James, Julie, Comley, Rainy, Wurster, Christopher M., Levchenko, Vladimir, Gadd, Patricia, and Bird, Michael I. (2024) Holocene savanna hydroclimate record from Kinrara Lake, north-east Queensland, Australia. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, 637. 111985.

Bird, Michael I., Brand, Michael, Comley, Rainy, Fu, Xiao, Hadeen, Xennephone, Jacobs, Zenobia, Rowe, Cassandra, Wurster, Christopher M., Zwart, Costijn, and Bradshaw, Corey J.A. (2024) Late Pleistocene emergence of an anthropogenic fire regime in Australia’s tropical savannahs. Nature Geoscience, 17. pp. 233-240.

Li, Ting, Zhou, Youping, Wurster, Chris M., Zhou, Xiuwen, Zhao, Yu, Comley, Rainy, Munksgaard, Niels C., Cernusak, Lucas A., Haig, Jordahna, and Bird, Michael I. (2024) Vegetation and precipitation change inferred from the δ13C and δ2H values of n-alkanes from lake sediment from 18 cal ka BP, tropical NE Australia. Quaternary Science Reviews, 337. 108807.

Rowe, Cassandra, Brand, Michael, Wurster, Chris, and Bird, Michael I. (2024) Vegetation changes through stadial and interstadial stages of MIS 4 and MIS 3 based on a palynological analysis of the Girraween Lagoon sediments of Darwin, Australia. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, 642. 112150.

Oliveira Vogado, Nara, Laurance, Susan G., Liddell, Michael J., Engert, Jayden E., Wurster, Christopher M., Schiffer, Michele, Thompson, Andrew, Nichols, Cassandra, and Cernusak, Lucas A. (2023) Assessing the effects of a drought experiment on the reproductive phenology and ecophysiology of a wet tropical rainforest community. Conservation Physiology, 11 (1). coad064.

Grant, Michael I., Kyne, Peter M., James, Julie, Hu, Yi, Mukherji, Sushmita, Amepou, Yolarnie, Baje, Leontine, Chin, Andrew, Johnson, Grant, Lee, Tegan, Mahan, Brandon, Wurster, Christopher, White, William T., and Simpfendorfer, Colin A. (2023) Elemental analysis of vertebrae discerns diadromous movements of threatened non-marine elasmobranchs. Journal of Fish Biology, 103 (6). pp. 1357-1373.

Li, Ting, Wurster, Christopher M., Haig, Jordahna, Zhou, Youping, Zwart, Costijn, Ren, Junli, Comley, Rainy, Munksgaard, Niels C., Gadd, Patricia S., and Bird, Michael I. (2022) Environmental change inferred from multiple proxies from an 18 cal ka BP sediment record, Lake Barrine, NE Australia. Quaternary Science Reviews, 294. 107751.

Rowe, Cassandra, Rehn, Emma, Brand, Michael, Hutley, Lindsay B.B., Comley, Rainy, Levchenko, Vladimir, Zwart, Costijn, Wurster, Christopher M.M., and Bird, Michael I. (2022) Holocene climate-fire-vegetation feedbacks in tropical savannas: Insights from the Marura sinkhole, East Arnhem Land, northern Australia. Journal of Vegetation Science, 33 (6).

Orr, Theresa J., Wurster, Christopher M., Roberts, Eric M., Singleton, Russell E., Stevens, Nancy J., and O'Connor, Patrick M. (2022) Paleoatmospheric CO2 oscillations through a cool middle/Late Cretaceous recorded from pedogenic carbonates in Africa. Cretaceous Research, 135. 105191.

McCarthy, Rachel, Hamdi, Rifai, Erni, Bird, Michael I., and Wurster, Christopher M. (2022) Tropical environmental change in North Sumatra at the Last Glacial Maximum: Evidence from the stable isotope composition of cave guano. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, 602. 111136.

Bird, Michael I., Haig, Jordahna, Ulm, Sean, and Wurster, Christopher (2022) A carbon and nitrogen isotope perspective on ancient human diet in the British Isles. Journal of Archaeological Science, 137. 105516.

Orr, Theresa J., Wurster, Christopher M., Levchenko, Vladimir, Ascough, Philippa L., and Bird, Michael I. (2021) Improved pretreatment method for the isolation and decontamination of pyrogenic carbon for radiocarbon dating using hydrogen pyrolysis. Quaternary Geochronology, 61. 101124.

Wurster, Christopher M., Rowe, Cassandra, Zwart, Costijn, Sachse, Dirk, Levchenko, Vladimir, and Bird, Michael I. (2021) Indigenous impacts on north Australian savanna fire regimes over the Holocene. Scientific Reports, 11 (1). 23157.

Orr, Theresa J., Roberts, Eric M., Wurster, Chris M., Mtelela, Cassy, Stevens, Nancy J., and O'connor, Patrick M. (2021) Paleoclimate and paleoenvironment reconstruction of paleosols spanning the Lower to Upper Cretaceous from the Rukwa Rift Basin, Tanzania. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, 577. 110539.

Rowe, Cassandra, Wurster, Christopher M., Zwart, Costijn, Brand, Michael, Hutley, Lindsay B., Levchenko, Vladimir, and Bird, Michael I. (2021) Vegetation over the last glacial maximum at Girraween Lagoon, monsoonal northern Australia. Quaternary Research, 102. pp. 39-52.

Bird, Michael I., Crabtree, Stefani A., Haig, Jordahna, Ulm, Sean, and Wurster, Chris M. (2021) A global carbon and nitrogen isotope perspective on modern and ancient human diet. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 118 (19). e2024642118.

Cantwell-Jones, Aoife, Wurster, Chris, Zwart, Costijn, and Bird, Michael (2020) Can ancient insect exoskeleton δ¹³C values be used to infer past vegetation types? Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, 555. 109857.

Cantwell-Jones, Aoife, Wurster, Chris, Zwart, Costijn, and Bird, Michael (2020) Can ancient insect exoskeleton δ13C values be used to infer past vegetation types? Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, 555. 109857.

Bird, Michael I., Haig, Jordahna, Hadeen, Xennephone, Rivera Araya, Maria Jose, Wurster, Christopher M., and Zwart, Costijn (2020) Stable isotope proxy records in tropical terrestrial environments. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, 538. 109445.

Haig, Jordahna, Ascough, Philippa, Wurster, Christopher M., and Bird, Michael I. (2020) A rapid throughput technique to isolate pyrogenic carbon by hydrogen pyrolysis for stable isotope and radiocarbon analysis. Rapid Communications in Mass Spectrometry, 34 (10). e8737.

Wurster, Christopher M., Rifai, Hamdi, Zhou, Bin, Haig, Jordahna, and Bird, Michael I. (2019) Savanna in equatorial Borneo during the late Pleistocene. Scientific Reports, 9. 6392.

Wurster, Chris, and Bird, Michael (2019) Bat and bird poo can tell you a lot about ancient landscapes in Southeast Asia. The Conversation.

Buckton, Genevieve, Cheesman, Alexander W., Munksgaard, Niels C., Wurster, Chris M., Liddell, Michael J., and Cernusak, Lucas A. (2019) Functional traits of lianas in an Australian lowland rainforest align with post-disturbance rather than dry season advantage. Austral Ecology, 44 (6). pp. 983-994.

Rowe, Cassandra, Brand, Michael, Hutley, Lindsay B., Wurster, Christopher, Zwart, Costijn, Levchenko, Vlad, and Bird, Michael (2019) Holocene savanna dynamics in the seasonal tropics of northern Australia. Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology, 267. pp. 17-31.

Bird, Michael I., Brand, Michael, Diefendorf, Aaron F., Haig, Jordahna L., Hutley, Lindsay B., Levchenko, Vladimir, Ridd, Peter V., Rowe, Cassandra, Whinney, James, Wurster, Christopher M., and Zwart, Costijn (2019) Identifying the 'savanna' signature in lacustrine sediments in northern Australia. Quaternary Science Reviews, 203. pp. 233-247.

Mishra, A.K., Placzek, C., Wurster, C., and Whitehead, P.W. (2019) New radiocarbon age constraints for the 120 km-long Toomba flow, north Queensland, Australia. Australian Journal of Earth Sciences, 66 (1). pp. 71-79.

Putra, R., Rifai, H., and Wurster, C.M. (2019) Relationship between magnetic susceptibility and elemental composition of Guano from Solek Cave, West Sumatera. In: Journal of Physics: Conference Series (1185) 012011. From: 2018 International Conference on Research and Learning of Physics, 5-6 August 2019, Padang, Indonesia.

Rowe, Cassandra, Brand, Michael, Hutley, Lindsay B., Zwart, Costijn, Wurster, Christopher, Levchenko, Vladimir, and Bird, Michael (2019) Understanding Australian tropical savanna: environmental history from a pollen perspective. Northern Territory Naturalist, 29. pp. 2-11.

Saiz, Gus, Goodrick, Iain, Wurster, Chris, Nelson, Paul, Wynn, Jonathan, and Bird, Michael (2018) Preferential production and transport of grass-derived pyrogenic carbon in NE-Australian savanna ecosystems. Frontiers in Earth Science, 5. 115.

Rifai, H., Putra, R., Fadila, M.R., Erni, E., and Wurster, C.M. (2018) Magnetic susceptibility and heavy metals in guano from South Sulawesi caves. In: IOP Conference Series: Materials Science and Engineering (335) 012001. From: ICOMSET 2017: 2nd International Conference on Mathematics, Science, Education and Technology, 5-6 October 2017, Padang, Indonesia.

Zhou, Bin, Bird, Michael, Zheng, Hongbo, Zhang, Enlou, Wurster, Christopher M., Xie, Luhua, and Taylor, David (2017) New sedimentary evidence reveals a unique history of C4 biomass in continental East Asia since the early Miocene. Scientific Reports, 7. 170.

Twaddle, Robin W., Wurster, Christopher M., Bird, Michael I., and Ulm, Sean (2017) Complexities in the palaeoenvironmental and archaeological interpretation of isotopic analyses of the Mud Shell Geloina erosa (Lightfoot, 1786). Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports, 12. pp. 613-624.

Bird, Michael I., McBeath, Anna V., Ascough, Philippa L., Levchenko, Vladimir A., Wurster, Christopher M., Munksgaard, Niels C., Smernik, Ronald J., and Williams, Alan (2017) Loss and gain of carbon during char degradation. Soil Biology & Biochemistry, 106. pp. 80-89.

Morrant, Damian S., Wurster, Christopher M., Johnson, Christopher N., Butler, James R.A., and Congdon, Bradley C. (2017) Prey use by dingoes in a contested landscape: ecosystem service provider or biodiversity threat? Ecology and Evolution, 7 (21). pp. 8927-8935.

Keitel, Claudia, Ascough, Philippa, Wurster, Chris, and Bird, Michael (2017) Stable isotope analysis of biochars. In: Singh, Balwant, Camps-Arbestain, Marta, and Lehmann, Johannes, (eds.) Biochar: a guide to analytical methods. CSIRO Publishing, Melbourne, VIC, Australia, pp. 253-271.

Wurster, Christopher M., Rifai, Hamdi, Haig, Jordahna, Titin, Jupiri, Jacobsen, Geraldine, and Bird, Michael (2017) Stable isotope composition of cave guano from eastern Borneo reveals tropical environments over the past 15,000 cal yr BP. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, 473. pp. 73-81.

Wurster, Christopher M., and Bird, Michael I. (2016) Barriers and bridges: early human dispersals in equatorial SE Asia. In: Harff, J., Bailey, G., and Lüth, F., (eds.) Geology and Archaeology: submerged landscapes of the continental shelf. Special Publications (411). Geological Society of London, London, UK, pp. 235-250.

Placzek, C., Coningham, K., Turner, L., Veth, P., Ditchfield, K., Wurster, C.M., and Kendrick, P. (2016) Climate reconstruction from Barrow Island, Western Australia. In: [Presented at the American Geophysical Union Fall General Assembly 2016]. PP24A-03. From: American Geophysical Union Fall General Assembly 2016, 12-16 December 2016, San Francisco, CA, USA.

Cotrufo, M. Francesca, Boot, Claudia, Abiven, Samuel, Foster, Erika J., Haddix, Michelle, Reisser, Moritz, Wurster, Christopher M., Bird, Michael I., and Schmidt, Michael W.I. (2016) Quantification of pyrogenic carbon in the environment: an integration of analytical approaches. Organic Geochemistry, 100. pp. 42-50.

Twaddle, Robin W., Ulm, Sean, Hinton, Jane, Wurster, Christopher M., and Bird, Michael I. (2016) Sclerochronological analysis of archaeological mollusc assemblages: methods, applications and future prospects. Archaeological and Anthropological Sciences, 8 (2). pp. 359-379.

Güerena, David T., Lehmann, Johannes, Walter, Todd, Enders, Akio, Neufeldt, Henry, Odiwour, Holiance, Biwott, Henry, Recha, John, Shepherd, Keith, Barrios, Edmundo, and Wurster, Chris (2015) Terrestrial pyrogenic carbon export to fluvial ecosystems: lessons learned from the White Nile watershed of East Africa. Global Biogeochemical Cycles, 29 (11). pp. 1911-1928.

Wurster, Christopher M., Munksgaard, Niels, Zwart, Costijn, and Bird, Michael (2015) The biogeochemistry of insectivorous cave guano: a case study from insular Southeast Asia. Biogeochemistry, 124 (1-3). pp. 163-175.

Wurster, Christopher M., McBeath, Anna V., and Bird, Michael I. (2015) The carbon isotope composition of semi-labile and stable pyrogenic carbon in a thermosequence of C₃ and C₄ derived char. Organic Geochemistry, 81. pp. 20-26.

Goodrick, Iain, Nelson, Paul N., Banabas, Murom, Wurster, Christopher M., and Bird, Michael I. (2015) Soil carbon balance following conversion of grassland to oil palm. GCB Bioenergy, 7 (2). pp. 263-272.

McBeath, Anna V., Wurster, Christopher M., and Bird, Michael I. (2015) Influence of feedstock properties and pyrolysis conditions on biochar carbon stability as determined by hydrogen pyrolysis. Biomass & Bioenergy, 73. pp. 155-173.

Foereid, Bente, Lehmann, Johannes, Wurster, Christopher, and Bird, Michael (2015) Presence of black carbon in soil due to forest fire in the New Jersey Pine Barrens. Journal of Earth Science and Engineering, 5. pp. 91-97.

Saiz, G., Wynn, J.G., Wurster, C.M., Goodrick, I., Nelson, P.N., and Bird, M.I. (2015) Pyrogenic carbon from tropical savanna burning: production and stable isotope composition. Biogeosciences, 12. pp. 1849-1863.

Saiz, G., Bird, M., Wurster, C., Quesada, C.A., Ascough, P., Domingues, T., Schrodt, F., Schwarz, M., Feldpausch, T.R., Veenendaal, E., Djagbletey, G., Jacobsen, G., Hien, F., Compaore, H., Diallo, A., and Lloyd, J. (2015) The influence of C3 and C4 vegetation on soil organic matter dynamics in contrasting semi-natural tropical ecosystems. Biogeosciences, 12. pp. 5041-5059.

Bird, Michael I., Wynn, Jonathan G., Saiz, Gustavo, Wurster, Christopher M., and McBeath, Anna (2015) The pyrogenic carbon cycle. Annual Review of Earth and Planetary Sciences, 43. pp. 273-298.

Salesse, K, Dufour, E., Lebon, M., Wurster, C., Castex, D., Bruzek, J., and Zazzo, A. (2014) Variability of bone preservation in a confined environment: the case of the catacomb of Sts Peter and Marcellinus (Rome, Italy). Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, 416. 43 - 54.

Munksgaard, Niels C., Cheesman, Alexander W., Wurster, Chris M., Cernusak, Lucas A., and Bird, Michael I. (2014) Microwave extraction–isotope ratio infrared spectroscopy (ME-IRIS): a novel technique for rapid extraction and in-line analysis of δ18O and δ2H values of water in plants, soils and insects. Rapid Communications in Mass Spectrometry, 28 (20). pp. 2151-2161.

Bird, Michael I., Levchenko, Vladimir, Ascough, Philippa L., Meredith, Will, Wurster, Christopher M., Williams, Alan, Tilston, Emma L., Snape, Colin E., and Apperley, David C. (2014) The efficiency of charcoal decontamination for radiocarbon dating by three pre-treatments: ABOX, ABA and hypy. Quaternary Geochronology, 22. pp. 25-32.

Saiz, Gustavo, Goodrick, Iain, Wurster, Christopher M., Zimmermann, Michael, Nelson, Paul N., and Bird, Michael I. (2014) Charcoal re-combustion efficiency in tropical savannas. Geoderma, 219-220. pp. 40-45.

Munksgaard, Niels C., Davies, Kalu, Wurster, Chris M., Bass, Adrian M., and Bird, Michael I. (2013) Field-based cavity ring-down spectrometry of δ13C in soil-respired CO2. Isotopes in Environmental and Health Studies, 49 (2). pp. 232-242.

Bird, Michael I., Hutley, Lindsay B., Lawes, Michael J., Lloyd, Jon, Luly, Jon G., Ridd, Peter V., Roberts, Richard G., Ulm, Sean, and Wurster, Chris M. (2013) Humans, megafauna and environmental change in tropical Australia. Journal of Quaternary Science, 28 (5). pp. 439-452.

Wurster, Christopher M., Saiz, Gustavo, Schneider, Maximilian P.W., Schmidt, Michael W.I., and Bird, Michael I. (2013) Quantifying pyrogenic carbon from thermosequences of wood and grass using hydrogen pyrolysis. Organic Geochemistry, 62. pp. 28-32.

Hanson, N.N., Wurster, C.M., and Todd, C.D. (2013) Reconstructing marine life-history strategies of wild Atlantic salmon from the stable isotope composition of otoliths. Marine Ecology Progress Series, 475. pp. 249-266.

Wurster, Christopher M., Lloyd, Jon, Goodrick, Iain, Saiz, Gustavo, and Bird, Michael I. (2012) Quantifying the abundance and stable isotope composition of pyrogenic carbon using hydrogen pyrolysis. Rapid Communications in Mass Spectrometry, 26 (23). pp. 2690-2696.

Munksgaard, N.C., Wurster, C.M., Bass, A., Zagorskis, I., and Bird, M.I. (2012) First continuous shipboard δ18O and δD measurements in sea water by diffusion sampling: cavity ring-down spectrometry. Environmental Chemistry Letters, 10 (3). pp. 301-307.

Bass, Adrian M., Bird, Michael I., Munksgaard, Niels C., and Wurster, Christopher M. (2012) ISO-CADICA: isotopic - continuous, automated dissolved inorganic carbon analyser. Rapid Communications in Mass Spectrometry, 26 (6). pp. 639-644.

Bird, Michael I., Wurster, Christopher M., de Paula Silva, Pedro H., Paul, Nicholas A., and de Nys, Rocky (2012) Algal biochar: effects and applications. GCB Bioenergy, 4 (1). pp. 61-69.

Salesse, Kevin, Dufour, Élise, Wurster, Chris, Bruzek, Jaroslav, Giuliani, Raffaella, and Castex, Dominique (2012) Contributions of phenetic relationship and stable isotope analysis (δ13C, δ15N, δ18O) to the study of a mortality crisis in the catacomb of Saints Peter and Marcellinus in Rome (1st-3rd century AD). In: American Journal of Physical Anthropology (147) p. 257. From: 81st annual meeting of the American Association of Physical Anthropologists, April 11-14, 2012, Portland, OR USA.

Munksgaard, N.C., Wurster, C.M., Bass, A., and Bird, M.I. (2012) Extreme short-term stable isotope variability revealed by continuous rainwater analysis. Hydrological Processes, 26 (23). pp. 3630-3634.

Zimmermann, Michael, Bird, Michael I., Wurster, Chrisopher, Saiz, Gustavo, Goodrick, Iain, Barta, Jiri, Capek, Petr, Santruckova, Hana, and Smernik, Ronald (2012) Rapid degradation of pyrogenic carbon. Global Change Biology, 18 (11). pp. 3306-3316.

Wurster, Christopher M., Robertson, Jack, Westcott, David A., Dryden, Bart, Zazzo, Antoine, and Bird, Michael I. (2012) Utilization of sugarcane habitat by feral pig (Sus scrofa) in Northern Tropical Queensland: evidence from the stable isotope composition of hair. PLoS ONE, 7 (9). e43538. pp. 1-8.

Goodrick, Iain, Nelson, Paul, Banabas, Murom, Wurster, Chris, and Bird, Michael (2012) Soil carbon balance following conversion of grassland to oil palm. In: Soil solutions for diverse landscapes. p. 1. From: Joint ASSI and NZSSS Soil Science Conference: Soil solutions for diverse landscapes, 2-7 December 2012, Hobart, Australia. (Unpublished)

Munksgaard, Niels C., Wurster, Chris M., and Bird, Michael I. (2011) Continuous analysis of δ18O and δD values of water by diffusion sampling cavity ring-down spectrometry: a novel sampling device for unattended field monitoring of precipitation, ground and surface waters. Rapid Communications in Mass Spectrometry, 25 (24). pp. 3706-3712.

Wurster, Christopher (2011) Deep in the dung. Australasian Science, March. pp. 17-20.

Bird, Michael I., Wurster, Christopher M., de Paula Silva, Pedro H., Bass, Adrian M., and de Nys, Rocky (2011) Algal biochar: production and properties. Bioresource Technology, 102 (2). 1886- 1891.

Saiz, G., Goodrick, I., Wurster, C., Nelson, P., Wynn, J., and Bird, M. (2011) Explaining the imbalance in δ13C between soil and biomass in fire-prone tropical savannas. In: Abstracts from 11th Australasian Environmental Isotopes Conference and 4th Australasian Hydrogeology Research Conference. p. 52. From: 11th Australasian Environmental Isotopes Conference and 4th Australasian Hydrogeology Research Conference, 12-14 July 2011, Cairns, QLD, Australia.

Saiz, Gustavo, Goodrick, Iain, Wurster, Christopher, Nelson, Paul, Wynn, Jonathan, and Bird, Michael (2011) Hydrogen Pyrolysis as a new tool to assess the abundance and isotopic composition of Pyrogenic Carbon. In: Geophysical Research Abstracts (13) p. 1. From: European Geosciences Union General Assembly 2011, 3-8 April 2011, Vienna, Austria.

Hanson, N.N., Wurster, C.M., EIMF, and Todd, C.D. (2010) Comparison of secondary ion mass spectrometry and micromilling/continuous flow isotope ratio mass spectrometry techniques used to acquire intra-otolith δ18O values of wild Atlantic salmon (Salmo salar). Rapid Communications in Mass Spectrometry, 24 (17). pp. 2491-2498.

Bird, Michael I., Austin, William E.N., Wurster, Christopher M., Fifield, L. Ketih, Mojtahid, Meryem, and Sargeant, Chris (2010) Punctuated eustatic sea-level rise in the early mid-Holocene. Geology, 38 (9). pp. 803-806.

Wurster, Christopher M., Bird, Michael I., Bull, Ian D., Creed, Frances, Bryant, Charlotte, Dungait, Jennifer A.J., and Paz, Victor (2010) Forest contraction in north equatorial Southeast Asia during the Last Glacial Period. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 107 (35). pp. 15508-15511.

Wurster, C.M., McFarlane, D.A., Bird, M.I., Ascough, P., and Athfield, N.B. (2010) Stable isotopes of subfossil bat guano as a long-term environmental archive: insights from a Grand Canyon cave deposit. Journal of Cave and Karst Studies, 72 (2). pp. 111-121.

Wurster, Christopher M., Saiz, Gustavo, Calder, Angus, and Bird, Michael I. (2010) Recovery of organic matter from mineral-rich sediment and soils for stable isotope analyses using static dense media. Rapid Communications in Mass Spectrometry, 24 (1). pp. 165-168.

Wurster, Christopher, Bird, Michael, and Mcfarlane, Donald (2010) Bat guano: record of climate change. In: UNSPECIFIED, (ed.) McGraw-Hill Yearbook of Science & Technology 2010. McGraw-Hill Yearbook of Science & Technology . McGraw-Hill, New York, NY, USA, pp. 34-36.

Wurster, Christopher M., Bird, Michael I., Bull, Ian, Bryant, Charlotte, and Ascough, Philippa (2009) A protocol for radiocarbon dating tropical subfossil cave Guano. Radiocarbon, 51 (3). pp. 977-896.

Hanson, N.N., Wurster, C.M., Bird, M.I., and Boyd, I.L. (2009) Intrinsic and extrinsic forcing in life histories: patterns of growth and stable isotopes in male Antarctic fur seal teeth. Marine Ecology Progress Series, 388. pp. 263-272.

Bird, Michael I., Tait, Elaine, Wurster, Christopher M., and Furness, Robert W. (2008) Stable carbon and nitrogen isotope analysis of avian uric acid. Rapid Communications in Mass Spectrometry, 22 (21). pp. 3393-3400.

Wurster, Christopher M., Patterson, William P., McFarlane, Donald A., Wassenaar, Leonard I., Hobson, Keith A., Beavan Athfield, Nancy, and Bird, Michael I. (2008) Stable carbon and hydrogen isotopes from bat guano in the Grand Canyon, USA, reveal Younger Dryas and 8.2 ka events. Geology, 36 (9). pp. 683-686.

Dufour, Elise, Gerdeaux, Daniel, and Wurster, Christopher M. (2007) Whitefish (Coregonus lavaretus) respiration rate governs intra-otolith variation of δ13C values in Lake Annecy. Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences, 64 (12). pp. 1736-1746.

Wurster, Christopher M., McFarlane, Donald A., and Bird, Michael I. (2007) Spatial and temporal expression of vegetation and atmospheric variability from stable carbon and nitrogen isotope analysis of bat guano in the southern United States. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, 71 (13). pp. 3302-3310.

Wurster, C.M., Patterson, W.P., Stewart, D.J., Bowlby, J.N., and Stewart, T.J. (2005) Thermal histories, stress, and metabolic rates of chinook salmon (Oncorhynchus tshawytscha) in Lake Ontario: evidence from intra-otolith stable isotope analyses. Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences, 62 (3). pp. 700-713.

Wurster, Christopher M., and Patterson, William P. (2003) Metabolic rate of late Holocene freshwater fish: evidence from δ13C values of otoliths. Paleobiology, 29 (4). pp. 492-505.

Wurster, Christopher M., and Patterson, William P. (2001) Seasonal variation in stable oxygen and carbon isotope values recovered from modern lacustrine freshwater mollusks: paleoclimatological implications for sub-weekly temperature records. Journal of Paleolimnology, 26 (2). pp. 205-218.

Wurster, Christopher M., and Patterson, William P. (2001) Late Holocene climate change for the eastern interior United States: evidence from high-resolution δ18O values of sagittal otoliths. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, 170 (1-2). pp. 81-100.

Wurster, Christopher M., Patterson, William P., and Cheatham, Michael M. (1999) Advances in micromilling techniques: a new apparatus for acquiring high-resolution oxygen and carbon stable isotope values and major/minor elemental ratios from accretionary carbonate. Computers & Geosciences, 25 (10). pp. 1159-1166.