Biographical entry Ladiges, Pauline Yvonne (1948 - )

Summary

Pauline Yvonne Ladiges has been Professor and Head of the School of Botany at the University of Melbourne from 1992 - 2010. In 2013, she continues to be active in the School and is a Professorial Fellow.

Her research between 1974 and 1983 has been in the field of plant ecology. Since 1983 she has been researching phylogenetic systematics and historical biogeography.

Pauline Ladiges has published extensively, including her research in species of Eucalyptus. She is interested in systematic description of new species, the phylogeny and classification of eucalypts, acacias and other large genera, and the biogeography of the Australian flora.

Actively involved in organisations, she has been Deputy Chairman of the Board of the Royal Botanic Gardens of Victoria, past director of Yarra Valley Water Ltd and past member of the Advisory Committee of Australian Biological Resources Study (ABRS). In 2013, she is Deputy Chairman of the University of Melbourne School of Botany Foundation, a trustee of the Bjarne K. Dahl Trust, a member of the Hermon Slade Foundation scientific committee and a councillor of the Royal Society of Victoria.

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MSc, PhD, DipEd

Events

1971

Education - Diploma in Education, University of Melbourne

1972 -

Education - Master of Science (MSc), University of Melbourne

1975 - 1981

Career position - Lecturer, University of Melbourne

1976

Education - Ph. D., University of Melbourne

1983 - 1987

Career position - Associate Dean Students, University of Melbourne

1987 - 1991

Career position - Reader, University of Melbourne

1991 - 1992

Career position - Deputy Head of School of Botany, University of Melbourne

1992 - 2010

Career position - Professor and Head of School of Botany, University of Melbourne

1995 -

Career position - Co-editor of Biology, a textbook aimed at first year undergraduates

2001

Award - Centenary Medal for service to Australian society and science in the biogeography and ecology of Australian plants

2002

Award - Elected Fellow of the Australian Academy of Science (FAA)

2005

Award - Award for Excellence in Australian Publishing, Single Title Category

2005

Award - Royal Society of Victoria 2005 Research Medal (biological sciences, nonhuman)

2009

Award - Officer of the Order of Australia, for service to the advancement of botanical science and research in the field of taxonomy and plant systematics, and to the conservation of Australian flora and fauna

2011 - 2012

Career position - Council member of the Royal Society of Victoria

2013 - 2014

Career position - Vice-President of the Royal Society of Victoria

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Published resources

Encyclopedia of Australian Science Exhibitions

• McCarthy, Gavan; Morgan, Helen; Smith, Ailie; van den Bosch, Alan, Where are the Women in Australian Science?, Australian Science and Technology Heritage Centre, 2003, http://www.austehc.unimelb.edu.au/wisa/wisa.html. Details

Book Sections

• Ladiges, P. Y., Bayly, M. J., & Nelson, G. J., 'East-West Continental Vicariance in: Eucalyptus: Subgenus: Eucalyptus', in Sandra Knapp (ed.), Beyond Cladistics: the branching of a paradigm. Species and Systematics, University of California Press, Berkeley, 2010. Details

Conference Papers

• Ladiges, Pauline, 'Eucalypt taxonomy - from L'Héritier to DNA', in National Academies Forum - A celebration of the history, culture, science and technology of Recherche Bay, National Academies Forum, Tasmania, 27 February 2007. Details

Journal Articles

• Bayly, M. J., Udovicic, F., Gibbs, A. K., Parra-O, C., & Ladiges, P. Y., 'Ribosomal DNA pseudogenes are widespread in the eucalypt group (Myrtaceae): implications for phylogenetic analysis.', Cladistics, vol. 24, no. 2, 2008, pp. 131-146. Details
• Humphries, C. J., & Ladiges, P. Y., 'Relationships in the stringybarks, Eucalyptus L'Herit. informal subgenus Monocalyptus series Capitellatae and Olsenianae: phylogenetic hypotheses, biogeography and classification.', Australian Journal of Botany, vol. 34, no. 6, 1986, p. 603. Details
• Humphries, C. J., Ladiges, P. Y., & Brooker, M. I. H., 'Claudistic relationships and biogeographic patterns in the peppermint group of Eucalyptus (informal subseries Amygdalininae, subgenus Monocalyptus) and the description of a new species, E. willisii.', Australian Journal of Botany, vol. 31, no. 6, 1983, p. 565. Details
• Humphries, C. J., Ladiges, P. Y., & Brooker, M. I. H., 'Cladistic and biogeographic analysis of western Australian species of Eucalyptus L'Herit., informal subgenus Monocalyptus Pryor & Johnson.', Australian Journal of Botany, vol. 35, no. 3, 1987, p. 251. Details
• Kenrick, Josephine and Ladiges, Pauline Y., 'Robert Bruce Knox 1938-1997', Historical Records of Australian Science, vol. 14, no. 1, 2002, pp. 67-88. Also available at http://www.publish.csiro.au/paper/HR02004.htm. Details
• Ladiges, P., 'It's art, by gum.', Natural History, vol. 106, no. 9, 1997, p. 48. Details
• Ladiges, P. Y., & Ashton, D. H., 'A comparison of some populations of Eucalyptus viminalis Labill. growing on calcareous and acid soils in Victoria, Australia.', Australian Journal of Ecology, vol. 2, no. 2, 1977, pp. 161-178. Details
• Ladiges, P., Parra-O, C., Gibbs, A., Udovicic, F., Nelson, G., & Bayly, M., 'Historical biogeographical patterns in continental Australia: congruence among areas of endemism of two major clades of eucalypts.', Cladistics,, vol. 27, no. 1, 2011, pp. 29-41. Details
• Ladiges, P.Y.; Gray, A.M.; & Brooker, M.I.H., 'Pattern of Geographic Variation, Based on Seedling Morphology, in Eucalyptus Ovata Labill. And E. Brookerana A.m. Gray [Provenances From Victoria, Tasmania and King Island] and Comparisons With Some Other Eucalyptus Species.', Australian Journal of Botany, vol. 29, no. 5, 1981, pp. 593 - 603. Details
• Ladiges, Pauline; Udovicic, Frank and Nelson, Gareth, 'Australian biogeographical connections and the phylogeny of large genera in the plant family Myrtaceae', Journal of Biogeography, vol. 30, no. 7, 2003, pp. 989-998. Details
• Merchant, A., Ladiges, P. Y., & Adams, M. A., 'Quercitol links the physiology, taxonomy and evolution of 279 eucalypt species.', Global Ecology & Biogeography, vol. 16, no. 6, 2007, pp. 810-819. Details
• Parra, C. O., Bayly, M. J., Drinnan, A., Udovicic, F., & Ladiges, P., 'Corrigendum to: Phylogeny, major clades and infrageneric classification of Corymbia (Myrtaceae), based on nuclear ribosomal DNA and morphology.', Australian Systematic Botany, vol. 23, no. 2, 2010. Details
• Parra-O, C., Bayly, M., Udovicic, F., & Ladiges, P., 'ETS sequences support the monophyly of the eucalypt genus Corymbia (Myrtaceae).', Taxon, vol. 55, no. 3, 2006, pp. 653-663. Details

Online Resources

• Department of Sustainability, Environment, Water, Population and Communities, Australian Biological Resources Study (ABRS). Databases and online resources, ABRS, Australian Government, 2013, http://www.environment.gov.au/biodiversity/abrs/online-resources/index.html. Details
• 'Ladiges, Pauline Y', Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009, http://nla.gov.au/nla.party-616284. Details

See also

• Herd, Margaret (ed.), Who's Who in Australia 2002, 38 edn, Crown Content, Melbourne, 2001, 2020 pp. Details