prizes
• 6: Contact

Background

I am a plant ecologist interested in vegetation responses to global change.

I completed my Bachelor of Science at Macquarie University in 2005 and spent a number of years working within the NSW Department of Environment, Climate Change & Water and the National Herbarium of NSW.

I returned to Macquarie to work as a Plant Ecology Researcher in 2006. Since taking up this position I have worked on a number of diverse projects including modelling the distributions of weed species under current and future climate scenarios and investigating the utility of herbarium specimens as surrogates for long-term phenological data in the Australian Alps.

My PhD thesis - The Functional Ecology of Climbing Plants - was accepted in November 2011. I am now an NCCARF funded postdoctoral fellow with Professor Lesley Hughes and Associate Professor Michelle Leishman at Macquarie. Our current work explores how climate change may affect naturalised plants in Australia.