Peer- reviewed journal papers (Total of 15)
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., 2019ssss. 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
Tulau, M. J., McInnes‐Clarke, S. K., Yang, X., McAlpine, R. A., Karunaratne, S.B., Zhu, Q., Morand, D. T., 2018. The Warrumbungle Post‐Fire Recovery Project—raising the profile of soils, Soil Use and Management, 35, 1, 63-74.
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)
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
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
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 Research 53 (6), 647-661
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
Bishop, T.F.A., Horta, A., Karunaratne, S.B., 2015. Validation of digital soil maps at different spatial supports, Geoderma 241, 238-249
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
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)
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.
Conference papers (Total of 17)
Karunaratne, S.B., 2019. New uses of UAV data to estimate perennial ryegrass pasture yield at the paddock scale. Agriculture Victoria Research – Dairy Science Conference, Ellinbank, Australia.
Karunaratne, S. B., Morse-McNabb, E., Thomson, A., Stayches, D., Jacobs, J., 2019. Paddock scale modelling and mapping of dry matter yield using UAV derived datasets: A case from dairy farming systems in Victoria. 19th Australian Agronomy Conference, Wagga Wagga, Australia.
Karunaratne, S.B., Steinberg, D., Reid, A., Reddy, S, Carter, L., Baldock, J., Bishop, T., Gray, J., Acharige, N., 2018. Data cube and machine learning algorithms – is this the next generation soil carbon model? National Soils Conference 2018, Canberra, Australia.
Gray, J., Bishop, T., Wilson, B., Karunaratne, S., Veeragathipilai, M., 2018. Modelling and mapping of soil organic carbon fractions over the New South Wales, Australia. National Soils Conference 2018, Canberra, Australia.
Karunaratne, S., Tonmoy, F., Gunasekara, M., Rissik, D., Canning, J., 2018.Transferring advanced soil data analytic techniques to real-world applications for increasing adaptive capacity of farmers, Climate Adaptation 2018, Melbourne, Australia.
Rajapaksha, K., Karunaratne, S., Biswas, A. Ratnayake, R., 2018. Identifying the spatial drivers and scale-specific variations of soil carbon in a montane natural forest ecosystem in Sri Lanka. 21St World Congress of Soil Science, Brazil.
Karunaratne, S., Orton, T., Bishop, T., Lessels, J., Ratnayake, R., 2017. Spatial modelling of soil carbon in Sri Lanka using sparse datasets with samples collected with different depth supports, Pedometrics 2017, Wageningen, The Netherlands.
Thomas, R.F., Karunaratne, S., Kingsford, R.T., Heath, J., Bowen, S., 2016. Long-term Inundation Regimes Drive Floodplain Wetland Persistence at the Landscape Scale: Informing Environmental Water Management, Australian Society for Limnology Conference, “Waters of past and present: shaping pathways for future management”, Ballarat, Australia.
Ocock, J., Spencer, J., Thomas, R., Karunaratne. S., 2016. Frogs, flows and rainfall: monitoring frog response to wetland flows in the northern Murray Darling Basin, Australian Society for Limnology Conference, “Waters of past and present: shaping pathways for future management”, Ballarat, Australia.
Wickramasinghe, W.M.K.M., Karunaratne, S.B., Gajanayake, B., Abeysinghe, D.C., 2015. Spatial Variability of Organic Carbon Density in Cashew Cultivated Red Latosol Soils of Sri Lanka, Peradeniya University International Research Sessions – iPURSE, University of Peradeniya, Sri Lanka.
Eranga, R.L.A.A, Karunaratne, S.B., Abeysinghe, D.C., Gajanayake, B., 2015. Geostatistical Mapping of Selected Soil Chemical Properties in Red Latosols of Sri Lanka, Peradeniya University International Research Sessions – iPURSE, University of Peradeniya, Sri Lanka.
Liyanaarachchi, L.A.T.S., Karunaratne, S.B., Sankalpa, J. K.S., B.W. Wijesuriya, B.W., Gajanayake, B., Abeysinghe, D.C., 2015. Development of Land Suitability Map to Expand Rubber in Northern Dry Zone of Sri Lanka: A Case Study from Vavuniya District, Peradeniya University International Research Sessions – iPURSE, University of Peradeniya, Sri Lanka.
Wijesuriya, W., Sankalpa, J.K.S., Karunaratne, S. B., Dissanayake, D.M.A.P., Jeewanthi, P.W., Abeywardene, O.V., 2014. Identifying Rainfall and Drought Dynamics Using Standardised Precipitation Index (SPI): An Application in Nontraditional Rubber- Growing Areas in Eastern, North Central and Northern Provinces of Sri Lanka. Fifth Symposium on Plantation Crop Research, Towards a Green Plantation Economy, Colombo, Sri Lanka.
Horta, A., Bishop, T. F. A., Karunaratne, S.B., 2013. Model-based Geostatistics and Machine-learning Methods: A Comparison in Terms of Estimates of Prediction Uncertainty. 10th Biennial Meeting of Commission 1.5 Pedometrics Division of the International Union of Soil Science (IUSS), Kenya: ICRAF & CIAT.
Bishop, T. F. A., Horta, A., Karunaratne, S.B., 2013. Validation of a Digital Soil Map at Different Block and Vertical Supports. 10th Biennial Meeting of Commission 1.5 Pedometrics Division of the International Union of Soil Science (IUSS), Kenya: ICRAF & CIAT.
Karunaratne, S.B., Bishop, T.F.A., Odeh, I.O.A., Baldock, J.A., 2012. Simulation of soil organic carbon across Cox’s Creek catchment in northern New South Wales using RothC: A first approximation. In: Burkitt, L.L., Sparrow, L.A. (Ed.), Proceedings of the 5th Joint Australian and New Zealand Soil Science Conference: Soil solutions for diverse landscapes. Australian Society of Soil Science Inc, pp. 353-356.
Karunaratne, S.B., Bishop, T.F.A., Odeh, I.O.A., Baldock, J., 2011. Assessing the spatial change of soil carbon levels in agro-production systems A case study of the Cox’s creek catchment in Namoi valley, Australia. 9th Biennial Meeting of Commission 1.5 Pedometrics Division of the International Union of Soil Science (IUSS), Czech University of Life Sciences, Czech Republic.
Technical reports (Total of 10)
Karunaratne, S., Possell, M., Pepper, D., Bell, T., 2019. Modelling emissions from prescribed burning from FullCAM. Bushfire and Natural Hazards CRC, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. (https://www.bnhcrc.com.au/sites/default/files/managed/downloads/modelling_emmissions_from_prescribed_burning_using_fullcam.pdf)
Department of the Environment and Energy, 2018. National Inventory Report 2016 Volume 2. The Australian Government Submission to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change Australian National Greenhouse Accounts, Department of the Environment and Energy, Canberra (Co-author for the Land use and land cover change and forestry (LULUCF) sector) (http://www.environment.gov.au/system/files/resources/02bcfbd1-38b2-4e7c-88bd-b2b7624051da/files/national-inventory-report-2016-volume-2.pdf)
Bowen, S., Honeysett, J., Simpson, S. L., Hosking, T., Shelly, D., Heath J., Kobayashi, T, Humphries, J., Thomas, R. Karunaratne, S., Kuo, W., Jones, H., 2018. Developing condition classes for flood-dependent vegetation. NSW Office of Environment and Heritage Healthy Inland Wetlands and Environmental Water Program. Sydney.
Roxburgh, R. Karunaratne, S., Paul, K., 2017. A revised above-ground maximum biomass layer for Australia’s national carbon accounting system, Prepared for the Department of the Environment and Energy, CSIRO Agriculture, Canberra.
Paul, K., Roxburgh, S., Mansfield, L., Giles, N., Carter, L., Karunaratne, S., Awadhawl, N., Reddy, S., Jende, J., Sturgis, R., 2017. Woody encroachment & thickening: Implications for the National Greenhouse Gas Inventory, Prepared for the Department of the Environment and Energy, CSIRO Agriculture, Canberra.
Department of the Environment and Energy, 2017. National Inventory Report 2015 Volume 2. The Australian Government Submission to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change Australian National Greenhouse Accounts, Department of the Environment and Energy, Canberra (Co-author for the Land use and land cover change and forestry (LULUCF) sector) (https://www.environment.gov.au/system/files/resources/97197b1e-07b9-4e6f-a08e-0f6145e681e5/files/national-inventory-report-2015-vol2.pdf)
Roxburgh, R. Karunaratne, S., Paul, K., 2017. A revised above-ground maximum biomass layer for Australia’s national carbon accounting system, Prepared for the Department of the Environment and Energy, CSIRO Agriculture, Canberra.
Thomas, R., Spencer, J., Bowen, S., Ocock, J., Kobayashi, Y., Karunaratne, S., Heath, J., Kuo, W., 2016. Role of Science: Evidence Based Decision Making Environmental Water Management, Office of Environment and Heritage, NSW Government. (Presented at Annual Environmental Water Workshop)
Thomas, R., Heath, J., Karunaratne, S., Kuo, W., 2016. Inundation regime dynamics in the Gwydir Floodplain,
Water and Wetlands Team, Science Division, NSW Office of Environment and Heritage, NSW Government.
Thomas, R.F., Karunaratne, S., Heath, J., Kuo, W., 2016. Assessment of Site-specific Flow Indicator inundation in the vegetation of Narran Lakes. Summary report to the MDBA. NSW Office of Environment and Heritage, NSW Government.