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Papers by Peter Jobson

Research paper thumbnail of Two new species of <i>Westringia</i> sect. <i>Cephalowestringia</i> (Lamiaceae: Westringieae) from the south-west of Western Australia

Research paper thumbnail of A New Species of Acrotriche R. Br. (Epacridaceae) from South-eastern Australia

Muelleria: An Australian Journal of Botany

Research paper thumbnail of Figure 1 from: Williams TM, Hayes J, McDonnell AJ, Cantley JT, Jobson P, Martine CT (2022) Solanum scalarium (Solanaceae), a newly-described dioecious bush tomato from Judbarra/Gregory National Park, Northern Territory, Australia. PhytoKeys 216: 103-116. https://doi.org/10.3897/phytokeys.216.85972

Research paper thumbnail of Figure 3 from: Williams TM, Hayes J, McDonnell AJ, Cantley JT, Jobson P, Martine CT (2022) Solanum scalarium (Solanaceae), a newly-described dioecious bush tomato from Judbarra/Gregory National Park, Northern Territory, Australia. PhytoKeys 216: 103-116. https://doi.org/10.3897/phytokeys.216.85972

Research paper thumbnail of Solanum scalarium (Solanaceae), a newly-described dioecious bush tomato from Judbarra/Gregory National Park, Northern Territory, Australia

PhytoKeys

A new species of functionally dioecious bush tomato of Solanum subgenus Leptostemonum is describe... more A new species of functionally dioecious bush tomato of Solanum subgenus Leptostemonum is described. Solanum scalarium Martine & T.M.Williams, sp. nov., is a member of the taxonomically challenging “Kimberley dioecious clade” in Australia and differs from other species in the group in its spreading decumbent habit and conspicuously prickly male floral rachis. The species is so far known from one site in Judbarra/Gregory National Park in the Northern Territory. Ex situ crosses and confirmation of inaperturate pollen grains produced in morphologically cosexual flowers indicate that these flowers are functionally female and the species is functionally dioecious. The scientific name reflects the ladder-like appearance of the inflorescence rachis armature of male individuals, the stone staircase that provides access to the type locality at the Escarpment Lookout Walk, and the importance of maintaining equitable and safe access to outdoor spaces. The common name Garrarnawun Bush Tomato is ...

Research paper thumbnail of ALERT Lessons From A Biosecurity Disaster

Biodiversity Information Science and Standards, 2018

The Managers of Australasian Herbarium Collections (MAHC) have been working with the Plant Import... more The Managers of Australasian Herbarium Collections (MAHC) have been working with the Plant Import Operations Branch of the Australian government Department of Agriculture and Water Resources (DAWR) to align our procedures to significantly reduce the risk of herbarium specimens being destroyed when being imported into Australia. The two groups worked together productively to bring about change and to enable the resumption of the international movement of herbarium specimens after two recent international disasters. These changes include amendments to the Biosecurity Import Conditions System (BICON) which contains the Australian government’s import conditions and onshore outcomes for herbarium specimens, changes to procedures at the border (airmail gateway facilities) where biosecurity documentation is assessed and parcels released, and updates to existing herbarium parcel labels, guidelines and supplier declaration templates. We will discuss lessons learned, as well as implications f...

Research paper thumbnail of Unmounted Doesn’t Mean Unprocessed: A Case Study of Exporting Australian Herbarium Specimens

Biodiversity Information Science and Standards, 2018

In 2017, two incoming international herbarium loans were confiscated and destroyed by the Commonw... more In 2017, two incoming international herbarium loans were confiscated and destroyed by the Commonwealth Department of Agriculture and Water Resources (DAWR). Following these regrettable incidents, communication has improved between Managers of Australasian Herbarium Collections (MAHC) and Plant Import Operations Branch of DAWR. The outcome is that new protocols now exist for shipment of plant material between herbaria based on the recognition by DAWR that all herbarium specimens are in fact processed (pressed, dried and frozen) even if they are not fully mounted (Brown et al, this conference). Simultaneously, the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) had been reported to be destroying incoming unmounted specimens, thus making it difficult to send unmounted exchange material overseas, and particularly to the USA. Using the documentation developed for incoming overseas loans by MAHC and, encouraging the receiving institution in the USA to acquire a USDA 588 Importing Permit fo...

Research paper thumbnail of Mirbelieae

Research paper thumbnail of Two new species of Westringia sect. Cephalowestringia (Lamiaceae: Westringieae) from the south-west of Western Australia

Nuytsia

Davis, R.W. & Jobson, P. Two new species of Westringia sect. Cephalowestringia (Lamiaceae: Westri... more Davis, R.W. & Jobson, P. Two new species of Westringia sect. Cephalowestringia (Lamiaceae: Westringieae) from the southwest of Western Australia. Nuytsia 23: 271–276. Westringia ¿W]JHUDOGHQVLV R.W.Davis & P.Jobson and W. ophioglossa R.W.Davis & P.Jobson are described KHUHDVQHZ$PRGL¿FDWLRQWRWKHH[LVWLQJNH\IRUWestringia Sm. sect. Cephalowestringia Kuntze is provided to account for :¿W]JHUDOGHQVLV and W. ophioglossa. :HVWULQJLD¿W]JHUDOGHQVLV occurs in open mallee in the Fitzgerald River National Park and W. ophioglossa in mallee woodlands in the northern wheat-belt. A distribution map is provided.

Research paper thumbnail of Managers of Australasian Herbarium Collections (MAHC): A MARK of Curation Excellence

Biodiversity Information Science and Standards, Jun 13, 2018

Managers of Australasian Herbarium Collections (MAHC) is a subcommittee of the Council of Heads o... more Managers of Australasian Herbarium Collections (MAHC) is a subcommittee of the Council of Heads of Australasian Herbaria (CHAH) and provides advice and recommendations pertaining to the management of herbarium collections. It was formed in 2009 based initially on Australian herbaria, and later incorporated New Zealand herbaria. MAHC currently has 18 member institutions representing both government funded, and university based herbaria, and includes both the largest (National Herbarium of Victoria-‡ § | ¶ # ¤ « » ˄ ˅ ¦ˀˁ © Jobson P et al. This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY 4.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited. MEL) and smallest collections (Macquarie University-MQU) in the region. The group meets in person annually, and holds regular conference phone calls throughout the year. MAHC has proved itself to be a very cohesive committee, despite time, sizing, staffing, and funding differences. It prides itself in being inclusive, cooperative, collegiate, collaborative and supportive. It has a strong mentor approach toward early career collections managers or those new to collections management. The group has a healthy forward planning outlook, developing, promoting and implementing collections management policy, recommendations, guidelines and standards. This cohesion has resulted in a toolkit of resources that are freely available and strives for a unified world class best practice herbarium curation. Some of these universally agreed tools include templates, biosecurity documents, disaster mitigation and preparation for Nagoya Protocol implementation for Australia and New Zealand. MAHC supports new international initiatives and manages the day to day running of programmes such as the Global Plants Initiative project imaging all vascular type specimens housed in Australasia. MAHC collaborates with CHAH and the data subcommittee, HISCOM (Herbarium Information Systems Committee), for continued improvements in sharing digital data and specimens via the Australasian Virtual Herbarium (AVH https://avh.chah.org.au/) and Atlas of Living Australia (ALA https://www.ala.org.au/) services. This talk will use examples to highlight the effectiveness and success of a unified group in: developing standard practice in curation, incorporating improved curation procedures, and its ability to be agile, responding to incidents at an international level.

Research paper thumbnail of Managers of Australasian Herbarium Collections (MAHC): A MARK of Curation Excellence

Biodiversity Information Science and Standards, Jun 13, 2018

Managers of Australasian Herbarium Collections (MAHC) is a subcommittee of the Council of Heads o... more Managers of Australasian Herbarium Collections (MAHC) is a subcommittee of the Council of Heads of Australasian Herbaria (CHAH) and provides advice and recommendations pertaining to the management of herbarium collections. It was formed in 2009 based initially on Australian herbaria, and later incorporated New Zealand herbaria. MAHC currently has 18 member institutions representing both government funded, and university based herbaria, and includes both the largest (National Herbarium of Victoria-‡ § | ¶ # ¤ « » ˄ ˅ ¦ˀˁ © Jobson P et al. This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY 4.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited. MEL) and smallest collections (Macquarie University-MQU) in the region. The group meets in person annually, and holds regular conference phone calls throughout the year. MAHC has proved itself to be a very cohesive committee, despite time, sizing, staffing, and funding differences. It prides itself in being inclusive, cooperative, collegiate, collaborative and supportive. It has a strong mentor approach toward early career collections managers or those new to collections management. The group has a healthy forward planning outlook, developing, promoting and implementing collections management policy, recommendations, guidelines and standards. This cohesion has resulted in a toolkit of resources that are freely available and strives for a unified world class best practice herbarium curation. Some of these universally agreed tools include templates, biosecurity documents, disaster mitigation and preparation for Nagoya Protocol implementation for Australia and New Zealand. MAHC supports new international initiatives and manages the day to day running of programmes such as the Global Plants Initiative project imaging all vascular type specimens housed in Australasia. MAHC collaborates with CHAH and the data subcommittee, HISCOM (Herbarium Information Systems Committee), for continued improvements in sharing digital data and specimens via the Australasian Virtual Herbarium (AVH https://avh.chah.org.au/) and Atlas of Living Australia (ALA https://www.ala.org.au/) services. This talk will use examples to highlight the effectiveness and success of a unified group in: developing standard practice in curation, incorporating improved curation procedures, and its ability to be agile, responding to incidents at an international level.

Research paper thumbnail of Size Doesn’t Matter: Fundamental Requirements in Relocating a Herbarium

Relocating a natural history collection is a daunting prospect. Underpinning successful relocatio... more Relocating a natural history collection is a daunting prospect. Underpinning successful relocation is getting the fundamentals right. From the moment the seed of an idea for a new facility is planted, a raft of detailed planning and preparation issues emerge. Meticulous planning and management is essential, from initial design through to the last specimen being housed in its new location. Herbaria are complex organisms each with a core collection of specimen sheets and associated infrastructure to house them; ancillary collections such as ‘spirit’ and ‘DNA’, a library, databasing, mounting, materials, imaging, loans and exchange, facilities for environmental control, biosecurity, space for staff, volunteers, research students, and class or public access and outreach. All these elements require careful consideration for relocation regardless of the size of the collection. Timelines for relocations from initial decisions to commencement of the move vary widely. Early involvement of co...

Research paper thumbnail of Mapping terrestrial groundwater‐dependent ecosystems in arid Australia using Landsat‐8 time‐series data and singular value decomposition

Remote Sensing in Ecology and Conservation, 2022

Research paper thumbnail of Understanding Diversity and Systematics in Australian Fabaceae Tribe Mirbelieae

Diversity, 2021

Australia has a very diverse pea-flowered legume flora with 1715 native and naturalised species c... more Australia has a very diverse pea-flowered legume flora with 1715 native and naturalised species currently recognised. Tribe Mirbelieae s.l. includes 44% of Australia’s peas in 24 genera with 756 recognised species. However, several genera within the Pultenaea alliance in tribe Mirbelieae are considered to be non-monophyletic and two main options have been proposed: option one is to merge ca. 18 genera containing ca. 540 species (the largest genus, Pultenaea has nomenclatural priority); and option two is to re-circumscribe some genera and describe new genera as required to form monophyletic groups. At the species level, option one would require 76% of names to be changed; whereas based on available data, option two is likely to require, at most, 8.3% of names to change. Option two therefore provides the least nomenclatural disruption but cannot be implemented without a robust phylogenetic framework to define new generic limits. Here we present novel analyses of available plastid DNA ...

Research paper thumbnail of Can sampling for vegetation characterisation surrogate for species richness? Case studies from the wet–dry tropics of northern Australia

Australian Journal of Botany, 2021

Understanding the distribution of plant species and vegetation communities is important for effec... more Understanding the distribution of plant species and vegetation communities is important for effective conservation planning and ecosystem management, but many parts of the world remain under-surveyed. The Top End of Australia’s Northern Territory is vast, remote, and sparsely populated; knowledge of the flora, in many areas, is limited to common or dominant species. Here, we describe and contrast the benefits and trade-offs between two approaches to botanical survey – vegetation sampling (assessment of structural attributes and species composition, fundamentally for mapping purposes) and hybrid floristic survey (an intensive, inventory approach considering seasonality) – as applied in each of four remote areas of the Australian wet–dry monsoonal tropics. Hybrid floristic survey effectively doubled the species richness recorded within each study area, largely due to improved detections of forbs and sedges. Species-sampling effort relationships predicted hybrid floristic survey to con...

Research paper thumbnail of The living heart: Climate gradients predict desert mountain endemism

Ecology and Evolution, 2021

This is an open access article under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which... more This is an open access article under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.

Research paper thumbnail of Dillwynia glaucula (Fabaceae: Mirbelieae), a new species from the Southern Tablelands, New South Wales

Telopea

1998. Dillwynia glaucula (Fabaceae: Mirbelieae), a new species from the Southern Tablelands, New ... more 1998. Dillwynia glaucula (Fabaceae: Mirbelieae), a new species from the Southern Tablelands, New South Wales. Telopea 8(1): 1–5. Dillwynia glaucula Jobson & P.H. Weston, a new species from the Southern Tablelands of New South Wales is described and its affinity with Dillwynia sericea is discussed, along with its ecology, distribution and conservation status.

Research paper thumbnail of Two new species of Dillwynia (Fabaceae: Mirbelieae) from the Southern Tablelands of New South Wales

Telopea

Weston, two new species from the Southern Tablelands of New South Wales, are described along with... more Weston, two new species from the Southern Tablelands of New South Wales, are described along with their ecology, distribution and conservation status. Their affinities with closely related species are also discussed.

Research paper thumbnail of Two rare new species of Isotropis (Fabaceae: Faboideae: Mirbelieae) from tropical northern Australia

Telopea, 2014

Two new species, Isotropis browniae and I. stipitata (Fabaceae) are described from the Victoria R... more Two new species, Isotropis browniae and I. stipitata (Fabaceae) are described from the Victoria River region of the Northern Territory and adjacent Kimberley region in Western Australia. Distribution maps, conservation status and the morphological similarities with the related species I. atropurpurea, are presented.

Research paper thumbnail of Solanum plastisexum, an enigmatic new bush tomato from the Australian Monsoon Tropics exhibiting breeding system fluidity

PhytoKeys, 2019

A bush tomato that has evaded classification by solanologists for decades has been identified and... more A bush tomato that has evaded classification by solanologists for decades has been identified and is described as a new species belonging to the Australian “Solanumdioicum group” of the Ord Victoria Plain biogeographic region in the monsoon tropics of the Northern Territory. Although now recognised to be andromonoecious, S.plastisexum Martine & McDonnell, sp. nov. exhibits multiple reproductive phenotypes, with solitary perfect flowers, a few staminate flowers or with cymes composed of a basal hermaphrodite and an extended rachis of several to many staminate flowers. When in fruit, the distal rachis may abcise and drop. A member of SolanumsubgenusLeptostemonum, Solanumplastisexum is allied to the S.eburneum Symon species group. Morphometric analyses presented here reveal that S.plastisexum differs statistically from all of its closest relatives including S.eburneum, S.diversiflorum F. Meull., S.jobsonii Martine, J.Cantley & L.M.Lacey, S.succosum A.R.Bean & Albr. and S.watneyi Martin...

Research paper thumbnail of Two new species of <i>Westringia</i> sect. <i>Cephalowestringia</i> (Lamiaceae: Westringieae) from the south-west of Western Australia

Research paper thumbnail of A New Species of Acrotriche R. Br. (Epacridaceae) from South-eastern Australia

Muelleria: An Australian Journal of Botany

Research paper thumbnail of Figure 1 from: Williams TM, Hayes J, McDonnell AJ, Cantley JT, Jobson P, Martine CT (2022) Solanum scalarium (Solanaceae), a newly-described dioecious bush tomato from Judbarra/Gregory National Park, Northern Territory, Australia. PhytoKeys 216: 103-116. https://doi.org/10.3897/phytokeys.216.85972

Research paper thumbnail of Figure 3 from: Williams TM, Hayes J, McDonnell AJ, Cantley JT, Jobson P, Martine CT (2022) Solanum scalarium (Solanaceae), a newly-described dioecious bush tomato from Judbarra/Gregory National Park, Northern Territory, Australia. PhytoKeys 216: 103-116. https://doi.org/10.3897/phytokeys.216.85972

Research paper thumbnail of Solanum scalarium (Solanaceae), a newly-described dioecious bush tomato from Judbarra/Gregory National Park, Northern Territory, Australia

PhytoKeys

A new species of functionally dioecious bush tomato of Solanum subgenus Leptostemonum is describe... more A new species of functionally dioecious bush tomato of Solanum subgenus Leptostemonum is described. Solanum scalarium Martine & T.M.Williams, sp. nov., is a member of the taxonomically challenging “Kimberley dioecious clade” in Australia and differs from other species in the group in its spreading decumbent habit and conspicuously prickly male floral rachis. The species is so far known from one site in Judbarra/Gregory National Park in the Northern Territory. Ex situ crosses and confirmation of inaperturate pollen grains produced in morphologically cosexual flowers indicate that these flowers are functionally female and the species is functionally dioecious. The scientific name reflects the ladder-like appearance of the inflorescence rachis armature of male individuals, the stone staircase that provides access to the type locality at the Escarpment Lookout Walk, and the importance of maintaining equitable and safe access to outdoor spaces. The common name Garrarnawun Bush Tomato is ...

Research paper thumbnail of ALERT Lessons From A Biosecurity Disaster

Biodiversity Information Science and Standards, 2018

The Managers of Australasian Herbarium Collections (MAHC) have been working with the Plant Import... more The Managers of Australasian Herbarium Collections (MAHC) have been working with the Plant Import Operations Branch of the Australian government Department of Agriculture and Water Resources (DAWR) to align our procedures to significantly reduce the risk of herbarium specimens being destroyed when being imported into Australia. The two groups worked together productively to bring about change and to enable the resumption of the international movement of herbarium specimens after two recent international disasters. These changes include amendments to the Biosecurity Import Conditions System (BICON) which contains the Australian government’s import conditions and onshore outcomes for herbarium specimens, changes to procedures at the border (airmail gateway facilities) where biosecurity documentation is assessed and parcels released, and updates to existing herbarium parcel labels, guidelines and supplier declaration templates. We will discuss lessons learned, as well as implications f...

Research paper thumbnail of Unmounted Doesn’t Mean Unprocessed: A Case Study of Exporting Australian Herbarium Specimens

Biodiversity Information Science and Standards, 2018

In 2017, two incoming international herbarium loans were confiscated and destroyed by the Commonw... more In 2017, two incoming international herbarium loans were confiscated and destroyed by the Commonwealth Department of Agriculture and Water Resources (DAWR). Following these regrettable incidents, communication has improved between Managers of Australasian Herbarium Collections (MAHC) and Plant Import Operations Branch of DAWR. The outcome is that new protocols now exist for shipment of plant material between herbaria based on the recognition by DAWR that all herbarium specimens are in fact processed (pressed, dried and frozen) even if they are not fully mounted (Brown et al, this conference). Simultaneously, the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) had been reported to be destroying incoming unmounted specimens, thus making it difficult to send unmounted exchange material overseas, and particularly to the USA. Using the documentation developed for incoming overseas loans by MAHC and, encouraging the receiving institution in the USA to acquire a USDA 588 Importing Permit fo...

Research paper thumbnail of Mirbelieae

Research paper thumbnail of Two new species of Westringia sect. Cephalowestringia (Lamiaceae: Westringieae) from the south-west of Western Australia

Nuytsia

Davis, R.W. & Jobson, P. Two new species of Westringia sect. Cephalowestringia (Lamiaceae: Westri... more Davis, R.W. & Jobson, P. Two new species of Westringia sect. Cephalowestringia (Lamiaceae: Westringieae) from the southwest of Western Australia. Nuytsia 23: 271–276. Westringia ¿W]JHUDOGHQVLV R.W.Davis & P.Jobson and W. ophioglossa R.W.Davis & P.Jobson are described KHUHDVQHZ$PRGL¿FDWLRQWRWKHH[LVWLQJNH\IRUWestringia Sm. sect. Cephalowestringia Kuntze is provided to account for :¿W]JHUDOGHQVLV and W. ophioglossa. :HVWULQJLD¿W]JHUDOGHQVLV occurs in open mallee in the Fitzgerald River National Park and W. ophioglossa in mallee woodlands in the northern wheat-belt. A distribution map is provided.

Research paper thumbnail of Managers of Australasian Herbarium Collections (MAHC): A MARK of Curation Excellence

Biodiversity Information Science and Standards, Jun 13, 2018

Managers of Australasian Herbarium Collections (MAHC) is a subcommittee of the Council of Heads o... more Managers of Australasian Herbarium Collections (MAHC) is a subcommittee of the Council of Heads of Australasian Herbaria (CHAH) and provides advice and recommendations pertaining to the management of herbarium collections. It was formed in 2009 based initially on Australian herbaria, and later incorporated New Zealand herbaria. MAHC currently has 18 member institutions representing both government funded, and university based herbaria, and includes both the largest (National Herbarium of Victoria-‡ § | ¶ # ¤ « » ˄ ˅ ¦ˀˁ © Jobson P et al. This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY 4.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited. MEL) and smallest collections (Macquarie University-MQU) in the region. The group meets in person annually, and holds regular conference phone calls throughout the year. MAHC has proved itself to be a very cohesive committee, despite time, sizing, staffing, and funding differences. It prides itself in being inclusive, cooperative, collegiate, collaborative and supportive. It has a strong mentor approach toward early career collections managers or those new to collections management. The group has a healthy forward planning outlook, developing, promoting and implementing collections management policy, recommendations, guidelines and standards. This cohesion has resulted in a toolkit of resources that are freely available and strives for a unified world class best practice herbarium curation. Some of these universally agreed tools include templates, biosecurity documents, disaster mitigation and preparation for Nagoya Protocol implementation for Australia and New Zealand. MAHC supports new international initiatives and manages the day to day running of programmes such as the Global Plants Initiative project imaging all vascular type specimens housed in Australasia. MAHC collaborates with CHAH and the data subcommittee, HISCOM (Herbarium Information Systems Committee), for continued improvements in sharing digital data and specimens via the Australasian Virtual Herbarium (AVH https://avh.chah.org.au/) and Atlas of Living Australia (ALA https://www.ala.org.au/) services. This talk will use examples to highlight the effectiveness and success of a unified group in: developing standard practice in curation, incorporating improved curation procedures, and its ability to be agile, responding to incidents at an international level.

Research paper thumbnail of Managers of Australasian Herbarium Collections (MAHC): A MARK of Curation Excellence

Biodiversity Information Science and Standards, Jun 13, 2018

Managers of Australasian Herbarium Collections (MAHC) is a subcommittee of the Council of Heads o... more Managers of Australasian Herbarium Collections (MAHC) is a subcommittee of the Council of Heads of Australasian Herbaria (CHAH) and provides advice and recommendations pertaining to the management of herbarium collections. It was formed in 2009 based initially on Australian herbaria, and later incorporated New Zealand herbaria. MAHC currently has 18 member institutions representing both government funded, and university based herbaria, and includes both the largest (National Herbarium of Victoria-‡ § | ¶ # ¤ « » ˄ ˅ ¦ˀˁ © Jobson P et al. This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY 4.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited. MEL) and smallest collections (Macquarie University-MQU) in the region. The group meets in person annually, and holds regular conference phone calls throughout the year. MAHC has proved itself to be a very cohesive committee, despite time, sizing, staffing, and funding differences. It prides itself in being inclusive, cooperative, collegiate, collaborative and supportive. It has a strong mentor approach toward early career collections managers or those new to collections management. The group has a healthy forward planning outlook, developing, promoting and implementing collections management policy, recommendations, guidelines and standards. This cohesion has resulted in a toolkit of resources that are freely available and strives for a unified world class best practice herbarium curation. Some of these universally agreed tools include templates, biosecurity documents, disaster mitigation and preparation for Nagoya Protocol implementation for Australia and New Zealand. MAHC supports new international initiatives and manages the day to day running of programmes such as the Global Plants Initiative project imaging all vascular type specimens housed in Australasia. MAHC collaborates with CHAH and the data subcommittee, HISCOM (Herbarium Information Systems Committee), for continued improvements in sharing digital data and specimens via the Australasian Virtual Herbarium (AVH https://avh.chah.org.au/) and Atlas of Living Australia (ALA https://www.ala.org.au/) services. This talk will use examples to highlight the effectiveness and success of a unified group in: developing standard practice in curation, incorporating improved curation procedures, and its ability to be agile, responding to incidents at an international level.

Research paper thumbnail of Size Doesn’t Matter: Fundamental Requirements in Relocating a Herbarium

Relocating a natural history collection is a daunting prospect. Underpinning successful relocatio... more Relocating a natural history collection is a daunting prospect. Underpinning successful relocation is getting the fundamentals right. From the moment the seed of an idea for a new facility is planted, a raft of detailed planning and preparation issues emerge. Meticulous planning and management is essential, from initial design through to the last specimen being housed in its new location. Herbaria are complex organisms each with a core collection of specimen sheets and associated infrastructure to house them; ancillary collections such as ‘spirit’ and ‘DNA’, a library, databasing, mounting, materials, imaging, loans and exchange, facilities for environmental control, biosecurity, space for staff, volunteers, research students, and class or public access and outreach. All these elements require careful consideration for relocation regardless of the size of the collection. Timelines for relocations from initial decisions to commencement of the move vary widely. Early involvement of co...

Research paper thumbnail of Mapping terrestrial groundwater‐dependent ecosystems in arid Australia using Landsat‐8 time‐series data and singular value decomposition

Remote Sensing in Ecology and Conservation, 2022

Research paper thumbnail of Understanding Diversity and Systematics in Australian Fabaceae Tribe Mirbelieae

Diversity, 2021

Australia has a very diverse pea-flowered legume flora with 1715 native and naturalised species c... more Australia has a very diverse pea-flowered legume flora with 1715 native and naturalised species currently recognised. Tribe Mirbelieae s.l. includes 44% of Australia’s peas in 24 genera with 756 recognised species. However, several genera within the Pultenaea alliance in tribe Mirbelieae are considered to be non-monophyletic and two main options have been proposed: option one is to merge ca. 18 genera containing ca. 540 species (the largest genus, Pultenaea has nomenclatural priority); and option two is to re-circumscribe some genera and describe new genera as required to form monophyletic groups. At the species level, option one would require 76% of names to be changed; whereas based on available data, option two is likely to require, at most, 8.3% of names to change. Option two therefore provides the least nomenclatural disruption but cannot be implemented without a robust phylogenetic framework to define new generic limits. Here we present novel analyses of available plastid DNA ...

Research paper thumbnail of Can sampling for vegetation characterisation surrogate for species richness? Case studies from the wet–dry tropics of northern Australia

Australian Journal of Botany, 2021

Understanding the distribution of plant species and vegetation communities is important for effec... more Understanding the distribution of plant species and vegetation communities is important for effective conservation planning and ecosystem management, but many parts of the world remain under-surveyed. The Top End of Australia’s Northern Territory is vast, remote, and sparsely populated; knowledge of the flora, in many areas, is limited to common or dominant species. Here, we describe and contrast the benefits and trade-offs between two approaches to botanical survey – vegetation sampling (assessment of structural attributes and species composition, fundamentally for mapping purposes) and hybrid floristic survey (an intensive, inventory approach considering seasonality) – as applied in each of four remote areas of the Australian wet–dry monsoonal tropics. Hybrid floristic survey effectively doubled the species richness recorded within each study area, largely due to improved detections of forbs and sedges. Species-sampling effort relationships predicted hybrid floristic survey to con...

Research paper thumbnail of The living heart: Climate gradients predict desert mountain endemism

Ecology and Evolution, 2021

This is an open access article under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which... more This is an open access article under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.

Research paper thumbnail of Dillwynia glaucula (Fabaceae: Mirbelieae), a new species from the Southern Tablelands, New South Wales

Telopea

1998. Dillwynia glaucula (Fabaceae: Mirbelieae), a new species from the Southern Tablelands, New ... more 1998. Dillwynia glaucula (Fabaceae: Mirbelieae), a new species from the Southern Tablelands, New South Wales. Telopea 8(1): 1–5. Dillwynia glaucula Jobson & P.H. Weston, a new species from the Southern Tablelands of New South Wales is described and its affinity with Dillwynia sericea is discussed, along with its ecology, distribution and conservation status.

Research paper thumbnail of Two new species of Dillwynia (Fabaceae: Mirbelieae) from the Southern Tablelands of New South Wales

Telopea

Weston, two new species from the Southern Tablelands of New South Wales, are described along with... more Weston, two new species from the Southern Tablelands of New South Wales, are described along with their ecology, distribution and conservation status. Their affinities with closely related species are also discussed.

Research paper thumbnail of Two rare new species of Isotropis (Fabaceae: Faboideae: Mirbelieae) from tropical northern Australia

Telopea, 2014

Two new species, Isotropis browniae and I. stipitata (Fabaceae) are described from the Victoria R... more Two new species, Isotropis browniae and I. stipitata (Fabaceae) are described from the Victoria River region of the Northern Territory and adjacent Kimberley region in Western Australia. Distribution maps, conservation status and the morphological similarities with the related species I. atropurpurea, are presented.

Research paper thumbnail of Solanum plastisexum, an enigmatic new bush tomato from the Australian Monsoon Tropics exhibiting breeding system fluidity

PhytoKeys, 2019

A bush tomato that has evaded classification by solanologists for decades has been identified and... more A bush tomato that has evaded classification by solanologists for decades has been identified and is described as a new species belonging to the Australian “Solanumdioicum group” of the Ord Victoria Plain biogeographic region in the monsoon tropics of the Northern Territory. Although now recognised to be andromonoecious, S.plastisexum Martine & McDonnell, sp. nov. exhibits multiple reproductive phenotypes, with solitary perfect flowers, a few staminate flowers or with cymes composed of a basal hermaphrodite and an extended rachis of several to many staminate flowers. When in fruit, the distal rachis may abcise and drop. A member of SolanumsubgenusLeptostemonum, Solanumplastisexum is allied to the S.eburneum Symon species group. Morphometric analyses presented here reveal that S.plastisexum differs statistically from all of its closest relatives including S.eburneum, S.diversiflorum F. Meull., S.jobsonii Martine, J.Cantley & L.M.Lacey, S.succosum A.R.Bean & Albr. and S.watneyi Martin...