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  1. Effects of mineralogy, chemistry and physical properties of basalts on carbon capture potential and plant-nutrient element release via enhanced weathering

    Article • Applied Geochemistry, September 2021, Elsevier

    Professor Michael I Bird

  2. A global carbon and nitrogen isotope perspective on modern and ancient human diet

    Article • Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, May 2021, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

    Professor Michael I Bird

  3. Stochastic models support rapid peopling of Late Pleistocene Sahul

    Article • Nature Communications, April 2021, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Michael I Bird, Dr FREDERIK SALTRE

  4. Landscape rules predict optimal superhighways for the first peopling of Sahul

    Article • Nature Human Behaviour, April 2021, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Michael I Bird, Dr FREDERIK SALTRE

  5. A new Quaternary stratigraphy of the Kallang River Basin, Singapore: Implications for urban development and geotechnical engineering in Singapore

    Article • Journal of Asian Earth Sciences, September 2020, Elsevier

    Professor Michael I Bird

  6. A global carbon and nitrogen isotope perspective on modern and ancient human diet

    Article • August 2020, Research Square

    Professor Michael I Bird

  7. Net landscape carbon balance of a tropical savanna: Relative importance of fire and aquatic export in offsetting terrestrial production

    Article • Global Change Biology, August 2020, Wiley

    Professor Michael I Bird

  8. Vegetation over the last glacial maximum at Girraween Lagoon, monsoonal northern Australia

    Article • Quaternary Research, July 2020, Cambridge University Press

    Professor Michael I Bird

  9. Southern Ocean carbon sink enhanced by sea-ice feedbacks at the Antarctic Cold Reversal

    Article • Nature Geoscience, June 2020, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Michael I Bird

  10. Archaeal lipid-inferred paleohydrology and paleotemperature of Lake Chenghai during the Pleistocene–Holocene transition

    Article • Climate of the Past, May 2020, Copernicus GmbH

    Professor Michael I Bird

  11. Palaeochannels of Australia's Riverine Plain - Reconstructing past vegetation environments across the Late Pleistocene and Holocene

    Article • Palaeogeography Palaeoclimatology Palaeoecology, May 2020, Elsevier

    Professor Michael I Bird

  12. Biochar-based fertilizer: Supercharging root membrane potential and biomass yield of rice

    Article • The Science of The Total Environment, April 2020, Elsevier

    Professor Michael I Bird

  13. Tipping elements and amplified polar warming during the Last Interglacial

    Article • Quaternary Science Reviews, April 2020, Elsevier

    Professor Michael I Bird

  14. The reliability of radiocarbon dates of different carbon fractions in the Australian tropical savannas: A case study from Sanamere Lagoon, northeast Australia

    Article • March 2020, Copernicus GmbH

    Professor Michael I Bird

  15. Author Correction: Savanna in equatorial Borneo during the late Pleistocene

    Article • Scientific Reports, March 2020, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Michael I Bird

  16. A rapid throughput technique to isolate pyrogenic carbon by hydrogen pyrolysis for stable isotope and radiocarbon analysis

    Article • Rapid Communications in Mass Spectrometry, February 2020, Wiley

    Professor Michael I Bird

  17. Seasonal Shift From Biogenic to Geogenic Fluvial Carbon Caused by Changing Water Sources in the Wet‐Dry Tropics

    Article • Journal of Geophysical Research Biogeosciences, February 2020, American Geophysical Union (AGU)

    Professor Michael I Bird

  18. Stable isotope proxy records in tropical terrestrial environments

    Article • Palaeogeography Palaeoclimatology Palaeoecology, November 2019, Elsevier

    Professor Michael I Bird

  19. Selective preservation of pyrogenic carbon across soil organic matter fractions and its influence on calculations of carbon mean residence times

    Article • Geoderma, November 2019, Elsevier

    Professor Michael I Bird

  20. Data Descriptor: Daily observations of stable isotope ratios of rainfall in the tropics

    Article • Scientific Reports, October 2019, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Michael I Bird, Hugo Yacobaccio

  21. Coupled rainfall and water vapour stable isotope time series reveal tropical atmospheric processes on multiple timescales

    Article • Hydrological Processes, September 2019, Wiley

    Professor Michael I Bird

  22. Microbial Membrane Tetraether lipid-inferred paleohydrology and paleotemperature of Lake Chenghai during the Pleistocene-Holocene transition

    Article • August 2019, Copernicus GmbH

    Professor Michael I Bird

  23. Microbial Membrane Tetraether lipid-inferred paleohydrology and paleotemperature of Lake Chenghai during the Pleistocene-Holocene transition

    Article • August 2019, Copernicus GmbH

    Professor Michael I Bird

  24. Holocene savanna dynamics in the seasonal tropics of northern Australia

    Article • Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology, August 2019, Elsevier

    Professor Michael I Bird

  25. 45,610–52,160 years of site and landscape occupation at Nawarla Gabarnmang, Arnhem Land plateau (northern Australia)

    Article • Quaternary Science Reviews, July 2019, Elsevier

    Professor Michael I Bird, Dr. Thomas Richards

  26. Early human settlement of Sahul was not an accident

    Article • Scientific Reports, June 2019, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Michael I Bird, Professor Corey J. A. Bradshaw, Dr FREDERIK SALTRE

  27. Minimum founding populations for the first peopling of Sahul

    Article • Nature Ecology & Evolution, June 2019, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Michael I Bird, Professor Corey J. A. Bradshaw, Dr FREDERIK SALTRE

  28. Savanna in equatorial Borneo during the late Pleistocene

    Article • Scientific Reports, April 2019, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Michael I Bird

  29. Identifying the ‘savanna’ signature in lacustrine sediments in northern Australia

    Article • Quaternary Science Reviews, January 2019, Elsevier

    Professor Michael I Bird

  30. Partitioning of microbially respired CO2 between indigenous and exogenous carbon sources during biochar degradation using radiocarbon and stable carbon isotopes

    Article • Radiocarbon, November 2018, Cambridge University Press

    Professor Michael I Bird

  31. Palaeogeography and voyage modeling indicates early human colonization of Australia was likely from Timor-Roti

    Article • Quaternary Science Reviews, July 2018, Elsevier

    Professor Michael I Bird

  32. The isotopic signature of monsoon conditions, cloud modes, and rainfall type

    Article • Hydrological Processes, June 2018, Wiley

    Professor Michael I Bird

  33. Dynamics of Charcoal Alteration in a Tropical Biome: A Biochar-Based Study

    Article • Frontiers in Earth Science, June 2018, Frontiers

    Professor Michael I Bird

  34. Publisher Correction: Farming with crops and rocks to address global climate, food and soil security

    Article • Nature Plants, May 2018, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Michael I Bird

  35. Better estimates of soil carbon from geographical data: a revised global approach

    Article • Mitigation and Adaptation Strategies for Global Change, May 2018, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Michael I Bird

  36. Automated calibration of laser spectrometer measurements of δ18 O and δ2 H values in water vapour using a Dew Point Generator

    Article • Rapid Communications in Mass Spectrometry, March 2018, Wiley

    Professor Michael I Bird

  37. Farming with crops and rocks to address global climate, food and soil security

    Article • Nature Plants, February 2018, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Michael I Bird

  38. Preferential Production and Transport of Grass-Derived Pyrogenic Carbon in NE-Australian Savanna Ecosystems

    Article • Frontiers in Earth Science, January 2018, Frontiers

    Professor Michael I Bird

  39. Amazon Basin forest pyrogenic carbon stocks: First estimate of deep storage

    Article • Geoderma, November 2017, Elsevier

    Professor Michael I Bird

  40. The role of biochar and biochar-compost in improving soil quality and crop performance: A review

    Article • Applied Soil Ecology, October 2017, Elsevier

    Professor Michael I Bird

  41. Does soil pyrogenic carbon determine plant functional traits in Amazon Basin forests?

    Article • Plant Ecology, August 2017, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Michael I Bird

  42. Optimal climate for large trees at high elevations drives patterns of biomass in remote forests of Papua New Guinea

    Article • Global Change Biology, May 2017, Wiley

    Professor Michael I Bird, Lucas Cernusak

  43. Stable isotope composition of cave guano from eastern Borneo reveals tropical environments over the past 15,000 cal yr BP

    Article • Palaeogeography Palaeoclimatology Palaeoecology, May 2017, Elsevier

    Professor Michael I Bird

  44. Complexities in the palaeoenvironmental and archaeological interpretation of isotopic analyses of the Mud Shell Geloina erosa (Lightfoot, 1786)

    Article • Journal of Archaeological Science Reports, April 2017, Elsevier

    Professor Michael I Bird

  45. New sedimentary evidence reveals a unique history of C4 biomass in continental East Asia since the early Miocene

    Article • Scientific Reports, March 2017, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Michael I Bird

  46. Loss and gain of carbon during char degradation

    Article • Soil Biology and Biochemistry, March 2017, Elsevier

    Professor Michael I Bird

  47. Antarctic ice sheet discharge driven by atmosphere-ocean feedbacks at the Last Glacial Termination

    Article • Scientific Reports, January 2017, Nature

    Dr Nicholas R Golledge, Professor Michael I Bird

  48. Estimating organic carbon content of soil in Papua New Guinea using infrared spectroscopy

    Article • Soil Research, January 2017, CSIRO Publishing

    Professor Michael I Bird

  49. The climate reconstruction potential of Acacia cambagei (gidgee) for semi-arid regions of Australia using stable isotopes and elemental abundances

    Article • Journal of Arid Environments, January 2017, Elsevier

    Professor Michael I Bird

  50. Stable isotopic signature of Australian monsoon controlled by regional convection

    Article • Quaternary Science Reviews, November 2016, Elsevier

    Professor Michael I Bird

  51. The effects of biochar, compost and their mixture and nitrogen fertilizer on yield and nitrogen use efficiency of barley grown on a Nitisol in the highlands of Ethiopia

    Article • The Science of The Total Environment, November 2016, Elsevier

    Professor Michael I Bird

  52. Quantification of pyrogenic carbon in the environment: An integration of analytical approaches

    Article • Organic Geochemistry, October 2016, Elsevier

    Professor Michael I Bird

  53. Humans, water, and the colonization of Australia

    Article • Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, September 2016, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

    Professor Michael I Bird

  54. Soil types influence predictions of soil carbon stock recovery in tropical secondary forests

    Article • Forest Ecology and Management, September 2016, Elsevier

    Professor Michael I Bird

  55. Quantifying Charcoal Degradation and Negative Priming of Soil Organic Matter with a 14C-Dead Tracer

    Article • Radiocarbon, July 2016, Cambridge University Press

    Professor Michael I Bird

  56. A comprehensive database of quality-rated fossil ages for Sahul’s Quaternary vertebrates

    Article • Scientific Data, July 2016, Nature

    Professor Barry W. Brook, Professor Michael I Bird, Dr FREDERIK SALTRE

  57. Crop yield, plant nutrient uptake and soil physicochemical properties under organic soil amendments and nitrogen fertilization on Nitisols

    Article • Soil and Tillage Research, July 2016, Elsevier

    Professor Michael I Bird

  58. Soil properties, greenhouse gas emissions and crop yield under compost, biochar and co-composted biochar in two tropical agronomic systems

    Article • The Science of The Total Environment, April 2016, Elsevier

    Professor Michael I Bird

  59. Organic carbon isotope and molecular fossil records of vegetation evolution in central Loess Plateau since 450 kyr

    Article • Science China Earth Sciences, March 2016, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Michael I Bird

  60. What caused extinction of the Pleistocene megafauna of Sahul?

    Article • Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences, February 2016, Royal Society Publishing

    Professor Barry W. Brook, Professor Michael I Bird, Dr FREDERIK SALTRE

  61. Mineralogy, Geochemistry and Stable Isotope Studies of the Dopolan Bauxite Deposit, Zagros Mountain, Iran

    Article • Minerals, February 2016, MDPI AG

    Professor Michael I Bird

  62. Benefits of biochar, compost and biochar–compost for soil quality, maize yield and greenhouse gas emissions in a tropical agricultural soil

    Article • The Science of The Total Environment, February 2016, Elsevier

    Professor Michael I Bird

  63. Climate change not to blame for late Quaternary megafauna extinctions in Australia

    Article • Nature Communications, January 2016, Nature

    Professor Michael I Bird, Professor Barry W. Brook, Dr FREDERIK SALTRE

  64. Emission of CO2 from tropical riparian forest soil is controlled by soil temperature, soil water content and depth to water table

    Article • Soil Research, January 2016, CSIRO Publishing

    Professor Michael I Bird

  65. Tree-scale spatial variability of soil carbon cycling in a mature oil palm plantation

    Article • Soil Research, January 2016, CSIRO Publishing

    Professor Michael I Bird

  66. Biochar and biochar-compost as soil amendments: Effects on peanut yield, soil properties and greenhouse gas emissions in tropical North Queensland, Australia

    Article • Agriculture Ecosystems & Environment, December 2015, Elsevier

    Professor Michael I Bird

  67. Criteria for assessing the quality of Middle Pleistocene to Holocene vertebrate fossil ages

    Article • Quaternary Geochronology, October 2015, Elsevier

    Professor Barry W. Brook, Professor Michael I Bird, Dr FREDERIK SALTRE

  68. Leaky savannas: the significance of lateral carbon fluxes in the seasonal tropics

    Article • Hydrological Processes, September 2015, Wiley

    Professor Michael I Bird

  69. Phosphorus Response and Fertilizer Recommendations for Wheat Grown on Nitisols in the Central Ethiopian Highlands

    Article • Communications in Soil Science and Plant Analysis, September 2015, Taylor & Francis

    Professor Michael I Bird

  70. The influence of C3 and C4 vegetation on soil organic matter dynamics in contrasting semi-natural tropical ecosystems

    Article • Biogeosciences, August 2015, Copernicus GmbH

    Professor Michael I Bird

  71. Validating Community-Led Forest Biomass Assessments

    Article • PLoS ONE, June 2015, PLOS

    Professor Michael I Bird

  72. The Pyrogenic Carbon Cycle

    Article • Annual Review of Earth and Planetary Sciences, May 2015, Annual Reviews

    Dr Gustavo Saiz, Professor Michael I Bird

  73. The influence of C3 and C4 vegetation on soil organic matter dynamics in contrasting semi-natural tropical ecosystems

    Article • Biogeosciences Discussions, May 2015, Copernicus GmbH

    Professor Michael I Bird

  74. Structural, physiognomic and above-ground biomass variation in savanna–forest transition zones on three continents – how different are co-occurring savanna and forest formations?

    Article • Biogeosciences, May 2015, Copernicus GmbH

    Gabriela Nardoto, Professor Michael I Bird

  75. Biochar from commercially cultivated seaweed for soil amelioration

    Article • Scientific Reports, April 2015, Nature

    Professor Michael I Bird

  76. Bioremediation for coal-fired power stations using macroalgae

    Article • Journal of Environmental Management, April 2015, Elsevier

    Professor Michael I Bird

  77. The carbon isotope composition of semi-labile and stable pyrogenic carbon in a thermosequence of C3 and C4 derived char

    Article • Organic Geochemistry, April 2015, Elsevier

    Professor Michael I Bird

  78. The biogeochemistry of insectivorous cave guano: a case study from insular Southeast Asia

    Article • Biogeochemistry, March 2015, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Michael I Bird

  79. Pyrogenic carbon from tropical savanna burning: production and stable isotope composition

    Article • Biogeosciences, March 2015, Copernicus GmbH

    Professor Michael I Bird

  80. Stable Isotope Anatomy of Tropical Cyclone Ita, North-Eastern Australia, April 2014

    Article • PLoS ONE, March 2015, PLOS

    Professor Michael I Bird

  81. Presence of Black Carbon in Soil due to Forest Fire in the New Jersey Pine Barrens

    Article • Journal of Earth Science and Engineering, February 2015, David Publishing Company

    Professor Michael I Bird

  82. Influence of feedstock properties and pyrolysis conditions on biochar carbon stability as determined by hydrogen pyrolysis

    Article • Biomass and Bioenergy, February 2015, Elsevier

    Professor Michael I Bird

  83. Sclerochronological analysis of archaeological mollusc assemblages: methods, applications and future prospects

    Article • Archaeological and Anthropological Sciences, January 2015, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Michael I Bird

  84. The ameliorating effects of biochar and compost on soil quality and plant growth on a Ferralsol

    Article • Soil Research, January 2015, CSIRO Publishing

    Professor Michael I Bird

  85. Continuous monitoring of stream δ18O and δ2H and stormflow hydrograph separation using laser spectrometry in an agricultural catchment

    Article • Hydrological Processes, January 2015, Wiley

    Professor Michael I Bird

  86. Foliar trait contrasts between African forest and savanna trees: genetic versus environmental effects

    Article • Functional Plant Biology, January 2015, CSIRO Publishing

    Professor Michael I Bird

  87. Impact of temperature and moisture on heterotrophic soil respiration along a moist tropical forest gradient in Australia

    Article • Soil Research, January 2015, CSIRO Publishing

    Professor Michael I Bird

  88. Contrasting photosynthetic characteristics of forest vs. savanna species (Far North Queensland, Australia)

    Article • Biogeosciences, December 2014, Copernicus GmbH

    Professor Michael I Bird

  89. Late Pliocene–Pleistocene expansion of C4 vegetation in semiarid East Asia linked to increased burning

    Article • Geology, December 2014, Geological Society of America

    Professor Michael I Bird

  90. Pyrogenic carbon from tropical savanna burning: production and stable isotope composition

    Article • Biogeosciences Discussions, October 2014, Copernicus GmbH

    Professor Michael I Bird

  91. Barriers and bridges: early human dispersals in equatorial SE Asia

    Article • Geological Society London Special Publications, September 2014, Geological Society

    Professor Michael I Bird

  92. Carbon isotopic signatures of soil organic matter correlate with leaf area index across woody biomes

    Article • Journal of Ecology, September 2014, Wiley

    Dr Lucas Silva, brenton ladd, Professor Michael I Bird

  93. Microwave extraction-isotope ratio infrared spectroscopy (ME-IRIS): a novel technique for rapid extraction and in-line analysis of δ18O and δ2H values of water in plants, soils and insects

    Article • Rapid Communications in Mass Spectrometry, September 2014, Wiley

    Professor Michael I Bird

  94. Continuous shipboard measurements of oceanic δ18O, δD and δ13CDIC along a transect from New Zealand to Antarctica using cavity ring-down isotope spectrometry

    Article • Journal of Marine Systems, September 2014, Elsevier

    Professor Michael I Bird

  95. The efficiency of charcoal decontamination for radiocarbon dating by three pre-treatments – ABOX, ABA and hypy

    Article • Quaternary Geochronology, August 2014, Elsevier

    Professor Michael I Bird

  96. Large rivers and orogens: The evolution of the Yarlung Tsangpo–Irrawaddy system and the eastern Himalayan syntaxis

    Article • Gondwana Research, July 2014, Elsevier

    Professor Michael I Bird

  97. Contrasting photosynthetic characteristics of forest vs. savanna species (far North Queensland, Australia)

    Article • Biogeosciences Discussions, June 2014, Copernicus GmbH

    Professor Michael I Bird

  98. Supplementary material to "Contrasting photosynthetic characteristics of forest vs. savanna species (far North Queensland, Australia)"

    Article • June 2014, Copernicus GmbH

    Professor Michael I Bird

  99. Gracilaria waste biomass (sampah rumput laut) as a bioresource for selenium biosorption

    Article • Environmental Biology of Fishes, May 2014, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Michael I Bird

  100. Charcoal re-combustion efficiency in tropical savannas

    Article • Geoderma, May 2014, Elsevier

    Professor Michael I Bird

  101. Soil carbon balance following conversion of grassland to oil palm

    Article • GCB Bioenergy, March 2014, Wiley

    Professor Michael I Bird

  102. Carbon Dioxide and Methane Emissions from a Wet-Dry Tropical Floodplain in Northern Australia

    Article • Wetlands, March 2014, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Michael I Bird

  103. Soil Security: Solving the Global Soil Crisis

    Article • Global Policy, October 2013, Wiley

    Professor Michael I Bird

  104. Basin-wide variations in Amazon forest nitrogen-cycling characteristics as inferred from plant and soil15N:14N measurements

    Article • Plant Ecology & Diversity, September 2013, Taylor & Francis

    Gabriela Nardoto, Professor Michael I Bird

  105. Quantifying pyrogenic carbon from thermosequences of wood and grass using hydrogen pyrolysis

    Article • Organic Geochemistry, September 2013, Elsevier

    Professor Michael I Bird

  106. Direct evidence from hydropyrolysis for the retention of long alkyl moieties in black carbon fractions isolated by acidified dichromate oxidation

    Article • Journal of Analytical and Applied Pyrolysis, September 2013, Elsevier

    Professor Michael I Bird

  107. Soil carbon stocks vary predictably with altitude in tropical forests: Implications for soil carbon storage

    Article • Geoderma, August 2013, Elsevier

    Professor Michael I Bird

  108. Lack of chronological support for stepwise prehuman extinctions of Australian megafauna

    Article • Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, July 2013, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

    Professor Barry W. Brook, Professor Michael I Bird

  109. Humans, megafauna and environmental change in tropical Australia

    Article • Journal of Quaternary Science, June 2013, Wiley

    Professor Michael I Bird

  110. Field-based cavity ring-down spectrometry of δ13C in soil-respired CO2

    Article • Isotopes in Environmental and Health Studies, June 2013, Taylor & Francis

    Professor Michael I Bird

  111. High diurnal variation in dissolved inorganic C, δ13C values and surface efflux of CO2 in a seasonal tropical floodplain

    Article • Environmental Chemistry Letters, May 2013, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Michael I Bird

  112. Corrigendum to “The ten Australian ecosystems most vulnerable to tipping points” [Biol. Conserv. 144 (2011) 1472–1480]

    Article • Biological Conservation, March 2013, Elsevier

    Dr Karen J Vella, Professor Michael I Bird

  113. On the delineation of tropical vegetation types with an emphasis on forest/savanna transitions

    Article • Plant Ecology & Diversity, March 2013, Taylor & Francis

    Gabriela Nardoto, Professor Michael I Bird

  114. Algal bioproducts derived from suspended solids in intensive land-based aquaculture

    Article • Bioresource Technology, March 2013, Elsevier

    Professor Michael I Bird

  115. Contrasting carbon export dynamics of human impacted and pristine tropical catchments in response to a short-lived discharge event

    Article • Hydrological Processes, February 2013, Wiley

    Professor Michael I Bird

  116. RADIOCARBON DATING | Charcoal

    Article • January 2013, Elsevier

    Professor Michael I Bird

  117. The knowns, known unknowns and unknowns of sequestration of soil organic carbon

    Article • Agriculture Ecosystems & Environment, January 2013, Elsevier

    Professor Michael I Bird

  118. Assessment of hydropyrolysis as a method for the quantification of black carbon using standard reference materials

    Article • Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, November 2012, Elsevier

    Professor Michael I Bird

  119. Quantifying the abundance and stable isotope composition of pyrogenic carbon using hydrogen pyrolysis

    Article • Rapid Communications in Mass Spectrometry, October 2012, Wiley

    Professor Michael I Bird

  120. Temperature sensitivity of tropical forest soil respiration increase along an altitudinal gradient with ongoing decomposition

    Article • Geoderma, October 2012, Elsevier

    Professor Michael I Bird

  121. Extreme short-term stable isotope variability revealed by continuous rainwater analysis

    Article • Hydrological Processes, September 2012, Wiley

    Professor Michael I Bird

  122. Utilization of Sugarcane Habitat by Feral Pig (Sus scrofa) in Northern Tropical Queensland: Evidence from the Stable Isotope Composition of Hair

    Article • PLoS ONE, September 2012, PLOS

    Professor Michael I Bird

  123. Rapid degradation of pyrogenic carbon

    Article • Global Change Biology, September 2012, Wiley

    Professor Michael I Bird

  124. Variation in soil carbon stocks and their determinants across a precipitation gradient in West Africa

    Article • Global Change Biology, July 2012, Wiley

    Professor Michael I Bird

  125. First continuous shipboard δ18O and δD measurements in sea water by diffusion sampling—cavity ring-down spectrometry

    Article • Environmental Chemistry Letters, June 2012, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Michael I Bird

  126. Homo 'incendius'

    Article • Nature, May 2012, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Michael I Bird

  127. Variation in soil carbon stocks and their determinants across a precipitation gradient in West Africa

    Article • Global Change Biology, March 2012, Wiley

    Professor Michael I Bird

  128. ISO-CADICA: Isotopic - continuous, automated dissolved inorganic carbon analyser

    Article • Rapid Communications in Mass Spectrometry, February 2012, Wiley

    Professor Michael I Bird

  129. Isotopes in pyrogenic carbon: A review

    Article • Organic Geochemistry, January 2012, Elsevier

    Professor Michael I Bird

  130. CADICA: Continuous Automated Dissolved Inorganic Carbon Analyzer with application to aquatic carbon cycle science

    Article • Limnology and Oceanography Methods, January 2012, Wiley

    Professor Michael I Bird

  131. Continuous analysis of δ18O and δD values of water by diffusion sampling cavity ring-down spectrometry: a novel sampling device for unattended field monitoring of precipitation, ground and surface waters

    Article • Rapid Communications in Mass Spectrometry, November 2011, Wiley

    Professor Michael I Bird

  132. Fluvial dynamics of dissolved and particulate organic carbon during periodic discharge events in a steep tropical rainforest catchment

    Article • Limnology and Oceanography, November 2011, Wiley

    Professor Michael I Bird

  133. Woody cover and hominin environments in the past 6 million years

    Article • Nature, August 2011, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Michael I Bird

  134. Algal biochar: effects and applications

    Article • GCB Bioenergy, June 2011, Wiley

    Professor Michael I Bird

  135. Height-diameter allometry of tropical forest trees

    Article • Biogeosciences, May 2011, Copernicus GmbH

    Professor Michael I Bird

  136. The 10 Australian ecosystems most vulnerable to tipping points

    Article • Biological Conservation, May 2011, Elsevier

    Dr Karen J Vella, Professor Michael I Bird

  137. Variability in oxidative degradation of charcoal: Influence of production conditions and environmental exposure

    Article • Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, May 2011, Elsevier

    Professor Andrew C Scott, Professor Michael I Bird

  138. Carbon sequestration and biodiversity restoration potential of semi-arid mulga lands of Australia interpreted from long-term grazing exclosures

    Article • Agriculture Ecosystems & Environment, April 2011, Elsevier

    Professor Michael I Bird

  139. Evidence for bias in C and N concentrations and δ13C composition of terrestrial and aquatic organic materials due to pre-analysis acid preparation methods

    Article • Chemical Geology, March 2011, Elsevier

    Professor Michael I Bird

  140. Alkali extraction of archaeological and geological charcoal: evidence for diagenetic degradation and formation of humic acids

    Article • Journal of Archaeological Science, January 2011, Elsevier

    Professor Michael I Bird

  141. Algal biochar – production and properties

    Article • Bioresource Technology, January 2011, Elsevier

    Professor Michael I Bird

  142. Can composition and physical protection of soil organic matter explain soil respiration temperature sensitivity?

    Article • Biodegradation, December 2010, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Michael I Bird

  143. Temporal variation and climate dependence of soil respiration and its components along a 3000 m altitudinal tropical forest gradient

    Article • Global Biogeochemical Cycles, November 2010, American Geophysical Union (AGU)

    Professor Michael I Bird

  144. Punctuated eustatic sea-level rise in the early mid-Holocene

    Article • Geology, September 2010, Geological Society of America

    Professor Michael I Bird

  145. Stable Isotopes of Subfossil Bat Guano as a Long-Term Environmental Archive: Insights from a Grand Canyon Cave Deposit

    Article • Journal of Cave and Karst Studies, August 2010, National Speleological Society

    Professor Michael I Bird

  146. Assessment of oxygen plasma ashing as a pre-treatment for radiocarbon dating

    Article • Quaternary Geochronology, August 2010, Elsevier

    Professor Michael I Bird

  147. Forest contraction in north equatorial Southeast Asia during the Last Glacial Period

    Article • Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, July 2010, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

    Professor Michael I Bird

  148. Charcoal reflectance measurements: implications for structural characterization and assessment of diagenetic alteration

    Article • Journal of Archaeological Science, July 2010, Elsevier

    Professor Andrew C Scott, Professor Michael I Bird

  149. Investigation of growth responses in saprophytic fungi to charred biomass

    Article • Isotopes in Environmental and Health Studies, March 2010, Taylor & Francis

    Professor Michael I Bird

  150. Co-limitation of photosynthetic capacity by nitrogen and phosphorus in West Africa woodlands

    Article • Plant Cell & Environment, January 2010, Wiley

    Professor Michael I Bird

  151. Recovery of organic matter from mineral-rich sediment and soils for stable isotope analyses using static dense media

    Article • Rapid Communications in Mass Spectrometry, January 2010, Wiley

    Professor Michael I Bird

  152. Climate dependence of heterotrophic soil respiration from a soil-translocation experiment along a 3000 m tropical forest altitudinal gradient

    Article • European Journal of Soil Science, December 2009, Wiley

    Professor Michael I Bird

  153. Evolution of the Irrawaddy delta region since 1850

    Article • Geographical Journal, November 2009, Wiley

    Professor Michael I Bird

  154. Geochronology of cave deposits at Liang Bua and of adjacent river terraces in the Wae Racang valley, western Flores, Indonesia: a synthesis of age estimates for the type locality of Homo floresiensis

    Article • Journal of Human Evolution, November 2009, Elsevier

    Professor Michael I Bird

  155. Intrinsic and extrinsic forcing in life histories: patterns of growth and stable isotopes in male Antarctic fur seal teeth

    Article • Marine Ecology Progress Series, August 2009, Inter-Research Science Center

    Professor Michael I Bird

  156. Litter contribution to diurnal and annual soil respiration in a tropical montane cloud forest

    Article • Soil Biology and Biochemistry, June 2009, Elsevier

    Professor Michael I Bird

  157. Influence of production variables and starting material on charcoal stable isotopic and molecular characteristics

    Article • Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, December 2008, Elsevier

    Professor Michael I Bird

  158. Stable carbon and nitrogen isotope analysis of avian uric acid

    Article • Rapid Communications in Mass Spectrometry, November 2008, Wiley

    Professor Michael I Bird

  159. Environmental and socioeconomic dynamics of the Indian Ocean tsunami in Penang, Malaysia

    Article • Singapore Journal of Tropical Geography, November 2008, Wiley

    Professor Michael I Bird

  160. X-ray microtomographic imaging of charcoal

    Article • Journal of Archaeological Science, October 2008, Elsevier

    Professor Andrew C Scott, Professor Michael I Bird

  161. Age constraints on Pleistocene megafauna at Tight Entrance Cave in southwestern Australia

    Article • Quaternary Science Reviews, September 2008, Elsevier

    Professor Michael I Bird

  162. Environmental controls on the stable carbon isotopic composition of soil organic carbon: implications for modelling the distribution of C 3 and C 4 plants, Australia

    Article • Tellus B, September 2008, Co-Action Publishing

    Professor Michael I Bird

  163. Environmental controls on the stable carbon isotopic composition of soil organic carbon: implications for modelling the distribution of C 3 and C 4 plants, Australia

    Article • Tellus B, September 2008, Co-Action Publishing

    Professor Michael I Bird

  164. A preliminary estimate of organic carbon transport by the Ayeyarwady (Irrawaddy) and Thanlwin (Salween) Rivers of Myanmar

    Article • Quaternary International, August 2008, Elsevier

    Professor Michael I Bird

  165. Isotopic variability in the intertidal acorn barnacle Semibalanus balanoides: a potentially novel sea-level proxy indicator

    Article • Geological Society London Special Publications, January 2008, Geological Society

    Professor Michael I Bird

  166. Stable carbon and hydrogen isotopes from bat guano in the Grand Canyon, USA, reveal Younger Dryas and 8.2 ka events

    Article • Geology, January 2008, Geological Society of America

    Professor Michael I Bird

  167. Erratum

    Article • The Journal of Geology, January 2008, University of Chicago Press

    Professor Michael I Bird

  168. The Irrawaddy River Sediment Flux to the Indian Ocean: The Original Nineteenth‐Century Data Revisited

    Article • The Journal of Geology, November 2007, University of Chicago Press

    Professor Michael I Bird

  169. C4-derived soil organic carbon decomposes faster than its C3 counterpart in mixed C3/C4 soils

    Article • Global Change Biology, October 2007, Wiley

    Professor Michael I Bird

  170. Sediments deposited by the 2004 Indian Ocean Tsunami along the Malaysia–Thailand Peninsula

    Article • Marine Geology, August 2007, Elsevier

    Professor Michael I Bird

  171. Sediment mixing at Nonda Rock: investigations of stratigraphic integrity at an early archaeological site in northern Australia and implications for the human colonisation of the continent

    Article • Journal of Quaternary Science, July 2007, Wiley

    Professor Michael I Bird

  172. Spatial and temporal expression of vegetation and atmospheric variability from stable carbon and nitrogen isotope analysis of bat guano in the southern United States

    Article • Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, July 2007, Elsevier

    Professor Michael I Bird

  173. Indian Ocean tsunamis: environmental and socio-economic impacts in Langkawi, Malaysia

    Article • Geographical Journal, June 2007, Wiley

    Professor Michael I Bird

  174. An inflection in the rate of early mid-Holocene eustatic sea-level rise: A new sea-level curve from Singapore

    Article • Estuarine Coastal and Shelf Science, February 2007, Elsevier

    Professor Michael I Bird

  175. RADIOCARBON DATING | Charcoal

    Article • January 2007, Elsevier

    Professor Michael I Bird

  176. The age and origin of the Straits of Singapore

    Article • Palaeogeography Palaeoclimatology Palaeoecology, November 2006, Elsevier

    Professor Michael I Bird

  177. Continental-scale measurement of the soil organic carbon pool with climatic, edaphic, and biotic controls

    Article • Global Biogeochemical Cycles, February 2006, American Geophysical Union (AGU)

    Professor Michael I Bird

  178. Palaeoenvironments of insular Southeast Asia during the Last Glacial Period: a savanna corridor in Sundaland?

    Article • Quaternary Science Reviews, November 2005, Elsevier

    Dr Chris O Hunt, Professor Michael I Bird

  179. Rayleigh distillation and the depth profile of 13C/12C ratios of soil organic carbon from soils of disparate texture in Iron Range National Park, Far North Queensland, Australia

    Article • Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, April 2005, Elsevier

    Professor Michael I Bird

  180. Heterotrophic Fixation of CO2 in Soil

    Article • Microbial Ecology, February 2005, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Michael I Bird

  181. Geochemistry of coral from Papua New Guinea as a proxy for ENSO ocean–atmosphere interactions in the Pacific Warm Pool

    Article • Continental Shelf Research, December 2004, Elsevier

    Professor Michael I Bird

  182. Correspondence between glass-FT and 14C ages of silicic pyroclastic flow deposits sourced from Maninjau caldera, west-central Sumatra

    Article • Earth and Planetary Science Letters, October 2004, Elsevier

    Professor Michael I Bird

  183. Archaeology and age of a new hominin from Flores in eastern Indonesia

    Article • Nature, October 2004, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Michael I Bird

  184. Evolution of the Sungei Buloh–Kranji mangrove coast, Singapore

    Article • Applied Geography, July 2004, Elsevier

    Professor Michael I Bird

  185. Populating PEP II: the dispersal of humans and agriculture through Austral-Asia and Oceania

    Article • Quaternary International, January 2004, Elsevier

    Professor Michael I Bird

  186. A revised chronology of the lowest occupation layer of Pedra Furada Rock Shelter, Piauı́, Brazil: the Pleistocene peopling of the Americas

    Article • Quaternary Science Reviews, November 2003, Elsevier

    Professor Michael I Bird

  187. Microbial characteristics of soils on a latitudinal transect in Siberia

    Article • Global Change Biology, July 2003, Wiley

    Professor Michael I Bird

  188. Radiocarbon dating of organic- and carbonate-carbon in Genyornis and Dromaius eggshell using stepped combustion and stepped acidification

    Article • Quaternary Science Reviews, July 2003, Elsevier

    Professor Michael I Bird

  189. Radiocarbon dating from 40 to 60kaBP at Border Cave, South Africa

    Article • Quaternary Science Reviews, April 2003, Elsevier

    Professor Michael I Bird

  190. The effect of soil texture and roots on the stable carbon isotope composition of soil organic carbon

    Article • Soil Research, January 2003, CSIRO Publishing

    Professor Michael I Bird

  191. Soil carbon inventories and carbon-13 on a latitude transect in Siberia

    Article • Tellus B, November 2002, Taylor & Francis

    Professor Michael I Bird

  192. The isotopic composition of soil organic carbon on a north-south transect in western Canada

    Article • European Journal of Soil Science, September 2002, Wiley

    Professor Michael I Bird

  193. A revised high-resolution oxygen-isotope chronology for ODP-668B: implications for Quaternary biomass burning in Africa

    Article • Global and Planetary Change, June 2002, Elsevier

    Professor Michael I Bird

  194. Radiocarbon analysis of the early archaeological site of Nauwalabila I, Arnhem Land, Australia: implications for sample suitability and stratigraphic integrity

    Article • Quaternary Science Reviews, April 2002, Elsevier

    Professor Michael I Bird

  195. Response of central Siberian Scots pine to soil water deficit and long-term trends in atmospheric CO2concentration

    Article • Global Biogeochemical Cycles, January 2002, American Geophysical Union (AGU)

    Professor Michael I Bird

  196. Hydrogen-isotope fractionation in aluminum hydroxides: Synthesis products versus natural samples from bauxites

    Article • Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, May 2001, Elsevier

    Professor Michael I Bird

  197. Global Soil Organic Carbon Pool

    Article • January 2001, Elsevier

    Professor Michael I Bird

  198. Development of a Robust 14C Chronology for Lynch's Crater (North Queensland, Australia) Using Different Pretreatment Strategies

    Article • Radiocarbon, January 2001, Cambridge University Press

    Professor Michael I Bird

  199. Early Human Occupation at Devil's Lair, Southwestern Australia 50,000 Years Ago

    Article • Quaternary Research, January 2001, Cambridge University Press

    Professor Michael I Bird

  200. Elemental ?13C at Allen's Cave, Nullarbor Plain, Australia: assessing post-depositional disturbance and reconstructing past environments

    Article • Journal of Quaternary Science, January 2001, Wiley

    Professor Michael I Bird

  201. Redating the onset of burning at Lynch's Crater (North Queensland): implications for human settlement in Australia

    Article • Journal of Quaternary Science, January 2001, Wiley

    Professor Michael I Bird

  202. Natural abundance of 13C in leaf litter as related to feeding activity of soil invertebrates and microbial mineralisation

    Article • Soil Biology and Biochemistry, October 2000, Elsevier

    Professor Michael I Bird

  203. Microbial processes and carbon-isotope fractionation in tropical and temperate grassland soils

    Article • Functional Ecology, February 2000, Wiley

    Professor Michael I Bird

  204. Effect of fire and soil texture on soil carbon in a sub-humid savanna (Matopos, Zimbabwe)

    Article • Geoderma, January 2000, Elsevier

    Professor Michael I Bird

  205. Oxygen-Isotope Fractionation between Aluminum-Hydroxide Phases and Water at <60°C: Results of Decade-Long Synthesis Experiments

    Article • Clays and Clay Minerals, January 2000, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Michael I Bird

  206. Stability of elemental carbon in a savanna soil

    Article • Global Biogeochemical Cycles, December 1999, American Geophysical Union (AGU)

    Professor Michael I Bird

  207. A record of fire, vegetation and climate through the last three glacial cycles from Lombok Ridge core G6-4, eastern Indian Ocean, Indonesia

    Article • Palaeogeography Palaeoclimatology Palaeoecology, March 1999, Elsevier

    Professor Michael I Bird

  208. A million-year record of fire in sub-Saharan Africa

    Article • Nature, August 1998, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Michael I Bird

  209. Optical and radiocarbon dating at Jinmium rock shelter in northern Australia

    Article • Nature, May 1998, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Michael I Bird

  210. Holocene sea-level change and ice-sheet history in the Vestfold Hills, East Antarctica

    Article • Earth and Planetary Science Letters, February 1998, Elsevier

    Professor Michael I Bird

  211. A seasonal cycle in the carbon‐isotope composition of organic carbon in the Sanaga River, Cameroon

    Article • Limnology and Oceanography, January 1998, Wiley

    Professor Michael I Bird

  212. Variations of δ13C in the surface soil organic carbon pool

    Article • Global Biogeochemical Cycles, September 1997, American Geophysical Union (AGU)

    Professor Michael I Bird

  213. Determination of the abundance and carbon isotope composition of elemental carbon in sediments

    Article • Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, August 1997, Elsevier

    Professor Michael I Bird

  214. Terrestrial carbon-storage from the last glacial maximum to the present

    Article • Chemosphere, November 1996, Elsevier

    Professor Michael I Bird

  215. A latitudinal gradient in carbon turnover times in forest soils

    Article • Nature, May 1996, Nature

    Professor Michael I Bird

  216. Carbon-isotope composition of sediments from the Gulf of Papua

    Article • Geo-Marine Letters, September 1995, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Michael I Bird

  217. Fire, prehistoric humanity, and the environment

    Article • Interdisciplinary Science Reviews, June 1995, Taylor & Francis

    Professor Michael I Bird

  218. Oxygen-isotope fractionation in gibbsite: Synthesis experiments versus natural samples

    Article • Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, December 1994, Elsevier

    Professor Michael I Bird

  219. Terrestrial carbon storage at the LGM

    Article • Nature, October 1994, Nature

    Professor Michael I Bird

  220. The carbon isotope composition of organic matter occluded in iron nodules

    Article • Chemical Geology, June 1994, Elsevier

    Professor Michael I Bird

  221. Oxygen-isotope fractionation in titanium-oxide minerals at low temperature

    Article • Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, July 1993, Elsevier

    Professor Michael I Bird

  222. Oxygen-isotope systematics in a multiphase weathering system in Haiti

    Article • Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, July 1992, Elsevier

    Professor Michael I Bird

  223. Carbon ratios in the Amazon

    Article • Nature, November 1991, Nature

    Professor Michael I Bird

  224. Sedimentological and stable-isotope evolution of lakes in the Vestfold Hills, Antarctica

    Article • Palaeogeography Palaeoclimatology Palaeoecology, May 1991, Elsevier

    Professor Michael I Bird

  225. An isotopic study of surficial alunite in Australia 2. Potassium-argon geochronology

    Article • Chemical Geology Isotope Geoscience section, April 1990, Elsevier

    Professor Michael I Bird

  226. Stable-isotope geochronology of the Australian regolith

    Article • Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, December 1989, Elsevier

    Professor Michael I Bird

  227. An isotopic study of surficial alunite in Australia: 1. Hydrogen and sulphur isotopes

    Article • Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, December 1989, Elsevier

    Professor Michael I Bird

  228. A stable-isotope study of lateritic bauxites

    Article • Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, June 1989, Elsevier

    Professor Michael I Bird

  229. Isotope dating of the Australian regolith

    Article • Nature, January 1989, Nature

    Professor Michael I Bird

  230. Stable-isotope evidence for low-temperature kaolinitic weathering and post-formational hydrogen-isotope exchange in permian kaolinites

    Article • Chemical Geology Isotope Geoscience section, May 1988, Elsevier

    Professor Michael I Bird

  231. Oxygen isotope dating of the Australian regolith

    Article • Nature, February 1988, Nature

    Professor Michael I Bird