Science Gossip - Woodland Rumours & Thinking Trees (short)
Channel: The Royal Society of Victoria
Date: 2019-06-17

Recorded at the Royal Society of Victoria on 15 May, 2019.

Dr Monica Gagliano is an Evolutionary Ecologist based at the University of Sydney as a Research Affiliate at the Sydney Environment Institute and a Senior Research Fellow at the School of Life and Environmental Sciences, where she is opening the doors of the brand-new BI Lab – Biological Intelligence Lab. 

Monica is the author of the new book "Thus Spoke the Plant," as well as numerous scientific articles in the fields of animal and plant behavioural and evolutionary ecology. She is the co-editor of "The Green Thread: Dialogues with the Vegetal World" and "The Language of Plants: Science, Philosophy and Literature." Her work has extended the concept of cognition (including perception, learning processes, memory and consciousness) in plants. Dr Gagliano has pioneered the brand-new research field of plant bioacoustics, for the first time experimentally demonstrating that plants emit their own ‘voices’ and, moreover, detect and respond to the sounds of their environments. 

Monica's full presentation is available at https://youtu.be/MC5y6HcIqDY

A digest of other presentations and performances offered during the evening's Science Gossip event is available at https://youtu.be/q4XYk_HazFc 

Filmed and edited by Robert Cross, produced by the Royal Society of Victoria.