Monica Gagliano, a pioneer in the new field of Plant Bioacoustics, is a Research Associate Professor in Evolutionary Ecology and a Research Affiliate at the Sydney Environment Institute at the University of Sydney. The author of numerous groundbreaking scientific articles on animal and plant behavior and evolutionary ecology, she co-edited The Green Thread: Dialogues with the Vegetal and authored the upcoming: Thus Spoke the Plant: Remarkable Encounters at the Frontier where Scientific Insight and Plant Wisdom Meet.