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Ascough, Philippa L., Bird, Michael I., Meredith, Will, and Snape, Colin E. (2016) Dates and fates of pyrogenic carbon: using spectroscopy to understand a "missing" global carbon sink. Spectroscopy Europe, 28 (2). pp. 6-9.

Sohel, Shawkat Islam, Alamgir, Mohammed, Akhter, Sayma, and Rahman, Mizanur (2015) Carbon storage in a bamboo (Bambusa vulgaris) plantation in the degraded tropical forests: implications for policy development. Land Use Policy, 49. pp. 142-151.

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.

Ricart, Aurora M., York, Paul H., Rasheed, Michael A., Pérez, Marta, Romero, Javier, Bryant, Catherine V., and Macreadie, Peter I. (2015) Variability of sedimentary organic carbon in patchy seagrass landscapes. Marine Pollution Bulletin, 100 (1). pp. 476-482.

Nelson, Paul N., Banabas, Murom, Goodrick, Iain, Webb, Michael J., Huth, Neil I., and O'Grady, Damien (2015) Soil sampling in oil palm plantations: a practical design that accounts for lateral variability at the tree scale. Plant and Soil, 394 (1-2). pp. 421-429.

Roberts, David A., Paul, Nicholas A., Cole, Andrew J., and De Nys, Rocky (2015) From waste water treatment to land management: conversion of aquatic biomass to biochar for soil amelioration and the fortification of crops with essential trace elements. Journal of Environmental Management, 157. pp. 60-68.

Zimmermann, M., Davies, K., Peña de Zimmermann, V.T.V., and Bird, M.I. (2015) Impact of temperature and moisture on heterotrophic soil respiration along a moist tropical forest gradient in Australia. Soil Research, 53 (3). pp. 286-297.

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.

Jenberu, Getachew, Bird, Michael I., Nelson, Paul N., and Bass, Adrian M. (2015) The ameliorating effects of biochar and compost on soil quality and plant growth on a Ferralsol. Soil Research, 53 (1). pp. 1-12.

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.

Karthikeyan, O.P., Karthigeyan, C.P., Cirés, Samuel, and Heimann, Kirsten (2015) Review of sustainable methane mitigation and bio-polymer production. Critical Reviews in Environmental Science and Technology, 45. pp. 1579-1610.

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.

Agegnehu, G., vanBeek, C., and Bird, M.I. (2014) Influence of integrated soil fertility management in wheat and tef productivity and soil chemical properties in the highland tropical environment. Journal of Soil Science and Plant Nutrition, 14 (3). pp. 532-545.

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.

Bass, Adrian M., Munksgaard, N.C., LeBlanc, M., Tweed, S., and Bird, M.I. (2014) Contrasting carbon export dynamics of human impacted and pristine tropical catchments in response to a short-lived discharge event. Hydrological Processes, 20 (4). pp. 1835-1843.

McBeath, Anna V., Lehmann, Johannes, Krull, Evelyn S., and Smernik, Ronald J. (2014) The influence of feedstock and production temperature on biochar carbon chemistry: a solid-state 13C NMR study. Biomass & Bioenergy, 60. pp. 121-129.

Macreadie, Peter I., York, Paul H., Sherman, Craig D.H., Keough, Michael J., Ross, D. Jeff, Ricart, Aurora M., and Smith, Timothy M. (2014) No detectable impact of small‑scale disturbances on 'blue carbon' within seagrass beds. Marine Biology, 161 (12). pp. 2939-2944.

Meredith, W., Ascough, P.L., Bird, M.I., Large, D.J., Snape, C.E., Song, J., Sun, Y., and Tilston, E.L. (2013) Direct evidence from hydropyrolysis for the retention of long alkyl moieties in black carbon fractions isolated by acidified dichromate oxidation. Journal of Analytical and Applied Pyrolysis, 103. pp. 232-239.

Dieleman, Wouter I. J., Venter, Michelle, Ramachandra, Anurag, Krockenberger, Andrew K., and Bird, Michael I. (2013) Soil carbon stocks vary predictably with altitude in tropical forests: implications for soil carbon storage. Geoderma, 204-205. pp. 59-67.

McBeath, Anna V., Smernik, Ronald J., and Krull, Evelyn S. (2013) A demonstration of the high variability of chars produced from wood in bushfires. Organic Geochemistry, 55. pp. 38-44.

Stockmann, Uta, Adams, Mark A., Crawford, John W., Field, Damien J., Henakaarchchi, Nilusha, Jenkins, Meaghan, Minasny, Budiman, McBratney, Alex B., de Courcelles, Vivien de Remy, Singh, Kanika, Wheeler, Ichsani, Abbott, Lynette, Angers, Denis A., Baldock, Jeffrey, Bird, Michael, Brookes, Philip C., Chenu, Claire, Jastrowh, Julie D., Lal, Rattan, Lehmann, Johannes, O'Donnell, Anthony G., Parton, William J., Whitehead, David, and Zimmermann, Michael (2013) The knowns, known unknowns and unknowns of sequestration of soil organic carbon. Agriculture, Ecosystems and Environment, 164. pp. 80-99.

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.

Zimmermann, Michael, and Bird, Michael I. (2012) Temperature sensitivity of tropical forest soil respiration increase along an altitudinal gradient with ongoing decomposition. Geoderma, 187-188. pp. 8-15.

Saiz, Gustavo, Bird, Michael I., Domingues, Tomas, Schrodt, Franziska, Schwarz, Michael, Feldpausch, Ted R., Veenendaal, Elmar, Djagbletey, Gloria, Hien, Fidele, Compaore, Halidou, Diallo, Adama, and Lloyd, Jon (2012) Variation in soil carbon stocks and their determinants across a precipitation gradient in West Africa. Global Change Biology, 18 (5). pp. 1670-1683.

Butler, Andre, Meir, Patrick, Saiz, Gustavo, Maracahipes, Leandro, Marimon, Beatriz Schwantes, and Grace, John (2012) Annual variation in soil respiration and its component parts in two structurally contrasting woody savannas in Central Brazil. Plant and Soil, 352 (1-2). pp. 129-142.

Meredith, W., Ascough, P.L., Bird, M. I., Large, D. J., Snape, C. E., Sun, Y., and Tilston, E.L. (2012) Assessment of hydropyrolysis as a method for the quantification of black carbon using standard reference materials. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, 97. pp. 131-147.

Zimmermann, Michael, Leifeld, Jens, Conen, Franz, Bird, Michael I., and Meir, Patrick (2012) Can composition and physical protection of soil organic matter explain soil respiration temperature sensitivity? Biogeochemistry, 107 (1-3). 423- 436.

Preece, Noel D., Crowley, Gabriel M., Lawes, Michael J., and Van Oosterzee, Penny (2012) Comparing above-ground biomass among forest types in the Wet Tropics: small stems and plantation types matter in carbon accounting. Forest Ecology and Management, 264. pp. 228-237.

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.

McBeath, Anna V., Smernik, Ronald J., Schneider, Maximilian P.W., Schmidt, Michael W.I., and Plant, Emma L. (2011) Determination of the aromaticity and the degree of aromatic condensation of a thermosequence of wood charcoal using NMR. Organic Geochemistry, 42 (10). pp. 1194-1202.

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.

Warren-Rhodes, Kimberley, Schwarz, Anne-Maree, Boyle, Linda Ng, Albert, Joelle, Agalo, Stephen Suti, Warren, Regon, Bana, Andrew, Paul, Chris, Kodosiku, Ringo, Bosma, Wilko, Yee, Douglas, Rönnbäck, Patrik, Crona, Beatrice, and Duke, Norm (2011) Mangrove ecosystem services and the potential for carbon revenue programmes in Solomon Islands. Environmental Conservation, 38 (4). pp. 485-496.

Bass, Adrian M., Waldron, Susan, Preston, Tom, and Adams, Colin E. (2010) Net pelagic heterotrophy in mesotrophic and oligotrophic basins of a large, temperate lake. Hydrobiologia, 652 (1). pp. 363-375.

Gauthier, Anthony, Amiotte-Suchet, Philippe, Nelson, Paul N., Lévêque, Jean, Zeller, Bernd, and Hénault, Catherine (2010) Dynamics of the water extractable organic carbon pool during mineralisation in soils from a Douglas fir plantation and an oak-beech forest - an incubation experiment. Plant and Soil, 330 (1/2). 465 -479 .

Shoo, Luke P., and Valdez Ramirez, Vanessa (2010) Global potential net primary production predicted from vegetation class, precipitation, and temperature: comment. Ecology, 91 (3). pp. 921-923.

Ascough, Philippa L., Sturrock, Craig J., and Bird, Michael I. (2010) Investigation of growth responses in saprophytic fungi to charred biomass. Isotopes in Environmental and Health Studies, 46 (1). pp. 64-77.

Zimmermann, Michael, Meir, Patrick, Silman, Miles R., Fedders, Anna, Gibbon, Adam, Malhi, Yadvinder, Urrego, Dunia H., Bush, Mark B., Feeley, Kenneth J., Garcia, Katrina C., Dargie, Greta C., Farfan, Wiliam R., Goetz, Bradley P., Johnson, Wesley T., Kline, Krystle M., Modi, Andrew T., Rurau, Natividad M.Q., Staudt, Brian T., and Zamora, Flor (2010) No differences in soil carbon stocks across the tree line in the Peruvian Andes. Ecosystems, 13 (1). pp. 62-74.

Janssens, A., Dieleman, W., Luyssaert, S., Subke, J-A., Reichstein, M., Ceulemans, R., Ciais, P., Dolman, A.J., Grace, J., Matteucci, G., Papale, D., Piao, S.L., Schulze, E-D., Tang, J., and Law, B.E. (2010) Reduction of forest soil respiration in response to nitrogen deposition. Nature Geoscience, 3 (5). pp. 315-322.

Bass, Adrian M., Waldron, Susan, Preston, Tom, Adams, Colin E., and Drummond, Jane (2010) Temporal and spatial heterogeneity in lacustrine δ13CDIC and δ18ODO signatures in a large mid-latitude temperate lake. Journal of Limnology, 69 (2). pp. 341-349.

Zimmermann, M., Meir, P., Bird, M.I., Malhi, Y., and Ccahuana, A.J.Q. (2009) Climate dependence of heterotrophic soil respiration from a soil-translocation experiment along a 3000 m tropical forest altitudinal gradient. European Journal of Soil Science, 60 (6). pp. 895-906.

McBeath, Anna V., and Smernik, Ronald J. (2009) Variation in the degree of aromatic condensation of chars. Organic Geochemistry, 40 (12). pp. 1161-1168.

Dondini, Marta, Hastings, Astley, Saiz, Gustavo, Jones, Michael B., and Smith, Pete (2009) The potential of Miscanthus to sequester carbon in soils: comparing field measurements in Carlow, Ireland to model predictions. GCB Bioenergy, 1 (6). pp. 413-425.

Zimmermann, Michael, Meir, Patrick, Bird, Michael, Malhi, Yadvinder, and Ccahuana, Adan (2009) Litter contribution to diurnal and annual soil respiration in a tropical montane cloud forest. Soil Biology and Biochemistry, 41 (6). pp. 1338-1340.

Woodward, K. Benjamin, Fellows, Christine S., Conway, Carol L., and Hunter, Heather M. (2009) Nitrate removal, denitrification and nitrous oxide production in the riparian zone of an ephemeral stream. Soil Biology and Biochemistry, 41 (4). 671 - 680.

Leifeld, Jens, Zimmermann, Michael, Fuhrer, Jürg, and Conen, Franz (2009) Storage and turnover of carbon in grassland soils along an elevation gradient in the Swiss Alps. Global Change Biology, 15 (3). pp. 668-679.

Wynn, Jonathan G., and Bird, Michael I. (2008) Environmental controls on the stable carbon isotopic composition of soil organic carbon: implications for modelling the distribution of C3 and C4 plants, Australia. Tellus Series B: Chemical and Physical Meteorology, 60 (4). pp. 604-621.

Bouillon, Steven, Borges, Alberto V., Castañeda-Moya, Edward, Diele, Karen, Dittmar, Thorsten, Duke, Norman C., Kristensen, Erik, Lee, Shing Y., Marchand, Cyril, Middelburg, Jack J., Rivera-Monroy, Victor H., Smith, Thomas, and Twilley, Robert R. (2008) Mangrove production and carbon sinks: a revision of global budget estimates. Global Biogeochemical Cycles, 22 (2). GB2013.

Conen, F., Zimmermann, M., Leifeld, J., Seth, B., and Alewell, C. (2008) Relative stability of soil carbon revealed by shifts in δ15N and C:N ratio. Biogeosciences, 5 (1). pp. 123-128.

Zimmermann, M., Leifeld, J., Schmidt, M.W.I., Smith, P., and Fuhrer, J. (2007) Measured soil organic matter fractions can be related to pools in the RothC model. European Journal of Soil Science, 58 (3). pp. 658-667.

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Book Chapter

Alamgir, Mohammed, and Turton, Stephen M. (2014) Climate change and organic carbon storage in Bangladesh forests. In: Tuteja, Narenda, and Gill, Sarvajeet S., (eds.) Climate Change and Plant Abiotic Stress Tolerance. Wiley-Blackwell, Weinheim, Germany, pp. 881-902.

Conference Item

Agegnehu, Getachew, Nelson, Paul N., and Bird, Michael I. (2016) Impact of biochar, compost and biochar-compost on crop yield, soil quality and greenhouse gas emissions in agricultural soils. In: Proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Life Science & Biological Engineering. 2141. pp. 194-209. From: LSBE: 5th International Conference on Life Science & Biological Engineering, 22-24 November 2016, Kyoto, Japan.

Nelson, Paul, Dickinson, Geoff, Pattison, Tony, Masters, Bronwyn, Armour, John, and Weinert, Matt (2015) Bananas and mangoes: fertiliser and ground cover management to benefit production, soil and the environment. In: Abstracts from TropAg2015. P202. pp. 182-183. From: TropAg 2015: Tropical Agriculture Conference: meeting the productivity challenge in the Tropics, 16-18 November 2015, Brisbane, QLD, Australia.

Macreadie, Peter, York, Paul, Rasheed, Michael, Bryant, Catherine, Ricart, Aurora, Nielsen, Daniel, Fontes, Maria, Atwood, Tricia, Seymour, Justin, Petrou, Katherina, Kelleway, Jeffrey, Thomson, Alexandra, Trevathan-Tackett, Stacey, Connolly, Rod, and Ralph, Peter (2015) Hot spots and hot moments in seagrass 'blue carbon' science. In: Abstracts from 52nd Australian Marine Science Association Conference. p. 206. From: AMSA 2015: Australian Marine Science Association: Estuaries to Oceans, 5-9 July 2015, Geelong, Victoria.

Bass, Adrian M., Bird, Michael I., Jenberu, Getachew, Beavan, Amy, and Nelson, Paul N. (2014) Biochar as a soil amendment in tropical Australia: crop yield and growth, greenhouse gas fluxes and soil chemistry. In: Abstracts from the National Soil Science Conference. From: National Soil Science Conference, 23-27 November 2014, Melbourne, VIC, Australia.

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)

Davies, Kalu J.E., Lloyd, Jon, Nelson, Paul N., Liddell, Michael J., and Bird, Michael I. (2012) Spatial heterogeneity of soil-derived CO2 efflux in three tropical Australian savannas. 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)

Thesis

Masters, Bronwyn Leanne (2019) Nitrous oxide emissions from soil in mango and banana fields: effects of nitrogen rate, fertiliser type, and ground cover practices. Masters (Research) thesis, James Cook University.

Goodrick, Iain (2018) Soil carbon dynamics under oil palm plantations. PhD thesis, James Cook University.

Jenberu, Getachew Agegnehu (2017) Biochar, compost and biochar-compost: effects on crop performance, soil quality and greenhouse gas emissions in tropical agricultural soils. PhD thesis, James Cook University.

Davies, Kalu J.E. (2017) Carbon cycle processes in tropical savannas of far North Queensland, Australia. PhD thesis, James Cook University.

Salas Castelo, Edison Marcelo (2017) The role of factors that influence the adoption of the Australian Carbon Farming Initiative-Emissions Reduction Fund: a mixed methods study. PhD thesis, James Cook University.

Pandolfo Paz, Claudia (2016) Patterns of secondary forest recovery in two soil types. PhD thesis, James Cook University.

Dieleman, Wouter (2012) Global change effects on soil C and soil C cycling. PhD thesis, James Cook University.