Genevieve Gates

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Genevieve Maria Gates [1]
Born1952 [2]
NationalityAustralian
Alma mater University of Tasmania
Scientific career
Fields Mycology, Taxonomy
Thesis Coarse woody debris, macrofungal assemblages, and sustainable forest management in a Eucalyptus obliqua forest of southern Tasmania.  (2009)
Author abbrev. (botany) G.M.Gates

Genevieve M. Gates is an Australian mycologist, ecologist, and taxonomist who is particularly focused on the fungal diversity of Tasmania.

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Work and encouragement of citizen science

Gates started to publish articles on the macrofungi of Tasmania in 2002 with her long-time collaborator David Ratkowsky, [3] and finished her PhD in 2009. [1] In 2014 Gates and Ratkowsky then went on to publish A Field Guide to Tasmanian Fungi, which at the time was the only in-print work on fungi of the island, [4] and was also a co-author in the laminated field booklet FungiFlip: A pictorial guide to Tasmanian fungi. [2]

She is an honorary associate at the University of Tasmania, and volunteers at the Herbarium of the Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery. [5] [6] Gates is also called upon to provide advice to medical professionals, when a patient is suspected of ingesting poisonous fungi. [4]

In her efforts to encourage greater public interest in fungi, Gates established and was involved in the management of multiple special interest Facebook groups. These included creating the Tasmanian Fungi Facebook page in 2014, and the Field Naturalists of Tasmania Facebook page in 2015. [2] Gates also regularly leads excursions to look for fungi, aimed at interested amateurs, and gives lectures and talks. [4]

Botanical legacy

Gates has named over 70 species of fungi, [2] including:

She also collected the type specimen of Thaxterogaster austrovaginatus . [10] The standard author abbreviation G.M.Gates is used to indicate this person as the author when citing a botanical name . [11]

The specimens collected by Gates in Tasmania are held in herbarium collections around the world.This includes over 2,000 specimens held by the Tasmanian Herbarium, [12] over 4,000 specimens held by the National Herbarium of Victoria, Royal Botanic Gardens Victoria. [13] Outside of Australia, a smaller number are held by the Tartu University Herbarium, and elsewhere. [14]

Honours, and awards

The species Lactarius genevieveae D. Stubbe & Verbeken (now Lactifluus genevieveae), and Allotrechispora gatesiae L.W. Zhou, S.L. Liu & T.W. May were named in her honour. [2] [15]

After joining the Tasmanian Field Naturalists Club in the 1990s, [2] and in recognition of many years of continuous service to the organisation, Gates was subsequently awarded a lifetime membership to the club in March 2021. [16] Gates was also awarded the Australian Natural History Medallion by the Field Naturalists Club of Victoria in 2022. [17] In 2023, she was inducted into the Tasmanian Honour Roll of Women for service to education and training, the environment, and science and research. [2]

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References

  1. 1 2 Gates, Genevieve M. (2009). Coarse woody debris, macrofungal assemblages, and sustainable forest management in a Eucalyptus obliqua forest of southern Tasmania (PhD thesis). University of Tasmania.
  2. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 "Dr Genevieve Gates". Tasmanian Honour Roll of Women. State Government of Tasmania. Retrieved 12 January 2024.
  3. ↑ Ratkowsky, D.A.; Gates, G.M. (2002). "A preliminary census of the macrofungi of Mount Wellington, Tasmania- the Agaricales". Papers and Proceedings of the Royal Society of Tasmania. 136: 89–100. doi:10.26749/rstpp.136.89 . Retrieved 12 January 2024.
  4. 1 2 3 Campbell, Maxwell (2022). "Natural History Medallion: Dr Genevieve Gates". The Victorian Naturalist. 140 (2): 55–57.
  5. ↑ "Doctor Genevieve Gates". Discover our expertise. University of Tasmania. Retrieved 12 January 2024.
  6. ↑ "Collection at the Tasmanian Herbarium". Tasmanian Herbarium. Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery. Retrieved 12 January 2024.
  7. 1 2 Gates, Genevieve M.; Noordeloos, Machiel (2007). "Preliminary studies in the genus Entoloma in Tasmania -I". Persoonia. 19 (2): 157–226. Retrieved 12 January 2024.
  8. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 Noordeloos, Machiel; Gates, Genevieve M. (2009). "Preliminary studies in the genus Entoloma in Tasmania -II" (PDF). Cryptogamie, Mycologie. 30 (2): 107–140. Retrieved 12 January 2024.
  9. ↑ Gates GM, Horton BM, Noordeloos ME (2009). "A new Entoloma (Basidiomycetes, Agaricales) from Tasmania" (PDF). Mycotaxon. 107: 175–9. doi:10.5248/107.175. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2010-02-15.
  10. ↑ Gasparini, B. (2007-03-01). "Genus Cortinarius, subgenus Phlegmacium in Tasmania". New Zealand Journal of Botany. 45 (1): 155–236. Bibcode:2007NZJB...45..155G. doi: 10.1080/00288250709509711 . ISSN   0028-825X. S2CID   84810334.
  11. ↑ International Plant Names Index.  G.M.Gates.
  12. ↑ "Occurrence records". Australasian Virtual Herbarium. Atlas of Living Australia. Retrieved 12 January 2024.
  13. ↑ "Occurrence records". Australasian Virtual Herbarium. Atlas of Living Australia. Retrieved 12 January 2024.
  14. ↑ "Occurrence records". eElurikkus. University of Tartu Natural History Museum and Botanical Garden. Retrieved 12 January 2024.
  15. ↑ Liu, S.L.; He, S.H.; Wang, X.W.; May, T.W.; He, G.; Chen, S.L.; Zhou, L.W. (2022). "Trechisporales emended with a segregation of Sistotremastrales ord. nov. (Basidiomycota)" (PDF). Mycosphere. 13 (1): 862–954. doi:10.5943/mycosphere/13/1/11 . Retrieved 12 January 2024.
  16. ↑ "Secretary's Report presented at AGM 4th. March 2021". Tasmanian Field Naturalists Club Inc. Archived from the original on 16 June 2023. Retrieved 12 January 2024.
  17. ↑ "Genevieve Gates Awarded ANHC Medallion". Tasmanian Field Naturalists Club Inc. 6 December 2022. Archived from the original on 30 January 2023. Retrieved 12 January 2024.
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