Medal "for service to Australian society and science in the biogeography and ecology of Australian plants" 2002: Elected Fellow of the Australian Academy of Science (FAA) 2005: Royal Society of Victoria 2005 Research Medal (biological sciences, nonhuman); Award for Excellence in Australian Publishing, Single Title Category 2009: Officer of the Order of Australia (AO), "for service to the advancement of botanical science and research in the field of taxonomy and plant systematics, and to the conservation of Australian flora and fauna" 2011: Nancy T. Burbidge Medal, Australasian Systematic Botany Society (This award is presented annually for outstanding contribution to taxonomic and systematic botanical work in Australia.) Publications (selected) Educational texts Biology: an Australian focus / Pauline Ladiges, University of Melbourne, Barbara Evans, University of British Columbia, Robert Saint, University of Melbourne and Bruce Knox. 4th ed. North Ryde, N.S.W.: McGraw-Hill, 2010 Evans, B. K., Ladiges, P., McKenzie, J., & Sanders, Y. (2005). Heinemann Biology 1. Port Melbourne: Pearson. Biology two: survival mechanisms, continuity and change / Barbara K. Evans, Pauline Y. Ladiges, John A. McKenzie. Barbara K. Evans. 2nd ed. Reprinted with corrections. Port Melbourne: Heinemann Educational Australia, 1995 See also Thiele and Ladiges' taxonomic arrangement of Banksia References 20th-century Australian botanists Australian ecologists Women ecologists Plant ecologists Fellows of the Australian Academy of Science University of Melbourne alumni University of Melbourne faculty University of Melbourne women Officers of the Order of Australia 20th-century Australian women scientists Living people 1948 births 21st-century Australian botanists