Botanic Gardens Trust, Sydney, Australia

Department of Environment, Climate Change and Water NSW

Surrey Jacobs

Position

Principal Research Scientist

Branch

Science & Public Programs

Section

Herbarium

Phone

+ 61 2 9231 8135

Fax

+61 2 9251 7231

Research interests

Systematics of stipoid grasses; systematics of aquatic plants (especially Nymphaea, Vallisneria, Aponogeton); wetland ecology and condition assessment.

Keywords

Stipeae, Gramineae, Nymphaea, Vallisneria, Aponogeton, aquatic plants, wetland assessment

Current research projects

  • Studies in the Stipoid grasses. As part of the Stipoid Working Group, with Mirta Arriaga (Argentina, BA), Mary Barkworth (USA, UTC), Randall Bayer (CANB), Joy Everett (NSW), Alexandru Sabin-Badereau (Romania), Amelia Torres (c/o M. Arriaga, BA), and Francisco Vasquez (BADAJOZ, SPAIN),
  • Studies in Australian Nymphaea. With Barre Hellquist (USA, NASC), Thomas Borsch (Germany, Bonn).
  • Studies in Vallisneria. With Don Les (USA, CONN.
  • Studies in Aponogeton. With Barre Hellquist (USA, NASC) and Don Les (USA, CONN.
  • Wetland assessment. With Joanne Ling (NSW).

Key publications

  • Jacobs, S.W.L. (1971) Systematic position of the genera Triodia R.Br. and Plectrachne Henr. (Gramineae). Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 96 (3) 175-185.
  • Carolin, R.C., Jacobs, S.W.L. & Vesk, M. (1973) The structure of the cells of the mesophyll and parenchymatous bundle sheath of the Gramineae. Botanical Journal of the Linnean Society, London 66: 269-273.
  • Carolin, R.C., Jacobs, S.W.L. & Vesk, M. (1975) Leaf structure in the Chenopodiaceae. Botanische Jahrbucher Systematic 95: 226-255.
  • Carolin, R.C., Jacobs, S.W.L. & Vesk, M. (1977) The ultrastructure of Kranz Cells in the family Cyperaceae. Botanical Gazette 138: 413-419.
  • Carolin, R.C., Jacobs, S.W.L. & Vesk, M. (1978) Kranz cells and mesophyll in the Chenopodiales. 1978. Australian Journal of Botany 26: 683-698.
  • Chapman, E.A. & Jacobs, S.W.L. (1980) Photosynthetic responses of some arid zone plants. Studies in the Arid Zone 4: 41-53.
  • Jacobs, S.W.L. & Pickard, J. (1981) Plants in New South Wales. New South Wales Government Printer, Sydney. 227 pp.
  • Sainty, G.R. & Jacobs, S.W.L. (1982) Waterplants of New South Wales. Water Resources Commission, New South Wales. 550 pp.
  • Jacobs, S.W.L. & Brock, M.A. (1982) A revision of the genus Ruppia (Potamogetonaceae) in Australia. Aquatic Botany 14: 325-337.
  • Carolin, R.C., Jacobs, S.W.L. & Vesk, M. (1982) The chlorenchyma of some members of the Salicornieae. Australian Journal of Botany 30: 387-392.
  • Everett, J. & Jacobs, S.W.L. (1983) Studies in Australian Stipa (Poaceae). Telopea 2: 391-400.
  • Jacobs, S.W.L. (1983) A new combination and a new species of Australian Atriplex (Chenopodiaceae). Telopea 2: 453-454.
  • Pickard, J. & Jacobs, S.W.L. (1983) Vegetation patterns on the Sassafras Plateau. pp. 54-65 in R.W.Young and G.C. Nanson eds, `Aspects of Australian Sandstone Landscapes'. Australian and New Zealand Geomorphology Group.
  • Burbidge, N.T. & Jacobs, S.W.L. (1984) Australian Grasses. Angus and Robertson, Sydney. 283 pp.
  • Jacobs, S.W.L. & Lapinpuro, L. (1986) The Australian species of Amphibromus. Telopea 2: 715-729.
  • Jackson, D.L. & Jacobs, S.W.L. (1985) Australian Agricultural Botany. Sydney University Press. 377pp.
  • Vickery, J.W., Jacobs, S.W.L. & Everett, J. (1986) Taxonomic studies in Stipa (Poaceae) in Australia. Telopea 3: 1-132.
  • Jacobs, S.W.L. (1987) Systematics of the chloridoid grasses. pp. 277-286 in T.R. Soderstrom, K.W. Hilu, C.S. Campbell and M.E. Barkworth eds, `Grass systematics and evolution'. Smithsonian Institution Press, Washington D.C.
  • Jacobs, S.W.L., Everett, J., Connor, H.E. & Edgar, E. (1989) Stipoid grasses in New Zealand. New Zealand Journal of Botany 27: 569-582.
  • Simon, B.K. & Jacobs, S.W.L. (1990) Gondwanan grasses in the Australian flora. Austrobaileya 3: 239-260.
  • Jacobs, S.W.L. (1992) New species of Triodia and Plectrachne (Gramineae) from the Kimberley. Nuytsia 8(2): 219-223.
  • Connor, H.E. & Jacobs, S.W.L. (1991) Sex ratios in dioecious Australian grasses: preliminary assessment. Cunninghamia 2(3): 385-390.
  • Jacobs, S.W.L. (1992) New species, lectotypes and synonyms of Australasian Nymphaea (Nymphaeaceae). Telopea 4: 635-641.
  • Jacobs, S.W.L., McClay, K.L. & Simon, B.K. (1993) A review of Dichelachne (Gramineae) in Australia. Telopea 5: 325-328.
  • Jacobs, S.W.L. & Brock, M.A. (1993) Wetlands of Australia: southern (temperate) Australia, pp. 244-304 in: Whigham, D.F., Dykyjov, D. & Hejny, S. (eds) Wetlands of the world: inventory, ecology and management, vol. 1. Kluwer Academic Publishers, Dordrecht, 768 pp.
  • Jacobs, S.W.L., Perrett, F., Brock, M., Bowmer, K.H., McCorkelle, G., Rawling, J., Stricker, J. and Sainty, G.R. (1993) Ludwigia peruviana - description and biology, pp. 225-228 in Swarbrick, J.T., Henderson, C.W.L., Jettner, R.J., Streit, L. and Walker, S.R. (eds) Proceedings 10th Australian and 14th Asian-Pacific Weed Conference, vol. 1. The Weed Society of Queensland, Brisbane.
  • Jacobs, S.W.L. (1994) Further notes on Nymphaea in Australasia. Telopea 5 (4): 703-706.
  • Sainty, G.R. & Jacobs, S.W.L. (1994) Waterplants in Australia. Sainty and Associates, Sydney, 327 pp. (3rd edition).
  • Benson, J. & Jacobs, S.W.L. (1994) Plant communities of the Monaro lakes. Cunninghamia 3: (2) 651-676.
  • Jacobs, S.W.L., Perrett, F., Sainty, G.R., Bowmer, K.H. & Jacobs, B.J. (1995). Ludwigia peruviana (Onagraceae) in the Botany wetlands near Sydney, Australia. Australian Journal of Marine and Freshwater Research 45 (8) 1481-1490.
  • Jacobs, S.W.L., Everett, J., and Barkworth, M.E. (1995) Nassella in Australia, the placement of Stipa caudata and S. brachychaeta and clarification of morphological terms used in the Stipeae (Gramineae). Taxon 44: 33-41.
  • Bowmer, K.H., Jacobs, S.W.L., and Sainty, G.R. (1995) Identification, biology and management of Elodea canadensis, Hydrocharitaceae. Journal of Aquatic Plant Management 33: 13-19.
  • Jacobs, S.W.L. and Wilson, K.L. (1996) Biogeographical analysis of the freshwater plants of Australasia. Australian Systematic Botany 9: (2) 169-183.
  • Jacobs, S.W.L., Sainty, G.R., Adcock, P.W. & Hunter G.J. (1995). Establishment and spread of waterplant species in a constructed wetland at Blacktown, N.S.W., Australia. pp 193-202 in: Proceedings of National Conference on Wetlands for Water Quality Control, James Cook University, Townsville, Sept. 1995.
  • S.W.L. Jacobs & J. Everett. (1996) New names for Australasian species formerly included in Stipa. Telopea 6: 579-595.
  • Jacobs, S.W.L. & Frank, K.A. (1997) Notes on Vallisneria (Hydrocharitaceae) in Australia, with descriptions of two new species. Telopea 7 (2): 111-118
  • Jacobs, S.W.L. (1997) Astonia (Hydrocharitaceae), a new genus for Australia. Telopea 7 (2): 139-141.
  • Sainty, G.R. & Jacobs, S.W.L. (1997) Hawkesbury-Nepean saltmarsh assessment. Hawkesbury-Nepean Catchment Management Trust. 20 pp.
  • Sainty, G.R. & Jacobs, S.W.L. (1997) Hawkesbury-Nepean wetland assessment. Hawkesbury-Nepean Catchment Management Trust. 24 pp.
  • Jacobs, S.W.L., Lindsay, G., Sainty, G. & Skelton, N. (1997) Wetland and saltmarsh assessment: vegetation based protocols and database. pp 152-155 in S. Riley, W. Erskine, & S. Shrestha, Proceedings of the Conference on Science and Technology in the Environmental Management of the Hawkesbury-Nepean Catchment. Institution of Engineers Australia National Conference Publication NCP 97/01; Geographical Society of New South Wales Conference Papers No. 14.
  • Hsiao, C., Jacobs, S.W.L., Barker, N.P. & Chatterton, N.J. (1998) A molecular phylogeny of the subfamily Arundinoideae (Poaceae) based on sequences of rDNA (ITS). Australian Systematic Botany 11: 41-52.
  • Jacobs, S.W.L. & Everett, J. (1997) Jarava plumosa (Gramineae), a new combination for the species formerly known as Stipa papposa. Telopea 7: 301-302.
  • Hsiao, C., Jacobs, S.W.L., Chatterton, N.J. & Assay, K.H. (1999).  A molecular phylogeny of the grass family (Poaceae) based on the sequences of nuclear ribosomal DNA (ITS). Australian Systematic Botany 11: (4) 667-688.
  • Hellquist, C.B. & Jacobs, S.W.L. (1998) Aponogetonaceae of Australia with descriptions of six new taxa. Telopea 8: 7-19.
  • Simon, B.K. and Jacobs, S.W.L. (1999) Revision of the genus Sporobolus (Poaceae, Chloridoideae) in Australia. Australian Systematic Botany 12: 375-448.
  • Jacobs, S.W.L. (1999) Die gattung Vallisnéria L. (Hydrocharitaceae) in Australia (Teil 2) (Übersetzung Josef Bognor, München). Aqua-Planta 1999 (4): 151-156.
  • Jacobs, S.W.L. and Everett, J. (eds) (2000) Grasses, systematics and evolution. (CSIRO:Melbourne) 406 pp.
  • Jacobs, S.W.L., Everett, J., Barkworth, M.E. and Hsiao, C. (2000). Relationships within the stipoid grasses (Gramineae), pp 75-82 in, S.W.L. Jacobs and J. Everett (eds) ‘Grasses, systematics and evolution’ (CSIRO: Melbourne)
  • Sainty, G., Hosking, J., Abell, P., Jacobs, S., Dalby-Ball, M. (2000) Burnum Burnum’s Wildthings. (Sainty and Associates: Potts Point)
  • Jacobs, S.W.L. (2001) Review of leaf anatomy and ultrastructure in the Chenopodiaceae (Caryophyllales). Journal of the Torrey Botanical Society 128: 236-253.
  • Jacobs, S.W.L (2001) The genus Lachnagrostis (Gramineae) in Australia. Telopea 9: 439-448. (accepted)
  • Jacobs, S.W.L. (2001) Four new species of Agrostis (Gramineae) from Australia. Telopea 9: 679-683
  • Wheeler, D.J.B, Jacobs, S.W.L. & Whalley, R.D.B. (2002) Grasses of New South Wales. 3rd. edition (Botany Department, University of New England: Armidale)
  • Wang, S. and Jacobs, S.W.L. (2002) Elymus in Australia. pp. 135 – 140 in: Hernández, P., Moreno, M.T., Cubero, J.I and Martin, A. Proceedings of the 4th International Triticeae Symposium, September 10-12, 2001 – Córdoba, Spain (Junta de Andalucia. Conserjeria de Agricultura y Pesca: Cordoba)
  • Les, D.H., M.L. Moody, S.W.L. Jacobs and R.J. Bayer. (2002) Systematics of seagrasses (Zosteraceae) in Australia and New Zealand. Systematic Botany 27: 468 484.
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