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 185759 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, 19442019. . . . .53
- Deaths
- John Dawson, 19282019. . . . .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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