Doctor Matthias Boer

Doctor Matthias Boer

SENIOR LECTURER,
Hawkesbury Institute for the Environment

Personal

UWS Organisational Unit (School / Division)

  • Hawkesbury Institute for the Environment

Contact

Email:M.Boer@uws.edu.au
Extension:1373
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Location:L3.G.10
Hawkesbury
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Publications

Books

  • Govers, G., Jones, R., Montanarella, L., Grimm, M., Vieillefont, V., Puigdefabregas, J., Boer, M., Yassoglou, N., Kosmas, C., Tsara, M., van Lynden, G., Gobin, A., Mantel, S., Cerdan, O., van Rompaey, A., Kirby, M., Irvine, B., Le Bissonais, Y., Daroussin, J. and King, D. (2004), 'Pan-European Soil Erosion Risk Assessment: The PESERA Map', : Office for Official Publications of the European Communities .

Chapters in Books

  • Bradstock, R., Keith, H., Maier, S., Meyer, M., Roxburgh, S., Russell-Smith, J., Boer, M., Cary, G., Price, O., Williams, R., Barrett, D., Cook, G., Gill, A. and Hutley, L. (2012), 'Fire regimes and carbon in Australian vegetation', Flammable Australia: fire regimes, biodiversity and ecosystems in a changing world, CSIRO Publishing 9780643104822.
  • Williams, R., Keith, H., Maier, S., Meyer, M., Price, O., Roxburgh, S., Russell-Smith, J., Bradstock, R., Barrett, D., Beringer, J., Boer, M., Cary, G., Cook, G., Gill, A. and Hutley, L. (2012), 'Fire regimes and carbon in Australian vegetation', Flammable Australia: Fire Regimes, Biodiversity and Ecosystems in a Changing World, CSIRO Publishing 9780643104822.

Journal Articles

  • Pekin, B., Wittkuhn, R., Boer, M., Macfarlane, C. and Grierson, P. (2012), 'Response of plant species and life form diversity to variable fire histories and biomass in the jarrah forest of south-west Australia', Austral Ecology, 9.
  • Bradstock, R., Keith, H., Maier, S., Meyer, M., Roxburgh, S., Russell-Smith, J., Boer, M., Cary, G., Price, O., Williams, R., Barrett, D., Cook, G., Gill, A. and Hutley, L. (2012), 'Modelling the potential of prescribed burning to mitigate carbon emissions in fire-prone, Australian ecosystems', International Journal of Wildland Fire, 10.
  • Bradstock, R., Keith, H., Maier, S., Meyer, M., Roxburgh, S., Russell-Smith, J., Boer, M., Cary, G., Price, O., Williams, R., Barrett, D., Cook, G., Gill, M. and Hutley, L. (2012), 'Modelling the potential for prescribed burning to mitigate carbon emissions from wildfires in fire-prone forests of Australia', International Journal of Wildland Fire, 11.
  • Pekin, B., Wittkuhn, R., Boer, M., Macfarlane, C. and Grierson, P. (2012), 'Response of plant species and life form diversity to variable fire histories and biomass in the jarrah forest of south-west Australia', Austral Ecology, 9.
  • Pekin, B., Boer, M., Wittkuhn, R., Macfarlane, C. and Grierson, P. (2012), 'Plant diversity is linked to nutrient limitation of dominant species in a world biodiversity hotspot', Journal of Vegetation Science, 10.
  • O'Donnell, A., Boer, M., McCaw, L. and Grierson, P. (2011), 'Vegetation and landscape connectivity control wildfire intervals in unmanaged semi-arid shrublands and woodlands in Australia', Journal of Biogeography, 13.
  • Faivre, N., Roche, P., Boer, M., McCaw, L. and Grierson, P. (2011), 'Characterization of landscape pyrodiversity in Mediterranean ecosystems - contrasts and similarities between south-western Australia and south-eastern France', Landscape Ecology, 15.
  • Pekin, B., Wittkuhn, R., Boer, M., Macfarlane, C. and Grierson, P. (2011), 'Plant functional traits along environmental gradients in seasonally dry and fire-prone ecosystem', Journal of Vegetation Science, 12.
  • Boer, M., Johnston, P. and Sadler, R. (2011), 'Neighbourhood rules make or break spatial scale invariance in a classic model of contagious disturbance.', Ecological Complexity, 10.
  • Rusack, E., Dortch, J., Hayward, K., Renton, M., Boer, M. and Grierson, P. (2011), 'The Role of Habitus in the Maintenance of Traditional Noongar Plant Knowledge in Southwest Western Australia.', Human Ecology, 10.
  • O'Donnell, A., Boer, M., McCaw, L. and Grierson, P. (2011), 'Climatic anomalies drive wildfire occurrence and extent in semi-arid shrublands and woodlands of southwest Australia', Ecosphere, .
  • O'Donnell, A., Cullen, L., McCaw, W., Boer, M. and Grierson, P. (2010), 'Dendroecological potential of Callitris preissii for dating historical fires in semi-arid shrublands of southern Western Australia.', Dendrochronologia, 11.
  • Sadler, R., Hazelton, M., Boer, M. and Grierson, P. (2010), 'Deriving State-and-Transition Models from an Image Series of Grassland Pattern Dynamics.', Ecological Modelling, 12.
  • Pekin, B., Boer, M., Macfarlane, C. and Grierson, P. (2009), 'Structural and physiological responses of eucalypt forest to variation in fire frequency and aridity in southwest Australia.', Forest Ecology and Management, 7.
  • Boer, M., Sadler, R., Wittuhn, R., McCaw, L. and Grierson, P. (2009), 'Long-term impacts of prescribed burning on regional extent and incidence of wildfires - evidence from fifty years of active fire management in SW Australian forests', Forest Ecology and Management, 11.
  • Contreras, S., Boer, M., Alcala, F., Domingo, F., Garcia, M., Pulido-Bosch, A. and Puigdefabregas, J. (2008), 'An ecohydrological modelling approach for assessing long-term water balances in semiarid karstic landscapes', Journal of Hydrology, 16.
  • Boer, M., Macfarlane, C., Norris, J., Sadler, R. and Grierson, P. (2008), 'Mapping burned areas and burn severity patterns in SW Australian eucalypt forest using remotely-sensed changes in leaf area index.', Remote Sensing of Environment, 12.
  • Boer, M., Sadler, R., Bradstock, R., Gill, A. and Grierson, P. (2008), 'Spatial scale invariance of southern Australian forest fires mirrors the scaling behaviour of fire-driving weather events. Landscape Ecology', Landscape Ecology, 15.
  • Boer, M. and Puigdefabregas, J. (2005), 'Assessment of dryland condition using remotely sensed anomalies of vegetation index values.', International Journal of Remote Sensing, 21.
  • Boer, M. and Puigdefabregas, J. (2005), 'Effects of spatially-structured vegetation patterns on hillslope erosion rates in semiarid Mediterranean environments: a simulation study', Earth Surface Processes and Land Forms, 19.
  • Boer, M. and Puigdefabregas, J. (2003), 'Predicting potential vegetation index values as a reference for the assessment and monitoring of dryland condition', International Journal of Remote Sensing, 7.
  • Boer, M. and Stafford Smith, D. (2003), 'A plant functional approach to the prediction of change in Australian rangeland vegetation under grazing and fire', Journal of Vegetation Science, 12.
  • Domingo, F., Villagarcia, L., Boer, M., Alados, L. and Puigdefabregas, J. (2001), 'Evaluating the long-term water balance of arid zone stream bed vegetation using evapotranspiration modelling and hillslope runoff measurements', Journal of Hydrology, 14.

Conference Papers

  • Boer, M., Sadler, R., Wittkuhn, R., McCaw, L. and Grierson, P. (2011), 'Quantifying long-term regional scale impacts of prescribed burning on wildfire incidence and extent in SW Australian eucalypt forests', WA Bushfire Research Forum, Perth WA.
  • Boer, M., Sadler, R. and Grierson, P. (2008), 'Objective characterisation of fire regimes for science-based management of fire-prone landscapes.', International Bushfire Research Conference, Adelaide.
  • Boer, M., Norris, J., Sadler, R. and Grierson, P. (2006), 'Ecologically sustainable management of fire-prone landscapes in southern Australia: a complex systems point of view.', 5th International Conference on Forest Fire Research, Portugal.

Research

Current Projects

Title:When fire and water mix: do carbon dioxide-related water savings drive woody plant thickening and fire dynamics in a grassy woodland?
Years:2013-04-23 - 2016-04-22
ID:P00020787
UWS Researchers:David Ellsworth, Matthias Boer and Victor Resco De Dios
Funding:
  • Australian Research Council (ACRG)
Title:2009 Black Saturday and other large fire events - moisture conditions project [via UOW]
Years:2012-11-06 - 2014-10-30
ID:P00021036
UWS Researchers:Matthias Boer and Victor Resco De Dios
Funding:
  • Bushfire CRC Limited

Previous Projects

Title:Using multispectral stereo imaging to determine the impacts of free air CO2 enrichment on a eucalypt woodland understory (EucFACE)
Years:2012-03-02 - 2013-03-01
ID:P00020542
UWS Researchers:Matthias Boer and Oula Ghannoum
Funding:
  • University of Western Sydney

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