List of works by Michael I. Bird

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

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A carbon and nitrogen isotope perspective on ancient human diet in the British Isles

scientific article published in 2022

A comprehensive database of quality-rated fossil ages for Sahul's Quaternary vertebrates

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

scientific article published on 03 May 2021

A latitudinal gradient in carbon turnover times in forest soils

scientific article published in Nature

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

scientific article published in September 2020

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

scientific article published on 24 January 2020

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

scholarly article by Xuan Wang et al published March 1999 in Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology

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

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

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Algal biochar--production and properties

scientific article published in August 2010

Algal biochar: effects and applications

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

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

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

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

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

Author Correction: Savanna in equatorial Borneo during the late Pleistocene

scientific article published on 03 March 2020

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

scientific article published on 30 March 2018

Barriers and bridges: early human dispersals in equatorial SE Asia

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

scientific article published on 17 September 2013

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

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

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

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Biochar from commercially cultivated seaweed for soil amelioration ⬇️

scientific article published on 9 April 2015

Bioremediation for coal-fired power stations using macroalgae

scientific article published on 31 January 2015

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

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

scientific article published in 2012

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

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

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

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Charcoal re-combustion efficiency in tropical savannas

scholarly article

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

article published in 2010

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

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

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

scholarly article by Robin W. Twaddle published in April 2017

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

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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.

scientific article published in December 2011

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

scientific article published on 08 October 2019

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

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

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

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

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Early Last Interglacial ocean warming drove substantial ice mass loss from Antarctica

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Early Last Interglacial ocean warming drove substantial ice mass loss from Antarctica

scientific article published on 11 February 2020

Early human settlement of Sahul was not an accident

scientific article published on 17 June 2019

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

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

Environmental controls on the stable carbon isotopic composition of soil organic carbon: implications for modelling the distribution of C3 and C4 plants, Australia

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

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

scholarly article

Evolution of the Irrawaddy delta region since 1850

Evolution of the Sungei Buloh–Kranji mangrove coast, Singapore

scholarly article by Michael I. Bird et al published July 2004 in Applied Geography

Evolutionary anthropology: Homo 'incendius'.

scientific article published on 23 May 2012

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

scientific article published on 19 February 2018

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

scientific article published on 16 January 2013

Fire, prehistoric humanity, and the environment

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

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

scientific article published on 01 February 2014

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

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

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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.

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

Heterotrophic fixation of CO(2) in soil.

scientific article published on 17 February 2005

Holocene savanna dynamics in the seasonal tropics of northern Australia

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

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Humans, megafauna and environmental change in tropical Australia

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Humans, water, and the colonization of Australia

scientific article published on 26 September 2016

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

scholarly article by Frédéric Vitali et al published May 2001 in Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta

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

scientific article published on 01 March 2012

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

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

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

article published in 2015

Investigation of growth responses in saprophytic fungi to charred biomass

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Isotopes in pyrogenic carbon: A review

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Lack of chronological support for stepwise prehuman extinctions of Australian megafauna

scientific article (publication date: 3 September 2013)

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

scientific article published in 2014

Late Pleistocene emergence of an anthropogenic fire regime in Australia’s tropical savannahs

scientific article published in 2024

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

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

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

Loss and gain of carbon during char degradation

article published in 2017

Microbial characteristics of soils on a latitudinal transect in Siberia

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.

scientific article published on October 2014

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

scholarly article by Somayeh Salamab Ellahi et al published 6 February 2016 in Minerals (Basel, Switzerland)

Minimum founding populations for the first peopling of Sahul.

scientific article published on 17 June 2019

Molecular complexity and diversity of persistent soil organic matter

scientific article published in 2023

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

scientific article published on 19 July 2020

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

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

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Optical and radiocarbon dating at Jinmium rock shelter in northern Australia

scientific article published in Nature

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

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

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

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

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Paleo-temperature inferred from brGDGTs over the past 18 cal ka BP from Lake Barrine, tropical NE Australia

scientific article published in June 2023

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

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

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

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

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

scientific article published on 01 June 2018

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

scientific article published in September 2010

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

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

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

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

scientific article published on December 2012

Rapid degradation of pyrogenic carbon

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

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

scientific article published on 01 January 2010

Revisiting Michael Bonell's work on humid tropical rainforest catchments: Isotope tracers reveal seasonal shifts in catchment hydrology

scientific article published in 2022

Savanna in equatorial Borneo during the late Pleistocene.

scientific article published on 25 April 2019

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

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

scientific article published in 2020

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

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

scholarly article by Andrea D. Hawkes et al published August 2007 in Marine Geology

Soil Security: Solving the Global Soil Crisis

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Soil carbon balance following conversion of grassland to oil palm

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

scholarly article

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

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

scientific article published in 2016

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

scholarly article

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

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

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Stable carbon and nitrogen isotope analysis of avian uric acid

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Stable isotope anatomy of tropical cyclone Ita, North-Eastern Australia, April 2014.

scientific article published on 5 March 2015

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

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Stochastic models support rapid peopling of Late Pleistocene Sahul

scientific article published in 2021

Taking the pulse of Earth's tropical forests using networks of highly distributed plots

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

scholarly article

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

Terrestrial carbon storage at the LGM

scientific article published in Nature

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

The 10 Australian ecosystems most vulnerable to tipping points

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The Pyrogenic Carbon Cycle

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

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

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

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

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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.

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

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

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

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

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Thirty years of increased precipitation modifies soil organic matter fractions but not bulk soil carbon and nitrogen in a mesic grassland

scientific article published in 2023

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

Utilization of sugarcane habitat by feral pig (Sus scrofa) in northern tropical Queensland: evidence from the stable isotope composition of hair ⬇️

scientific article (publication date: 2012)

Validating Community-Led Forest Biomass Assessments

scientific article published on 30 June 2015

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

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

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

scientific article published on 14 July 2020

What caused extinction of the Pleistocene megafauna of Sahul?

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Woody cover and hominin environments in the past 6 million years

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X-ray microtomographic imaging of charcoal

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