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ASBS Newsletter

Number 178, March 2019

Contents

  • From the President
  •      Brisbane conference. . . . .1
  •      Conference Awards. . . . .1
  •      Bob Anderson award. . . . .1
  •      Wellington. . . . .1
  •      Genomics for Australian Plants - GAP. . . . .2
  •      Stop Press! Conclusion of the 2018 AGM. . . . .2
  • Taxonomy Australia report. . . . .3
  •      Taxonomy Education Working Group: initial survey. . . . .4
  • ASBS Annual General Meeting
  •      Australasian Systematic Botany Society Inc. 40th Annual General Meeting Brisbane meeting. Minutes. . . . .5
  •      Australasian Systematic Botany Society Inc. 40th Annual General Meeting Adjourned meeting. Minutes. . . . .7
  •      President's report. . . . .8
  •      Financial report. . . . .10
  •           Notice. 2019 Membership Fees. . . . .13
  •      Newsletter report. . . . .15
  •      Website report. . . . .16
  •      Facebook group report. . . . .17
  •      Research activities and grants program report. . . . .17
  • ASBS Brisbane conference
  •      ASBS conference 2018: Mind the Gap. . . . .21
  •      Mind the Gap ASBS conference 2018 field trip. . . . .24
  • Hansjφrg Eichler Research Grant
  •      Field study of the Celmisia Group (Asteraceae) in New Zealand.. . . . .27
  • Articles
  •      Echidna overboard: Georg Ritter von Frauenfeld, scientist on the 1857–59 world expedition of the Novara. . . . .30
  •      Botanical collections from the Novara expedition. . . . .32
  • ABRS report. . . . .33
  •      State of the Flora of Australia 2018. . . . .34
  • Palaeo pages
  •      How do we make progress with Australian Cenozoic palaeobotany?. . . . .37
  • Coming conference
  •      ASBS-NZPCN 2019 Conference, Wellington updates. . . . .39
  •      2019 ASBS-NZPCN Conference Charity Auction. Items required! Can you help?. . . . .42
  • In a few words. . . . .42
  • News
  •      Awards
  •           Ann Prescott OAM. . . . .43
  •           David Mabberley – Thackray Medal 2018. . . . .43
  •           Vicki Funk and Chris Martine – recipients of major ASPT awards. . . . .43
  •           Andrew Rozefelds – outstanding paper award from JSE. . . . .43
  •      Other news
  •           New edition of tropical rainforest plants key. . . . .44
  •           Digitisation of the NSW collection. . . . .44
  •           New director for the Atlas of Living Australia. . . . .44
  •           The need for conservation in urban environments. . . . .44
  •           Megaphylogeny resolves global patterns of mushroom evolution. . . . .45
  •           BBC announces new David Attenborough program on plants. . . . .45
  •           Twenty six new bee species from study. . . . .45
  •           Women in botany: the trials and tribulations of two Lucys. . . . .45
  •           Myrtle rust alarm raised. . . . .45
  •           Joe Miller new Executive Secretary of GBIF. . . . .45
  •           What is the most widely traded illegal wild product in the world today?. . . . .46
  •           What should we call the dingo?. . . . .46
  •           One billion trees program causing problems in NZ. . . . .46
  •           Climate change effects on terrestrial Australian flora and fauna. . . . .46
  •           Australia's Environment 2018. . . . .47
  •           ANU Climate Update 2019. . . . .47
  •           Botanic Gardens Climate Change Summit. . . . .47
  • Points of view
  •      Promoting efficiency for the grant proposal system. . . . .47
  •      The act of drawing can teach more about botanical morphology than writing. . . . .47
  •      Challenges for botanic garden science. . . . .47
  • Botanical art
  •      Margaret Flockton Award. . . . .48
  • Obituaries. . . . .50
  •      Les Pedley. . . . .50
  •           Recollections of Les Pedley. . . . .51
  •           Remembering Les Pedley. . . . .52
  •      Vale Professor Robert James Johns, 1944–2019. . . . .53
  • Deaths
  •      John Dawson, 1928–2019. . . . .54
  •           Notice. Marlies Eichler Postdoctoral Fellowship. . . . .54
  •      David Moore. . . . .55
  • Items of interest
  •      At last some sense – quality not quantity for scientific papers. . . . .55
  •      European examples of herbarium images with transcribed specimen and label data. . . . .55
  •      Weed dating, not speed dating, another way of meeting that "significant other". . . . .55
  •      Buffel grass and fire in inland Australia. . . . .55
  •      Rare plants conserved by cultivation. . . . .55
  •      Oranges (and apples) from America. . . . .56
  •      Before you design your poster have a look at these approaches. . . . .56
  •      Floral morphology meets developmental genetics. . . . .56
  •      Land plant evolution. . . . .57
  •      Origins of alternation of generations in land plants. . . . .57
  •      Worldwide decline of insects – a review. . . . .57
  •      Bees in suburbia and neonicotinoid levels. . . . .57
  •      Collectors, economics and biodiversity in Fiji and Australia. . . . .57
  •      Wipeout. . . . .57
  •      Plant peculiarities. . . . .58
  • Member profile
  •      Lars Nauheimer, by himself. . . . .58
  • Websites of interest
  •      The Conversation – New Zealand version launched. . . . .59
  •      Consortium of European Taxonomic Facilities (CETAF). . . . .60
  •      Eucalypt Australia. . . . .60
  •      Yale Environment 360. . . . .60
  •      Fauna & Flora International. . . . .60
  • Book reviews
  •      The go-to reference for south-east Australian rainforest plants. . . . .61
  •      A compendium all botanical libraries must have. . . . .62
  • New books. . . . .64
  • Chapter conveners. . . . .67
  • Contacting major Australasian herbaria and systematics institutions. . . . .67
  • About the Society and becoming a member. . . . .68
  • ASBS publications. . . . .68
  • About the Newsletter: contributions, advertisements and the Editors. . . . .69

 

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