Publications

  1. Ratnayake, R.R., Roshanthan, T., Gnanavelrajah, N., Karunaratne, S.B., 2019. Organic Carbon Fractions, Aggregate Stability, and Available Nutrients in Soil and Their Interrelationships in Tropical Cropping Systems: A Case Study. Eurasian Soil Sci. 52, 1542–1554. https://doi.org/10.1134/S1064229319120123
  • Singh, K., Majeed, I., Panigrahi, N., Vasava, H. B., Fidelis, C., Karunaratne, S., Bapiwai, P., Yinil, D., Sanderson, T., Snoeck, D., Das, B.S., Minasny, B., Field, D., J., 2019. Near infrared diffuse reflectance spectroscopy for rapid and comprehensive soil condition assessment in smallholder cacao farming systems of Papua New Guinea. Catena, 183, 104185.
  • Jonathan, G., Karunaratne, S., Bishop, T., Wilson, B., Veeragathipillai, M., 2019. Driving factors of soil organic carbon fractions over New South Wales, Australia, Geoderma, 353, 213-226.
  • Ratnayake, R. R., Chamari, D., Ekanayake, S., Rajapaksha, K., Karunaratne, S. B., Wasantha Kumara, K. L., 2019.  Impact of the establishment of a botanical garden on soil carbon sequestration and nutrient availability in tropical soils, Archives of Agronomy and Soil Science, DOI: 10.1080/03650340.2019.1651449
  • Nazaries, L., Karunaratne, S.B., Delgado-Baquerizo, M., Thomas, N., Lilly, A., Singh, S.K., 2018. Environmental drivers of the geographical distribution of methanotrophs: insights from a national survey, Soil Biology and Biochemistry,127, 264-279
  • Roxburgh, S. H., Karunaratne, S. B., Paul, K. I., Lucas, R. M., Armston, J. D., Sung, J., 2018. A revised above-ground maximum biomass layer for the Australian continent, Forest Ecology and Management, 432, 264-275
  • Delgado-Baquerizo, M., Eldridge, D.J., Maestre, F.T., Karunaratne, S.B., Trivedi, P., Reich, P.B., Singh, B.K., 2018. Response to comments on ‘Climate legacies control global soil carbon stocks in terrestrial ecosystems’, Science Advances,4 (3)
  • Delgado-Baquerizo, M., Eldridge, D.J., Maestre, F.T., Karunaratne, S.B., Trivedi, P., Reich, P.B., Singh, B.K., 2017. Climate legacies control global soil carbon stocks in terrestrial ecosystems, Science Advances. 3 (4)
  1. Ratnayake, R.R, Karunaratne, S.B., Lessels, J.S., Yogenthiran, N, Rajapaksha, R. P. S. K., Gnanavelrajah, N., 2016. Digital mapping of soil organic carbon contents in paddy growing soils in Northern Sri Lanka, Geoderma Regional 7(2), 167-177
  1. Powell, J. R., Karunaratne, S. B., Campbell, C. D., Yao, H., Robinson, L., Singh, B. K., 2015. Drivers’        disconnect

different processes  underlie            bacterial           and       fungal community assembly, Nature Communications 6

  1. Karunaratne, S.B., Bishop, T.F.A., Lessels, J., Baldock, J., Odeh, I.O.A., 2015. A space-time observation system for soil organic carbon, Soil Research53 (6), 647-661
  1. Trivedi, P., Rochester, I. J., Trivedi, C., Van Nostrand , J. D., Zhou, J., Karunaratne, S.B., Anderson, I.C., Singh, B.K., 2015. Identifying microbial modulators of soil carbon storage under different cropping regimes, Soil Biology and Biochemistry 91, 169-181
  1. Bishop, T.F.A., Horta, A., Karunaratne, S.B., 2015. Validation of digital soil maps at different spatial supports, Geoderma 241, 238-249
  1. Karunaratne, S.B., Bishop, T.F.A., Baldock, J., Odeh, I.O.A., 2014. Catchment scale mapping of measureable soil

organic carbon fractions, Geoderma 219, 14-23

  1. Karunaratne, S.B., Bishop, T.F.A., Odeh, I.O.A., Baldock, J.A., Marchant, B.P., 2014. Estimating change in soil organic carbon using legacy data as the baseline: issues, approaches and lessons to learn, Soil Research 52, 349-365.

Peer- reviewed book chapters (Total of 2)

  1. Manuel Delgado-Baquerizo, M., Karunaratne, S.B., Trivedi, P., Campbell, C.D., Singh, B.K., 2018. Climate, geography and soil abiotic properties as modulators of soil C storage. In: Singh, B. (Ed), Soil Carbon Storage, Elsevier, Amsterdam, Netherlands.
  • Karunaratne, S.B., Bishop, T.F.A., Odeh, I.O.A., Baldock, J., Marchant, B.P., 2012. Mapping the temporal change of soil carbon: A case study from northern New South Wales, Australia. In: Minasny, B., Malone, B.P., McBratney, A.B. (Eds.), Digital Soil Assessments and Beyond: Proceedings of the 5th Global Workshop on Digital Soil Mapping, 2012, Sydney, Australia, 10-13 April 2012. CRC Press, pp. 245-249.