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Professor Singarayer Florentine

Professor, Environmental Management

Campus

Mt Helen Campus

Biography

Professor Singarayer Florentine (‘Florry’) is a restoration and invasive species ecologist with more than 25 years of experience in research and higher education teaching. Dr Florentine specialises in ecologically diverse habitats, with experience in three different countries.

Florry established a powerful invasive species and restoration research group based upon understandings of complex and urgent ecological restoration issues. He has led the development of strong collaborative research partnerships with over 20 natural-resource management groups across Australia and with high profile researchers from Spain and Sweden. Florry has attracted significant competitive research grant funding, bringing over $10 million to the University.

Florry has published over 100 research papers, and supervised several PhD, MSc and Honours students. He established the Biodiversity Across the Borders Conference, which significantly enhanced the research culture within his discipline.

Florry has been appointed as a Deputy Chair of the Biodiversity Advisory Committee at the Glenelg-Hopkins Catchment Management Authority.

  • Publications

Evaluating Alternative Herbicide Strategies for Effective Control of Navua Sedge (Cyperus aromaticus) in Queensland's Wet Tropics, Australia

The Biology, Ecology, Distribution and Future Management Challenges of the Invasive Species Pontederia crassipes (Water Hyacinth): A Global Review