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Publications

Edited volumes

Turner, B.L., Frossard, E., Baldwin, D.S., 2005. Organic Phosphorus in the Environment. CAB International, Wallingford, UK. 432 p.
Turner, B.L., Richardson, A.E., Mullaney, E.J., 2007. Inositol Phosphates: Linking Agriculture and the Environment. CAB International, Wallingford, UK. 304 p.
Turner, B.L., Cernusak, L.A., 2011. Ecology of the Podocarpaceae in Tropical Forests. Smithsonian Contributions to Botany, Volume 95. Smithsonian Institution Scholarly Press, Washington, D.C., USA. 207 p.

Recent Articles in Primary Journals

Engelbrecht, B.M.J., Comita, L.S., Condit, R., Kursar, T.A., Tyree, M.T., Turner, B.L., Hubbell, S.P., 2007. Drought sensitivity shapes species distribution patterns in tropical forests. Nature 447, 80–82.
Allison, V.J., Condron, L.M., Peltzer, D.A., Richardson, S.J., Turner, B.L., 2007. Changes in enzyme activities and soil microbial community composition along carbon and nutrient gradients at the Franz Josef chronosequence, New Zealand. Soil Biology & Biochemistry 39 (7), 1770–1781.
Leytem, A.B., Thacker, P.A., Turner, B.L., 2007. Phosphorus characterization in feces from broiler chicks fed low-phytate barley diets. Journal of the Science of Food and Agriculture 87 (8), 1495–1501.
Turner, B.L., Newman, S., Cheesman, A.W., Reddy, K.R., 2007. Sample pretreatment and phosphorus speciation in wetland soils. Soil Science Society of America Journal 71 (5), 1538–1546.
Ellwood, N.T.W., Turner, B.L., Haile, S.M., Whitton, B.A., 2007. Seasonal changes in the surface phosphatase kinetics of aquatic mosses in northern England. Journal of Bryology 29 (3), 174–182.
Turner, B.L., Condron, L.M., Richardson, S.J., Peltzer, D.A., Allison, V.J., 2007. Soil organic phosphorus transformations during pedogenesis. Ecosystems 10 (11), 1166–1181.
Cernusak, L.A., Aranda, J., Turner, B.L., Marshall, J.D., Winter, K., 2007. Transpiration efficiency of a tropical pioneer tree (Ficus insipida) in relation to soil fertility. Journal of Experimental Botany 58 (13), 3549–3566.
Turner, B.L., 2008. Soil organic phosphorus in tropical forests: an assessment of the NaOH–EDTA extraction procedure for quantitative analysis by solution 31P NMR spectroscopy. European Journal of Soil Science 59 (3), 453–466.
Turner, B.L., 2008. Resource partitioning for soil phosphorus: a hypothesis. Journal of Ecology 96 (4), 698–702.
Cernusak, L.A., Winter, K., Aranda, J., Turner, B.L., 2008. Conifers, angiosperm trees, and lianas: growth, whole-plant water and nitrogen use efficiency, and stable isotope composition (d13C and d18O) of seedlings grown in a tropical environment. Plant Physiology 148 (1), 642–659.
Hudson, T.M., Turner, B.L., Herz, H., Robinson, J.S., 2009. Temporal patterns of nutrient availability around nests of leaf-cutting ants (Atta colombica) in secondary moist tropical forest. Soil Biology & Biochemistry 41 (6), 1088–1093.
Murphy, P.N.C., Bell, A., Turner, B.L., 2009. Phosphorus speciation in temperate basaltic grassland soils by solution 31P NMR spectroscopy. European Journal of Soil Science 60 (4), 638–651.
Cernusak, L.A., Winter, K., Turner, B.L., 2009. Physiological and isotopic (d13C and d 18O) responses of three tropical tree species to water and nutrient availability. Plant, Cell and Environment 32 (10), 1441–1455.
Turner, B.L., Weckström, K., 2009. Phytate as a novel phosphorus-specific palaeo-indicator in aquatic sediments. Journal of Paleolimnology 42 (3), 391–400.
Turner, B.L., Romero, T.E., 2009. Short-term changes in extractable inorganic nutrients during transport and storage of tropical rain forest soils. Soil Science Society of America Journal 73 (6), 1972–1979.
Cernusak, L.A., Winter, K., Turner, B.L., 2009. Plant d15N correlates with the transpiration efficiency of nitrogen acquisition in tropical trees. Plant Physiology 151 (3), 1667–1676.
Andersen, K.M., Turner, B.L., Dalling, J.W., 2010. Soil-based habitat partitioning in understorey palms in lower montane tropical forests. Journal of Biogeography 37 (2), 278–292.
Cernusak, L.A., Winter, K., Turner, B.L., 2010. Leaf nitrogen to phosphorus ratios of tropical trees: experimental assessment of physiological and environmental controls. New Phytologist 185 (3), 770–779.
Turner, B.L., Romero, T.E., 2010. Stability of hydrolytic enzyme activity and microbial phosphorus during storage of tropical rain forest soils. Soil Biology & Biochemistry 42 (3), 459–465.
Vincent, A.G., Turner, B.L., Tanner, E.V.J., 2010. Soil organic phosphorus dynamics following perturbation of litter cycling in a tropical moist forest. European Journal of Soil Science 61 (1), 48–57.
Nottingham, A.T., Turner, B.L., Winter, K., van der Heijden, M.G.A., Tanner, E.V.J., 2010. Mycorrhizal mycelial respiration in moist tropical forests. New Phytologist 186 (4), 957-967.
Dieter, D., Elsenbeer, H., Turner, B.L., 2010. Phosphorus fractionation in lowland tropical rainforest soils in central Panama. Catena 82, 118–125.
Cheesman, A.W., Dunne, E.J., Turner, B.L., Reddy, K.R., 2010. Soil phosphorus forms in hydrologically isolated wetlands and surrounding pasture. Journal of Environmental Quality 39 (4), 1517–1525.
Orwin, K.H., Buckland, S.M., Johnson, D., Turner, B.L., Smart, S., Oakley, S., Bardgett, R.D., 2010. Linkages of plant traits to soil properties and the functioning of temperate grassland. Journal of Ecology 98 (5), 1074–1083.
Cheesman, A.E., Turner, B.L., Reddy, K.R., 2010. Interaction of phosphorus compounds with anion-exchange membranes: Implications for soil phosphorus analysis. Soil Science Society of America Journal 74 (5), 1607–1612.
Garrish, V., Cernusak, L.A., Winter, K., Turner, B.L., 2010. Nitrogen to phosphorus ratio of plant biomass versus soil solution in a tropical pioneer tree, Ficus insipida. Journal of Experimental Botany 61 (13), 3735–3748.
Turner, B.L., 2010. Variation in pH optima of hydrolytic enzyme activities in tropical rain forest soils. Applied and Environmental Microbiology 76 (19), 6485–6493.
Peltzer, D.A., Wardle, D.A., Allison, V.J., Baisden, T.W., Bardgett, R.D., Chadwick, O.A., Condron, L.M., Parfitt, R.L., Porder, S. Richardson, S.J., Turner, B.L., Vitousek, P.M., Walker, J., Walker, L.R., 2010. Understanding ecosystem retrogression. Ecological Monographs 80 (4), 509–529.
Andersen, K.M., Corre, M.D., Turner, B.L., Dalling, J.W., 2010. Plant–soil associations in a lower montane tropical forest: physiological acclimation and herbivore-mediated responses to nitrogen addition. Functional Ecology 24 (6), 1171-1180.
Cheesman, A.W., Turner, B.L., Inglett, P.W., Reddy, K.R., 2010. Phosphorus transformations during decomposition of wetland macrophytes. Environmental Science and Technology 44 (24), 9265–9271.
Dalling, J.W., Morris Valdés, A., Caballero Ruiz, P., Andersen, K., Turner, B., 2010. La dinámica del bosque de montaña en la Reserva Forestal de Fortuna, Chiriquí. Tecnociencia 12 (1), 119–135.
Turner, B.L., Engelbrecht, B.M.J., 2011. Soil organic phosphorus in lowland tropical rain forests. Biogeochemistry 103 (1–3), 297–315.
Turmel, M.S., Espinosa, J., Franco, L., Pérez, C., Hernández, H., González, E., Fernández, G., Rojas, C., Sánchez, D., Fernández, N., Barrios, M., Whalen, J.K., Turner, B.L., 2011. On-farm evaluation of a novel low-input rice production system in Panama. Paddy Water and Environment 9 (1), 155–161.
Potvin, C., Mancilla, L., Buchmann, N., Monteza, J., Moore, T., Murphy, M., Oelmann, Y., Scherer-Lorenzen, M., Turner, B.L., Wilcke, W., Zeugin, F., Wolf, S., 2011. An ecosystem approach to biodiversity effects: carbon pools in a tropical tree plantation. Forest Ecology and Management 261, 1614–1624.
Sjögersten, S., Cheesman, A.W., Lopez, O., Turner, B.L., 2011. Biogeochemical processes along a nutrient gradient in a tropical ombrotrophic peatland. Biogeochemistry 104 (1–3), 147–163.
Wright, S.J., Yavitt, J.B., Wurzburger, N., Turner, B.L., Tanner, E.V.J., Sayer, E.J., Santiago, L.S., Kaspari, M., Hedin, L.O., Harms, K.E., Garcia, M.N., Corre, M.D., 2011. Potassium, phosphorus or nitrogen limit root allocation, tree growth and litter production in a lowland tropical forest. Ecology 92 (8), 1616–1625.
Wolf, S., Eugster, W., Potvin, C., Turner, B.L., Buchmann, N., 2011. Carbon sequestration potential of tropical pasture compared with afforestation in Panama. Global Change Biology 17 (9), 2763–2780.
Wright, E., Black, C.R., Cheesman, A.W., Drage, T., Large, D., Turner, B.L., Sjögersten, S., 2011. Contribution of subsurface peat to CO2 and CH4 fluxes in a neotropical peatland. Global Change Biology 17 (9), 2867–2881.
Turmel, M.S., Turner, B.L., Whalen, J.K., 2011. Soil fertility and the yield response to the System of Rice Intensification. Renewable Agriculture and Food Systems 26 (3), 185-192.
Cernusak, L.A., Hutley, L.B., Beringer, J., Holtum, J.A.M., Turner, B.L. 2011. Photosynthetic physiology of eucalypts along a sub-continental rainfall gradient in northern Australia. Agricultural and Forest Meteorology 151 (11), 1462–1470.
Cernusak, L.A., Winter, K., Turner, B.L., 2011. Transpiration modulates phosphorus acquisition in tropical tree seedlings. Tree Physiology 31 (8), 878–885.
Cernusak, L.A., Winter, K., Martínez, C., Correa, E., Aranda, J., Garcia, M., Jaramillo, C., Turner, B.L., 2011. Response of legume versus nonlegume tropical tree seedlings to elevated CO2 concentration. Plant Physiology 157 (1), 372–385.
Jones, F.A., Erickson, D.L., Bernal, M.A., Bermingham, E., Kress, W.J., Herre, E.A., Muller-Landau, H., Turner, B.L., 2011. The roots of diversity: Below ground richness and rooting distributions in a tropical forest revealed by DNA barcodes and inverse modeling. Public Library of Science One 6 (9), e24506. DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0024506.
Punyasena, S.W., Dalling, J.W., Jaramillo, C., Turner, B.L., 2011. Technical comment on “The response of vegetation at the Andean flank in western Amazonia to Pleistocene climate change”. Science 333 (6051; 30 September 2011), 1825.
Hietz, P., Turner, B.L., Wanek, W., Richter, A., Nock, C.A., Wright, S.J., 2011. Long-term change in the nitrogen cycle of tropical forests. Science 334 (6056; 4 November 2011), 664–666.
Andersen, K.M., Endara, M.J., Turner, B.L., Dalling, J.W., 2012. Trait-based community assembly of understory palms along a soil nutrient gradient in a lower montane tropical forest. Oecologia 168 (2), 519–531.
Nottingham, A.T., Turner, B.L., Chamberlain, P.M., Stott, A.W., Tanner, E.V.J. 2012. Priming and microbial nutrient limitation in lowland tropical forest soils of contrasting fertility. Biogeochemistry, in press.
Santiago, L.S., Wright, S.J., Harms, K.E., Yavitt, J.B., Korine, C., Garcia, M.N., Turner, B.L., 2012. Tropical tree seedling growth responses to nitrogen, phosphorus and potassium addition. Journal of Ecology 100 (2), 309–316.
Fuentes, B., Dixon, E., de la Luz Mora, M., Turner, B.L., Bol, R., 2012. Phosphorus composition of grassland leachates following application of dairy slurry size-fractions. Journal of Plant Nutrition and Soil Science 175 (1), 78–85.
McGuire, K.L., Fierer, N., Bateman, C., Treseder, K.K., Turner, B.L., 2012. Fungal community composition in neotropical rain forests: the influence of tree diversity and precipitation. Microbial Ecology, in press.
Sayer, E.J., Wright, S.J., Tanner, E.V.J., Yavitt, J.B., Harms, K.E., Powers, J.S., Kaspari, M., Garcia, M.N., Turner, B.L., 2012. Variable responses of lowland tropical forest nutrient status to fertilization and litter manipulation. Ecosystems 15 (3), 387−400.
Reitzel, K., Ahlgren, J., Rydin, E., Egemose, S., Turner, B.L., Hupfer, M., 2012. Diagenesis of settling seston: identity and transformations of organic phosphorus. Journal of Environmental Monitoring 14 (3), 1098–1106.
Laliberté, E., Turner, B.L., Costes, T., Pearse, S.J., Wyrwoll, K.-H., Zemunik, G. Lambers, H., 2012. Experimental assessment of nutrient limitation along a 2-million year dune chronosequence in the south-western Australia biodiversity hotspot. Journal of Ecology, in press.
Stutter, M.I., Shand, C.A., George, T.S., Blackwell, M.S.A., Bol, R., MacKay, R.L., Richardson, A.E., Condron, L.M., Turner, B.L., Haygarth, P.M., 2012. Recovering phosphorus from soil: A root solution? Environmental Science and Technology 46, 1977−1978.
Hamdan, R., El-Rifai, H.M., Cheesman, A.W., Turner, B.L., Reddy, K.R., Cooper, W.T., 2012. Linking phosphorus sequestration to carbon humification in wetland soils by 31P and 13C NMR spectroscopy. Environmental Science and Technology, in press.
Cheesman, A.W., Turner, B.L., Reddy, K.R., 2012. Phosphorus forms and dynamics in soils along a strong nutrient gradient in a tropical ombrotrophic wetland. Soil Science Society of America Journal, in press.
Turner, B.L., Cheesman, A.W., Godage, H.Y., Riley, A.M., Potter, B.V.L., 2012. Determination of neo- and D-chiro-inositol hexakisphosphate in soils by solution 31P NMR spectroscopy. Environmental Science and Technology, in press. U

Recent contributions to Edited Volumes and Reports

Shears, S.B., Turner, B.L., 2007. Nomenclature and terminology of inositol phosphates: clarification and a glossary of terms. In Inositol Phosphates: Linking Agriculture and the Environment, edited by B.L. Turner, A.E. Richardson, and E.J. Mullaney. CAB International, Wallingford, UK. pp. 1–6.
Turner, B.L., 2007. Inositol phosphates in soil: amounts, forms and significance of the phosphorylated inositol stereoisomers. In Inositol Phosphates: Linking Agriculture and the Environment, edited by B.L. Turner, A.E. Richardson, and E.J. Mullaney. CAB International, Wallingford, UK. pp. 186–206.
Turner, B.L., Leytem, A.B., 2009. Phosphorus speciation in soils and manures by solution 31P NMR spectroscopy. In Methods of Phosphorus Analysis in Soils, Sediments, and Waters, Revised Edition, edited by J.L. Kovar and G.M. Pierzynski. Southern Cooperative Series Bulletin No. 408, North Carolina State University, USA. pp. 95–100.
Turner, B.L., Cernusak, L.A., 2011. Preface. In Ecology of the Podocarpaceae in Tropical Forests, edited by B.L. Turner and L.A. Cernusak. Smithsonian Contributions to Botany, Volume 95. Smithsonian Institution Scholarly Press, Washington, D.C., USA. pp. v–vi.
Cernusak, L.A., Adie, H., Bellingham, P.J., Biffin, E., Brodribb, T.J., Coomes, D.A., Dalling, J.W., Dickie, I.A., Enright, N.J., Kitayama, K., Ladd, P.G., Lambers, H., Lawes, M.J., Lusk, C.H., Morley, R.J., Turner, B.L., 2011. Podocarpaceae in tropical forests: a synthesis. In Ecology of the Podocarpaceae in Tropical Forests, edited by B.L. Turner and L.A. Cernusak. Smithsonian Contributions to Botany, Volume 95. Smithsonian Institution Scholarly Press, Washington, D.C., USA. pp. 189–195.
Cheesman, A.W., Rocca, J., Turner, B.L., (in press). Phosphorus characterization in wetland soils by solution 31P nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy. In Methods in Biogeochemistry of Wetlands, edited by K.R. Reddy, R. DeLaune, and P. Megonigal. Soil Science Society of America, Madison, WI, USA.

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