Hawkesbury Institute for the Environment

Almany GR, De Arruda MP, Arthofer W, Atallah ZK, Beissinger SR, Berumen ML, Bogdanowicz SM, Brown SD, Bruford MW, Burdine C, Busch JW, Campbell NR, Carey D, Carstens BC, Chu KH, Cubeta MA, Cuda JP, Cui ZX, Datnoff LE, Davila JA, Davis ES, Davis RM, Diekmann OE, Eizirik E, Fargallo JA, Fernandes F, Fukuda H, Gale LR, Gallagher E, Gao YQ, Girard P, Godhe A, Goncalves EC, Gouveia L, Grajczyk AM, Grose MJ, Gu ZF, Hallden C, Harnstrom K, Hemmingsen AH, Holmes G, Huang CH, Huang CC, Hudman SP, Jones GP, Kanetis L, Karunasagar I, Karunasagar I, Keyghobadi N, Klosterman SJ, Klug PE, Koch J, Koopman MM, Koppler K, Koshimizu E, Krumbock S, Kubisiak T, Landis JB, Lasta ML, Lee CY, Li QQ, Li SH, Lin RC, Liu M, Liu N, Liu WC, Liu Y, Loiseau A, Luan WS, Maruthachalam KK, McCormick HM, Mellick R, Monnahan PJ, Morielle-Versute E, Murray TE, Narum SR, Neufeld K, de Nova PJG, Ojiambo PS, Okamoto N, Othman AS, Overholt WA, Pardini R, Paterson IG, Patty OA, Paxton RJ, Planes S, Porter C, Pratchett MS, Puttker T, Rasic G, Rasool B, Rey O, Riegler M, Riehl C, Roberts JMK, Roberts PD, Rochel E, Roe KJ, Rossetto M, Ruzzante DE, Sakamoto T, Saravanan V, Sarturi CR, Schmidt A, Schneider MPC, Schuler H, Serb JM, Serrao ETA, Shi YH, Silva A, Sin YW, Sommer S, Stauffer C, Strussmann CA, Subbarao KV, Syms C, Tan F, Tejedor ED, Thorrold SR, Trigiano RN, Trucco MI, Tsuchiya-Jerep MTN, Vergara P, van de Vliet MS, Wadl PA, Wang AM, Wang HX, Wang RX, Wang XW, Wang Y, Weeks AR, Wei FW, Werner WJ, Wiley EO, Williams DA, Wilkins RJ, Wisely SM, With KA, Wu DH, Yao CT, Yau C, Yeap BK, Zhai BP, Zhan XJ, Zhang GY, Zhang SY, Zhao R, Zhu LF, (2009) ‘Permanent Genetic Resources added to Molecular Ecology Resources Database 1 May 2009-31 July 2009’, Molecular Ecology Resources, vol.9, no.6, pp 1460-1466

Arthofer W, Riegler M, Avtzis DN, Stauffer C, (2009) ‘Evidence for low titre infections in insect symbiosis: Wolbachia in the bark beetle Pityogenes chalcographus (Coleoptera, Scolytinae)’, Environmental Microbiology, vol.11, no.8, pp 1923-1933

Arthofer W, Riegler M, Schneider D, Krammer M, Miller WJ, Stauffer C, (2009) ‘Hidden Wolbachia diversity in field populations of the European cherry fruit fly, Rhagoletis cerasi (Diptera, Tephritidae)’, Molecular Ecology, vol.18, no.18, pp 3816-3830

Artz RRE, Reid E, Anderson IC, Campbell CD, Cairney JWG, (2009) ‘Long term repeated prescribed burning lowers laccase activity yet increases fungal laccase diversity in forest soils’, FEMS Microbiology Ecology, vol.67, no.3, pp 397-410

Bastias BA, Anderson IC, Rangel-Castro JI, Parkin PI, Prosser JI, Cairney JWG, (2009) ‘Influence of repeated prescribed burning on incorporation of ¹³C from cellulose by forest soil fungi as determined by RNA stable isotope probing’, Soil Biology and Biochemistry, vol.41, no.3, pp 467-472

Bell CW, Acosta-Martinez V, McIntyre NE, Cox S, Tissue DT, Zak JC, (2009) ‘Linking microbial community structure and function to seasonal differences in soil moisture and temperature in a Chihuahuan desert grassland’, Microbial Ecology, vol.58, no.4, pp 827-842

Beninati T, Riegler M, Vilcins I, McFadyen R, Sacchi L, Krockenberger M, Bandi C, O’Neill SL, Lo N, (2009) ‘Absence of the symbiont Candidatus Midichloria mitochondrii in the mitochondria of the tick Ixodes holocyclus’, FEMS Microbiology Letters, vol.299, no.2, pp 241-247

Boer MM, Sadler RJ, Wittkuhn R, McCaw L, Grierson PF, (2009) ‘Long-term impacts of prescribed burning on regional extent and incidence of wildfires – evidence from fifty years of active fire management in SW Australian forests’, Forest Ecology and Management, vol.259, no.1, pp 132-142

Bollenbach TJ, Sharwood RE, Gutierrez R, Lerbs-Mache S, Stern DB, (2009) ‘The RNA-binding proteins CSP41a and CSP41b may regulate transcription and translation of chloroplast-encoded RNAs in Arabidopsis’, Plant Molecular Biology, vol.69, no.5, pp 541-552

Brownlie JC, Cass BN, Riegler M, Witsenburg JJ, Iturbe-Ormaetxe I, McGraw EA, O’Neill SL, (2009) ‘Evidence for metabolic provisioning by a common invertebrate endosymbiont, Wolbachia pipientis, during periods of nutritional stress’, Public Library of Science - Pathogens, vol.5, no.4, April 2009, e1000368

Cernusak LA, Tcherkez G, Keitel C, Cornwell WK, Santiago LS, Knohl A, Barbour MM, Williams DG, Reich PB, Ellsworth DS, Dawson TE, Griffiths HG, Farquhar GD, Wright IJ, (2009) ‘Why are non-photosynthetic tissues generally ¹³C enriched compared with leaves in C₃ plants? Review and synthesis of current hypotheses’, Functional Plant Biology, vol.36, no.3, pp 199-213

Choat B, Gambetta GA, Shackel KA, Matthews MA, (2009) ‘Vascular function in grape berries across development and its relevance to apparent hydraulic isolation’, Plant Physiology, vol.151, no.3, pp 1677–1687

Choat B, Gambetta GA, Wada H, Shackel KA, Matthews MA, (2009) 'The effects of Pierce's disease on leaf and petiole hydraulic conductance in Vitis vinifera cv. Chardonnay', Physiologia Plantarum, vol.136, no.4, pp 384–394

Choat B, Pittermann, J, (2009) 'New insights into bordered pit structure and cavitation resistance in angiosperms and conifers', New Phytologist, vol.182, no.3, pp 557–560

Curlevski NJA, Chambers SM, Anderson IC, Cairney JWG, (2009) ‘Identical genotypes of an ericoid mycorrhiza-forming fungus occur in roots of Epacris pulchella (Ericaceae) and Leptospermum polygalifolium (Myrtaceae) in an Australian sclerophyll forest’, FEMS Microbiology Ecology, vol.67, no.3, pp 411-420

Dickman CR, Glen AS, Letnic M, (2009) ‘Reintroducing the dingo: can Australia’s conservation wastelands be restored?’ In: Hayward MW AND Somers MJ (eds). Reintroduction of top order predators, pp. 238-269. Wiley-Blackwell, London

Drigo B, Van Veen JA, Kowalchuk GA, (2009) ‘Specific rhizosphere bacterial and fungal groups respond differently to elevated atmospheric CO₂’ ISME Journal, vol.3, no.10, pp 1204-1217

Franklin O, McMurtrie RE, Iversen CM, Crous KY, Finzi AC, Tissue DT, Ellsworth DS, Oren R, Norby RJ, (2009) ‘Forest fine-root production and nitrogen use under elevated CO₂: Contrasting responses in evergreen and deciduous trees explained by a common principle’, Global Change Biology, vol.15, no.1, pp 132-144

Gebert J, Singh BK, Pan Y, Bodrossy L, (2009) ‘Activity and structure of methanotrophic communities in landfill cover soils’, Environmental Microbiology, vol.1, pp 414-423

Ghannoum O, (2009) ‘C₄ Photosynthesis and Water Stress’, Annals of Botany, vol.103, no.4, pp 635-644

Gimeno TE, Pías B, Lemos-filho JP, Valladares F, (2009) 'Plasticity and stress tolerance override local adaptation in the responses of Mediterranean Holm oak seedlings to drought and cold', Tree Physiology, vol.29, pp 87-98

Greenville AC, Dickman CR, Wardle GM, Letnic M, (2009) Wildfire history of an arid grassland: the influence of antecedent rainfall and ENSO’, International Journal of Wildland Fire, vol.18, pp 631-639

Gregory PJ, Johnson SN, Newton AC, Ingram JSI, (2009) ‘Integrating pests and pathogens into the climate change/food security debate’, Journal of Experimental Botany, vol.60, no.10, pp 2827–2838

Grelet G-A, Johnson DJ, Paterson E, Anderson IC, Alexander IJ, (2009) ‘Reciprocal carbon and nitrogen transfer between an ericaceous dwarf shrub and fungi isolated from Piceirhiza bicolorata ectomycorrhizas’, New Phytologist, vol.182, no.2, pp 359-366

Grelet G-A, Meharg AA, Duff EI, Anderson IC, Alexander IJ, (2009) ‘Small genetic variation between ericoid mycorrhizal symbionts matters for Vaccinium N uptake’, New Phytologist, vol.181, no.3, pp 708-718

Hart MM, Powell JR, Gulden RH, Dunfield KE, Pauls KP, Swanton CJ, Klironomos JN, Antunes PM, Koch AM, Trevors JT, (2009), ‘Separating the effect of crop from herbicide on soil microbial communities in glyphosate-resistant corn’, Pedobiologia, vol. 52, pp 253-262

Hart MM, Powell JR, Gulden RH, Levy-Booth DJ, Dunfield KE, Pauls KP, Swanton CJ, Klironomos JN, Trevors JT, (2009), ‘Detection of transgenic cp4 epsps genes in the soil food web’, Agronomy for Sustainable Development, vol. 29, pp 497-501

Hortal S, Pera J, Parladé J, (2009) 'Field persistence of the edible ectomycorrhizal fungus Lactarius deliciosus: effects of inoculation strain, initial colonization level, and site characteristics', Mycorrhiza, vol.19, pp 167-177

Islam MR, Trivedi P, Paliniappan P, Reddy MS, Sa TM, (2009) 'Evaluation of effect of fertilization on soil microbial community structure in rice based cropping system using Fatty acid methyl esters (FAME) analysis', World Journal of Microbiology and Biotechnology, vol.25, no.6, pp 1115-1117

Jansen S, Choat B, Pletsers A, (2009) 'Morphological variation of intervessel pit membranes and implications to xylem function in angiosperms', American Journal of Botany, vol.96, no.2, pp 409-419

Johnson IG, Kathuria A, Parekh J, Barton C, (2009) 'Low-rainfall species trials in New South Wales Part 1: Survival, growth and form over the first 57 months', Australian Forestry, vol.72, pp 172-183

Johnson SN, Hawes C, Karley AJ, (2009) ‘Reappraising the role of plant nutrients as mediators of interactions between root- and foliar-feeding insects’, Functional Ecology, vol.23, no.4, pp 699–706

Karpouzas DG, Rousidou C, Papadopoulou KK, Bekris F, Zervakis G, Singh BK, Ehaliotis C, (2009) ‘Effect of continuous olive mill wastewater applications, in the presence and absence of N fertilization, on the structure of the soil fungal community’, FEMS Microbiology Ecology, vol.70, pp 56-69

Kottapalli KR, Rakwal R, Shibato J, Burow G, Tissue D, Burke J, Puppala N, Burow M, Payton P, (2009) ‘Physiology and proteomics of the water-deficit stress response in three contrasting peanut genotypes’, Plant, Cell and Environment, vol.32, no.4, pp 380-407

Letnic M, Crowther MS, Koch F, (2009) Does a top-predator provide an endangered rodent with refuge from an invasive mesopredator?’, Animal Conservation, vol.12, pp 302-312

Letnic M, Koch F, Gordon C, Crowther, MS, Dickman CR, (2009) ‘Keystone effects of an alien top predator stem extinctions of native mammals’, Proceedings of the Royal Society of London B, vol.276, pp 3249-3256

Levy-Booth DJ, Gulden RH, Campbell RG, Powell JR, Klironomos JN, Pauls KP, Swanton CJ, Trevors JT, Dunfield KE, (2009), ‘Roundup Ready soybean gene concentrations in field soil aggregate size classes’, FEMS Microbiology Letters, VOL. 291, pp 175-179

Logan B, Combs A, Myers K, Kent R, Stanley L, Tissue DT, (2009) ‘Seasonal response of photosynthetic electron transport and energy dissipation in the eighth year of exposure to elevated atmospheric CO₂ (FACE) in Pinus taeda (loblolly pine)’, Tree Physiology, vol.29, no.6, pp 789-797

Macdonald CA, Thomas N, Robinson L, Tate KR, Ross DJ, Dando J, Singh BK, (2009) ‘Physiological, biochemical and molecular responses of soil microbial community after afforestation of pastures with Pinus radiata’, Soil Biology and Biochemistry, vol.41, pp 1642-1651

Malviya MK, Pandey A, Trivedi P, Gupta G, Kumar B, (2009) 'Chitinolytic activity of cold tolerant antagonistic species of Streptomyces isolated from glacial sites of Indian Himalaya', Current Microbiology, vol.59, no.5, pp 502-508

Manage PM, Edwards C, Singh BK, Lawton LA, (2009) ‘Isolation and identification of novel microcystin-degrading bacteria’, Applied and Environmental Microbiology, vol.75, pp 6924-6928

McMenemy LS, Mitchell C, Johnson SN, (2009) ‘Biology of the European large raspberry aphid (Amphorophora idaei): its role in virus transmission and resistance breakdown in red raspberry’, Agricultural and Forest Entomology, vol.11, no.1, pp 61–71

Moreira LA, Iturbe-Ormaetxe I, Jeffery JA, Lu G, Pyke AT, Hedges LM, Rocha BC, Hall-Mendelin S, Day A, Riegler M, Hugo LE, Johnson KN, Kay BH, McGraw EA, van den Hurk AF, Ryan PA, O'Neill SL, (2009) ‘A Wolbachia Symbiont in Aedes aegypti limits infection with Dengue, Chikungunya, and Plasmodium’, Cell, vol.39, no.7, pp 1268-1278

Murray TJ, (2009) ‘New Biological control agent for Acacia tortoise beetle?’ Forest Health News, 194

Patrick LD, Ogle K, Bell CW, Zak J, Tissue D, (2009) ‘Physiological responses of two contrasting desert plant species to precipitation variability are differentially regulated by soil moisture and nitrogen dynamics’, Global Change Biology, vol.15, no. 5, pp 1214-1229

Patrick LD, Ogle K, Tissue DT, (2009) ‘A hierarchical Bayesian approach for estimation of photosynthetic parameters of C₃ plants’, Plant Cell and Environment, vol.32, no.12, pp 1695-1709

Pekin BK, Boer MM, Macfarlane C, Grierson PF, (2009) ‘Impacts of increased fire frequency and aridity on eucalypt forest structure, biomass and composition in southwest Australia’, Forest Ecology and Management, vol.258, no.9, pp 2136-2142

Peterson T, Rossmann B, Drake JE, Westervelt J, (2009) 'A spatially explicit model of red imported fire ant behavior for managing species at risk on military lands', US Army Corps of Engineers Research Laboratory, CERL Report No. TR-09-19

Phillips NG, Scholz FG, Bucci SJ, Goldstein G, Meinzer FC, (2009) ‘Using branch and basal trunk sap flow measurements to estimate whole-plant water capacitance: comment on Burgess and Dawson (2008)’, Plant and Soil, vol.315, nos.1-2, pp 315-324

Pickles BJ, Genney DR, Anderson IC, Alexander IJ, (2009) 'Spatial ecology of ectomycorrhizas: analytical strategies', in Mycorrhizas, Functional Processes and Ecological Impact, (Eds) Azcon-Aguilar C, Barea JM, Gianinazzi S, Gianinazzi-Pearson V, Springer, Berlin, pp 155-165

Powell JR, Parrent JL, Hart MM, Klironomos JN, Rillig MC, Maherali H, (2009) ‘Phylogenetic trait conservatism and the evolution of functional tradeoffs in arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi’, Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, vol.276, no.1676, pp 4237-4245

Powell JR, Levy-Booth DJ, Gulden RH, Asbil WL, Campbell RG, Dunfield KE, Hamill AS, Hart MM, Lerat S, Nurse RE, Pauls KP, Sikkema PH, Swanton CJ, Trevors JT, Klironomos JN, (2009) ‘Effects of genetically-modified, herbicide-tolerant crops and their management on soil food web properties and crop litter decomposition’, Journal of Applied Ecology, vol.46, no.2, pp 388-396

Powell JR, Campbell RG, Dunfield KE, Gulden RH, Hart MM, Levy-Booth DJ, Klironomos JN, Pauls KP, Swanton CJ, Trevors JT, Antunes PM, (2009) ‘Effect of glyphosate on the tripartite symbiosis formed by Glomus intraradices, Bradyrhizobium japonicum, and genetically-modified soybean’, Applied Soil Ecology, vol.41, no.1, pp 128-13

Reich PB, (2009) ‘Elevated CO₂ reduces loss of plant diversity caused by nitrogen deposition’, Science, vol.326, pp 1399-1402

Reich PB, Falster DS, Ellsworth DS, Wright IJ, Westoby M, Oleksyn J, Lee TD, (2009) ‘Controls on declining carbon balance with leaf age among 10 woody species in Australian woodland: Do leaves have zero daily net carbon balances when they die?’, New Phytologist, vol.183, no.1, pp 153-166

Resco V, Hartwell J, Hall A, (2009) ‘Ecological implications of plants ability to tell the time’, Ecology Letters, vol.12, no.6, pp 583-592

Resco V, Ewers BE, Sun W, Huxman TE, Weltzin, JF, Williams DG, (2009) ‘Drought-induced hydraulic limitations constrain leaf gas exchange responses to precipitation pulses in the C3 woody legume Prosopis velutina’, New Phytologist, vol.181, no.3, pp 672-682

Robertson TR, Bell CW, Zak JC, Tissue DT, (2009) ‘Precipitation timing and magnitude differentially affect aboveground annual net primary productivity in three perennial species in a Chihuahuan Desert grassland’, New Phytologist, vol.181, no.1, pp 230-242

Robinson CH, Szaro TM, Izzo AD, Anderson IC, Parkin PI, Bruns TD, (2009) ‘Spatial distribution of fungal communities in a coastal grassland soil’, Soil Biology and Biochemistry, vol.41, no.2, pp 414-416

Sagaram US, DeAngelis KM, Trivedi P, Andersen GL, Lu S, Wang N, (2009), 'Bacterial diversity analysis of HLB pathogen-infected citrus using PhyloChips and 16S rDNA clone library sequencing', Applied and Environmental Microbiology, vol.75, no.6, pp 1566-1574

Singh BK (2009) ‘Organophosphorus-degrading bacteria: ecology and industrial applications’, Nature Reviews Microbiology, vol.7, pp 156-164

Singh BK, Campbell C, Sorensen SJ,  Zhou J, (2009) ‘Soil genomics is the way forward’, Nature Reviews Microbiology, vol.7, pp p756

Singh BK, Dawson L, Macdonald C, Grime S, (2009) ‘Impact of biotic and abiotic interaction on soil microbial communities and functions: A field study’, Applied Soil Ecology, vol.41, pp 239-248

Singh BK, Nunan N, Millard P, (2009) ‘Differential response of fungal and bacterial communities to sheep urine deposition in a grassland soil’, FEMS Microbiology Ecology, vol.70, pp 109-117

Singh BK, Tate K, Ross D, Dando J, Singh J, Thomas N, Millard P, Murrell JC, (2009) ‘Soil methane oxidation and methanotroph responses to afforestation of pastures with Pinus radiata stands of different age’, Soil Biology and Biochemistry, vol.41, pp 2196-2205

Smith SD, Tissue DT, Huxman TE, Loik ME, (2009) 'Ecophysiological responses of desert plants to elevated CO₂: Environmental determinants and case studies', in Perspectives in Biophysical Plant Ecophysiology: A Tribute to Park S Nobel, pp. 363-390, (Eds) De la Barrera E and Smith WK, Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico Press, Mexico City

Sun W, Resco V, Williams DG, (2009) ‘Diurnal and seasonal variation in the carbon isotope composition of leaf-respired CO₂ in velvet mesquite, Prosopis velutina’, Plant, Cell and Environment, vol.32, no.10, pp 1390-1400

Tjoelker MG, Oleksyn J, Lorenc-Plucinska G, Reich PB, (2009), ‘Acclimation of respiratory temperature responses in northern and southern populations of Pinus banksiana’, New Phytologist, vol.181, no.1, pp 218-229

Trivedi P, Sagaram US, Kim JS, Brlansky RH, Rogers ME, Stelinski LL, Oswalt C, Wang N, (2009) 'Quantification of viable Candidatus Liberibacter asiaticus in hosts using quantitative PCR with the aid of ethidium monoazide (EMA)', European Journal of Plant Pathology, vol.124, no.4, pp 553-563

Uddling J, Teclaw RM, Pregitzer KS, Ellsworth DS, (2009) ‘Leaf and canopy conductance in aspen and aspen-birch forests under free-air enrichment of carbon dioxide and ozone’, Tree Physiology, vol.29, no.11, pp 1367-1380

van der Linde S, Alexander IJ, Anderson IC, (2009) ‘Spatial distribution of sporocarps of stipitate hydnoid fungi and their belowground mycelium’, FEMS Microbiology Ecology, vol.69, no.3, pp 344-352

Whitney SM, Kane HJ, Houtz RL, Sharwood RE, (2009) ‘Rubisco oligomers composed of small and large subunits assemble in tobacco plastids and have higher affinities for CO₂ and O₂’, Plant Physiology, vol.149, no.4, pp 1887-1895

Yakimowski SB, Rymer PD, Stone H, Dorken ME, Barrett SCH, (2009) ‘Isolation and characterization of 11 microsatellite markers from Sagittaria latifolia (Alismataceae)’, Molecular Ecology Resources, vol.9, no.2, pp 579-581