The following is a list of recent publications from the Ecosystems Research Group (1996-)
2007
Refereed journals
Abe, H., Katayama, A., Sah, B.P., Toriu, T., Samy, S., Pheach, P., Adams, M.A. and Grierson, P.F. 2007 Potential for rural electrification based on biomass gasification in Cambodia. Biomass and Bioenergy 31, 656-664
Cookson, W.R., O’Donnell, A.J., Grant, C.D., Grierson, P.F. and Murphy, D.V. 2007 Impact of ecosystem management on microbial community level physiological profiles of postmining forest rehabilitation. Microbial Ecology DOI 10.1007/s00248-007-9278-2
Cullen, L.E. and Grierson P.F. 2007 A stable oxygen, but not carbon, isotope chronology of Callitris columellaris reflects recent climate change in north-western Australia Climatic Change 85, 213-222
Ford, D.J., Cookson, W.R., Adams, M.A. and Grierson, P.F. 2007 Role of soil drying in nitrogen mineralization and microbial community function in semi-arid grasslands of north-west Australia Soil Biology and Biochemistry 39 (7) 1557-1569
Irwin, M.J., Bougoure, J.J. and Dearnaley, J.D.W. 2007 Pterostylis nutans (Orchidaceae) has a specific association with two Ceratobasidium root-associated fungi across its range in eastern Australia. Mycoscience 48 231-239
Livesley, S.J., Adams, M.A. and Grierson, P.F. 2007 Soil water nitrate and ammonium dynamics under an effluent irrigated eucalypt plantation. Journal of Environmental Quality 36, 1883-1894.
Macfarlane C, Grigg A and Evangelista C 2007 Estimating forest leaf area using cover and fullframe fisheye photography: thinking inside the circle. Agricultural and Forest Meteorology. submitted October 2006
Macfarlane C, Hoffman M, Eamus D, Kerp N, Adams M A, Higginson S, McMurtrie R 2007 Estimation of leaf area index in eucalypt forest using digital photography. Agricultural and Forest Meteorology. accepted October 2006.
Proceedings, Conference Abstracts and Presentations
Bougoure, J., Brundrett, M. and Grierson, P.F. 2007 Carbohydrate acquisition and transfer mechanisms of the critically endangered mycoheterotrophic Rhizanthella gardneri Proceedings - 4th International Symposium on Physiological Processes in Roots of Woody Plants. Bangor, Wales, 16-20th September 2007 Oral Presentation
Grierson, P.F., Augus, D., Duncan, G. Ludwig, M. and Adams, MA 2007 Water acquisition in dynamic environments. Proceedings – 4th International Symposium on Physiological Processes in Roots of Woody Plants. Bangor, Wales 16-20th September 2007 Oral Presentation
Flaherty C, O’Donnell A, McCaw JL, Grierson PF 2007. Persistence of Callitris patches in a highly flammable landscape, south Western Australia. Ecological Society of Australia. Adapting to Change: Society - Environment - Science. Perth, 25-30th November 2007. Poster presentation (Best Poster presentation by a student).
O’Donnell A, McCaw JL, Boer MM, Li S, Grierson PF 2007. Reconstructing the fire history of an unmanaged semi-arid landscape: Lake Johnston Region, WA. Ecological Society of Australia. Adapting to Change: Society - Environment - Science. Perth, 25-30 November 2007. Oral Presentation (Australian Flora Award for Best Oral Paper Presentation by a student).
O’Donnell, A., McCaw, L., Boer, M. and Grierson, P. 2007 Reconstructing the fire history of an unmanaged semi-arid landscape using remote sensing and dendrochronology, The joint AFAC / Bushfire CRC Conference, Hobart, Tasmania, 19-21st September 2007
Page, G.F.M., Cullen, L.E. and Grierson, P.F. 2007 Do growth form and phyllode morphology affect water uptake strategies in Acacia aneura. Proceedings – 4th International Symposium on Physiological Processes in Roots of Woody Plants. Bangor, Wales 16-20th September 2007 Poster Presentation
Pekin B., Boer M., Macfarlane C., Wittkuhn R., McCaw L., and Grierson P.F. 2007 Impact of fire history on productivity and structure within the jarrah forest of south-western Australia. The 11th International Mediterranean Ecosystems Conference September 2007, Perth, Western Australia. Oral presentation.
Petrone KC, Hughes CS, Norris JR and Grierson PF. 2007. Bioavailability, composition and fate of dissolved organic matter, Swan-Canning Catchments, Western Australia. Eos Trans. AGU, 87(52), Fall Meet. Suppl. Abstract B11A-0066 Poster presentation
2006
Refereed journals
Cookson, W.R., Muller, C., O’Brien, P.A., Murphy, D.V. and Grierson, P.F. 2006 Nitrogen dynamics in an Australian semiearid grassland soil. Ecology 87 (8) 2047-2057
Cullen, L.E. and Grierson P.F. 2006 Is cellulose extraction necessary for developing stable carbon and oxygen isotopes chronologies from Callitirs glaucophylla? Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 236 206-216.
Zeng FJ, Bleby TM, Landman PA, Adams MA and Arndt SK 2006 Water and nutrient dynamics in surface roots and soils are not modified by short-term flooding of phreatophytic plants in a hyperarid desert. Plant & Soil 279, 129-139
Books & book chapters
Adams M A, Bencini R and Macfarlane C 2006 Climate in Ecology: an Australian Persepctive. 2nd Revised Edition, (Eds Attiwill P and Wilson B), Oxford University Press, Oxford. ISBN: 0195550420
Reports
Comerford, N.B., Cropper, W., Grierson, P.F., Araujo, Q., Jose S. 2006. Modeling P bioavailability and uptake in agroforestry systems (Modelagem da Biodisponibilidade e Absorção de P em Sistemas Agroflorestais). To be presented at IV Congresso Brasileiro de Sistemas Agroflorestais. 24-27 October 2006. Universidade Estadual do Norte Flumiense Darcy Ribeiro (30 page book chapter to be published by CABI)
2005
Refereed journals
Boer, M.M., Grierson, P.F. and Gill, A.M. 2005 Power-law behaviour of wildland fires reflects fractality of fire weather? Geophysical Research Abstracts 7, 06097
Bougoure, J.J. and Dearnaley, J.D.W 2005 The fungal endophytes of Dipodium variegatum (Orchidaceae). Australasian Mycologist 24 (1) 15-19.
Bougoure, J.J., Bougoure, D.S., Cairney, J.W.G. and Dearnaley, J.D.W 2005 ITS-RFLP and sequence analysis of endophytes from Acaianthus, Caladenia and Pterostylis (Orchidaceae) in southeastern Queensland. Mycological Research. 109 (4) 452-460.
Criddle R S, Hansen L D, Smith B N, Macfarlane C, Church J N, Thygerson T, Jovanovic T and Booth T 2005 A thermodynamic law of adaptation of plants to environmental temperatures. Pure and Applied Chemistry, 77, 1425-1444.
Cullen, L E and Macfarlane C 2005 Comparison of cellulose extraction methods for analysis of stable-isotope ratios of carbon and oxygen in plant material. Tree Physiology, 25, 619-625.
Hokmabadi H, Arzani K and Grierson P.F. 2005 Growth, chemical composition and carbon isotope discrimination of pistachio (Pistacia vera L.) rootstock seedlings under salinity. Australian Journal of Agricultural Research 56, 135-144.
Macfarlane C, Hansen L D, Edwards J, Adams M A and White D A 2005 Growth efficiency increases as relative growth rate increases in shoots and roots of Eucalyptus globulus deprived of nitrogen or treated with salt. Tree Physiology, 25, 571-582.
Marschner P, Grierson P.F. and Rengel Z. 2005 Microbial community composition and functioning in the rhizosphere of three Banksia species in native woodland in Western Australia. Applied Soil Ecology 28, 191-201.
Sadler, R. J. 2005 Rule breaking by building a frame for restoration. Conservation Biology 19 (3), 977.
Reports
Cullen LE, Adams MA, Landman PA and Grierson PF 2005 Using stable isotopes to understand tree responses to environmental variation and stress. Report to the Joint FAO/IAEA Division of Nuclear Techniques in Food and Agriculture Coordinated Research Program “The use of nuclear techniques for developing integrated nutrient and water management practices for agroforestry systems”. Ecosystems Research Group, School of Plant Biology, University of Western Australia, 26 pp.
Proceedings, Conference Abstracts and Presentations
McIntyre, R.E.S., Adams, M.A., and Grierson, P.F. 2005 Belowground indicators of riparian ecosystem health in the Pilbara: Soil microbial processes. Tree Health in Arid Riparian Zones Workshop, University of Western Australia. Oral Presentation
McIntyre, R.E.S., Adams, M.A., and Grierson, P.F. 2005 Ancient soils in a sunburnt country: Nutrient and carbon distributions in an Australian dryland river system. North American Benthological Society annual meeting, New Orleans, 2005. Poster Presentation.
Sadler, R., Hazelton, M., and Grierson, P. (2005) Fitting ecological knowledge to remotely sensed long-term monitoring data: a framework from semi-arid grasslands of the Pilbara region of north-western Australia. Proceedings of the 90th Annual Meeting of the Ecological Society of America (Montreal, Canada 7-12 August 2005).
2004
Refereed journals
Bleby TM, Burgess SSO and Adams MA 2004 A validation, comparison and error analysis of two heat-pulse methods for measuring sap flow in Eucalyptus marginata saplings. Functional Plant Biology 31, 645-658.
Hansen L D, Macfarlane C, McKinnon N, Smith B N and Criddle R S (2004) Use of calorespirometric ratios, heat per CO2 and heat per O2, to quantify metabolic paths and energetics of growing cells. Thermochimica Acta, 422:55-61.
Macfarlane C, Adams M A and White D A (2004) Productivity, carbon isotope discrimination and leaf traits of trees of Eucalyptus globulus Labill. are related to stand water balance. Plant, Cell and Environment, 27:1515-1524.
Macfarlane C, White DA and Adams MA 2004 The apparent feed-forward response to vapour pressure deficit of stomata in droughted, field-grown Eucalyptus globulus Labill. Plant, Cell and Environment 27, 1268-1280
Radersma S and Grierson PF 2004 Phosphorus mobilization in agroforestry: Organic anions, phosphatase activity and phosphorus fractions in the rhizosphere. Plant and Soil 259, 209-219.
Books & book chapters
Akkinifesi FK, Rowe EC, Livesley SJ, Kwesiga FR, Vanlauwe B and Alegre JC 2004 Tree root architecture. In Belowground Interactions in Tropical Agroecosystems: Concepts and Models with Multiple Plant Components. (Eds C Ong, M van Noordwijk and G Cadisch). pp 61-81, CABI, UK.
Grierson PF, Smithson P, Nziguheba G, Radersma S and Comerford NB 2004 Phosphorus dymanics and mobilization by plants . In Belowground Interactions in Tropical Agroecosystems: Concepts and Models with Multiple Plant Components. (Eds C Ong, M van Noordwijk and G Cadisch). pp 127-143, CABI, UK.
Reports
Livesley S, Adams MA, Grierson PF and Coote M 2004 Generic techniques in soil process measurements and maonitoring at the Albany Effluent Irrigation Treatment Farm. Report to Water Corporation, 179pp
Proceedings, Conference Abstracts and Presentations
McIntyre, R.E.S., Adams, M.A., and Grierson, P.F. 2004 Mesoscale nutrient distributions in a semi-arid riparian system, Australian Society for Limnology Annual Congress (Adelaide, Australia 2004). Poster Presentation.
Sadler R, Hazelton M and Grierson PF 2004 Spatio-temporal dynamics of semi-arid grasslands: Quantifying ecosystem events. Proceedings Lessons of Lewis and Clark. The Ecological Society of America 89th Annual Meeting (Portland, USA August 1-6, 2004)
Sadler, R., Hazelton, M., and Grierson, P. 2004 Spatio-temporal dynamics of Pilbara grasslands. Proceedings of the 89th Annual Meeting of the Ecological Society of America (Portland, Oregon 1-6 August 2004). Poster Presentation.
Sadler, R., Hazelton, M., and Grierson, P. 2004 Spatio-temporal dynamics of Pilbara grasslands. Proceedings of the 7th International Rangelands Conference (Durban, RSA, 26 July - 1 August 2003). Poster Presentation.
2003
Refereed journals
Bennett LT, Judd TS and Adams MA 2003 Growth and nutrient content of perennial grasslands following burning in semi-arid, sub-tropical Australia. Plant Ecology 164, 185-199
Holm A McR, Watson I W, Loneragan W A and Adams M A 2003 Loss of patch-scale heterogeneity on primary and rainfall-use efficiency in Western Australia. Basic and Applied Ecology 4(6) 569-578
Holm A McR, Cridland S W and Roderick M L 2003 The use of time-integrated NOAA NDVI data and rainfall to access landscape degradation in the arid shrubland of Western Australia. Remote Sensing of Environment 85(2) 145-158
Warren CR, Dreyer E and Adams MA 2003 Photosynthesis-Rubisco relationships in foliage of Pinus sylvestris in response to nitrogen supply and the proposed role of Rubisco and amino acids as nitrogen stores Trees 17, 359-366
Books & book chapters
Adams MA, Grierson PF and Burrows C 2003 Fires, soils and plant nutrition in West Australian forests: a focus on spatial and temporal variability. In: Fire in South-Western Australian Ecosystems: Impacts and Management of Eucalypts (Eds N Burrows and I Abbott), pp 189 – 203. Backhuys Publishers, Leiden, The Netherlands.
Reports
Raison J, Keith H, Barrett D, Burrows W and Grierson P 2003 Spatial Estimates of Biomass in Mature Native Vegetation. National Carbon Accounting System Technical Report No. 44, Australian Greenhouse Office, Canberra, 56 pp.
Proceedings and Conference Abstracts
Burgess S 2003 Direct measurement of water flux in woody roots: procedures, problems and progress. Proceedings Third International Symposium on the Dynamics of Physiological Processes in Woody Roots (Perth, Western Australia 29 Sept – 3 Oct, 2003)
Edwards J 2003 Field-based 3D digitising of woody root architecture – techniques and results. Proceedings Third International Symposium on the Dynamics of Physiological Processes in Woody Roots (Perth, Western Australia 29 Sept – 3 Oct, 2003)
Edwards JG, Adams MA, Bell TL and Grierson PF 2003 Fine root production and turn over in Pinus and Eucalyptus species – an evaluation of methods. Proceedings Third International Symposium on the Dynamics of Physiological Processes in Woody Roots (Perth, Western Australia 29 Sept – 3 Oct, 2003)
Ford DJ, Adams MA and Grierson PF 2003 Does soil chemistry influence vegetation change with time since fire? An example from semi-arid Western Australia. Proceedings VIIth International Rangeland Congress (Durban, South Africa, July 26 – August 1, 2003)
Graham J, Edwards JG, Livesley SJ, Landman PA and Grierson PF 2003 Root anatomy and architecture in relation to water use by Melaleuca argentea W.Fitz. Proceedings Third International Symposium on the Dynamics of Physiological Processes in Woody Roots (Perth, Western Australia 29 Sept – 3 Oct, 2003)
Graham J, Landman PA, Grierson PF and Adams MA 2003 Root hydraulic architecture and water use by the riparian species Melaleuca argentea W.Fitz. in rangelands of north Western Australia. Proceedings VIIth International Rangeland Congress (Durban, South Africa, July 26 – August 1, 2003)
Grierson PF and Adams MA 2003 Fine root biomass and carbon turnover in a jarrah (Eucalyptus marginata Donn ex Sm.) forest in south-western Australia. Proceedings Third International Symposium on the Dynamics of Physiological Processes in Woody Roots (Perth, Western Australia 29 Sept – 3 Oct, 2003)
Grierson PF, Bowler KD and Byrne L 2003 Phosphorus forms and distribution in cluster roots of Banksia grandis, and in Eucalyptus marginata roots inoculated with the ectomycorrhizal fungus Pisolithus alba. Proceedings Third International Symposium on the Dynamics of Physiological Processes in Woody Roots (Perth, Western Australia 29 Sept – 3 Oct, 2003)
Grierson PF, Landman PA and Adams MA 2003 Ecological sustainability and changing land use in the Pilbara region of Western Australia – a question of scale and dymanics? Proceedings VIIth International Rangeland Congress (Durban, South Africa, July 26 – August 1, 2003)
Grierson PF, Clode P, Stewart G, Stirn R, Kuo J and Griffin B 2003 NanoSIMS – potential applications to studies of woody root physiology. Proceedings Third International Symposium on the Dynamics of Physiological Processes in Woody Roots (Perth, Western Australia 29 Sept – 3 Oct, 2003)
Grigg A, Bleby T, Veneklass E and Lambers H 2003 Water source shifts and hydraulic redistribution patterns between sinker and lateral roots before and after rains in the Great Sandy Desert species, Grevillea stenobotrya. Proceedings Third International Symposium on the Dynamics of Physiological Processes in Woody Roots (Perth, Western Australia 29 Sept – 3 Oct, 2003)
Holm A and Friedel MH 2003 Landscape function – confusion or clarity for improved rangeland management? Proceedings The Australian Rangeland Society 12th Biennial Conference (Kalgoorlie, Western Australia, September 2002)
Jones MD and Grierson PF 2003 A comparison of two techniques for quantifying extracellular phosphatase activity from roots. Proceedings Third International Symposium on the Dynamics of Physiological Processes in Woody Roots (Perth, Western Australia 29 Sept – 3 Oct, 2003)
Kelly, N, Arndt SK and Livesley SJ 2003 The root and shoot architecture and carbon allocation of farm forest plantation and naturally regenerated Eucalyptus astringens Maid. in Western Australia. Proceedings Third International Symposium on the Dynamics of Physiological Processes in Woody Roots (Perth, Western Australia 29 Sept – 3 Oct, 2003)
Landman PA, Graham J, Adams MA and Grierson PF 2003 Root hydraulic architecture and water use by woody species in semi-arid Australia. Proceedings Third International Symposium on the Dynamics of Physiological Processes in Woody Roots (Perth, Western Australia 29 Sept – 3 Oct, 2003)
Landman PA, Grierson PF and Adams MA 2003 Landscape approach to understanding water use by trees in the Pilbara region of north Western Australia. Proceedings VIIth International Rangeland Congress (Durban, South Africa, July 26 – August 1, 2003)
Livesley SJ, Arndt SK, Bleby T and Kelly N 2003 The importance of tap roots to plant water relations in natural stands and farm forest plantations of Eucalyptus astringens in Western Australia. Proceedings Third International Symposium on the Dynamics of Physiological Processes in Woody Roots (Perth, Western Australia 29 Sept – 3 Oct, 2003)
Sadler R, Grierson PF and Hazelton M 2003 Stability of Pilbara grasslands in relation to management and ecological events. Proceedings VIIth International Rangeland Congress (Durban, South Africa, July 26 – August 1, 2003)
2002
Refereed journals
Adams MA, Bell TL and Pate JS, 2002 Phosphorus sources and availability modify growth and distribution of root clusters and nodules of native Australian legumes Plant, Cell and Environment 25(7), 837-850
Ardnt SK and Wanek W 2002 Use of decreasing foliar carbon isotope discrimination during water limitation as a carbon tracer to study whole plant carbon allocation. Plant, Cell and Environment 25, 609-616.
Arndt SK, Wanek W, Hoch G, Richter A and Popp M 2002 Flexibility of nitrogen metabolism in the tropical C3-crassulacean acid metabolism tree species, Clusia minor. Functional Plant Biology 29, 741-747.
Clifford SC, Arndt SK, Popp M and Jones, HG 2002 Mucilages and polysaccharides in Ziziphus species (Rhamnaceae): localization, composition and physiological roles during drought-stress. Journal of Expermental Botany 53 (366) 131-138
Hansen LD, Criddle RS, Smith BN and Macfarlane C 2002 Growth-maintenance component models are an inaccurate representation of plant respiration. Crop Science, 42, 659.
Macfarlane C, Adams MA and Hansen LD 2002 Application of an enthalpy balance model of the relation between growth and respiration to temperature acclimation of Eucalyptus globulus seedling. Proceedings for the Royal Scoiety of London 269, 1499-1507.
Wanek W and Arndt SK 2002 Difference in delta15N signatures between nodulated roots and shoots of soybean is indicative of the contribution of symbiotic N2 fixation to plant N. Journal of Experimental Botany 53, (371) 1109-1118
Wanek W, Arndt SK, Huber W and Popp M 2002 Nitrogen nutrition during ontogeny of hemiepiphytic Clusia species. Functional Plant Biology 29, 733-740
Wanek W, Huber W, Arndt SK and Popp M 2002 Mode of photosynthesis during different life stages of hemiepiphytic Clusia species. Functional Plant Biology 29, 725-732
Reports
Grierson P, Kemp M, Livesley S, Whyte K, Bowler K and Adams M 2002 Phosphorus and nitrogen transformations under biosolid storage dumps and surrounding land uses (2) – Yerecoin, Western Australia. Final Report to the Water Corporation, Western Australia. Ecosystems Research Group, School of Plant Biology, University of Western Australia. 18p
Proceedings and Conference Abstracts
Adams MA 2002 Biogeochemistry and Australian rangelands. Proceedings The Australian Rangeland Society 12th Biennial Conference (Kalgoorlie, Western Australia, September 2002)
Ford DJ, Grierson PF and Adams MA 2002 Soil resource transfer after disturbance in semi-arid Western Australia. Proceedings BIOGEOMON 4th International Symposium on Ecosystem Behaviour (Reading, UK, August 17-21, 2002)
Ford DJ, Grierson PF and Adams MA 2002 Soil resource transfer after disturbance in semi-arid Western Australia. Proceedings The Australian Rangeland Society 12th Biennial Conference (Kalgoorlie, Western Australia, September 2002)
Landman PA, Grierson PF, Kemp M and Adams MA 2002 A landscape approach to understanding water use by trees in the Pilbara region of NW Australia. Proceedings The Australian Rangeland Society 12th Biennial Conference (Kalgoorlie, Western Australia, September 2002)
2001
Refereed journals
Adams MA and Grierson PF 2001 Stable isotopes at natural abundances in terrestrial plant ecology and ecophysiology: An update. Plant Biology 3, 299-310
Arndt SK, Clifford SC, Wanek W, Jones HG and Popp M 2001 Physiological and morphological adaptations of the fruit tree Ziziphus rotundifolia in response to progressive drought stress. Tree Physiology 21, 705-715
Bennett LT and Adams MA 2001 Response of a perennial grassland to nitrogen and phosphorus additions in sub-tropical, semi-arid Australia. Journal of Arid Environments 48, 289-308.
Burgess SSO, Adams MA, Turner NC and Ong CK, Khan AAH and Beverly CR 2001 An improved heat pulse method to measure low and reverse rates of sap flow in woody plants. Tree Physiology 21, 589-598
Burgess SSO, Adams MA, Turner NC, White DA and Ong CK 2001 Tree roots: conduits for deep recharge of soil water. Oecologia 126, 158 - 165.
Geßler A, Schrempp S, Matzarakis A, Mayer H, Rennenberg H and Adams MA 2001 Radiation modifies the effect of water availability on the carbon isotope composition of beech (Fagus sylvatica) New Phytologist 150, 653-664.
Holm A McR, Bennett LT, Loneragan WA and Adams MA 2001 Relationships between empirical and nominal indices of landscape function in the arid shrubland of Western Australia. Journal of Arid Environments 50, 1-21.
Holm A McR, Loneragan WA and Adams MA 2001 Do variations on a model of landscape function assist in interpreting the growth response of vegetation to rainfall in arid environments? Journal of Arid Environments 50, 23-52.
Schneider K, Turrion MB, Grierson PF and Gallardo JF 2001 Phosphatase activity, microbial phosphorus, and fine root growth in forest soils in the Sierra de Gata, western central Spain. Biology and Fertility of Soils 34, 151-155
Sudmeyer RA, Adams MA, Eastham J. Scott PR, Hawkins W and Rowland I 2001 Broadacre crop yield in the lee of windbreaks in the medium and low rainfall areas of south-western Australia. Australian Journal of Experimental Agriculture 42(6), 763-772
Sudmeyer RA, Hall DJM, Eastham J and Adams MA 2001 The tree/crop interface: the effects of root pruning in south western Australia. Australian Journal of Experimental Agriculture 42(6), 739-750
Warren CR and Adams MA 2001 Distribution of N, Rubisco and photosynthesis in Pinus pinaster and acclimation to light. Plant, Cell and Environment 24, 597-609
Warren CR, McGrath J and Adams MA 2001 Water availability and carbon isotope discrimination in conifers. Oecologia 127, 476-486
Books & book chapters
Adams MA, Macfarlane C and Bencini R 2001 Climate. In Ecology: an Australian perspective. pp 36-53 (Eds PM Attiwill and BA Wilson) Oxford University Press, Melbourne, Australia.
Reports
Adams MA, Coote M, Grierson PF, Livesley S and Williams K 2001 Improved management of the Albany Effluent Irrigation Tree Farm. Final report submitted to the Water Corporation, Western Australia. Ecosystems Research Group, Botany Department, University of Western Australia. 246 p.
Adams MA, Grierson PF, Bussau A, Livesley S, Landman P, Dorling K, Williams K and Ford D 2001 Biomass and carbon in vegetation of the Pilbara region, Western Australia. Final report submitted to Hamersley Iron, BHP and Robe/North. Ecosystems Research Group, Botany Department, University of Western Australia.
2000
Refereed journals
Adams MA 2000 Contrasts between Eucalyptus subgenera. Functional Ecology 14, 654.
Bennett LT, Judd TS and Adams MA 2000 Close-range vertical photography for measuring cover changes in perennial grasslands. Journal of Range Management 53, 634 – 641.
Burgess SSO, Adams MA, Turner NC and Ong CK 2000 Characterisation of hydrogen isotope profiles in an agroforestry system: implications for tracing water sources of trees. Agricultural Water Management 45, 229 – 241.
Burgess SSO, Adams MA and Bleby T 2000 Measurement of sap flow in roots of woody plants: a commentary. Tree Physiology 20, 909 - 913.
Burgess SSO, Pate JS, Adams MA and Dawson TE 2000 Seasonal water acquisition and redistribution in the Australian woody phreatophyte, Banksia prionotes Annals of Botany 85, 215-224.
Chen Z, Warren CR and Adams MA 2000 Separation of rubisco in extracts of plant leaves by capillary electrophoresis with sieving polymers. Analytical Letters 33, 579-587
Grierson PF and Adams MA 2000 Plant species affect acid phosphatase, ergosterol and microbial P in a Jarrah (Eucalyptus marginata Donn ex Sm.) forest in south-western Australia. Soil Biology and Biochemistry 32, 1817-1827.
Grierson PF and Comerford NB 2000 Non-destructive measurement of acid phosphatase activity in the rhizosphere using nitrocellulose membranes and image analysis. Plant and Soil 218, 49-57.
Islam M and Adams MA 2000 Nutrient distribution among metabolic fractions nitrogen in two Atriplex spp. Journal of Range Management 53, 79-85.
Islam M, Turner DW and Adams MA 2000 Regeneration of the legumes Acacia ancistrocarpa and Senna notabilis in the Pilbara region of Western Australia: mineral nutrition and carbon fractions. Australian Journal of Botany 48, 435 – 444.
Macfarlane C, Coote M, White DA and Adams MA 2000 Photographic exposure affects indirect estimation of leaf area in plantations of Eucalyptus globulus Labill. Agricultural and Forest Meteorology, 100,155-168.
Taranto MT, Adams MA and Polglase PJ 2000 Sequential fractionation and characterisation (31P-NMR) of phosphorus-amended soils in Banksia integrifolia (L.f.) woodland and adjacent pasture. Soil Biology and Biochemistry 32, 169-177.
Todd MC, Adams MA and Grierson PF 2000 Mineralisation of nitrogen in a chronosequence of rehabilitated bauxite mines. Australian Journal of Soil Research 38, 435-451.
Todd MC, Grierson PF and Adams MA 2000 Litter cover as an index of nitrogen availability in rehabilitated mine sites. Australian Journal of Soil Research 38, 423-433
Warren CR and Adams MA 2000 Water availability and branch length determine delta13C in foliage of Pinus pinaster. Tree Physiology 20, 637 – 643.
Warren CR and Adams MA 2000. Trade-offs between the persistence of foliage and productivity in two Pinus species. Oecologia 124, 487 – 494.
Warren CR, and Adams MA 2000 Capillary electrophoresis for the determination of major amino acids and sugars in foliage: application to the nitrogen nutrition of sclerophyllous species. Journal of Experimental Botany 51, 1147-1157
Warren CR, Adams MA, and Chen Z 2000 Effect of N-source on concentration of Rubisco in Eucalyptus diversicolor, as measured by capillary electrophoresis. Physiologia Plantarum 110, 52-58
Warren CR, Adams MA, and Chen Z 2000 Is photosynthesis related to concentrations of nitrogen and Rubisco in leaves of Australian native plants? Australian Journal of Plant Physiology 27, 407-416
Books & book chapters
Grierson PF and Adams MA 2000 Growth and nutrient cycling in native ecosystems of southern Australia: Application to the development of sustainable agriculture. In Agriculture as a Mimic of Natural Ecosystems (Eds EJ Lefroy, RJ Hobbs, M O’Connor and JS Pate). pp 271-300. Kluwer, Amsterdam.
Reports
Grierson PF, Williams K and Adams MA 2000 Review of unpublished biomass-related information: Western Australia, South Australia, New South Wales and Queensland. National Carbon Accounting System Technical Report No. 25. Australian Greenhouse Office, Canberra, 95 p.
Macfarlane C 2000 A note on the simple application of time-domain reflectometry for soil moisture measurement. Report to the Rural Industries Research and Development Corporation (RIRDC), 10 pp.
Macfarlane C 2000 Growth and respiration by plants: a report on travel and research at the Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Brigham Young University, Utah, USA funded by the Maxwell Ralph Jacobs Fund, the Australian Institute of Foresters, the Australian Academy of Science and SOTICO. University of Western Australia, Perth 28pp.
Proceedings and Conference Abstracts
Adams MA 2000 Nitrogen Isotope Discrimination in Australian ecosystems: generic, community, ecosystem and landscape variation. Proceedings Plant Form and Function: adaptations to stress University of Western Australia, (Perth, Australia 27-29 September 2000)
Grierson PF and Adams MA 2000 Biomass and nitrogen dynamics of fine roots in a jarrah (Eucalyptus marginata Donn ex Sm.) forest in south-western Australia. Proccedings International Symposium Managing Forest Soils for Sustainable Productivity. (Vila Real, Portugal, 18 – 22 September 2000)
Shedley EF, Pate JS and Adams MA 2000 The use of delta13C in phloem sap to monitor water stress in young Eucalyptus globulus plantations. Proceedings Plant Form and Function: adaptations to stress University of Western Australia, (Perth, Australia 27-29 September 2000)
Warren CR, and Adams MA 2000 Phosphorus affects growth and allocation of N in field-grown Pinus pinaster. Proceedings Plant Form and Function: adaptations to stress University of Western Australia, (Perth, Australia 27-29 September 2000)
1999
Refereed journals
Adams MA and Grierson PF 1999 A commentary on methodology for quantifying bioavailable P in agroforestry systems. Agroforestry Forum 9(4), 49-53.
Adams MA, Chen Z, Landman P and Colmer T 1999 Simultaneous determination by capillary gas chromatography of organic acids, sugars, and sugar alcohols in plant tissue extracts as their trimethylsil derivatives. Analytical Biochemistry 266, 77-84.
Bennett LT and Adams MA 1999 Indices for characterizing spatial variability of soil nitrogen in semi-arid grasslands of northwestern Australia. Soil Biology and Biochemistry 31, 735-746.
Bentley D, Grierson PF, Bennett LT and Adams MA 1999 Anion exchange membranes to estimate bioavailable P in native grasslands of semi-arid northwestern Australia. Communications in Soil Science and Plant Analysis 30 (15/16), 2231-2244.
Chen Z and Adams MA 1999 2,6-Pyridinedicarboxylic acid as an eluent for UV and conductivity detection of inorganic anions, magnesium and calcium in water by ion chromatography. Chromatographia 49, 496-502
Chen Z and Adams MA 1999 Retention behaviour during simultaneous separation of carboxylic and aromatic acids in ion exclusion chromatography. Journal of Liquid Chromatography and Related Technology 22, 2595-2611
Chen Z and Adams MA 1999 Simultaneous determination of aliphatic and aromatic acids in plant tissue extracts by ion-exclusion chromatography. Analytica Chimica Acta 386, 249-256.
Chen Z, Warren CR and Adams MA 1999 Separation of amino acids in plant tissue extracts by capillary zone electrophoresis with indirect UV detection using aromatic carboxylates as background electrolytes. Chromatographia 51, 180-186.
Grierson PF and Adams MA 1999 Nutrient cycling and growth in forest ecosystems of south western Australia: Relevance to agricultural landscapes. Agroforestry Systems 45, 215-244.
Grierson PF, Comerford NB and Jokela EJ 1999 Phosphorus mineralization and microbial biomass in a Florida Spodosol: effects of water potential, temperature and fertilizer application. Biology and Fertility of Soils 28, 244-252.
Islam M and Adams MA 1999 Mineral content and nutritive value of native grasses and the response to added phosphorus in a Pilbara rangeland. Tropical Grasslands 33, 193 – 200.
Islam M, Turner DW and Adams MA 1999 Phosphorus availability and the growth, mineral composition and nutritive value of ephemeral forbs and associated perennials from the Pilbara, Western Australia. Australian Journal of Experimental Agriculture 39, 149 – 159.
Macfarlane C, Warren CR, White DA and Adams MA 1999 A rapid and simple method for processing wood to crude cellulose for analysis of carbon isotopes in tree rings. Tree Physiology 19, 831 – 835.
Proceedings and Conference Abstracts
Bleby T 1999 Seasonal water use of jarrah (Eucalyptus marginata) in a rehabilitated minepit. Proceedings Ecophysiology of trees, tree crops, plantations and forests. Ecosystems Research Group, The University of Western Australia, (Perth, Australia, April 1999)
Burgess S 1999 Uptake of water by roots of woody trees. Proceedings Ecophysiology of trees, tree crops, plantations and forests. Ecosystems Research Group, The University of Western Australia, (Perth, Australia, April 1999)
Coote M 1999 Nitrogen cycling and budgets in effluent irrigated plantations. Proceedings Ecophysiology of trees, tree crops, plantations and forests. Ecosystems Research Group, The University of Western Australia, (Perth, Australia, April 1999)
Edwards J 1999 Plasticity of root architecture, anatomy and function in Allocasuarina obesa, Pinus pinaster and Eucalyptus spp. Proceedings Ecophysiology of trees, tree crops, plantations and forests. Ecosystems Research Group, The University of Western Australia, (Perth, Australia, April 1999)
Edwards JG, Bell TL, Grierson PF and Adams MA 1999 Plasticity of root architecture in Allocasuarina obesa, Pinus pinaster and Eucalyptus spp. in response to soil physical properties. Proceedings Second International Symposium on the Dynamics of Physiological Processes in Woody Roots. (Nancy, France September 1999)
Grierson PF and Adams MA 1999 Belowground processes in a mediterranean type ecosystem of south-western Australia. Proceedings VII International Congress of Ecology, INTECOL (Florence, Italy, 19-20 July 1998).
Grierson PF and Adams MA 1999 Plant species affect acid phosphatase, ergosterol and microbial P in jarrah forest in south-western Australia. Proceedings Enzymes in the Environment (Granada, Spain, 12-15 July 1999).
Grierson PF and Adams MA 1999 Seasonal variation in natural abundance of 15N and 13C of roots of Eucalyptus marginata Donn and Banksia grandis. Proccedings Dynamics of Physiological Processes in Woody Roots (Nancy, France, 26-30 September 1999)
Landman P 1999 Using deuterium analysis of water sources and xylem sap to confirm access to groundwater by Eucalyptus and Acacia species growing in the Pilbara region. Proceedings Ecophysiology of trees, tree crops, plantations and forests. Ecosystems Research Group, The University of Western Australia, (Perth, Australia, April 1999)
Macfarlane C 1999 Application of a simple water balance model to predict risk of drought death of stands of Eucalyptus globulus in relation to soils and climate in Western Australia. Proceedings Ecophysiology of trees, tree crops, plantations and forests. Ecosystems Research Group, The University of Western Australia, (Perth, Australia, April 1999).
Macfarlane C Adams MA and White DA 1999 Temperature, evaporative demand and drought: acting together to constrain plantation productivity and increase risk. In White DA (Ed.) Balancing Productivity and Drought Risk in Blue Gum Plantations. A Plantation Management Workshop Jointly Presented by Bunnings Treefarms, Department of Conservation and Land Management and CSIRO Forestry and Forest Products. November 9th and 10th, 1999. CSIRO Forestry and Forest Products, Floreat Park.
Shedley E 1999 Parrot damage in Tasmanian bluegum plantations. Proceedings Ecophysiology of trees, tree crops, plantations and forests. Ecosystems Research Group, The University of Western Australia, (Perth, Australia, April 1999)
Todd M 1999 Litter cover as an index of nitrogen availability in rehabilitated bauxite mines. Proceedings Ecophysiology of trees, tree crops, plantations and forests. Ecosystems Research Group, The University of Western Australia, (Perth, Australia, April 1999)
Warren C 1999 Carbohydrate accumulation in Pinus pinaster affects the relationship between photosynthesis and nitrogen or rubisco. Proceedings Ecophysiology of trees, tree crops, plantations and forests. Ecosystems Research Group, The University of Western Australia, (Perth, Australia, April 1999)
Warren CR, and Adams MA 1999 Photosynthesis is poorly related to concentrations of nitrogen and rubisco in leaves of tree species. Ecological Society of America Annual Conference, Spokane (Washington, USA), August 6-12, 1999
1998
Refereed journals
Burgess S, Adams M, Ward B, Turner N, Ong C and Khan A 1998 Trees as water pumps: Restoring water balances in Australian and Kenyan soils. Agroforestry Today 10, 18-20.
Burgess SSO, Adams MA, Turner NC and Ong CK 1998 The redistribution of soil water by tree root systems. Oecologia.115, 306 – 311.
Chen Z and Adams MA 1998 A metallic cobalt electrode for the indirect potentiometric detection of calcium and magnesium in natural waters using flow injection analysis. Talanta 47, 779-786.
Chen Z and Adams MA 1998 Non-suppressed conductivity detection of organic acids in plant tissue extracts by ion-exclusion chromatography with aromatic acids as eluents. Journal of Liquid Chromatography and Related Technology 21, 2435-2445.
Chen Z, Glod BK and Adams MA 1998 Indirect photometric detection of aliphatic acids separated by ion exclusion chromatography using aromatic acidic eluents. Journal of Chromatography A 818, 61-68.
Chen Z, Grierson PF and Adams MA 1998 Direct determination of phosphate in soil extracts by potentiometric flow injection using a cobalt wire electrode. Analytica Chimica Acta 363, 191-197.
Chen Z, Landman P, Colmer, TD and Adams MA 1998 Simultaneous analysis of amino and organic acids in extracts of plant leaves as tert-Butyldimethylsilyl derivatives by capillary gas chromatography. Analytical Biochemistry 259, 203-211.
Grierson PF, Comerford NB and Jokela EJ 1998 Phosphorus mineralization kinetics and response of microbial phosphorus to drying and rewetting in a Florida Spodosol. Soil Biology and Biochemistry 30 (10/11), 1323-1331.
Hovenden MJ and Warren CR 1998 Photochemistry, energy dissipation and cold-hardening in Eucalyptus nitens and E. pauciflora. Australian Journal of Plant Physiology 25, 581-589.
Macfarlane C and Adams MA 1998 delta13C of wood in growth-rings indicates cambial activity in drought-stressed trees of Eucalyptus globulus. Functional Ecology 12, 655-664.
Pate J, Shedley E, Arthur D and Adams MA 1998 Spatial and temporal variations in phloem sap composition of plantation grown Eucalyptus globulus. Oecologia 117, 312-322.
Warren CR, Hovenden MJ, Davidson NJ and Beadle CL 1998 Cold hardening reduces photoinhibition of Eucalyptus nitens and E. pauciflora at frost temperatures. Oecologia 113, 350-359
Reports
Holm A McR 1998 The rangeland monitoring work plan for the National Land and Water Resources Audit Parts 1 and 2. National Land and Water Resources Audit publication.
Macfarlane C 1998 The potential for high temperature stress of trees in plantations of Eucalyptus globulus Labill. in south-western Australia during summer-autumn. Report to Bunning’s Treefarm’s. UWA, Nedlands, 30 pp.
Proceedings and Conference Abstracts
Adams MA 1998 Can forests and woodlands be ‘saturated’ with nitrogen? Case studies from unpolluted southern-hemisphere forests. Proceedings Ninth North American Forest Soil Conference (Tahoe City, California, 9-14 August 1998).
Grierson PF and Adams MA 1998 Belowground processes in a jarrah forest in south-western Australia. Proceedings Ninth North American Forest Soil Conference (Tahoe City, California, 9-14 August 1998).
Grierson PF and Comerford NB 1998 Measurement of acid phosphatase activity in the rhizosphere using nitrocellulose membranes. Proceedings World Congress of Soil Science (Montpellier, France, 20-26 August 1998).
1996
Refereed journals
Wang L, Attiwill PM and Adams MA 1996 Fertilizer impacts on the understorey of a regenerating Mountain Ash (Eucalyptus regnans F. Muell.) forest, Victoria. Australian Journal of Ecology 21, 459-463
Books & book chapters
Adams MA 1996 Distribution of Eucalypts in Australian Landscapes: Landforms, Soils, Fire and Nutrition. In Nutrition of Eucalypts (Eds PM Attiwill and MA Adams) pp. 61-76, CSIRO, Melbourne.
Attiwill PM and Adams MA 1996 Editors Nutrition of Eucalypts. 440 pp. CSIRO, Melbourne.
Attiwill PM, Polglase PJ, Weston CJ and Adams MA 1996 Nutrient cycling in forests of south-eastern Australia. In Nutrition of Eucalypts (Eds P M Attiwill and M A Adams) pp. 191-227, CSIRO, Melbourne.
Judd TS, Attiwill PM and Adams MA 1996 Nutrient concentrations in Eucalyptus: A synthesis in relation to differences between taxa, sites and components. In Nutrition of Eucalypts (Eds P M Attiwill and M A Adams) pp. 249-258, CSIRO, Melbourne.
Reports
Holm A McR and Friedel MF 1996 Sustainable habitation in the rangelands? North East Goldfields WA. Proceedings of the Fenner Conference on the Environment Canberra 1996 pp 120-132.
Scholar's Theses
PhD
Abe, H 2007 Forest management impacts on growth, diversity and nutrient cycling of lowland tropical rainforest and plantations, Papua New Guinea.
Coote, M 2007 Improved management of the Albany effluent irrigation tree farm.
Sadler R 2007 Image based modelling of pattern dynamics in a semiarid grassland of the Pilbara, Australia.
Bleby TM 2003 Water use, ecophysiology and hydraulic architecture of Eucalyptus marginata (Jarrah) growing on mine rehabilitation sites in the jarrah forest of south-western Australia.
Macfarlane C 2003 Growth of `Eucalyptus globulus' labill. in Mediterranean south-western Australia.
Ingram LJ 2001 Growth, nutrient cycling and grazing of three perennial tussock grasses of the Pilbara region of NW Australia.
Landman PA 2001 The ecology and physiology of acacias and eucalypts in the Pilbara region of Western Australia.
Warren C 2001 Ecophysiology of Pinus in south-west Western Australia.
Holm A McR. 2000 A study of degradation processes at patch to landscape scale within the arid shrubland of Western Australia.
Shedley E 2000 Seasonal and spatial variations in composition of phloem sap of Eucalyptus globulus and other factors that predispose plantations to attack by Barnardius zonarius parrots in the south-west of Western Australia.
Sudmeyer R 2000 The effect of windbreaks and wind shelter on crops in Southwestern Australia.
Todd MCL 2000 The role of nutrient cycling in the sustainability of young plant communities on mined sites.
Burgess SSO 1999 Water uptake by roots of woody plants.
Islam M 1998 Growth, nutritive value and response to P of native forage species in arid and semi-arid rangelands.
MSc
Arevalo-Vigne I 2000 Environmental interpretation and the management of trampling in recreational areas : an insight into management and awareness
Hons
Height K 2007 Influence of spiny ant (Polyrhachis spp.) activity on phosphorus availability in mulga woodlands of the central Pilbara.
Fairhead J 2007 Termite mounds and nitrogen distribution in banded mulga in the Pilbara.
Hughes C 2007 Origin and fate of plant derived dissolved organic matter in a Swan Coastal Plain wetland.
Sgherza C 2006 13C and ring width chronologies of Callitris in the south-eastern wheatbelt, Western Australia
Angus D 2005 Identification of an aquaporin from the aquatic root mat of Melaleuca argentea
Perks S 2005 Impact of cattle grazing on trophic structure and biogeochemical pathways in old mulga woodland
Riseborough K 2005 Spatial variation in fire intensity affects patterns of soil nutrients and vegetation recruitment in the northern jarrah forest of south-west Western Australia
Tomich E 2005 Vegetation and hydrologic interactions in banded Mulga (Acacia aneura)
Hogarth N 2004 An ecophysiological study of the long-lived Australian bamboo, Bambusa arnhemica F. Muell
Norris J 2004 The influence of vegetation communities on organic matter quality and microbbial composition and function within and surrounding Yeagerup Lake, Western Australia
O'Donnell A 2004 Impacts of thinning and burning on carbon and nitrogen cycling in rehabilitated Jarrah (Eucalyptus marginata Donn ex Sm.) forests
Page G 2004 Horizontal branching Acacia aneura F. Muell (ex. Benth) in the Pilbara, Western Australia
Trudgen M 2003 Spatial patterns of nutrients and productivity in an Acacia xiphophylla E. Pritz shrubland in the Pilbara.
Samsa G 2002 Iron and phosphorus interactions in Acacia - consequences for nitrogen allocation, photosynthesis, and growth.
Graham J 2001 The root hydraulic architecture of Melaleuca argentea.
Collins JP 2001 Water use and root hydraulic architecture of Olea europaea L.
MacNish SL 2000 Heterotrophic activity and nitrogen and carbon cycling in Karri (Eucalyptus diversicolor, F. Muell.) forests
4th year theses
Anderson P 2007 The effect of Phytophthora cinnamomi on macro fungal diversity in the southern jarrah forests of Western Australia.
Burrows R 2007 Spatial patterns of surface litter in the northern jarrah forest of Western Australia.
Flaherty C 2007 Persistance of Callitris patches in a highly flammable landscape, southwestern Western Australia
Glover R 2007
Addison J 2003 Testing ecosystem function analysis: A case study on mine rehabilitation and on grazed and burnt sites in the Pilbara, WA.
Johnston J 2003 The effect of prescribed burning and species dominance (Eucalyptus marginata and Banksia grandis) on organic matter quality and nitrogen and carbon cycling in the jarrah (Eucalyptus marginata) forest.
Murphy TM 2002 An intergrated approach to the study of decomposition: the patterns of leaf litter decomposition for E. marginata and B. grandis.
Crock P 1998 Quantifying the potential for denitrification from soils at the Albany effluent tree farm, Western Australia.
Dyer R 1998 Damage by African black beetle (Heteronychus arator (Fabricius)) to Eucalyptus globulus Labill. Plantations in south Western Australia – A nutritional approach.
Bentley D 1997 Indices of bioavailabloe phosphorus for rangeland soils: Evaluation and application to an arid perennial grassland.
Lawrence K 1996 Prior land use and fertiliser additions influence phosphorus dynamics in plantations of Eucalyptus globulus.
Taylor A 1996 Evaluating the effects of topsoil stockpiling on soil quality for mine-site rehabilitation.
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