List of works - Shawn W. Laffan

A hairy situation: Plant species in warm, sunny places are more likely to have pubescent leaves

scientific article published on 26 May 2020

A revision of the bioregionalisation of freshwater fish communities in the Australian Monsoonal Tropics

article

Abiotic and biotic predictors of macroecological patterns in bird and butterfly coloration

article by Rhiannon L. Dalrymple et al published 26 January 2018 in Ecological Monographs

Artificial watering points are focal points for activity by an invasive herbivore but not native herbivores in conservation reserves in arid Australia

article

Assessing biodiversity and endemism using phylogenetic methods across multiple taxonomic groups

scientific article published in 2015

Assessing endemism at multiple spatial scales, with an example from the Australian vascular flora

scientific article published on 17 June 2010

Better estimates of soil carbon from geographical data: a revised global approach

article

Biodiverse, a tool for the spatial analysis of biological and related diversity

article

Biogeographical regions and phytogeography of the eucalypts

scholarly article by Carlos E. González-Orozco et al published 13 September 2013 in Diversity and Distributions

Birds, butterflies and flowers in the tropics are not more colourful than those at higher latitudes

article by Rhiannon L. Dalrymple et al published 10 September 2015 in Global Ecology and Biogeography

Carbon (δ13C) and nitrogen (δ15N) stable isotope composition in plant and soil in Southern Patagonia's native forests

article

Carbon isotopic signatures of soil organic matter correlate with leaf area index across woody biomes

article

Continental scale patterns and predictors of fern richness and phylogenetic diversity.

scientific article

Continental-scale spatial phylogenetics of Australian angiosperms provides insights into ecology, evolution and conservation

article

Critical parameters for modelling the spread of foot-and-mouth disease in wildlife

scientific article published on 01 June 2009

Determining the spatial distribution of an Antarctic top predator using passive acoustics.

scientific article published in 2010

Distribution and population estimate for the chacma baboon (Papio ursinus) in KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa

article

Estimates of soil carbon concentration in tropical and temperate forest and woodland from available GIS data on three continents

article

Extinction of South American sparassodontans (Metatheria): environmental fluctuations or complex ecological processes?

article

Fern and lycophyte diversity in the Pacific Northwest: Patterns and predictors

Fine‐scale quantification of floral and faunal breaks and their geographic correlates, with an example from south‐eastern Australia

scientific article published on 13 July 2012

From ratites to rats: the size of fleshy fruits shapes species' distributions and continental rainforest assembly

scientific article

Geospatial analysis of species, biodiversity and landscapes: introduction to the second special issue on spatial ecology

article

Global patterns in plant height

article

Global patterns in post-dispersal seed removal by invertebrates and vertebrates

scientific article

Habitat selection by the common wombat (Vombatus ursinus) in disturbed environments: Implications for the conservation of a ‘common’ species

Impact of Black Summer 2019/20 Wildfires on True Bug Priority Species (Insecta: Hemiptera: Heteroptera) in the Northeast Forests of New South Wales

scientific article published in 2022

Incorporating a distance cost in systematic reserve design

Integrating survey and molecular approaches to better understand wildlife disease ecology

scientific article

Invasive cane toads might initiate cascades of direct and indirect effects in a terrestrial ecosystem

scientific article published on 18 January 2018

Landscape patterns in rainforest phylogenetic signal: isolated islands of refugia or structured continental distributions?

scientific article (publication date: 2013)

Macroecological patterns in flower colour are shaped by both biotic and abiotic factors

scientific article published on 13 June 2020

Macroecological scale effects of biodiversity on ecosystem functions under environmental change

scientific article

Modeling movement, distributions, diversity, and disturbance: introduction to the fifth special issue on spatial ecology

scientific article published in 2020

Modelling spread of foot-and-mouth disease in wild white-tailed deer and feral pig populations using a geographic-automata model and animal distributions

scientific article published on 9 June 2009

Multi-extent analysis of the relationship between pteridophyte species richness and climate

scientific article published in 2006

Multi‐taxon biodiversity responses to the 2019–2020 Australian megafires

scientific article published in 2023

Paleo-Antarctic rainforest into the modern Old World tropics: the rich past and threatened future of the "southern wet forest survivors".

scientific article published on 21 November 2014

Patterns, biases and prospects in the distribution and diversity of Neotropical snakes

scientific article

Phylodiversity to inform conservation policy: An Australian example

scientific article published on 11 May 2015

Phylogenetic approaches reveal biodiversity threats under climate change

scholarly article by Carlos E. González-Orozco et al published 19 September 2016 in Nature Climate Change

Phylogenetic diversity and conservation of crop wild relatives in Colombia

scientific article published on 29 August 2021

Phylogenetic diversity, types of endemism and the evolutionary history of New World bats

scientific article published in 2018

Phylogenetic endemism: a new approach for identifying geographical concentrations of evolutionary history

scientific article

Phylogenetic generalised dissimilarity modelling: a new approach to analysing and predicting spatial turnover in the phylogenetic composition of communities

article

Phylogenetic measures of biodiversity and neo- and paleo-endemism in Australian Acacia.

scientific article

Potential human impact on the environmental central niche of the chacma baboon

Potential lantana invasion of the Greater Blue Mountains World Heritage Area under climate change

Predicting regolith properties using environmental correlation: a comparison of spatially global and spatially local approaches

scholarly article

Primary productivity is related to niche width in the Australian Wet Tropics

scientific article published on 21 September 2018

Primary productivity is weakly related to floristic alpha and beta diversity across Australia

scientific article published on 14 July 2016

Quantifying high resolution transitional breaks in plant and mammal distributions at regional extent and their association with climate, topography and geology

scientific article published on April 2013

Quantifying phytogeographical regions of Australia using geospatial turnover in species composition.

scientific article

Quantifying vertebrate zoogeographical regions of Australia using geospatial turnover in the species composition of mammals, birds, reptiles and terrestrial amphibians

scientific article published on 22 June 2020

Representation of animal distributions in space: how geostatistical estimates impact simulation modeling of foot-and-mouth disease spread.

scientific article published on 29 January 2008

Road impacts a tipping point for wildlife populations in threatened landscapes

scientific article published in 2010

Salmonella infection in a remote, isolated wild pig population

scientific article published on 3 December 2012

Simulating the spatial dynamics of foot and mouth disease outbreaks in feral pigs and livestock in Queensland, Australia, using a susceptible-infected-recovered cellular automata model

scientific article published on 18 April 2005

Space, time, connectivity and conflict in biological landscapes: the fourth special issue on spatial ecology

article by Shawn W. Laffan et al published November 2015 in International Journal of Geographical Information Science

Spatial Phylogenetics of Florida Vascular Plants: The Effects of Calibration and Uncertainty on Diversity Estimates

scholarly article published 8 December 2018

Spatial analysis of taxonomic and genetic patterns and their potential for understanding evolutionary histories

Spatial distribution of species richness and endemism of the genus Acacia in Australia

scientific article published in 2011

Spatial phylogenetics of butterflies in relation to environmental drivers and angiosperm diversity across North America

scientific article published on 23 March 2021

Spatial phylogenetics of the North American flora ⬇️

scientific article published on 12 May 2020

Spatial variation in the climatic predictors of species compositional turnover and endemism

scientific article

Species distribution and diversity, habitat selection and connectivity: introduction to the Third Special Issue on Spatial Ecology

Substantial declines in urban tree habitat predicted under climate change

scientific article published on 23 May 2019

Tests of larval retention in a tidally energetic environment reveal the complexity of the spatial structure in herring populations

scientific article published on 28 October 2015

The Biodiversity and Climate Change Virtual Laboratory: Where ecology meets big data

scientific article published on 20 November 2015

The Spatial Distribution of Chacma Baboon (Papio ursinus) Habitat Based on an Environmental Envelope Model

The chacma baboon (Papio ursinus) through time: a model of potential core habitat regions during a glacial–interglacial cycle

The effect of neighbourhood definitions on spatio-temporal models of disease outbreaks: Separation distance versus range overlap

scientific article

The impact of potential mitigation strategies on the predicted spread of foot and mouth disease in white-tailed deer in south Texas

scientific article published on 23 February 2010

The impact of seasonal variability in wildlife populations on the predicted spread of foot and mouth disease

scientific article published on 13 January 2009

The incidence of low phosphorus soils in Australia

article

The molecular basis of quantitative variation in foliar secondary metabolites in Eucalyptus globulus

scientific article published on 24 May 2011

The potential role of wild and feral animals as reservoirs of foot-and-mouth disease

scientific article published on 20 February 2007

Towards a physical description of habitat: quantifying environmental adversity (abiotic stress) in temperate forest and woodland ecosystems

scientific article published in 2009

Using Australian Virtual Herbarium data to find all the woody rain forest plants in Australia.

scientific article published on 20 December 2012

Using endemism to assess representation of protected areas - the family Myrtaceae in the Greater Blue Mountains World Heritage Area

article by Shawn W. Laffan et al published 12 November 2012 in Journal of Biogeography

Using sediment budgets to investigate the pathogen flux through catchments.

scientific article

Which is a better predictor of plant traits: temperature or precipitation?

article

Which species distribution models are more (or less) likely to project broad-scale, climate-induced shifts in species ranges?

article by Linda J. Beaumont et al published December 2016 in Ecological Modelling

List of works by Shawn W. Laffan

A hairy situation: Plant species in warm, sunny places are more likely to have pubescent leaves

A revision of the bioregionalisation of freshwater fish communities in the Australian Monsoonal Tropics

Abiotic and biotic predictors of macroecological patterns in bird and butterfly coloration

Artificial watering points are focal points for activity by an invasive herbivore but not native herbivores in conservation reserves in arid Australia

Assessing biodiversity and endemism using phylogenetic methods across multiple taxonomic groups

Assessing endemism at multiple spatial scales, with an example from the Australian vascular flora

Better estimates of soil carbon from geographical data: a revised global approach

Biodiverse, a tool for the spatial analysis of biological and related diversity

Biogeographical regions and phytogeography of the eucalypts

Birds, butterflies and flowers in the tropics are not more colourful than those at higher latitudes

Carbon (δ13C) and nitrogen (δ15N) stable isotope composition in plant and soil in Southern Patagonia's native forests

Carbon isotopic signatures of soil organic matter correlate with leaf area index across woody biomes

Continental scale patterns and predictors of fern richness and phylogenetic diversity.

Continental-scale spatial phylogenetics of Australian angiosperms provides insights into ecology, evolution and conservation

Critical parameters for modelling the spread of foot-and-mouth disease in wildlife

Determining the spatial distribution of an Antarctic top predator using passive acoustics.

Distribution and population estimate for the chacma baboon (Papio ursinus) in KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa

Estimates of soil carbon concentration in tropical and temperate forest and woodland from available GIS data on three continents

Extinction of South American sparassodontans (Metatheria): environmental fluctuations or complex ecological processes?

Fern and lycophyte diversity in the Pacific Northwest: Patterns and predictors

Fine‐scale quantification of floral and faunal breaks and their geographic correlates, with an example from south‐eastern Australia

From ratites to rats: the size of fleshy fruits shapes species' distributions and continental rainforest assembly

Geospatial analysis of species, biodiversity and landscapes: introduction to the second special issue on spatial ecology

Global patterns in plant height

Global patterns in post-dispersal seed removal by invertebrates and vertebrates

Habitat selection by the common wombat (Vombatus ursinus) in disturbed environments: Implications for the conservation of a ‘common’ species

Impact of Black Summer 2019/20 Wildfires on True Bug Priority Species (Insecta: Hemiptera: Heteroptera) in the Northeast Forests of New South Wales

Incorporating a distance cost in systematic reserve design

Integrating survey and molecular approaches to better understand wildlife disease ecology

Invasive cane toads might initiate cascades of direct and indirect effects in a terrestrial ecosystem

Landscape patterns in rainforest phylogenetic signal: isolated islands of refugia or structured continental distributions?

Macroecological patterns in flower colour are shaped by both biotic and abiotic factors

Macroecological scale effects of biodiversity on ecosystem functions under environmental change

Modeling movement, distributions, diversity, and disturbance: introduction to the fifth special issue on spatial ecology

Modelling spread of foot-and-mouth disease in wild white-tailed deer and feral pig populations using a geographic-automata model and animal distributions

Multi-extent analysis of the relationship between pteridophyte species richness and climate

Multi‐taxon biodiversity responses to the 2019–2020 Australian megafires

Paleo-Antarctic rainforest into the modern Old World tropics: the rich past and threatened future of the "southern wet forest survivors".

Patterns, biases and prospects in the distribution and diversity of Neotropical snakes

Phylodiversity to inform conservation policy: An Australian example

Phylogenetic approaches reveal biodiversity threats under climate change

Phylogenetic diversity and conservation of crop wild relatives in Colombia

Phylogenetic diversity, types of endemism and the evolutionary history of New World bats

Phylogenetic endemism: a new approach for identifying geographical concentrations of evolutionary history

Phylogenetic generalised dissimilarity modelling: a new approach to analysing and predicting spatial turnover in the phylogenetic composition of communities

Phylogenetic measures of biodiversity and neo- and paleo-endemism in Australian Acacia.

Potential human impact on the environmental central niche of the chacma baboon

Potential lantana invasion of the Greater Blue Mountains World Heritage Area under climate change

Predicting regolith properties using environmental correlation: a comparison of spatially global and spatially local approaches

Primary productivity is related to niche width in the Australian Wet Tropics

Primary productivity is weakly related to floristic alpha and beta diversity across Australia

Quantifying high resolution transitional breaks in plant and mammal distributions at regional extent and their association with climate, topography and geology

Quantifying phytogeographical regions of Australia using geospatial turnover in species composition.

Quantifying vertebrate zoogeographical regions of Australia using geospatial turnover in the species composition of mammals, birds, reptiles and terrestrial amphibians

Representation of animal distributions in space: how geostatistical estimates impact simulation modeling of foot-and-mouth disease spread.

Road impacts a tipping point for wildlife populations in threatened landscapes

Salmonella infection in a remote, isolated wild pig population

Simulating the spatial dynamics of foot and mouth disease outbreaks in feral pigs and livestock in Queensland, Australia, using a susceptible-infected-recovered cellular automata model

Space, time, connectivity and conflict in biological landscapes: the fourth special issue on spatial ecology

Spatial Phylogenetics of Florida Vascular Plants: The Effects of Calibration and Uncertainty on Diversity Estimates

Spatial analysis of taxonomic and genetic patterns and their potential for understanding evolutionary histories

Spatial distribution of species richness and endemism of the genus Acacia in Australia

Spatial phylogenetics of butterflies in relation to environmental drivers and angiosperm diversity across North America

Spatial phylogenetics of the North American flora ⬇️

Spatial variation in the climatic predictors of species compositional turnover and endemism

Species distribution and diversity, habitat selection and connectivity: introduction to the Third Special Issue on Spatial Ecology

Substantial declines in urban tree habitat predicted under climate change

Tests of larval retention in a tidally energetic environment reveal the complexity of the spatial structure in herring populations

The Biodiversity and Climate Change Virtual Laboratory: Where ecology meets big data

The Spatial Distribution of Chacma Baboon (Papio ursinus) Habitat Based on an Environmental Envelope Model

The chacma baboon (Papio ursinus) through time: a model of potential core habitat regions during a glacial–interglacial cycle

The effect of neighbourhood definitions on spatio-temporal models of disease outbreaks: Separation distance versus range overlap

The impact of potential mitigation strategies on the predicted spread of foot and mouth disease in white-tailed deer in south Texas

The impact of seasonal variability in wildlife populations on the predicted spread of foot and mouth disease

The incidence of low phosphorus soils in Australia

The molecular basis of quantitative variation in foliar secondary metabolites in Eucalyptus globulus

The potential role of wild and feral animals as reservoirs of foot-and-mouth disease

Towards a physical description of habitat: quantifying environmental adversity (abiotic stress) in temperate forest and woodland ecosystems

Using Australian Virtual Herbarium data to find all the woody rain forest plants in Australia.