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Genevieve Gates

Genevieve Gates is a biology topic covered in the lgStudy science library. This page brings together a partial reference excerpt, illustrations, worked examples, real-world applications and a short study plan, so you can understand Genevieve Gates rather than just read about it. In short: Genevieve M. Gates is an Australian mycologist, ecologist, and taxonomist who is particularly focused on the fungal diversity of Tasmania.

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Reference excerpt

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

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, and finished her PhD in 2009. 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, and was also a co-author in the laminated field booklet FungiFlip: A pictorial guide to Tasmanian fungi. She is a coauthor of The Entolomataceae of Tasmania, a major study of the genus Entoloma in Tasmania. She is an honorary associate at the University of Tasmania, and volunteers at the Herbarium of the Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery. Gates is also called upon to provide advice to medical professionals, when a patient is suspected of ingesting poisonous fungi. 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. Gates also regularly leads excursions to look for fungi, aimed at interested amateurs, and gives lectures and talks.

Botanical legacy Gates has named over 70 species of fungi, including:

Entoloma albidocoeruleum G.M.Gates & Noordel. Entoloma asprellopsis G.M.Gates and Noordel. Entoloma austroprunicolor G.M.Gates & Noordel. Entoloma cystidiosum G.M.Gates and Noordel. Entoloma griseosquamulosum G.M.Gates and Noordel. Entoloma mathinnae G.M.Gates, B.M.Horton & Noordel. Entoloma melanophtalmum G.M.Gates and Noordel. Entoloma natalis-domini G.M.Gates and Noordel. Entoloma psilocyboides G.M.Gates and Noordel. Entoloma strigosum G.M.Gates and Noordel. Entoloma tenuicystidiatum G.M.Gates and Noordel. Entoloma totialbum G.M.Gates and Noordel. Entoloma transmutans G.M.Gates and Noordel. Entoloma violascens G.M.Gates and Noordel. She also collected the type specimen of Thaxterogaster austrovaginatus. The standard author abbreviation G.M.Gates is used to indicate this person as the author when citing a botanical name. 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, over 4,000 specimens held by the National Herbarium of Victoria, Royal Botanic Gardens Victoria. Outside of Australia, a smaller number are held by the Tartu University Herbarium, and elsewhere.

Honours, and awards Gates has the following species named after her:

Lactarius genevieveae D. Stubbe & Verbeken (now Lactifluus genevieveae) Allotrechispora gatesiae L.W. Zhou, S.L. Liu & T.W. May Fomitiporia gatesiae Y.C. Dai & F. Wu [as 'gatesii'] Entoloma gatesianum Karstedt & Capelari Hydnellum gatesiae J.K. Douch, L.J. Vaughan & T.W. May After joining the Tasmanian Field Naturalists Club in the 1990s, 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. Gates was also awarded the Australian Natural History Medallion by the Field Naturalists Club of Victoria in 2022. In 2023, she was inducted into the Tasmanian Honour Roll of Women for service to education and training, the environment, and science and research.

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Worked examples

Example 1 — a first encounter with Genevieve Gates

Start with the simplest possible case. Write down what Genevieve Gates claims or describes in one sentence, then invent the smallest concrete situation in which that sentence is true. In biology, the smallest case is usually a single object, a single equation or a single measurement. Check that every symbol or term in your sentence has a meaning in that case.

Example 2 — changing one variable

Take the situation from Example 1 and change exactly one quantity: double it, halve it, or set it to zero. Predict what should happen to Genevieve Gates before you calculate. Comparing your prediction with the result is the fastest way to find out whether you understand the idea or only the words.

Example 3 — an exam-style question

Typical questions about Genevieve Gates ask you to (a) state it precisely, (b) apply it to given data, and (c) explain a limitation. Practise writing all three answers in under five minutes; the third part is what separates a full-mark answer from an average one.

Applications of Genevieve Gates

In research: Genevieve Gates appears in biology research whenever the underlying quantities have to be modelled precisely. Papers usually cite it as a starting assumption and then explore where it breaks down.
In technology and industry: Engineering practice reuses Genevieve Gates in design rules, simulations and safety margins. Knowing the idea lets you read a specification sheet and understand why the numbers look the way they do.
In the classroom: Genevieve Gates is common in secondary-school and first-year university syllabi. It links to neighbouring topics 1952 births, 21st-century Australian botanists, Academic staff of the University of Tasmania, so understanding it makes those chapters shorter.
In everyday life: Look for Genevieve Gates outside the textbook — in sport, cooking, traffic, electronics or the sky above you. An example you found yourself is remembered far longer than one you were given.

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Frequently asked questions

What is Genevieve Gates in simple terms?

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

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