Rachael V Gallagher

Biographic Data

ID6375163
NAMERachael V Gallagher
GIVEN NAMESRachael V
FAMILY NAMEGallagher
SIGNATUREGALLAGHER R V
AFFILIATIONSWestern Sydney University
ORCID0000-0002-4680-8115
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS6
TOTAL CITATIONS0
WORKS AS AUTHOR6
WORKS AS EDITOR0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR2021
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2026
H-INDEX0

  • Open letter

    Open AccessDavid Bartholomew, Paul Smith et al.ARTICLEPLANTS, PEOPLE, PLANET2026

    Despite growing investment in restoration, weak accountability and poor biodiversity monitoring mean many projects fail to achieve ecological recovery. The Global Biodiversity Standard (TGBS) offers a practical way to ensure that restoration finance delivers measurable gains for nature. By providing independent, site-based verification and engaging local experts, TGBS builds trust, transparency and equity in restoration practice. Its adoption cou…

  • Response to Guerin et al. Comment on ’Mapping the climate risk to urban forests at city scale’

    Open AccessManuel Esperón‐Rodríguez, Rachael V Gallagher et al.ARTICLELandscape and Urban Planning2025

  • Global trends in urban forest irrigation

    Open AccessManuel Esperón‐Rodríguez, Rachael V Gallagher et al.ARTICLESustainable Cities and Society2025

    Urban forests are critical for climate adaptation and liveability, but effective irrigation management—key to their sustainability—remains poorly documented at the global scale. This study addresses this critical knowledge gap by analysing urban forest irrigation practices across 109 cities in 21 countries, offering one of the first global assessments of irrigation approaches, challenges, and opportunities. Using survey data, we examined water so…

  • Mapping the climate risk to urban forests at city scale

    Open AccessManuel Esperón‐Rodríguez, Rachael V Gallagher et al.ARTICLELandscape and Urban Planning2024

    Climate change represents a threat to the performance and persistence of urban forests and the multiple benefits they provide to city dwellers. Here, we use a novel approach to identify species and areas at high risk of climate change using the city of Melbourne, Australia, as a case study. We derive a safety margin, calculated based on climatic tolerance to two extreme climate variables (maximum temperature of the warmest month, MTWM; precipitat…

  • Restoring habitat for fire-impacted species’ across degraded Australian landscapes

    Open AccessMichelle Ward, Ayesha I T Tulloch et al.ARTICLEEnvironmental Research Letters2022

    In the summer of 2019–2020, southern Australia experienced the largest fires on record, detrimentally impacting the habitat of native species, many of which were already threatened by past and current anthropogenic land use. A large-scale restoration effort to improve degraded species habitat would provide fire-affected species with the chance to recover and persist in burnt and unburnt habitat. To facilitate this, decision-makers require informa…

  • A guide to using species trait data in conservation

    Open AccessRachael V Gallagher, Nathalie Butt et al.ARTICLEOne Earth2021