Hawkesbury Institute for the Environment

Anderson IC, Parkin PI, Campbell CD, (2008) ‘DNA- and RNA-derived assessments of fungal community composition in soil amended with sewage sludge rich in cadmium, copper and zinc’, Soil Biology and Biochemistry, vol.40, no.9, pp 2358-2365

Bell C, McIntyre N, Cox S, Tissue D, Zak J, (2008) 'Soil microbial responses to temporal variations of moisture and temperature in a Chihuahuan Desert grassland' Microbial Ecology, vol.56, no.1, pp 153-167

Boer MM, Sadler RJ, Bradstock R, Gill AM, Grierson PF, (2008) ‘Spatial scale invariance of southern Australian forest fires mirrors the scaling behaviour of fire-driving weather events’, Landscape Ecology, vol.23, no.8, pp 899-913

Boer MM, Sadler RJ, Grierson PF (2008) ‘Objective characterisation of fire regimes for science-based management of fire-prone landscapes’, Proceedings of the International Bushfire Research Conference ‘Fire, Environment and Society’, Adelaide – Australia, 1-3 September 2008, pp 58-70

Boer MM, Macfarlane C, Norris J, Sadler RJ, Grierson PF, (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, vol.112, no.12, pp 4358-4369

Bowman WP, Turnbull MH, Tissue DT, Whitehead D, Griffin KL, (2008) ‘Sapwood temperature gradients between lower stems and the crown do not influence estimates of stand-level stem CO₂ efflux’, Tree Physiology, vol.28, no.10, pp 1553–1559

Campbell CD, Cameron CM, Bastias BA, Chen C, Cairney JWG, (2008) ‘Long term repeated burning in a wet sclerophyll forest reduces fungal and bacterial biomass and responses to carbon substrates’, Soil Biology and Biochemistry, vol.40, no.9, pp 2246-2252

Chambers SM, Curlevski NJA, Cairney JWG, (2008) ‘Ericoid mycorrhizal fungi are common root inhabitants of non-Ericaceae plants in a south-eastern Australian sclerophyll forest’, FEMS Microbiology Ecology, Vol.65, no.2, pp 263-270

Chmura DJ, Tjoelker MG, (2008), ‘Leaf traits in relation to crown development, light interception, and growth of elite families of loblolly and slash pine’, Tree Physiology, vol.28, no.5, pp 729-742.

Choat B, Cobb AR, Jansen S, (2008) ‘Tansley Review: Structure and function of bordered pits: new discoveries and impacts on whole plant hydraulic function’, New Phytologist, vol.177, no.3, pp 608-625

Contreras S, Boer MM, Alcalá F, Domingo F, García M, Pulido-Bosch A, Puigdefábregas J, (2008) ‘An ecohydrological modelling approach for assessing long-term water balances in semiarid karstic landscapes’, Journal of Hydrology, vol.351, nos.1-2, pp 42-57

Crous KY, Walters MB, Ellsworth DS, (2008) ‘Elevated CO₂ concentration affects leaf photosynthesis-nitrogen relationships in Pinus taeda over nine years in FACE’, Tree Physiology, vol.28, no.4, pp 607–614

Drake JE, Stoy PC, Jackson RB, DeLucia EH, (2008) 'Fine-root respiration in a loblolly pine (Pinus taeda L.) forest exposed to elevated CO₂ and N fertilization', Plant, Cell and Environment, vol.31, no.11, pp 1663-1672

Ghannoum O, Paul MJ, Ward JL, Beale MH, Corol DI, Conroy JP, (2008) ‘The sensitivity of photosynthesis to phosphorus deficiency differs between C₃ and C₄ tropical grasses’, Functional Plant Biology, vol.35, no.3, pp 213-221

Gulden R, Lerat S, Blackshaw R, Powell J, Levy-Booth D, Dunfield K, Trevors JT, Pauls KP, Klironomos JN, Swanton CJ, (2008), ‘Factors affecting the presence and persistence of plant DNA in the soil environment in corn and soybean rotations’, Weed Science, vol.56, pp 767-774

Harada A, Yoshida T, Resco V, Noguchi M, Kawahara T, (2008) ‘Growth and survival of tall tree seedlings 6-8 years after soil scarification in Hokkaido’, Journal of the Japanese Forestry Society, vol.90, no.6, pp 397-403

Hendrickson L, Sharwood RE, Ludwig M, Whitney SM, Badger MR, von Caemmerer S, (2008) ‘The effects of Rubisco activase on C₄ photosynthesis and metabolism at high temperature’, Journal of Experimental Botany, vol.59, no.7, pp 1789-1798

Hortal S, Pera J, Parladé J, (2008) 'Tracking mycorrhizas and extraradical mycelium of the edible fungus Lactarius deliciosus under field competition with Rhizopogon spp', Mycorrhiza, vol.18, pp 69-77

Izumi H, Anderson IC, Killham K, Moore ERB, (2008) ‘Diversity of predominant endophytic bacteria in European deciduous and coniferous trees’, Canadian Journal of Microbiology, Vol.54, no.3, pp 173-179

Izumi H, Cairney JWG, Killham K, Moore E, Alexander IJ, Anderson IC, (2008) 'Bacteria associated with ectomycorrhizas of slash pine (Pinus elliottii) in south-eastern Queensland, Australia', FEMS Microbiology Letters, vol.282, no.2, pp 196-204

Johnson SN, Anderson A, Dawson G, Griffiths DW, (2008) ‘Varietal susceptibility of potatoes to wireworm herbivory’, Agricultural and Forest Entomology, vol.10, no.2, pp 167–174

Letnic M, (2008) ‘A comparison of saltwater crocodile (Crocodylus porosus) populations in freshwater-floodplain and tidal river habitats of the Adelaide River catchment, Northern Territory’, Applied Herpetology, vol.5, pp 243-252

Letnic M, Webb JK, Shine RS, (2008) ‘Invasive cane toads (Bufo marinus) cause mass mortality of freshwater crocodiles (Crocodylus johnstoni) in tropical Australia’, Biological Conservation, vol.141, pp 1773-1782

Levy-Booth DJ, Campbell RG, Gulden RH, Hart MM, Powell JR, Klironomos JN, Pauls KP, Swanton CJ, Trevors JT, Dunfield KE, (2008), ‘Real-time polymerase chain reaction monitoring of recombinant DNA entry into soil from decomposing Roundup Ready leaf biomass’, Journal of Agricultural and Food Chemistry, vol. 56, pp 6339-6347

Macdonald C, Campbell C, Bacon J, Singh BK, (2008) ‘Multiple profiling of soil microbial communities identifies potential genetic markers of metal-enriched sewage sludge’, FEMS Microbiology Ecology, vol.65, pp 555-564

Macdonald L, Singh BK, Thomas N, Brewer MJ, Campbell CD, Dawson LA, (2008) ‘Microbial DNA profiling by multiplex terminal restriction fragment length polymorphism for forensic comparison of soil and the influence of sample condition’, Journal of Applied Microbiology, vol.105, pp 813-821

Makarieva AM, Gorshkov VG, Li B-L, Chown SL, Reich PB, Gavrilov VM, (2008) ‘Mean mass-specific metabolic rates are strikingly similar across life’s major domains: Evidence for life’s metabolic optimum’, Proceedings of National Academy of Sciences (USA), vol.105, no.44, pp 16994-16999

Mcpherson H, Porter C, Rymer PD, Crayn DM, Rossetto M, (2008) ‘Isolation and characterization of polymorphic microsatellite loci from Tetratheca ericifolia (Elaeocarpaceae)’, Molecular Ecology Resources, vol.8, no.4, pp 867-869

Morgan HD, Barton CVM, (2008) 'Forest-scale sap flux responses to rainfall in a dryland eucalyptus plantation', Plant and Soil, vol.305, no 1-2, pp 131-144

Murray TJ, (2008) ‘Spread of Paropsis charybdis parasitoids into the South Island’, Forest Health News, 182

Murray TJ, Withers TM, Mansfield S, Bain J, (2008) ‘Distribution and current status of natural enemies of Paropsis charybdis in New Zealand’, New Zealand Plant Protection, vol.61, pp 185-190

Nichols T, Letnic M, (2008) ‘Problem crocodiles: Reducing the risk of attacks by Crocodylus porosus in Darwin Harbour, Northern Territory, Australia’,  in Jung RE & JC Mitchell (eds) Urban Herpetology. Herpetological Conservation 3, pp. 509-517. Society for the Study of Amphibians and Reptiles, Salt Lake City, UT

Nielsen UN, Osler GHR, Van der Wal R, Campbell CD, Burslem DFRP, (2008) 'Soil pore volume and the abundance of soil mites in two contrasting habitats', Soil Biology & Biochemistry, vol.40, no.6, pp 1538-1541

Ollinger SV, Richardson AD, Martin ME, Hollinger DY, Frolking S, Reich PB, and 11 others, (2008) ‘Canopy nitrogen, carbon assimilation and albedo in temperate and boreal forests: functional relations and potential climate feedbacks’, Proceedings of National Academy of Sciences (USA), vol.105. no.49, pp 19336-19341

Pandey A, Das N, Kumar B, Rinu K, Trivedi P, (2008) 'Phosphate solubilization by Penicillium spp. isolated from soil samples of Indian Himalayan region', World Journal Microbiology and Biotechnology, vol.24, no.1, pp 97-102

Phillips NG, Buckley TN, Tissue DT, (2008) ‘Capacity of old trees to respond to environmental change’, Journal of Integrative Plant Biology, vol.50, no.11, pp 1355-1364

Powell JR, Swanton CJ, (2008), ‘A critique of studies evaluating glyphosate effects on diseases associated with Fusarium spp.’, Weed Research, vol. 48, no.4, pp 307-318

Reich PB, Oleksyn J, (2008) ‘Climate warming will reduce growth and survival of Scots pine except in the far north’, Ecology Letters, vol.11, no.6, pp 588-597

Reich PB, Tjoelker MG, Pregitzer KS, Wright IJ, Oleksyn J, Machado JL, (2008) ‘Scaling of respiration to nitrogen in leaves, stems, and roots of higher land plants’, Ecology Letters, vol.11, no.8, pp 793-801

Resco V, Ignace DD, Sun W, Huxman TE, Weltzin, JF, Williams DG, (2008) ‘Chlorophyll fuorescence, predawn water potential and photosynthesis in precipitation pulse-driven ecosystems - implicactions for ecological studies’, Functional Ecology, vol.22, no.3, pp 479-483

Rincón A, Valladares F, Gimeno TE, Pueyo JJ, (2008) 'Water stress responses of two Mediterranean tree species influenced by native soil microorganisms and inoculation with a plant growth promoting rhizobacterium', Tree Physiology, vol.28, pp 1693-1701

Schamalenberger A, Hodge S, Bryant A, Hawkesford MJ, Singh BK, Kertesz MA, (2008) ‘The role of Variovorax and other Commanadaceae in sulphur transformation by microbial wheat rhizosphere communities exposed to different sulphur  fertilisation regimes’, Environmental Microbiology,vol.10, pp 1486-1500

Schuster WSF, Griffin KL, Roth H, Turnbull MH, Whitehead D, Tissue DT, (2008) ‘Changes in composition, structure and aboveground biomass over seventy-six years (1930-2006) in the Black Rock Forest, Hudson Highlands, southeastern New York State’, Tree Physiology, vol.28, no.24, pp 537-549

Sharwood RE, von Caemmerer S, Maliga P, Whitney SM, (2008) ‘The catalytic properties of hybrid Rubisco comprising tobacco small and sunflower large subunits mirror the kinetically equivalent source Rubiscos and can support tobacco growth’, Plant Physiology, vol.46, no.1, pp 83-96

Singh BK, Nunan N, Ridgway KP, McNicol J, Young JPY, Daniell TJ, Prosser J, Millard P, (2008) ‘Relationship between assemblages of mycorrhizal fungi and bacteria on grass roots’, Environmental Microbiology, vol.10, pp 534-541

Tjoelker MG, Oleksyn J, Reich PB, ¯ytkowiak R, (2008) ‘Coupling of respiration, nitrogen, and sugars underlies convergent temperature acclimation in Pinus banksiana across wide-ranging sites and populations’, Global Change Biology, vol.14, no.4, pp 782-797

Trivedi P, Pandey A, (2008) 'Plant growth promotion abilities and formulation of Bacillus megaterium strain B 388 isolated from a temperate Himalayan location', Indian Journal of Microbiology, vol.48, pp 342-347

Trivedi P, Pandey A, (2008) 'Recovery of plant growth promoting rhizobacteria from sodium alginate beads after three years following storage at 4 ºC', Journal of Industrial Microbiology and Biotechnology, vol.35, pp 205-209

Trivedi P, Pandey A, Palni LMS, (2008) 'In vitro evaluation of antagonistic properties of Pseudomonas corrugata', Microbiological Research, vol.163, no.3, pp 329-336

Trivedi P, Sa TM, (2008) 'Pseudomonas corrugata (NRRL B-30409) mutants increased phosphate solubilization, organic acid production and plant growth at lower temperatures', Current Microbiology, vol.56, no.2, pp 140-144

Uddling J, Teclaw RM, Kubiske ME, Pregitzer KS, Ellsworth DS, (2008) ‘Sap flux in pure aspen and mixed aspen-birch forests exposed to elevated concentrations of carbon dioxide and ozone’, Tree Physiology, vol.28, no.8, pp 1231-1243

van der Linde S, Alexander I, Anderson IC, (2008) ‘A PCR-based method for detecting the mycelia of stipitate hydnoid fungi in soil’, Journal of Microbiological Methods, vol.75, no.1, pp 40-46

Walsh PG, Barton CVM, Haywood A, (2008) 'Growth and carbon sequestration rates at age ten years of some eucalypt species in the low- to medium-rainfall areas of New South Wales, Australia', Australian Forestry, vol.71, no.1, pp 70-77

Whitney SM, Sharwood RE, (2008) ‘Improving Rubisco engineering in tobacco chloroplasts’, Journal of Experimental Botany, vol.59, no.7, pp 1909-1921

Wilson MJ, Certini G, Campbell CD, Anderson IC, Hillier S, (2008) ‘Does the preferential microbial colonisation of ferromagnesian minerals affect mineral weathering in soil?’, Naturwissenschaften, vol.95, no.9, pp 851-858

Woojong Y, Anandham R, Trivedi P, Madhaiyan MM, Sa TM, (2008) 'Ubiquitous presence and activity of thiosulfate oxidizing bacteria in rhizosphere of economically important crop plants of Korea', Korean Journal of Soil Science and Fertilizer, vol.41, pp 9-17