Mr Boris Laffineur
Research Assistant
School of the Environment
+61 7 3896 9547
Journal Articles
Fensham, R. J., Laffineur, B. and Browning, O. (2024). Fuel dynamics and rarity of fire weather reinforce coexistence of rainforest and wet sclerophyll forest. Forest Ecology and Management, 553 121598, 1-10. doi: 10.1016/j.foreco.2023.121598
Fensham, Roderick J., Adinehvand, Rouhollah, Babidge, Sally, Cantonati, Marco, Currell, Matthew, Daniele, Linda, Elci, Alper, Galassi, Diana M. P., de la Hera Portillo, África, Hamad, Salah, Han, Dongmei, Jawadi, Hussain Ali, Jotheri, Jaafar, Laffineur, Boris, Mohammad, Alsharifa Hind, Naqinezhad, Alireza, Navidtalab, Amin, Nicoll, Kathleen, Odeh, Taleb, Re, Viviana, Sanjuan, Bernard, Souza, Valeria, Stevens, Lawrence E., Tekere, Memory, Tshibalo, Ernest, Silcock, Jennifer, Webb, John, van Wyk, Braam, Zamanpoore, Mehrdad and Villholth, Karen G. (2023). Fellowship of the Spring: an initiative to document and protect the world's oases. Science of The Total Environment, 887 163936, 163936. doi: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2023.163936
Fensham, R. J. and Laffineur, B. (2022). Response of spring wetlands to restored aquifer pressure in the Great Artesian Basin, Australia. Journal of Hydrology, 612 128152, 1-8. doi: 10.1016/j.jhydrol.2022.128152
Wright, Boyd R., Laffineur, Boris, Royé, Dominic, Armstrong, Graeme and Fensham, Roderick J. (2021). Rainfall-linked megafires as innate fire regime elements in arid Australian spinifex (Triodia spp.) grasslands. Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution, 9 666241. doi: 10.3389/fevo.2021.666241
Fensham, R. J., Doyle, T., Habermehl, M. A., Laffineur, B. and Silcock, J. L. (2021). Hydrogeological assessment of springs in the south-central Great Artesian Basin of Australia. Hydrogeology Journal, 29 (4), 1501-1515. doi: 10.1007/s10040-021-02335-x
Fensham, R. J., Laffineur, B. and Shand, P. (2021). Plant species associations with alkaline environments associated with artesian spring wetlands. Plant and Soil, 464 (1-2), 199-208. doi: 10.1007/s11104-021-04903-2
Fensham, R. J., Laffineur, B. and McVeigh, M. (2020). Assessing the conservation status of tree species declining in productive landscapes: the case of Eucalyptus argophloia. Australian Journal of Botany, 68 (2), 119-126. doi: 10.1071/bt20016
Fensham, R. J., Laffineur, B., Collingwood, T. D., Beech, E., Bell, S., Hopper, S. D., Phillips, G., Rivers, M. C., Walsh, N. and White, M. (2020). Rarity or decline: key concepts for the Red List of Australian eucalypts. Biological Conservation, 243 108455, 1-15. doi: 10.1016/j.biocon.2020.108455
Fensham, Roderick J., Carnegie, Angus J., Laffineur, Boris, Makinson, Robert O., Pegg, Geoff S. and Wills, Jarrah (2020). Imminent Extinction of Australian Myrtaceae by Fungal Disease. Trends in Ecology and Evolution, 35 (7), 554-557. doi: 10.1016/j.tree.2020.03.012
Fensham, Roderick J., Laffineur, Boris, Rhodes, Jonathan R. and Silcock, Jennifer L. (2019). Rare plant species do not occupy water-remote refuges in arid environments subject to livestock grazing. Ecological Applications, 29 (5) e01911, e01911. doi: 10.1002/eap.1911
Fahey, Patrick S., Fensham, Roderick J., Laffineur, Boris and Cook, Lyn G. (2019). Chloris circumfontinalis (Poaceae): A recently discovered species from the saline scalds surrounding artesian springs in north-eastern Australia. Australian Systematic Botany, 32 (1), 228-242. doi: 10.1071/SB18017
Fensham, Roderick J., Laffineur, Boris and Allen, Craig D. (2019). To what extent is drought-induced tree mortality a natural phenomenon?. Global Ecology and Biogeography, 28 (3), 365-373. doi: 10.1111/geb.12858
Fensham, Roderick J., Halford, Jason, Hansen, Chris, Laffineur, Boris and Williams, Billie (2019). Threatened species in a threatened ecosystem: the conservation status of four Solanum species in the face of ongoing habitat loss. Oryx, 53 (03), 439-449. doi: 10.1017/S0030605318001266
Fensham, R. J. and Laffineur, B. (2019). Defining the native and naturalised flora for the Australian continent. Australian Journal of Botany, 67 (1), 55-69. doi: 10.1071/BT18168
Fensham, R. J., Laffineur, B. and Silcock, J. L. (2018). In the wake of bulldozers: identifying threatened species in a habitat decimated by rapid clearance. Biological Conservation, 219, 28-34. doi: 10.1016/j.biocon.2017.12.008
Fensham, Roderick J. , Freeman, Michelle E. , Laffineur, Boris, Macdermott, Harry, Prior, Lynda D. and Werner, Patricia A. (2017). Variable rainfall has a greater effect than fire on the demography of the dominant tree in a semi-arid Eucalyptus savanna. Austral Ecology, 42 (7), 772-782. doi: 10.1111/aec.12495
Fensham, Roderick J., Butler, Donald W., Laffineur, Boris, Macdermott, Harry J., Morgan, John W. and Silcock, Jennifer L. (2017). Subtropical native grasslands may not require fire, mowing or grazing to maintain native-plant diversity. Australian Journal of Botany, 65 (2), 95-102. doi: 10.1071/BT16170
Silcock, Jennifer L., Macdermott, Harry, Laffineur, Boris and Fensham, Roderick J. (2016). Obscure oases: natural, cultural and historical geography of western Queensland's Tertiary sandstone springs. Geographical Research, 54 (2), 1-16. doi: 10.1111/1745-5871.12175
Data Collections
R. Fensham, O.Browning and B. Laffineur (2022). Fuel dynamics reinforce coexistence of rainforest and wet sclerophyll forest dataset. The University of Queensland. (Dataset) doi: 10.48610/d8d8987
Fensham, Rod, Laffineur, Boris, Collingwood, T, Wills, J and Radford-Smith, Julian (2021). Myrtle rust surveys of Eastern Australia 2021. The University of Queensland. (Dataset) doi: 10.48610/9a9207e
Fensham, Rod, Silcock, Jen, Rhodes, Jonathan and Laffineur, Boris (2019). Survey data for remote habitat plants and water points. UQ eSpace. (Dataset) doi: 10.14264/uql.2019.294
Fensham, Roderick J., Halford, Jason, Hansen, Chris, Laffineur, Boris and Williams, Billie (2019). Threatened species in a threatened ecosystem: the conservation status of four Solanum species in the face of ongoing habitat loss. The University of Queensland. (Dataset) doi: 10.14264/uql.2019.698