The University of Western Australia

Pekin BK, Boer MM, Macfarlane C, and Grierson PF. Structural and physiological responses of eucalypt forest to variation in fire frequency and aridity in southwest Australia. Global Change Biology (submitted Nov 08)
O’Donnell A, McCaw L, Cullen LE, Boer MM, Grierson PF. Dendroecological potential of Callitris preissii for dating historical fires in semi-arid shrublands of southern Western Australia. Dendrochronologia (submitted May 08)
McIntyre RES, Adams MA, Ford DJ and Grierson PF. Drying-rewetting pulses in an intermittent stream increase net nitrogen and carbon mineralization. Soil Biology & Biochemistry (in press)
McIntyre RES, Adams MA and Grierson PF. Nitrogen mineralization potential in rewetted soils from a semi-arid stream landscape, north-west Australia. Journal of Arid Environments (in press).
Boer MM, Macfarlane C, Norris J, Wallace J, and Grierson PF. (2008). Retrospective mapping of burn severity in Australian eucalypt forest using remotely-sensed changes in leaf area index. Remote Sensing of Environment 112, 4358-4369.
Petrone K, Richards J and Grierson PF. (2008). Composition and bioavailability of dissolved organic carbon and nitrogen in a near-coastal catchment, south-western Australia. Biogeochemistry 91, XX-XX. DOI 10.1007/s10533-008-9238-z
Bougoure J, Brundrett M, Brown A and Grierson PF. (2008). Habitats characteristics of the rare Western Underground Orchid, Rhizanthella gardneri. Australian Journal of Botany 56, 501–511.
Boer MM, Bradstock RA, Gill AM, Sadler RJ, Grierson PF. (2008). Endogenous and exogenous controls of wildfire complexity. Landscape Ecology 23, 899-913.
Cullen L and Grierson PF. (2008). Multi-decadal scale variability in autumn-winter rainfall in south-western Australia since 1655 BP as reconstructed from tree rings of Callitris columellaris. Climate Dynamics DOI 10.1007/s00382-008-0457-8.
Cullen LE, Adams MA, Anderson M, Grierson PF. (2008). Analysis of δ13C and δ18O in tree rings of Callitris columellaris provides evidence of a change in stomatal control of photosynthesis in response to regional changes in climate. Tree Physiology 28, 1525–1533.
Arndt SK, Livesley SJ, Merchant A, Bleby TM, Grierson PF (2008). Quercitol and osmotic adaptation of field grown Eucalyptus under seasonal drought stress. Plant Cell & Environment 31, 915-924.
Cookson WR, Murphy DV, O’Donnell AJ, Grant CD and Grierson PF (2008). Impact of ecosystem management on microbial community physiological profiles of a forest rehabilitation site. Microbial Ecology 55, 321–332. DOI 10.1007/s00248-007-9278-2.
Abe H, Katayama A, Sah BP, Toriu T, Samy S, Pheach P, Adams MA and Grierson PF (2007). Potential for rural electrification based on biomass gasification in Cambodia. Biomass & Bioenergy 31, 656-664.
Cullen LE and Grierson PF. (2007). A stable oxygen, but not carbon, isotope chronology of Callitris columellaris reflects recent climate change in north-western Australia. Climatic Change 85, 213-229.
Ford DJ, Cookson WR, Adams MA and Grierson PF (2007). Nitrogen mineralization and microbial dynamics in semi-arid soils with progressive drying. Soil Biology & Biochemistry 39, 1557-1569.
Livesley SJ, Adams MA and Grierson PF (2007). Soil water nitrate and ammonium dynamics under an effluent irrigated eucalypt plantation. Journal of Environmental Quality 36, 1883-1894.
Cookson WR, Müller C, O’Brien P, Murphy DV and Grierson PF (2006). Nitrogen dynamics in an Australian semi-arid grassland soil. Ecology 87, 2047 –2057.
Cullen LE and Grierson PF. (2006). Cellulose extraction is necessary for inferring climatic history from stable carbon and oxygen ratios of Callitris glaucophylla tree-rings. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 236, 206-216.
Hokmabadi H, Arzani K and Grierson PF (2005). Growth, chemical composition and carbon isotope discrimination of pistachio (Pistacia vera L.) rootstock seedlings under salinity. Australian Journal of Agricultural Research 56, 135-144.
Marschner P, Grierson PF and Rengel Z (2005). Microbial community composition and functioning in the rhizosphere of three Banksia species in native woodland in Western Australia. Applied Soil Ecology 28, 191-201.
Radersma S and Grierson PF (2004). Phosphorus mobilization in agroforestry: Organic anions, phosphatase activity and phosphorus fractions in the rhizosphere. Plant & Soil 259, 209-219.
Adams MA, Grierson PF (2001). Stable isotopes at natural abundance in terrestrial plant ecology and ecophysiology: An update. Plant Biology 3, 299-310.
Schneider K, Turrion MB, Grierson PF, et al. (2001). Phosphatase activity, microbial phosphorus, and fine root growth in forest soils in the Sierra de Gata, western central Spain. Biology & Fertility of Soils 34, 151-155. IF 1.41
Grierson PF and Adams MA (2000). Acid phosphatase, ergosterol and microbial P relationships in a jarrah forest in south-western Australia. Soil Biology & Biochemistry 32, 1817-1827.
Grierson PF, Comerford NB (2000) Non-destructive measurement of acid phosphatase activity in the rhizosphere using nitrocellulose membranes and image analysis. Plant & Soil 218, 49-57.
Todd MC, Adams MA and Grierson PF (2000). Mineralisation of nitrogen in a chronosequence of mine rehabilitation sites in south western Australia. Australian J Soil Research 38, 435-451.
Todd MCL, Grierson PF, Adams MA (2000). Litter cover as an index of nitrogen availability in rehabilitated mine sites Australian J Soil Research 38, 423-433.
Grierson PF, Comerford NB and Jokela EJ (1999). Phosphorus mineralization and microbial biomass in a Florida Spodosol: effects of water potential, temperature and fertilizer application. Biology & Fertility of Soils 28, 244-252.
Bentley D, Grierson PF, Bennett LT, Adams MA (1999). Evaluation of anion exchange membranes to estimate bioavailable phosphorus in native grasslands of semi-arid northwestern Australia. Communications in Soil Science & Plant Analysis 30, 2231-2244
Grierson PF and Adams MA (1999). Nutrient cycling and growth in forest ecosystems of south-western Australia - Relevance to agricultural landscapes. Agroforestry Systems 45, 215-244
Grierson PF, Comerford NB and Jokela EJ (1998). Phosphorus mineralization kinetics and response of microbial phosphorus to drying and rewetting in a Florida Spodosol. Soil Biology & Biochemistry 30, 1323-1331.
Chen ZL, Grierson P, Adams MA (1998). Direct determination of phosphate in soil extracts by potentiometric flow injection using a cobalt wire electrode. Analytica Chimica Acta 363, 191-197.
Grierson PF (1992). Organic acids in the rhizosphere of Banksia integrifolia L.f.. Plant & Soil 144, 259-265.
Grierson PF, Adams MA and Attiwill PM (1992). Biomass of Victoria's forests. Australian Journal of Botany 40, 631-640.
Grierson PF and Attiwill PM (1989). Chemical characteristics of the proteoid root mat of Banksia integrifolia L.f. Australian Journal of Botany 37, 137-143.

Selected refereed book chapters and technical reports

Adams MA, Coote M, Grierson PF, Livesley S and Williams K (2001) Improved management of the Albany Effluent Irrigation Tree Farm. Final report submitted to the Water Corporation, Western Australia. Ecosystems Research Group, Botany Department, University of Western Australia. 246 p.
Adams MA, Grierson PF and Burrows C (2003). Fires, soils and plant nutrition in West Australian forests: a focus on spatial and temporal variability. In: Fire in South-Western Australian Ecosystems: Impacts and Management of Eucalypts (Eds N Burrows and I Abbott), Backhuys Publishers, Leiden, The Netherlands.
Adams MA, Grierson PF, Bussau A and Dorling K (2001) Biomass and carbon in vegetation of the Pilbara region, Western Australia. Final report to Hamersley Iron, BHP and Robe/North. Ecosystems Research Group, Botany Department, University of Western Australia. 118 p.
Comerford, N.B., Cropper, W., Grierson, P.F., Araujo, Q., Jose S. (2006). Modeling P bioavailability and uptake in agroforestry systems (Modelagem da Biodisponibilidade e Absorção de P em Sistemas Agroflorestais). Universidade Estadual do Norte Flumiense Darcy Ribeiro, CABI.
Cullen LE, Adams MA, Landman PA and Grierson PF (2005) Using stable isotopes to understand tree responses to environmental variation and stress. Report to the Joint FAO/IAEA Division of Nuclear Techniques in Food and Agriculture Coordinated Research Program The use of nuclear techniques for developing integrated nutrient and water management practices for agroforestry systems. Ecosystems Research Group, School of Plant Biology, University of Western Australia, 26 pp.
Grierson PF and Adams MA (2000) Growth and nutrient cycling in native ecosystems of southern Australia: Application to the development of sustainable agriculture. In Agriculture as a Mimic of Natural Ecosystems (Eds EJ Lefroy, RJ Hobbs, M O’Connor and JS Pate), Kluwer, Amsterdam, pp 215-244.
Grierson PF, Smithson P, Nziguheba G, Radersma S and Comerford NB (2004) Phosphorus availability and P dynamics in agroforestry systems. In Belowground Interactions in Tropical Agroecosystems: Concepts and Models with Multiple Plant Components. (Eds C Ong, M van Noordwijk and G Cadisch). pp 127-143, CABI, UK.
Grierson PF, Williams K and Adams MA (2000) Review of Unpublished Biomass-Related Information: Western Australia, South Australia, New South Wales and Queensland. National Carbon Accounting System Technical Report No. 25. Australian Greenhouse Office, Canberra, 95 p.
Raison J, Keith H, Barrett D, Burrows W and Grierson P (2003) Spatial Estimates of Biomass in Mature Native Vegetation. National Carbon Accounting System Technical Report No. 44, Australian Greenhouse Office, Canberra, 56 pp.
Snowden P, Raison J, Keith H, Ritson P, Grierson PF, Adams M, Montagu K, Bi H, Burrows W and Eamus D (2002) Protocol for Sampling Tree and Stand Biomass. National Carbon Accounting System Technical Report No. 31. Australian Greenhouse Office, Canberra, 66 p.
Grierson PF, Adams MA, and Attiwill, P. M. (199l). Carbon Sequestration in Victoria's Forests. 83 pp. (School of Botany, University of Melbourne: Parkville, Vic.)
Grierson PF, Adams MA, and Attiwill PM (199l). Carbon Storage in Soil and in Forest Products. 44 pp. (School of Botany, University of Melbourne: Parkville, Vic.)