Dr Jasmin Packer

Research Fellow

School of Biological Sciences

Faculty of Sciences, Engineering and Technology

Eligible to supervise Masters and PhD (as Co-Supervisor) - email supervisor to discuss availability.

Conservation Biologist. Innovator. Design Thinker.

Jasmin is passionate about protecting our threatened communities and species. Her research aims to design innovative solutions, linking world-leading science with on-ground management, to better protect South Australia’s threatened communities and species as they adapt to global change. She works with wildlife as well as flora and fungi. Jasmin is an independent Research Fellow in the Environment Institute, and long-term member of the Terrestrial Ecology Lab, who's known for her commitment to think global - act local.

Jasmin’s transdisciplinary research focuses on understanding how ecosystems respond to differing disturbance and other global changes - and what we can do to enhance their capacity to cope with the negative impacts. Her transdisciplinary approach bridges basic and applied research, and co-designs field surveys with industry partners to ensure their findings are put into action to make a difference for conservation. Jasmin uses design thinking to draw on her deep understanding of the needs of others, and brings together global (biogeography and invasion science) and local (community ecology, population ecology and citizen science) approaches, to build long term partnerships that have a real impact on improving biodiversity conservation.

Thanks to Jasmin’s passion for making a difference, you might find her climbing through blackberry to assess habitat complexity for endangered bandicoots – or squelching through swamps to discover which of Australia's reedbeds really are native...and how they're threatened by global change?

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Our University of Adelaide Bandi Bunch is passionate about discovering connections for mammal conservation. Our beloved, but endangered, southern brown bandicoot is our mascot.

Bandi Bunch builds on long-term conservation and research for threatened species, and evolved in 2019 to respond to requests for bandicoot conservation and research. We co-design projects with state government and other land manager partners to discover better ways to improve the conservation status of native mammals across Greater Adelaide and the Mount Lofty Ranges. All our projects start with understanding shared priorities, identifying management outcomes we need to achieve, and then targeting our ‘think global – act local’ research to achieve these.
Our Bandi Bunch team members, and their native mammal projects, include:

Natalie Brown – 2018+; Honours researcher; microbats of the Mount Lofty Ranges

Hayley Jose – 2019+; PhD researcher, small mammal communities and the ecological role of southern brown bandicoot (see Hayley’s summary below).

Jasmin Packer – 2006+; Wildlife Ecologist and Research Fellow, population structure and persistence of mammal communities in the Mount Lofty Ranges, particularly endangered southern brown bandicoot. Rakali and re-establishment potential of platypus along River Torrens and other Adelaide and mainland South Australian waterways. Citizen science for transformational change (attached).

Eilish Thomas - 2021+; PhD researcher; population ecology of rakali in Greater Adelaide and Mount Lofty Ranges. Insights into potential platypus habitat.

Wendy Warren – 2019+; iBandi Co-ordinator - citizen science for native mammal conservation.

Appointments

Date Position Institution name
2016 - 2019 Research Fellow The University of Adelaide
Education

Date Institution name Country Title
The University of Adelaide Australia PhD
Research Interests

Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Environmental Knowledge Animal Reproduction Applied Ethics Community Ecology Design Innovation Ecology Ecosystem Function Environmental Science and Management Invasive Species Ecology Landscape Ecology Mycology Wildlife and Habitat Management Zoology

Date	Position	Institution name
2016 - 2019	Research Fellow	The University of Adelaide

Date	Institution name	Country	Title
	The University of Adelaide	Australia	PhD

Journals

Year	Citation
2024	Meyerson, L. A., Cronin, J. T., Lučanová, M., Lambertini, C., Brix, H., Packer, J. G., . . . Pyšek, P. (2024). Some like it hot: small genomes may be more prevalent under climate extremes. Biological Invasions, 12 pages. DOI
2022	Maciunas, E. C., Watling, J. R., Facelli, J. M., & Packer, J. G. (2022). Seed traits and fate support probable primary dispersal of a native hemi-parasitic vine Cassytha pubescens (Lauraceae) by Isoodon obesulus, an endangered marsupial, in southern Australia. TRANSACTIONS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY OF SOUTH AUSTRALIA, 146(2), 249-261. DOI Scopus2 WoS1
2021	Packer, J. G., Ganf, G., Kueffer, C., Facelli, J. M., & Pyšek, P. (2021). Endemic macrophyte is more plastic than two cosmopolitan species in fluctuating water levels and nutrient-enriched conditions. Transactions of the Royal Society of South Australia, 145(1), 25-44. DOI
2020	Lewis, S., & Packer, J. G. (2020). Decadal changes in phragmites australis performance in lake eyre supergroup spring communities following stock exclusion. Proceedings of the Royal Society of Queensland, 126, 193-212. Scopus6
2020	Novoa, A., Richardson, D. M., Pysek, P., Meyerson, L. A., Bacher, S., Canavan, S., . . . Wilson, J. R. U. (2020). Invasion syndromes: a systematic approach for predicting biological invasions and facilitating effective management. Biological Invasions, 22(5), 1801-1820. DOI Scopus90 WoS83
2020	Blyth, C., Christmas, M. J., Bickerton, D. C., Faast, R., Packer, J. G., Lowe, A. J., & Breed, M. F. (2020). Increased genetic diversity via gene flow provides hope for Acacia whibleyana, an endangered wattle facing extinction. Diversity, 12(8), 1-18. DOI Scopus12 WoS10
2019	Canavan, S., Meyerson, L., Packer, J., Pyšek, P., Maurel, N., Lozano, V., . . . Wilson, J. (2019). Tall-statured grasses: a useful functional group for invasion science. Biological Invasions, 21(1), 37-58. DOI Scopus39 WoS34
2017	Packer, J., Meyerson, L., Richardson, D., Brundu, G., Allen, W., Bhattarai, G., . . . Pyšek, P. (2017). Global networks for invasion science: benefits, challenges and guidelines. Biological Invasions, 19(4), 1081-1096. DOI Scopus49 WoS41 Europe PMC5
2017	Packer, J., Meyerson, L., Skálová, H., Pyšek, P., & Kueffer, C. (2017). Biological flora of the British Isles: Phragmites australis. Journal of Ecology, 105(4), 1123-1162. DOI Scopus99 WoS77 Europe PMC6
2016	Packer, J., Delean, S., Kueffer, C., Prider, J., Abley, K., Facelli, J., & Carthew, S. (2016). Native faunal communities depend on habitat from non-native plants in novel but not in natural ecosystems. Biodiversity and Conservation, 25(3), 503-523. DOI Scopus22 WoS21 Europe PMC3
2016	Li, Y., Cooper, S., Lancaster, M., Packer, J., & Carthew, S. (2016). Comparative population genetic structure of the endangered southern brown bandicoot, Isoodon obesulus, in fragmented landscapes of Southern Australia. PLoS ONE, 11(4), 0152850-1-0152850-20. DOI Scopus8 WoS7
2014	Li, Y., Lancaster, M., Carthew, S., Packer, J., & Cooper, S. (2014). Delineation of conservation units in an endangered marsupial, the southern brown bandicoot (Isoodon obesulus obesulus), in South Australia/western Victoria, Australia. Australian Journal of Zoology, 62(5), 345-359. DOI Scopus7 WoS7
2013	Li, Y., Lancaster, M., Cooper, S., Packer, J., & Carthew, S. (2013). Characterization of nine microsatellite loci from the endangered southern brown bandicoot (Isoodon obesulus) using 454 pyrosequencing. Conservation Genetics Resources, 5(1), 105-107. DOI Scopus5 WoS5
2002	Packer, J., Spence, R., & Beare, E. (2002). Building community partnerships: An Australian case study of sustainable community-based rural programmes. Community Development Journal, 37(4), 316-326. DOI Scopus13

Book Chapters

Year	Citation
2022	Berris, K., Ruykys, L., Goldingay, R., Morrant, D., Packer, J. G., Descovich, K., . . . Taggart, D. A. (2022). Wombats, bandicoots, bilbies, possums and gliders. In B. Smith, H. Waudby, C. Alberthsen, & J. Hampton (Eds.), Wildlife Research in Australia: Practical and Applied Methods (1st ed.). CSIRO.
2022	Meyerson, L., Pauchard, A., Brundu, G., Carlton, J. T., Hierro, J. L., Kueffer, C., . . . Packer, J. (2022). Moving Toward Global Strategies for Managing Invasive Alien Species. In D. R. Clements, M. J. Upadhyaya, S. Joshi, & A. Shrestha (Eds.), Global Plant Invasions (pp. 331-360). Switzerland: Springer. DOI Scopus7
2006	Beer, A., Delfabbro, P., Natalier, K., Oakley, S., Packer, J., & Verity, F. (2006). Homelessness amongst young people in rural regions in Australia. In P. Milbourne, & P. Cloke (Eds.), International Perspectives on Rural Homelessness (pp. 231-246). 2 Park Square, Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxon OX14 4RN: Routledge. DOI

Current Higher Degree by Research Supervision (University of Adelaide)

Date	Role	Research Topic	Program	Degree Type	Student Load	Student Name
2020	Co-Supervisor	Optimising fire and herbivore management for biodiversity conservation in temperate woodlands	Doctor of Philosophy	Doctorate	Part Time	Ms Johanna Grace Kuhne

Committee Memberships

Date	Role	Committee	Institution	Country
2019 - ongoing	Member	Management Committee	Australian Citizen Science Association - SA	Australia
2018 - ongoing	Vice-President	National Committee	Fungimap Inc.	Australia
2018 - ongoing	Member	Management Committee	Adelaide Hills Science Hub	Australia

Position: Research Fellow
Phone: 83135576
Email: j.packer@adelaide.edu.au
Fax: 83136222
Campus: North Terrace
Building: Benham, floor 1
Org Unit: Ecology and Evolutionary Biology

Dr Jasmin Packer

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