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Overview

Mark A. Adams is affiliated with Swinburne University of Technology in Australia, specializing in research predominantly within Environmental Science and Agricultural and Biological Sciences.

Their research encompasses multiple subfields, including Global and Planetary Change, Plant Science, Nature and Landscape Conservation, Atmospheric Science, and Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics.

Key topics of their work cover Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics, Fire Effects on Ecosystems, Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies, Tree-ring Climate Responses, Plant and Animal Studies, Plant Responses to Elevated CO2, and Forest Ecology and Management.

Among their recent publications are:

  • "AusTraits, a curated plant trait database for the Australian flora," 2021, Scientific Data
  • "Global transpiration data from sap flow measurements: the SAPFLUXNET database," 2021, Earth System Science Data
  • "Diminishing CO2-driven gains in water-use efficiency of global forests," 2020, Nature Climate Change
  • "CO2, nitrogen deposition and a discontinuous climate response drive water use efficiency in global forests," 2021, Nature Communications
  • "Causes and consequences of Eastern Australia's 2019-20 season of mega-fires: A broader perspective," 2020, Global Change Biology

Their frequent co-authors include Mathias Neumann, Duncan D. Smith, Thomas J. Givnish, Katherine A. McCulloh, and Lucas A. Cernusak.

Mark A. Adams has published extensively in the following venues:

  • Nature Communications
  • Frontiers in Forests and Global Change
  • Nature Climate Change
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Global Change Biology

Best Publications

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

    Uta Stockmann;Mark A. Adams;John W. Crawford;Damien J. Field

  • An improved heat pulse method to measure low and reverse rates of sap flow in woody plants.

    Stephen S. O. Burgess;Mark A. Adams;Neil C. Turner;Craig R. Beverly

  • Nutrient cycling in forests.

    Peter M. Attiwill;Mark A. Adams

  • The redistribution of soil water by tree root systems.

    Stephen S. O. Burgess;Mark A. Adams;Neil C. Turner;Chin K. Ong

  • Wildfire management in Mediterranean-type regions: paradigm change needed

    Francisco Moreira;Francisco Moreira;Davide Ascoli;Hugh Safford;Mark A Adams

  • Sensitivity of plants to changing atmospheric CO2 concentration: From the geological past to the next century

    Peter J Franks;Mark A Adams;Jeffrey S. Amthor;Margaret M Barbour

  • Water availability and carbon isotope discrimination in conifers

    Charles R. Warren;John F. McGrath;Mark A. Adams

  • Soil Security: Solving the Global Soil Crisis

    Andrea Koch;Alex McBratney;Mark Adams;Damien Field

  • Mega-fires, tipping points and ecosystem services: Managing forests and woodlands in an uncertain future

    Mark A. Adams;Mark A. Adams

  • Estimation of leaf area index in eucalypt forest using digital photography

    Craig Macfarlane;Megan Hoffman;Derek Eamus;Naomi Kerp

  • Nutrient cycling and nitrogen mineralization in eucalypt forests of south-eastern Australia: II. Indices of nitrogen mineralization

    M. A. Adams;P. M. Attiwill

  • Legumes are different: Leaf nitrogen, photosynthesis, and water use efficiency

    Mark Andrew Adams;Tarryn L. Turnbull;Janet I. Sprent;Nina Buchmann

  • Internal conductance does not scale with photosynthetic capacity: implications for carbon isotope discrimination and the economics of water and nitrogen use in photosynthesis

    Charles R. Warren;Mark A. Adams

  • Protocol for sampling tree and stand biomass.

    P. Snowdon;J. Raison;H. Keith;K. Montagu

  • Tree roots: conduits for deep recharge of soil water

    Stephen S.O. Burgess;Mark A. Adams;Neil C. Turner;Don A. White

  • Nutrition of Eucalypts

    PM Attiwill;MA Adams

  • Photosynthesis-Rubisco relationships in foliage of Pinus sylvestris in response to nitrogen supply and the proposed role of Rubisco and amino acids as nitrogen stores

    Charles R. Warren;Charles R. Warren;Erwin Dreyer;Mark A. Adams;Mark A. Adams

  • Soil carbon and nitrogen stocks in forests along an altitudinal gradient in the eastern Himalayas and a meta-analysis of global data

    Sonam Tashi;Balwant Singh;Claudia Keitel;Mark Adams

  • Availability of organic and inorganic forms of phosphorus to lupins (Lupinus spp.)

    M.A. Adams;John Pate

  • Climate determines vascular traits in the ecologically diverse genus Eucalyptus

    Sebastian Pfautsch;Marco Harbusch;Anita Wesolowski;Renee A Smith

  • Distribution of N, Rubisco and photosynthesis in Pinus pinaster and acclimation to light

    C. R. Warren;M. A. Adams

  • Evergreen trees do not maximize instantaneous photosynthesis

    Charles R. Warren;Mark A. Adams

  • Seasonal water acquisition and redistribution in the Australian woody phreatophyte, Banksia prionotes

    Stephen S.O. Burgess;John S. Pate;Mark A. Adams;Todd E. Dawson

  • In situ studies of nitrogen mineralization and uptake in forest soils; some comments on methodology

    M.A. Adams;P.J. Polglase;P.M. Attiwill;C.J. Weston

  • Carbon and oxygen isotope composition of organic compounds in the phloem sap provides a short‐term measure for stomatal conductance of European beech (Fagus sylvatica L.)

    C. Keitel;M. A. Adams;T. Holst;A. Matzarakis

  • Short-term variation in the isotopic composition of organic matter allocated from the leaves to the stem of Pinus sylvestris: effects of photosynthetic and postphotosynthetic carbon isotope fractionation

    Elke Brandes;Naomi Kodama;Katherine Whittaker;Christopher Weston

Frequent Co-Authors

Charles R. Warren
Charles R. Warren University of Sydney
Peter M. Attiwill
Peter M. Attiwill University of Melbourne
Heinz Rennenberg
Heinz Rennenberg University of Freiburg
Pauline F. Grierson
Pauline F. Grierson University of Western Australia
Thomas N. Buckley
Thomas N. Buckley University of California, Davis
Stefan K. Arndt
Stefan K. Arndt University of Melbourne
Zuliang Chen
Zuliang Chen Fujian Normal University
Michael Tausz
Michael Tausz University of Melbourne
Derek Eamus
Derek Eamus University of Technology Sydney
Lauren T. Bennett
Lauren T. Bennett University of Melbourne

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