Laura Skates
Laura Skates is a botanist and science communicator from Western Australia. Her research focuses on the unusual nutritional ecology of carnivorous plants in their natural habitats, and her passions include conservation, botanical art, floral fashion, and literally anything else plant-related. You can find her on Twitter and Instagram @floraskates
State of the World’s Plants and Fungi: Does conservation policy help or hinder scientific research?
Where do halophytes grow? Influence of elevation, flooding, and salinity in a non-tidal saltmarsh
Tricky flowers: how floral variation in a food-deceptive orchid is maintained over generations
How a conifer spread between isolated mountain-tops: the demographic history of Podocarpus latifolius/milanjianus
Dying to grow: Programmed Cell Death key to an epiphytic orchid’s root development
