Addicott, Eda Patricia   (fl. 1990s - )

She was awarded a BSc from Sydney University in 1985.

She was awarded a PhD from James Cook University in 2019 for her thesis titled: "A new classification approach: improving the regional ecosystem classification system in Queensland, Australia".

Her herbarium collections start from September 1993.

She has worked for the Department of Environment and Science, Queensland, as Principal Botanist since December 1998.

Since December 1999 she has worked for the Queensland Herbarium.

She is based in Cairns and is part of the staff of the Australian Tropical Herbarium.

She works on the regional ecosystem mapping program and numerical classification of vegetation communities within the regional ecosystem framework.

She is Bioregional coordinator for the RE mapping of Cape York Peninsula, Einasleigh Uplands and Wet Tropics bioregion.

Her and her team's area of research is Regional Ecosystem mapping and classification for the Cape York Peninsula, Einasleigh Uplands, Wet Tropics and Brigalow Belt North bioregions of Queensland, Australia (an area ~40 million hectares).
This is part of a state-wide project by the Queensland Herbarium (Qld Department of Environment and Science) to map and describe Regional Ecosystems across the whole of Queensland at 1:100,000 scale.

Source: Extracted from:
https://www.linkedin.com/in/eda-addicott-46b69720/
https://researchonline.jcu.edu.au/64937/
https://www.jcu.edu.au/australian-tropical-herbarium/contact/staff-profiles/eda-addicott
Portrait Photo: https://www.tiec.org.au/copy-of-indigenous-working-group-1

Collecting localities for 'Addicott, E.P.' from AVH (2026)

Data from 1,654 specimens