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Sohi SP, Yates HC and Gaunt JL. 2010. Testing a practical indicator for changing soil organic matter. Soil Use and Management 26:108-117

Shackley S and Sohi SP. 2010. An assessment of the benefits and issues associated with the application of biochar to soil, Defra, London pp132

Sohi SP, Krull E, Lopez-Capel E and Bol R. 2010. A review of biochar and its use and function in soil. Advances in Agronomy 105:47-82

Liang B, Lehmann J, Sohi SP, Thies JE, O’Neill B, Trujillo L, Gaunt JL, Solomon D, Grossman J, Neves EG and Luizão FJ. 2010. Black carbon affects the cycling of non-black carbon in soil. Organic Geochemistry 41:206-213

Tonon G, Sohi SP, Francioso O, Ferrari E, Montecchio D, Gioacchni P, Ciavatta C, Panzacchi P & Powlson D. Effect of soil pH on chemical characteristics of physical soil fractions in two broadleaf forests and implication for soil organic matter modelling. European Journal of Soil Science (In press)

Hirsch PR, Gilliam LM, Sohi SP, Williams JK, Clark IM and Murray PJ. 2009. Starving the soil of plant inputs for 50 years reduces abundance but not diversity of soil bacterial communities. Soil Biology and Biochemistry 41:2021–2024

Sohi SP, Lopez-Capel E, Bol R and Krull E. 2008. Biochar, climate change and soil: A review to guide future research. CSIRO Land and Water Science Report 05/09, 64pp

Lehmann J, Skjemstad J, Sohi SP, Carter J, Barson M, Falloon P, Coleman K, Woodbury P and Krull E. 2009. Australian climate–carbon cycle feedback reduced by soil black carbon. Nature Geoscience 1:832-835

Liang B, Lehmann J, Solomon D, Sohi SP, Thies JE, Skjemstad JO, Luizao FJ, Engelhard MH, Neves EG and Wirick S. 2008. Stability of biomass-derived black carbon in soils. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta 72:6069-6078

Lehmann J, Czimczik CI, Laird D and Sohi SP. 2009. Stability of biochar in soil ecosystems. In: CJ Lehmann and S Joseph (Eds), Biochar for Environmental Management: Science and Technology, Earthscan, London pp183-205

Lehmann J and Sohi SP. 2008. Comment on “fire-derived charcoal causes loss of forest humus”. Science 321:1295c

Sohi SP, Mahieu N, Powlson DS, Madari B, Smittenberg R and Gaunt JL. 2005. An investigation of the chemical characteristics of soil organic matter fractions suitable for modelling. Soil Science Society of America Journal 69: 1248-1255

Poirier N, Sohi SP, Gaunt JL, Mahieu N, Randall EW, Powlson DS, Evershed RP. 2005. The chemical composition of measurable soil organic matter pools. Organic Geochemistry 36: 1174-1189

Lopez-Capel E, Sohi SP, Gaunt JL and Manning DAC. 2005. Use of Thermogravimetry–Differential Scanning Calorimetry to characterize modelable soil organic matter fractions Soil Science Society of America Journal 69: 136-140

Machado PLOA, Sohi SP and Gaunt JL. 2003. The effect of no-tillage on the turnover of organic matter in a Rhodic Ferralsol. Soil Use and Management 19: 250-256

Sohi SP, Mahieu N, Arah JRM, Madari B and Gaunt JL. 2001. A procedure for isolating soil organic matter fractions suitable for modeling. Soil Science Society of America Journal 65: 1121-1128

Sohi SP. Dynamic modelling of soil organic matter using physically defined fractions, PhD Thesis, University of London, 254 pp

Gaunt JL, Sohi SP, Yang H, Mahieu N and Arah JRM. 2001. A procedure for isolating soil organic matter fractions suitable for modelling. In: R.M. Rees, B.C. Ball, C.D. Campbell, C.A. Watson (Eds), Sustainable Management of Soil Organic Matter, CAB International, Wallingford, pp 90-95

Gaunt JL, Sohi SP, Arah JRM, Mahieu N, Yang H. and Powlson DS 1999. A physical soil fractionation scheme to obtain organic matter fractions suitable for modelling. In: G.J.D. Kirk, D.S. Olk (Eds.), Carbon and Nitrogen Dynamics in Flooded Soils, IRRI, Los Banos, pp 89-99

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