Publications

Berg, N. and Steinberger, Y. 2010. Are the biological effects of desert shrubs more important than physical effects on soil microorganisms? Microbial Ecology, 59, 121-129.
 
De Varennes, A., Cunha-Queda, C. and Qu, G. 2010. Amendment of an Acid Mine Soil with Compost and Polyacrylate Polymers Enhances Enzymatic Activites but may Change the Distribution of Plant Species. Water, Air and Soil Pollution, 208, 91-100.

Macdonald, C.A., Thomas, N., Robinson, L., Tate, K.R., Ross, D.J., Dandi, J. and Singh, B.K.  2009. Physiological, biochemical and molecular responses of the soil microbial community after afforestation of pastures with Pinus radiate. Soil Biology & Biochemistry, 41, 1642-1651.

Saul-Tcherkas, V., Steinberger, Y. 2009. Substrate utilization patterns of desert soil microbial communities in response to xeric and mesic conditions. Soil Biology & Biochemistry, 41, 1882-1893.

Gonzalez-Quinones, V., Banning, N.C., Jimenez Ballesta, R., Murphy, D.V. 2009. Influence of cold storage on soil microbial community level physiological profiles and implications for soil quality monitoring. Soil Biology & Biochemistry, 41, 1574-1576.

Stutter, M.I., Langan, S.J. and Lumsdon, D.G. 2009. Vegetated buffer strips can lead to increased release of phosphorus to waters: A biogeochemical assessment of the mechanisms. Environmental Science & Technology, 43(6), 1858-1863.

Artz, R.R.E., Chapman, SJ., Siegenthaler, A., Mitchell, E.A.D., Buttler, A., Bortoluzzi, E., Gilbert, D., Yli-Petays, M., Vasander, H. and Francez, A. 2008. Functional microbial diversity in regenerating cutover peatlands responds to vegetation succession. Journal of Applied Ecology, 45(6), 1799-1809.

Berg, N. and Steinberger, Y. 2008. Role of perennial plants in determining the activity of the microbial community in the Negev Desert ecosystem. Soil Biology & Biochemistry, 40, 2686-2695.

Campbell, C.D., Cameron, C.M., Bastias,B.A., Chen, C. and Cairney, J.W.G. 2008. Long term repeated burning in a wet sclerophyll forest reduces fungal and bacterial biomass and responses to carbon substrates. Soil Biology & Biochemistry, 40, 2246-2252.

Ginzburg, O., Whitford, W.G. and Steinberger, Y.  2008. Effects of harvester ant (Messor spp.) activity on soil properties and microbial communities in a Negev Desert ecosystem.  Biology & Fertility of Soils, 45, 165-173.

He, Y., Xu, Z., Chen, C., Burton, J., Ma, Q., Ge, Y. and Xu, J. 2008. Using light fraction and macroaggregate associated organic matters as early indicators for management-induced changes in soil chemical and biological properties in adjacent native and plantation forests of subtropical Australia. Geoderma, 147, 116-125. 

Oren, A. and Steinberger, Y. 2008. Coping with artifacts induced by CaCO3-CO2-H2O equilibra in substrate utilization profiling of calcareous soils. Soil Biology & Biochemistry, 40, 2569-2577.

Oren, A. and Steinberger, Y. 2008. Catabolic profiles of soil fungal communities along a geographic climate gradient in Israel. Soil Biology & Biochemistry, 40, 2578-2587.

Shand, C.A., Williams, B.L. and Coutts, G. 2008. Determination of N-species in soil extracts using microplate techniques. Talanta, 74, 648-654.

Wakelin, S. A., Macdonald, L. M., Rogers, S. L., Gregg, A. L., Bolger, T. P. & Baldock, J. A. 2008. Habitat selective factors influencing the structural composition and functional capacity of microbial communities in agricultural soils. Soil Biology & Biochemistry, 40, 803-813.

Yan, W., Artz, R.R.E. and Johnson, D. 2008 Species-specific effects of plants colonising cutover peatlands on patterns of carbon source utilisation by soil microorganisms. Soil Biology & Biochemistry, 40, 544-549.

Chapman, S.J., Campbell, C.D. and Artz, R.R.E. Assessing CLPPs using MicroResp™. 2007. A comparison with Biolog and multi-SIR. Journal of Soil Sediments, 7, 406-410.

Lagomarsino, A., Knapp, B.A., Moscatelli, M.C., De Angelis, P., Grego, S. and Insam, H. 2007. Structural and Functional Diversity of Soil Microbes is Affected by Elevated [CO2] and N Addition in a Poplar Plantation, Journal of Soils & Sediments, 7, 399-405.

Lalor, B.M., Cookson, W.R., and Murphy, D.V. 2007. Comparison of two methods that assess soil community level physiological profiles in a forest ecosytem. Soil Biology & Biochemistry, 39, 454-462.

Martins-Loucao, MA. and Cruz, C. 2007. Microbial Communities.  Journal of Soils & Sediments, 7, 398-398.

Artz, R.R.E. , Chapman, S.J. and Campbell, C.D. 2006. Substrate utilisation profiles of microbial communities in Peat are depth dependent and correlate with whole soil FTIR profiles. Soil Biology & Biochemistry, 38, 2958-2962.

Kaufmann, K., Chapman, S.J., Campbell, C.D., Harms, H. and Höhener, P. 2006. A Miniaturized test system for soil respiration induced by volatile pollutants. Environmental Pollution, 140(2), 269-278.

Artz, R.R.E., Chapman, S.J., Anderson, I. and Campbell, C.D. 2004. Microbial indicators of below-ground regeneration of cut-over peatlands. International Symposium on Microbial Ecology, Cancun, Mexico.

Kaufman, K., Chapman, S.J., Campbell, C.D., Harms, H. and Hohener, P. 2004. Optimising bioremediation conditions in contaminated soils using the MicroResp™ microtitre method. International Symposium on Microbial Ecology, Cancun, Mexico. poster

Campbell, C.D., Chapman, S.J., Cameron, C.M., Davidson, M.S., and Potts, J.M. 2003. A rapid microtiter plate method to measure carbon dioxide evolved from carbon amendments so as to determine the physiological profiles of soil microbial communities by using whole soil. Applied & Environmental Microbiology, 69(6), 3593-3599.

Licona Manzur, C.G., 2002. A combined chemical and biological approach to the measurement of chromium speciation, availability & ecotoxicity in contaminated soils. Ph.D thesis, University of Edinburgh.