Research Group

The Floristic Diversity Research Group (FDRG) conducts Biodiversity Research at the OAC Herbarium. We explore variation in plant diversity from genes to species bridging taxonomy, systematics, ecology and evolution in order to describe biodiversity patterns in the natural world, and to test hypotheses about possible processes and mechanisms responsible for those patterns. This might apply to plants on a landscape or the characteristics used to classify plants including DNA sequence or even Traditional Aboriginal knowledge.