By Professor Shawn Laffan

Journal articles

López-Aguirre C; Archer M; Hand SJ; Laffan SW; Lopez-Aguirre C, 2017, 'Extinction of South American sparassodontans (Metatheria): environmental fluctuations or complex ecological processes?', Palaeontology, 60, pp. 91 - 115, http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/pala.12272

Beaumont LJ; Graham E; Duursma DE; Wilson PD; Cabrelli A; Baumgartner JB; Hallgren W; Esperón-Rodríguez M; Nipperess DA; Warren DL; Laffan SW; VanDerWal J, 2016, 'Which species distribution models are more (or less) likely to project broad-scale, climate-induced shifts in species ranges?', Ecological Modelling, 342, pp. 135 - 146, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ecolmodel.2016.10.004

González-Orozco CE; Pollock LJ; Thornhill AH; Mishler BD; Knerr N; Laffan SW; Miller JT; Rosauer DF; Faith DP; Nipperess DA; Kujala H; Linke S; Butt N; Külheim C; Crisp MD; Gruber B, 2016, 'Phylogenetic approaches reveal biodiversity threats under climate change', Nature Climate Change, 6, pp. 1110 - 1114, http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/nclimate3126

Thornhill AH; Mishler BD; Knerr NJ; González-Orozco CE; Costion CM; Crayn DM; Laffan SW; Miller JT, 2016, 'Continental-scale spatial phylogenetics of Australian angiosperms provides insights into ecology, evolution and conservation', Journal of Biogeography, 43, pp. 2085 - 2098, http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/jbi.12797

Burley HM; Mokany K; Ferrier S; Laffan SW; Williams KJ; Harwood TD, 2016, 'Primary productivity is weakly related to floristic alpha and beta diversity across Australia', Global Ecology and Biogeography, 25, pp. 1294 - 1307, http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/geb.12487

Sheil D; Ladd B; Silva LCR; Laffan SW; Van Heist M, 2016, 'How are soil carbon and tropical biodiversity related?', Environmental Conservation, 43, pp. 231 - 241, http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/S0376892916000011

Stone OML; Herries AIR; Brink JS; Laffan SW, 2016, 'The chacma baboon (Papio ursinus) through time: a model of potential core habitat regions during a glacial–interglacial cycle', Evolutionary Ecology, 30, pp. 755 - 782, http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10682-016-9833-8

Laffan SW; Rosauer DF; Di Virgilio G; Miller JT; González-Orozco CE; Knerr N; Thornhill AH; Mishler BD, 2016, 'Range-weighted metrics of species and phylogenetic turnover can better resolve biogeographic transition zones', Methods in Ecology and Evolution, 7, pp. 580 - 588, http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/2041-210X.12513

Miller I; Forster BC; Laffan SW; Brander RW, 2016, 'Bidirectional reflectance of coral growth-forms', International Journal of Remote Sensing, 37, pp. 1553 - 1567, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/01431161.2016.1154220

Burley HM; Mokany K; Ferrier S; Laffan SW; Williams KJ; Harwood TD, 2016, 'Macroecological scale effects of biodiversity on ecosystem functions under environmental change', Ecology and Evolution, 6, pp. 2579 - 2593, http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/ece3.2036

Hallgren W; Beaumont L; Bowness A; Chambers L; Graham E; Holewa H; Laffan S; Mackey B; Nix H; Price J; Vanderwal J; Warren R; Weis G, 2016, 'The Biodiversity and Climate Change Virtual Laboratory: Where ecology meets big data', Environmental Modelling and Software, 76, pp. 182 - 186, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.envsoft.2015.10.025

Laffan SW; Skidmore AK; Franklin J, 2016, 'Space, time, connectivity and conflict in biological landscapes: the fourth special issue on spatial ecology', International Journal of Geographical Information Science, 30, pp. 1 - 4, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/13658816.2015.1090001

Laffan S; Thornhill A; Miller J; Knerr N; Gonzales-Orozco C; Mishler B, 2016, 'Understanding spatial patterns of biodiversity: How sensitive is phylogenetic endemism to the randomisation model?', International Conference on GIScience Short Paper Proceedings, 1, http://dx.doi.org/10.21433/b3110cq8c6dd

Rossetto M; Kooyman R; Yap JYS; Laffan SW, 2015, 'From ratites to rats: The size of fleshy fruits shapes species’ distributions and continental rainforest assembly', Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 282, http://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2015.1998

Dalrymple RL; Kemp DJ; Flores-Moreno H; Laffan SW; White TE; Hemmings FA; Tindall ML; Moles AT, 2015, 'Birds, butterflies and flowers in the tropics are not more colourful than those at higher latitudes', Global Ecology and Biogeography, 24, pp. 1424 - 1432, http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/geb.12368

Stone O; laffan S; Curnoe D; Herries A, 2015, 'Potential human impact on the environmental central niche of the chacma baboon', South African Journal of Science, 111, pp. 1 - 8, http://dx.doi.org/10.17159/sajs.2015/20140279

Laity T; Laffan SW; González-Orozco CE; Faith DP; Rosauer DF; Byrne M; Miller JT; Crayn D; Costion C; Moritz CC; Newport K, 2015, 'Phylodiversity to inform conservation policy: An Australian example', Science of the Total Environment, 534, pp. 131 - 143, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2015.04.113

González-Orozco CE; Mishler BD; Miller JT; Laffan SW; Knerr N; Unmack P; Georges A; Thornhill AH; Rosauer DF; Gruber B, 2015, 'Assessing biodiversity and endemism using phylogenetic methods across multiple taxonomic groups', Ecology and Evolution, 5, pp. 5177 - 5192, http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/ece3.1747

Stephenson RL; Power MJ; Laffan SW; Suthers IM, 2015, 'Tests of larval retention in a tidally energetic environment reveal the complexity of the spatial structure in herring populations', Fisheries Oceanography, 24, pp. 553 - 570, http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/fog.12129

Letnic MI; Laffan SW; Greenville AC; Russell BG; Mitchell B; Fleming PJS, 2015, 'Artificial watering points are focal points for activity by an invasive herbivore but not native herbivores in conservation reserves in arid Australia', Biodiversity and Conservation, 24, pp. 1 - 16, http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10531-014-0770-y

Nagalingum NS; Knerr N; Laffan S; González-Orozco CE; Thornhill AH; Miller J; Mishler BD, 2015, 'Continental scale patterns and predictors of fern richness and phylogenetic diversity', Frontiers in Genetics, 6, http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fgene.2015.00132

Ladd B; Peri PL; Pepper DA; Silva LCR; Sheil D; Bonser SP; Laffan SW; Amelung W; Ekblad A; Eliasson P; Bahamonde H; Duarte-Guardia S; Bird M, 2014, 'Carbon isotopic signatures of soil organic matter correlate with leaf area index across woody biomes', Journal of Ecology, 102, pp. 1606 - 1611, http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/1365-2745.12309

Mishler BD; Knerr N; González-Orozco CE; Thornhill AH; Laffan SW; Miller JT, 2014, 'Phylogenetic measures of biodiversity and neo-and paleo-endemism in Australian acacia', Nature Communications, 5, http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/ncomms5473

González-Orozco CE; Ebach MC; Laffan S; Thornhill AH; Knerr NJ; Schmidt-Lebuhn AN; Cargill CC; Clements M; Nagalingum NS; Mishler BD; Miller JT, 2014, 'Quantifying phytogeographical regions of Australia using geospatial turnover in species composition', PLoS ONE, 9, http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0092558

Peco B; Laffan SW; Moles AT, 2014, 'Global patterns in post-dispersal seed removal by invertebrates and vertebrates', PLoS ONE, 9, pp. e91256, http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0091256

Watts LM; Laffan SW, 2014, 'Effectiveness of the BFAST algorithm for detecting vegetation response patterns in a semi-arid region', Remote Sensing of Environment, 154, pp. 234 - 245, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.rse.2014.08.023

Kooyman RM; Wilf P; Barreda VD; Carpenter RJ; Jordan GJ; Kale Sniderman JM; Allen A; Brodribb TJ; Crayn D; Feild TS; Laffan SW; Lusk CH; Rossetto M; Weston PH, 2014, 'Paleo-Antarctic rainforest into the modern old world tropics: The rich past and threatened future of the "southern wet forest survivors"', American Journal of Botany, 101, pp. 2121 - 2135, http://dx.doi.org/10.3732/ajb.1400340

Di Virgilio G; Laffan SW; Ebach MC; Chapple DG, 2014, 'Spatial variation in the climatic predictors of species compositional turnover and endemism', Ecology and Evolution, 4, pp. 3264 - 3278, http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/ece3.1156

Laffan SW; Skidmore AK; Franklin J, 2014, 'Species distribution and diversity, habitat selection and connectivity: introduction to the Third Special Issue on Spatial Ecology', International Journal of Geographical Information Science, 28, pp. 1527 - 1530, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/13658816.2014.902950

Di Virgilio G; Laffan SW, 2014, 'Using maps of continuous variation in species compositional turnover to supplement uniform polygon species range maps', International Journal of Geographical Information Science, 28, pp. 1658 - 1673, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/13658816.2013.871725

Moles AT; Perkins SE; Laffan SW; Flores-Moreno H; Awasthy M; Tindall ML; Sack L; Pitman A; Kattge J; Aarssen LW; Anand M; Bahn M; Blonder B; Cavender-Bares J; Cornelissen JHC; Cornwell WK; Díaz S; Dickie JB; Freschet GT; Griffiths JG; Gutierrez AG; Hemmings FA; Hickler T; Hitchcock TD; Keighery M; Kleyer M; Kurokawa H; Leishman MR; Liu K; Niinemets Ü; Onipchenko V; Onoda Y; Penuelas J; Pillar VD; Reich PB; Shiodera S; Siefert A; Sosinski EE; Soudzilovskaia NA; Swaine EK; Swenson NG; van Bodegom PM; Warman L; Weiher E; Wright IJ; Zhang H; Zobel M; Bonser SP; Flores Moreno H; Perkins-Kirkpatrick S, 2014, 'Which is a better predictor of plant traits: Temperature or precipitation?', Journal of Vegetation Science, 25, pp. 1167 - 1180, http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/jvs.12190

Kooyman RM; Rossetto M; Sauquet H; Laffan SW, 2013, 'Landscape patterns in rainforest phylogenetic signal: Isolated islands of refugia or structured continental distributions', PLoS ONE, 8, http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0080685

González-Orozco CE; Knerr N; Miller JT; Laffan SW, 2013, 'A biogeographical regionalization of Australian Acacia species', Journal of Biogeography, 40, pp. 2156 - 2166, http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/jbi.12153

Gonzales-orozco CE; Thornhill A; Knerr N; Laffan SW; Miller J, 2013, 'Biogeographical regions and phytogeography of the eucalypts', Diversity and Distributions, 20, pp. 46 - 58, http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/ddi.12129

Ladd BM; Laffan SW; Amelung W; Peri P; Silva LCR; Gervassi P; Bonser SP; Navall M; Sheil D, 2013, 'Estimates of soil carbon concentration in tropical and temperate forest and woodland from available GIS data on three continents', Global Ecology and Biogeography, 22, pp. 461 - 469, http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1466-8238.2012.00799.x

Kooyman RM; Zanne A; Cornwell WK; Rossetto M; O'Connor P; Parkes E; Catterall C; Laffan SW; Lusk C; Gallagher R, 2013, 'Growth form and functional traits influence response of woody plants to fragmentation of subtropical rain forest', Conservation Biology, in press, http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/cobi.12088

Rosauer DF; Ferrier S; Williams KJ; Manion G; Keogh S; Laffan SW, 2013, 'Phylogenetic generalised dissimilarity modelling: a new approach to analysing and predicting spatial turnover in the phylogenetic composition of communities', Ecography, http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1600-0587.2013.00466.x

Di virgilio G; Laffan SW; Ebach M, 2013, 'Quantifying high resolution transitional breaks in plant and mammal distributions at regional extent and their association with climate, topography and geology', PLoS ONE, 8, pp. e59227, http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0059227

Ward MP; Cowled BD; Galea F; Garner M; Laffan SW; Marsh I; Negus K; Sarre S; Woolnough A, 2013, 'Salmonella infection in a remote, isolated wild pig population', Veterinary Microbiology, 162, pp. 921 - 929, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.vetmic.2012.11.036

Steinfeld C; Kingsford R; Laffan SW, 2013, 'Semi-automated GIS techniques for detecting floodplain earthworks', Hydrological Processes, 27, pp. 579 - 591, http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/hyp.9244

Stone O; Laffan SW; Curnoe D; Herries AIR, 2013, 'The Spatial Distribution of Chacma Baboon (Papio ursinus) Habitat Based on an Environmental Envelope Model', International Journal of Primatology, 34, pp. 407 - 422, http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10764-013-9669-9

Laffan SW; Ramp D; Roger E, 2013, 'Using endemism to assess representation of protected areas - the family Myrtaceae in the Greater Blue Mountains World Heritage Area', Journal of Biogeography, 40, pp. 570 - 578, http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/jbi.12001

Peri P; Ladd BM; Pepper DA; Bonser SP; Laffan SW; Amelung W, 2012, 'Carbon (δ13C) and nitrogen (δ15N) stable isotope composition in plant and soil in Southern Patagonia's native forests', Global Change Biology, 18, pp. 311 - 321, http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1365-2486.2011.02494.x

Stone O; Laffan SW; Curnoe D; Rushworth I; Herries AIR, 2012, 'Distribution and population estimate for the Chacma Baboon (Papio ursinus) in KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa', Primates, 53, pp. 337 - 344, http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10329-012-0303-9

Di virgilio G; Laffan SW; Ebach M, 2012, 'Fine scale quantification of floral and faunal breaks and their geographic correlates, with an example from south-eastern Australia', Journal of Biogeography, 39, pp. 1862 - 1876, http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1365-2699.2012.02739.x

Laffan SW; Skidmore AK; Franklin J, 2012, 'Geospatial analysis of species, biodiversity and landscapes: Introduction to the Second Special Issue on Spatial Ecology', International Journal of Geographical Information Science, 26, pp. 2003 - 2007, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/13658816.2012.721557

Cowled BD; Ward MP; Laffan SW; Negus K; Galea F; Garner MG; MacDonald A; Marsh I; Muellner P; Sarre S; Quasim S; Woolnough A, 2012, 'Integrating survey and molecular approaches to better understand wildlife disease ecology', PLoS ONE, 7, pp. Article numbere46310, http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0046310

Burley HM; Laffan SW; Williams KJ, 2012, 'Spatial non-stationarity and anisotropy of compositional turnover in eastern Australian Myrtaceae species', International Journal of Geographical Information Science, 26, pp. 2065 - 2081, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/13658816.2012.692371

Amboni M; Laffan SW, 2012, 'The effect of species range estimation methods on richness and phylogenetic diversity estimates: A comparison of four methods using Australian marsupials', International Journal of Geographical Information Science, 26, pp. 2097 - 2109, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/13658816.2012.717627

Kooyman RM; Rossetto M; Laffan SW, 2012, 'Using Australian Virtual Herbarium data to find all the woody rain forest plants in Australia', Cunninghamia, 12, pp. 177 - 180, http://dx.doi.org/10.7751/cunninghamia.2012.12.014

Back to profile page