Meet The Team

Core Team

Our core AusTraits team maintains, expands, and enhances AusTraits, supported by an advisory board and a wider community of AusTraits champions.

Assoc. Prof. Daniel Falster

Joint Project Lead

Assoc. Prof. Rachael Gallagher

Joint Project Lead

Dr. Hervé Sauquet

Joint Project Lead

Dr. Elizabeth Wenk

Project Manager

Dr. David Coleman

Project Officer

Pushkal Garg

Data Portal Developer

Julia Martin

ARDC Program Manager

Advisory Board

Our advisory board guides the strategic direction of AusTraits, bringing expertise from herbaria, botanic gardens, universities, and government.

Prof. Darren Crayn

James Cook University

Anne Fuchs

Dept. of Climate Change, Energy, the Environment and Water

Dr. Carl Gosper

Dept. of Biodiversity, Conservation and Attractions (WA)

Dr. Lydia Guja

Australian National Botanic Gardens

Prof. Greg Jordan

University of Tasmania

Prof. Michael Kearney

University of Melbourne

Dr. Hannah McPherson

Royal Botanic Garden Sydney

Prof. Adrienne Nicotra

Australian National University

Dr. Cathy Offord

Australian Botanic Garden, Mount Annan

Dr. Mark Ooi

UNSW Sydney

Dr. Libby Rumpff

Dept. of Climate Change, Energy, the Environment and Water

Prof. Peter Vesk

University of Melbourne

Prof. Ian Wright

Western Sydney University

Data Contributors

The creation of the AusTraits database was only possible because of the researchers who contributed data to this endeavour. We gratefully acknowledge everyone listed below, drawn from the AusTraits Zenodo record.

338 researchers have contributed data to AusTraits.

Mark A Adams
Collin W. Ahrens
Matthew Alfonzetti
Stuart Allen
Sophia Amini
Sam Andrew
Tara Angevin
Deborah M.G. Apgaua
Stefan Arndt
Julian Ash
Owen K. Atkin
Joe Atkinson
Tony Auld
Andrew Baker
Maria von Balthazar
Russell Barrett
Caitlan Baxter
Anthony Bean
Chris J. Blackman
Keith Bloomfield
Matthias M. Boer
Tara Boreham
David M. J. S. Bowman
Ross Bradstock
Jason Bragg
Willi A. Brand
Amber Briggs
John Brock
Timothy J. Brodribb
Genevieve Buckton
Geoff Burrows
Don Butler
Elizabeth Caldwell
James Camac
Raymond Carpenter
Jane A. Catford
Gregory R. Cawthray
Lucas A. Cernusak
Gregory Chandler
Alex R. Chapman
David Cheal
Alexander W. Cheesman
Si-Chong Chen
Robert Chinnock
Brendan Choat
Peter Clarke
Derek Clayton
Steven Clemants
Harold Trevor Clifford
Brook Clinton
Peta L. Clode
Michelle Cochrane
David Coleman
Helen Coleman
Bronwyn Collins
Alessandro Conti
Wendy Cooper
William Cooper
William K. Cornwell
Meredith Cosgrove
Ian Cowie
Lyn Craven
Michael Crisp
Erika Cross
Kristine Y. Crous
Saul Cunningham
Timothy Curran
Ellen Curtis
Ian Davidson
Matthew I. Daws
Miguel de Salas
Félix de Tombeur
Jane L. DeGabriel
Matthew D. Denton
Ning Dong
Pengzhen Du
Honglang Duan
Lily Dun
David H. Duncan
Richard P. Duncan
Marco Duretto
John M. Dwyer
Derek Eamus
Cheryl Edwards
Judy Egan
Manuel Esperon-Rodriguez
John R. Evans
Susan E. Everingham
Chris Fahey
Daniel Falster
Claire Farrell
Jennifer Firn
Carlos Roberto Fonseca
Paul Irwin Forster
John Foster
Ben J. French
Tony French
Allison Frith
Doug Frood
Anne Fuchs
Jennifer L. Funk
Rachael Gallagher
Ronald Gardiner
Sonya R. Geange
Oula Ghannoum
Malcolm Gill
Sean M. Gleason
Ethel Goble-Garratt
Carl R. Gosper
Emma Gray
Philip K. Groom
Saskia Grootemaat
Caroline Gross
Peter Grubb
Greg Guerin
Caio Guilherme Pereira
Chris Guinane
Lydia Guja
Amy K. Hahs
TJ Hall
Monique Hallet
Matthew Tom Harrison
Tammy Haslehurst
Foteini Hassiotou
Patrick E. Hayes
Martin Henery
John Herbohn
Dieter Hochuli
Peter Hocking
Jocelyn Howell
Jing Hu
Guomin Huang
Kate Hughes
Lesley Hughes
John Huisman
Jugoslav Ilic
Dony Indiarto
Muhammad Islam
Ashika Jagdish
Daniel Jin
Gregory Jordan
Enrique Jurado
John Kanowski
Fonti Kar
Sabine Kasel
Ian Kealley
Greg Keighery
Jürgen Kellermann
Belinda Kenny
James Kirkpatrick
Niels Klazenga
Kirsten Knox
Michele Kohout
Robert M. Kooyman
Martyna M. Kotowska
Luka Kovac
Kaely Kreger
John Kuo
Hao Ran Lai
Etienne Laliberté
Hans Lambers
Martin Lambert
Byron B. Lamont
Dana Lanceman
Robert Lanfear
Daniel C. Laughlin
Bree-Anne Laugier-Kitchener
Susan Laurance
Michael Lawes
Claire Laws
James Lawson
Emma Laxton
Caroline E. R. Lehmann
Andrea Leigh
Michelle R. Leishman
Tanja Lenz
Brendan Lepschi
James D. Lewis
Felix Lim
Liz Lindsay
Udayangani Liu
Daniel Montoya Londono
Andrea López Martinez
Janice Lord
Pat Lu-Irving
Christiane Ludwig
Ian Lunt
Christopher H. Lusk
Cate Macinnis-Ng
Mary Maconochie
Susana Magallón
Anthony Manea
Karen Marais
Bruce Maslin
Riah Mason
Margaret Mayfield
Richard Mazanec
Jacob McC Overton
James K. McCarthy
Elissa McFarlane
Hannah McPherson
Trevor Meers
Andre Messina
Daniel Metcalfe
Per Milberg
Karel Mokany
Angela T. Moles
Anna Monro
Ben D. Moore
Nicholas Moore
Huw Morgan
John W. Morgan
William Morris
Annette Muir
Samantha Munroe
Peter Myerscough
Des Nelson
Dominic Neyland
Áine Nicholson
Dean Nicolle
Adrienne B. Nicotra
Ülo Niinemets
Rachael Nolan
Tom North
Andrew O’Reilly-Nugent
Odhran S. O’Sullivan
Brad Oberle
Daniel Ohlsen
Mike Olsen
Yusuke Onoda
Mark K. J. Ooi
Corinna Orscheg
Colin P. Osborne
Grazyna Paczkowska
Paula Peeters
Burak Pekin
George Perry
Aaron Phillips
Catherine Pickering
Melinda Pickup
Loren Pollitt
Laura J. Pollock
Rob Polmear
Pieter Poot
Hugh Possingham
Jeff R. Powell
Sally A. Power
Iain Colin Prentice
Aina Price
Lynda Prior
Suzanne M. Prober
Thomas Pyne
Jennifer Read
Victoria Reynolds
Barbara Rice
Anna E. Richards
Ben Richardson
Jessica L. Rigg
Bryan Roberts
Alistair Robinson
Michael L. Roderick
Julieta A. Rosell
Maurizio Rossetto
Barbara Rye
Paul D. Rymer
Anna Salomaa
Michael A. Sams
Gordon Sanson
Hervé Sauquet
Susanne Schmidt
Jürg Schöenenberger
Ernst-Detlef Schulze
Inge Schulze
Waltraud Schulze
Andrew John Scott
Kerrie Sendall
Alison Shapcott
Veronica Shaw
Luke Shoo
Steve Sinclair
Anne Sjostrom
Benjamin Smith
Renee Smith
Santiago Soliveres
Karen Sommerville
Fiona Soper
Ben Sparrow
Amanda Spooner
Val Stajsic
Rachel J. Standish
Timothy L. Staples
Ruby Stephens
George Stewart
Jan Suda
Christopher Szota
Catherine Tait
Guy Taseski
Elizabeth Tasker
Daniel Taylor
Freya Thomas
Ian Thompson
David T. Tissue
Mark G. Tjoelker
David Yue Phin Tng
Hellmut R. Toelken
Kyle Tomlinson
Malcolm Trudgen
Neil C. Turner
Marlien van der Merwe
Frank van Langevelde
Erik J. Veneklaas
Susanna Venn
Peter Vesk
Carolyn Vlasveld
Maria S. Vorontsova
Charles A. Warren
Nigel Warwick
Lasantha K. Weerasinghe
Jessie Wells
Neville Welsh
Elizabeth Wenk
W. E. Westman
Mark Westoby
Matthew White
Erica Williams
Nicholas S. G. Williams
R. J. Williams
Kathryn Willis
Jarrah Wills
J. Barstow Wilson
Peter G. Wilson
Ian J. Wright
Sophie Yang
Colin Yates
Jian Yen
Amy E. Zanne
Graham Zemunik
Kasia Ziemińska

AusTraits Champions

Over the years, many people have championed AusTraits — contributing data, expertise, and advocacy in a variety of roles. We gratefully acknowledge our current and past champions.

Dr. Sam Andrew
Dr. Russell Barrett
Dr. Elisa Bayraktarov
Dr. Mike Bayly
Luc Betbeder-Matibet
Dr. Bek Christensen
Assoc. Prof. Will Cornwell
Lily Dun
Dr. Claire Farrell
Christopher Franks
Prof. Caroline Gross
Dr. Cécile Gueidan
Prof. Greg Guerin
Hamish Holewa
Kerry Levett
Dr. Hannah Lloyd
Dr. Brian Maitner
Dr. James McCarthy
Prof. Belinda Medlyn
Dr. Renske Onstein
Jon Smilie
Assoc. Prof. Ben Sparrow
Assoc. Prof. Rachael Standish
Dr. Kevin Thiele
Dr. Gary Truong
Dr. Haylee Weaver
Anthony Whalen
Dr. Matt White
Sophie Yang

Past Partners & Supporters

AusTraits grew through the support of many organisations over the years. We gratefully acknowledge our past partners and supporters.