Leilani A. Walker

University of Auckland — New Zealand

Agricultural and Biological Sciences · Life Sciences

11h-index417citations36works1.02yr avg
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Research Topics

Animal Behavior and Reproduction(8), Insect and Arachnid Ecology and Behavior(8), Spider Taxonomy and Behavior Studies(8), Plant and animal studies(5), Species Distribution and Climate Change(4)

Publications36 total

Revisiting Genetic Data Stewardship Practices in Aotearoa New Zealand: A Call to Action on Integrating Māori Data Sovereignty
Molecular Ecology Resources·2025Open Access
Decolonize scientific institutions, don’t just diversify them
Nature·2025· 5 cited
Ultrastructure of antennal sensilla of a prionine longhorn beetle, <i>Prionoplus reticularis</i> (White)
New Zealand Journal of Zoology·2025Open Access
Global Spider News Database (version 2)
Figshare·2025· 1 citedOpen Access
Needed But Not Alone: A navigation guide for Māori and Pacific postgraduates in STEM
MAI Journal A New Zealand Journal of Indigenous Scholarship·2025Open Access
Revisiting genetic data stewardship practices in Aotearoa New Zealand: A call to action on integrating Māori data sovereignty
2024Open Access
Doing leadership differently as resistance: Care‐fully reworking Aotearoa New Zealand's research system
New Zealand Geographer·2023· 5 citedOpen Access
Experiences of Indigenous (Māori/Pasifika) early career academics
Educational Philosophy and Theory·2023· 9 citedOpen Access
Collective action is needed to build a more just science system
Nature Human Behaviour·2023· 10 citedOpen Access
Using long-term experimental restoration of agroecosystems in Aotearoa New Zealand to improve implementation of Nature-based Solutions for climate change mitigation
Frontiers in Forests and Global Change·2023· 10 citedOpen Access
Initiating open access licensing in the New Zealand Journal of Ecology to further promote ecological science and better align copyright with the intent of Te Tiriti o Waitangi
New Zealand Journal of Ecology·2022Open Access
Static allometries do not reflect evolutionary allometry in exaggerated weaponry of male New Zealand sheetweb spiders ( <i>Cambridgea</i> spp.)
Journal of Evolutionary Biology·2022· 3 citedOpen Access
Racism, exclusion and tokenism: how Māori and Pacific science graduates are still marginalised at university
2022
Seen but unheard: navigating turbulent waters as Māori and Pacific postgraduate students in STEM
Journal of the Royal Society of New Zealand·2022· 26 citedOpen Access
The global spread of misinformation on spiders
Current Biology·2022· 24 citedOpen Access
Author response for "Static allometries do not reflect evolutionary allometry in exaggerated weaponry of male New Zealand sheetweb spiders ( &lt;i&gt;Cambridgea&lt;/i&gt; spp.)"
2022
An expert-curated global database of online newspaper articles on spiders and spider bites
Scientific Data·2022· 14 citedOpen Access
The global spread of (mis)information on spiders
Research Square (Research Square)·2022· 1 citedOpen Access
Framing the future for taxonomic monography: Improving recognition, support, and access
Bulletin of the Society of Systematic Biologists·2022· 11 citedOpen Access
The World Spider Trait database: a centralized global open repository for curated data on spider traits
Database·2021· 74 citedOpen Access
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Frequent Co-authors

Gregory I. Holwell(11), Tara McAllister(9), Christina J. Painting(8), Sereana Naepi(8), Jagoba Malumbres‐Olarte(6), Stefano Mammola(5), Elizabeth Lowe(5), Caroline Sayuri Fukushima(5), Marco Isaia(5), Julien Pétillon(5), Lenka Sentenská(5), Pedro Cardoso(5), Alireza Zamani(5), Valeria Arabesky(4), Diego Alejandro Barrales-Alcalá(4), Aimee Lynn A. Barrion-Dupo(4), Marco Antonio Benamú(4), Tharina L. Bird(4), Maria Chatzaki(4), Ren‐Chung Cheng(4)