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Agegnehu, Getachew, Bass, Adrian M., Nelson, Paul N., Muirhead, Brian, Wright, Graeme, and Bird, Michael A. (2015) Biochar and biochar-compost as soil amendments: effects on peanut yield, soil properties and greenhouse gas emissions in tropical North Queensland, Australia. Agriculture, Ecosystems and Environment, 213. pp. 72-85.

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.

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

Diefendorf, Aaron F., Sberna, Douglas, and Taylor, David Winship (2015) Effect of thermal maturation on plant-derived terpenoids and leaf wax n-alkyl components. Organic Geochemistry, 89-90. pp. 61-70.

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

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

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

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

Eldridge, S.M., Chen, C.R., Xu, Z.H., Nelson, P.N., Boyd, S.E., Meszaros, I., and Chan, K.Y. (2013) Molecular composition of recycled organic wastes, as determined by solid-state ¹³C NMR and elemental analyses. Waste Management, 33 (11). pp. 2157-2169.

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.

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.

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.

English, Nathan B., McDowell, Nate G., Allen, Craig D., and Mora, Claudia (2011) The effects of α-cellulose extraction and blue-stain fungus on retrospective studies of carbon and oxygen isotope variation in live and dead trees. Rapid Communications in Mass Spectrometry, 25 (20). pp. 3083-3090.

Ascough, P.L., Bird, M.I., Francis, S.M., Thornton, B., Midwood, A.J., Scott, A.C., and Apperley, D. (2011) Variability in oxidative degradation of charcoal: Influence of production conditions and environmental exposure. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, 75 (9). pp. 2361-2378.

Bass, A.M., Bird, M.I., Liddell, M.J., and Nelson, P. (2011) Fluvial dynamics of dissolved and particulate organic carbon during periodic discharge events in a steep tropical rainforest catchment. Limnology and Oceanography, 56 (6). pp. 2282-2292.

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

Ascough, P.L., Bird, M.I., Brock, F., Higham, T.F.G., Meredith, W., Snape, C.E., and Vane, C.H. (2009) Hydropyrolysis as a new tool for radiocarbon pre-treatment and the quantification of black carbon. Quaternary Geochronology, 4 (2). pp. 140-147.

Nelson, Paul N., and Baldock, Jeffrey A. (2005) Estimating the molecular composition of a diverse range of natural organic materials from solid-state 13C NMR and elemental analyses. Biogeochemistry, 72 (1). pp. 1-34.

Hearty, Paul J., O'Leary, Michael J., Kaufman, Darrell S., Page, Michael C., and Bright, Jordon (2004) Amino acid geochronology of individual foraminifer (Pulleniatina obliquiloculata) tests, north Queensland margin, Australia: A new approach to correlating and dating Quaternary tropical marine sediment cores. Paleoceanography, 19 (PA4022). pp. 1-14.

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Book Chapter

Bird, Michael (2015) Test procedures for biochar analysis in soils. In: Lehmann, Johannes, and Joseph, Stephen, (eds.) Biochar for Environmental Management: science technology and implementation. Routledge, Abingdon, UK, pp. 677-714.

Wüst, Raphael A.J., and Bustin, R Marc (2003) Kerogen. In: Middleton, Gerard V., Church, Michael J., Coniglio, Mario, Hardie, Lawrence A., and Longstaffe, Frederick J., (eds.) Encyclopedia of Sediments and Sedimentary Rocks. Encyclopedia of Earth Sciences Series . Kluwer Academic Publishers, Dordrecht, The Netherlands, pp. 400-403.

Conference Item

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

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

Thesis

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

Lewis, Stephen Edward (2005) Environmental trends in the GBR lagoon and Burdekin River catchment during the mid-Holocene and since European settlement using Porites coral records, Magnetic Island, QLD. PhD thesis, James Cook University.