Professor Dr. Rachel Standish

Biography

Rachel Standish is an Adjunct Associate Professor at the University of Western Australia. She completed her Bachelor of Science with Honours in Zoology at the University of Western Australia in 1991. After working as a research assistant at the University of Wollongong, she moved to New Zealand in 1996 to begin her PhD, focusing on the effects of invasive weeds on community and ecosystem processes in lowland forest remnants. She returned to Perth in 2004 and joined Professor Richard Hobbs' research group at Murdoch University, where she worked with Viki Cramer to determine ecological barriers to old-field recovery in southwestern Australia. Standish became a UWA Research Fellow in 2009 and has received several grants for her work, including the Bjarne K Dahl Trust Grant and the Alcoa Australia Grant. Her teaching includes co-supervision of multiple PhD and MSc students. Her research interests encompass plant ecology, restoration ecology, old-field restoration, and plant–soil interactions, with a commitment to developing practical restoration outcomes in a rapidly changing environment.

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