Invertebrates Australia
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Megan Head Senior Lecturer at the Australian National University ___________ Programs Manager at Invertebrates Australia
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Acton, Australian Capital Territory, Australia
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Isabel Hyman ---
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Erinn Fagan-Jeffries ABRS Postdoctoral Fellow at The University of Adelaide & Honorary Researcher SA Museum-
Adelaide, South Australia, Australia
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Junn Kitt Foon Research Associate at Australian Museum | Research Assistant at Invertebrates Australia-
Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
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Jane Ogilvie Project Officer at Invertebrates Australia-
Launceston, Tasmania, Australia
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Overview
Invertebrates include the vast majority of animal diversity - from bees, beetles and spiders to jellyfish, coral and giant squid - and are of almost unquantifiable ecological and economic importance. Many of them do our hard work, e.g. pollinating, decomposing, nutrient cycling, reef-building, and others undo our hard work, e.g. locust plagues and invasive species, but irrespective, they receive a small fraction of government and industry resourcing and media attention relative to vertebrates. Invertebrates Australia was founded in September 2021 by three scientists who identified a critical mismatch between the way invertebrates are seen, as one large group of cryptic creepy crawlies, and the way they truly are, hundreds of mega-diverse groups. This mismatch has far-reaching consequences and contributes to the lack of data and knowledge so by creating a group that can represent all invertebrates we hope to make a big positive impact on ecological and economic outcomes in biodiversity management.
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