Dr Matilda Brown
Kew Research Fellow, Ecosystem Stewardship
Department
Team
Conservation Assessment and Analysis
Specialism
Biodiversity, conservation, IUCN Red List, extinction risk, biodiversity indicators, palaeoecology, statistics, quantitative analyses.
Plants and fungi are underrepresented in biodiversity and conservation science, indicators, metrics and schemes. My research focuses on addressing this shortfall, using a range of approaches to leverage the wealth of data contained in collections, databases and literature (including conservation assessments) for conservation. If you are interested in a collaboration, an MSc or a PhD, please contact me.
- PhD Plant Science, University of Tasmania, 2022
- BSc(Hons) Plant Science, University of Tasmania, 2017
- BSc Botany & Palaeobiology, University of New England, 2016
- IUCN Red List Authority Coordinator, SSC Australia Plant Specialist Group 2025 - present
Brown, M. J., Bachman, S. P., & Nic Lughadha, E. (2023).
Three in four undescribed plant species are threatened with extinction.
New Phytologist, 240(4).
Brown, M. J., Walker, B. E., Black, N., Govaerts, R. H., Ondo, I., Turner, R., & Nic Lughadha, E. (2023).
rWCVP: a companion R package for the World Checklist of Vascular Plants.
New Phytologist, 240(4), 1355-1365.
Bachman, S. P., Brown, M. J., Leão, T. C., Nic Lughadha, E., & Walker, B. E. (2024).
Extinction risk predictions for the world's flowering plants to support their conservation.
New Phytologist, 242(2), 797-808.
Soto Gomez, M., Brown, M. J., Pironon, S., Bureš, P., Verde Arregoitia, L. D., Veselý, P., ... & Leitch, I. J. (2024).
Genome size is positively correlated with extinction risk in herbaceous angiosperms.
New Phytologist, 243(6), 2470-2485.