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MP306 and MP406 Soil Moisture sensors

Further applications can be found here, at the MPKit reference list as the MPKit also uses the MP406 Sensor.
Buckley, T. N., Turnbull, T. L., Pfautsch, S., Gharun, M., & Adams, M. A. (2012). Differences in water use between mature and post-fire regrowth stands of subalpine Eucalyptus delegatensis R. Baker. Forest Ecology and Management, 270, 1–10. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.foreco.2012.01.008
Drake, P. L., Coleman, B. F., & Vogwill, R. (2013). The response of semi-arid ephemeral wetland plants to flooding: linking water use to hydrological processes. Ecohydrology, 6(5), 852–862. https://doi.org/10.1002/eco.1309
Ortega, R., Zema, D. A., Valiente, N., Soria, R., Miralles, I., & Lucas-Borja, M. E. (2022). The Impacts of Post-Fire Straw Mulching and Salvage Logging on Soil Properties and Plant Diversity in a Mediterranean Burned Pine Forest. Forests, 13(10), 1580. https://doi.org/10.3390/f13101580
Muller, J., De Rosa, D., Friedl, J., De Antoni Migliorati, M., Rowlings, D., Grace, P., & Scheer, C. (2022). Combining nitrification inhibitors with a reduced N rate maintains yield and reduces N2O emissions in sweet corn. Nutrient Cycling in Agroecosystems. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10705-021-10185-y
Barton, L., Flottmann, S. J., Stefanovia, K. T., & Colmer, T. D. (2020). Approaches to scheduling water allocations to kikuyugrass grown on a water repellent soil in a drying-climate. Agricultural Water Management, 230, 105957. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.agwat.2019.105957
Soler, R., Rumpf, S. B., Schindler, S., Martínez Pastur, G., Barrera, M., Cellini, J. M., Flores, M. P., Essl, F., Rabitsch, W., & Lencinas, M. V. (2019). Twelve-year dynamics of alien and native understorey plants following variable retention harvesting in Nothofagus pumilio forests in Southern Patagonia. Forest Ecology and Management, 449, 117447. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.foreco.2019.07.001
Islam, M. A., Bell, R. W., Johansen, C., Jahiruddin, M., Haque, M. E., & Vance, W. (2022). Conservation agriculture effects on yield and profitability of rice-based systems in the Eastern Indo-Gangetic Plain. Experimental Agriculture, 58, e33. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0014479722000291
Toro Manríquez, M. D. R., Cellini, J. M., Lencinas, M. V., Peri, P. L., Peña Rojas, K. A., & Martínez Pastur, G. J. (2019). Suitable conditions for natural regeneration in variable retention harvesting of southern Patagonian Nothofagus pumilio forests. Ecological Processes, 8(1), 18. https://doi.org/10.1186/s13717-019-0175-7
Waldron, R., & McCallum, A. (2021). Measuring and Predicting Erosion on Sandy Roads to Inform Strategies for Sustainable Transport Network Management: A Case Study of the Great Sandy National Park, Australia. Journal of Park and Recreation Administration, 39(2). https://doi.org/10.18666/JPRA-2020-10611
Navidi, M., Shafiei, A. B., Alijanpour, A., Pirsa, S., Ahmady-Birgani, H., Lucas-Borja, M. E., & Zema, D. A. (2023). Effects of Post-Fire Mulching with Loranthus europaeus Jacq. on Surface Runoff and Rainsplash Erosion in a Semi-Arid Pine Forest. Resources, 12(3), 31. https://doi.org/10.3390/resources12030031
Guyot, A., Ostergaard, K. T., Fan, J., Santini, N. S., & Lockington, D. A. (2015). Xylem hydraulic properties in subtropical coniferous trees influence radial patterns of sap flow: implications for whole tree transpiration estimates using sap flow sensors. Trees, 29(4), 961–972. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00468-014-1144-5
Vance, W. H., Bell, R. W., Johansen, C., Haque, M. E., Musa, A. M., & Shahidullah, A. K. M. (2021). Soil disturbance levels, soil water content and the establishment of rainfed chickpea: Mechanised seeding options for smallholder farms in north-west Bangladesh. Journal of Agronomy and Crop Science, 207(2), 208–223. https://doi.org/10.1111/jac.12455
Alam, M. S., Lamb, D. W., & Warwick, N. W. M. (2021). A Canopy Transpiration Model Based on Scaling Up Stomatal Conductance and Radiation Interception as Affected by Leaf Area Index. Water, 13(3), 252. https://doi.org/10.3390/w13030252
Gharun, M., Turnbull, T. L., & Adams, M. A. (2013). Stand water use status in relation to fire in a mixed species eucalypt forest. Forest Ecology and Management, 304, 162–170. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.foreco.2013.05.002
Buckley, T. N., Turnbull, T. L., Pfautsch, S., & Adams, M. A. (2011). Nocturnal water loss in mature subalpine Eucalyptus delegatensis tall open forests and adjacent E. pauciflora woodlands. Ecology and Evolution, 1(3), 435–450. https://doi.org/10.1002/ece3.44
Manríquez, M. D. R. T., Ardiles, V., Promis, Á., Herrera, A. H., Soler, R., Lencinas, M. V., & Pastur, G. M. (2020). Forest canopy-cover composition and landscape influence on bryophyte communities in Nothofagus forests of southern Patagonia. PLOS ONE, 15(11), e0232922. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0232922
Chandrappa, V. Y., Ray, B., Ashwath, N., & Shrestha, P. (2020). Application of Internet of Things (IoT) to Develop a Smart Watering System for Cairns Parklands – A Case Study. 2020 IEEE Region 10 Symposium (TENSYMP), 1118–1122. https://doi.org/10.1109/TENSYMP50017.2020.9230827
Dunkerley, D. (2018). Banded vegetation in some Australian semi-arid landscapes: 20 years of field observations to support the development and evaluation of numerical models of vegetation pattern evolution. Desert, 23(2), 165–187. https://jdesert.ut.ac.ir/article_69115.html
Hautala, M., & Hakojärvi, M. (2011). An analytical C3-crop growth model for precision farming. Precision Agriculture, 12(2), 266–279. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11119-010-9174-5
De Antoni Migliorati, M., Scheer, C., Grace, P. R., Rowlings, D. W., Bell, M., & McGree, J. (2014). Influence of different nitrogen rates and DMPP nitrification inhibitor on annual N2O emissions from a subtropical wheat–maize cropping system. Agriculture, Ecosystems & Environment, 186, 33–43. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.agee.2014.01.016
Livesley, S. J., Kiese, R., Miehle, P., Weston, C. J., Butterbach-Bahl, K., & Arndt, S. K. (2009). Soil–atmosphere exchange of greenhouse gases in a Eucalyptus marginata woodland, a clover-grass pasture, and Pinus radiata and Eucalyptus globulus plantations. Global Change Biology, 15(2), 425–440. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1365-2486.2008.01759.x
De Rosa, D., Rowlings, D. W., Biala, J., Scheer, C., Basso, B., & Grace, P. R. (2018). N2O and CO2 emissions following repeated application of organic and mineral N fertiliser from a vegetable crop rotation. Science of The Total Environment, 637–638, 813–824. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2018.05.046
Prober, S. M., Lunt, I. D., Thiele, K. R., Prober, S. M., Lunt, I. D., & Thiele, K. R. (2008). Effects of fire frequency and mowing on a temperate, derived grassland soil in south-eastern Australia. International Journal of Wildland Fire, 17(5), 586–594. https://doi.org/10.1071/WF07077
Toro-Manríquez, M., Soler, R., Lencinas, M. V., & Promis, Á. (2019). Canopy composition and site are indicative of mineral soil conditions in Patagonian mixed Nothofagus forests. Annals of Forest Science, 76(4), 117. https://doi.org/10.1007/s13595-019-0886-z
Gorissen, S., Baird, I. R. C., Greenlees, M., Sherieff, A. N., Shine, R., Gorissen, S., Baird, I. R. C., Greenlees, M., Sherieff, A. N., & Shine, R. (2017). Predicting the occurrence of an endangered reptile based on habitat attributes. Pacific Conservation Biology, 24(1), 12–24. https://doi.org/10.1071/PC17027
Jiang, H., Deng, Q., Zhou, G., Hui, D., Zhang, D., Liu, S., Chu, G., & Li, J. (2013). Responses of soil respiration and its temperature/moisture sensitivity to precipitation in three subtropical forests in southern China. Biogeosciences, 10(6), 3963–3982. https://doi.org/10.5194/bg-10-3963-2013
Pastur, G. M., Jordán, C., Esteban, R. S., Lencinas, M. V., Ivancich, H., & Kreps, G. (2012). Landscape and microenvironmental conditions influence over regeneration dynamics in old-growth Nothofagus betuloides Southern Patagonian forests. Plant Biosystems – An International Journal Dealing with All Aspects of Plant Biology, 146(1), 201–213. https://doi.org/10.1080/11263504.2011.650725
Khadijah, S., Kahn, L. P., Walkden-Brown, S. W., Bailey, J. N., & Bowers, S. F. (2013). Soil moisture modulates the effects of the timing and amount of rainfall on faecal moisture and development of Haemonchus contortus and Trichostrongylus colubriformis to infective third stage larvae. Veterinary Parasitology, 196(3), 347–357. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.vetpar.2013.03.034
Hewitt, R. E., Taylor, D. L., Hollingsworth, T. N., Anderson, C. B., & Pastur, G. M. (2018). Variable retention harvesting influences belowground plant-fungal interactions of Nothofagus pumilio seedlings in forests of southern Patagonia. PeerJ, 6, e5008. https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.5008
Scheer, C., Deuter, P. L., Rowlings, D. W., & Grace, P. R. (2016). Effect of the nitrification inhibitor (DMPP) on soil nitrous oxide emissions and yield in a lettuce crop in Queensland, Australia. Acta Horticulturae, 101–108. https://doi.org/10.17660/ActaHortic.2016.1123.14
Gorissen, S., Greenlees, M., Shine, R., Gorissen, S., Greenlees, M., & Shine, R. (2018). The impact of wildfire on an endangered reptile (Eulamprus leuraensis) in Australian montane swamps. International Journal of Wildland Fire, 27(7), 447–456. https://doi.org/10.1071/WF17048
Scheer, C., Rowlings, D. W., Firrel, M., Deuter, P., Morris, S., & Grace, P. R. (2014). Impact of nitrification inhibitor (DMPP) on soil nitrous oxide emissions from an intensive broccoli production system in sub-tropical Australia. Soil Biology and Biochemistry, 77, 243–251. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.soilbio.2014.07.006
Gharun, M., Turnbull, T. L., & Adams, M. A. (2013). Validation of canopy transpiration in a mixed-species foothill eucalypt forest using a soil–plant–atmosphere model. Journal of Hydrology, 492, 219–227. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jhydrol.2013.03.051
Bustamante, G. N., Soler, R., Blazina, A. P., & Arena, M. E. (2020). Fruit provision from Berberis microphylla shrubs as ecosystem service in Nothofagus forest of Tierra del Fuego. Heliyon, 6(10), e05206. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.heliyon.2020.e05206
Coleborn, K., Spate, A., Tozer, M., Andersen, M. S., Fairchild, I. J., MacKenzie, B., Treble, P. C., Meehan, S., Baker, A., & Baker, A. (2016). Effects of wildfire on long-term soil CO 2 concentration: implications for karst processes. Environmental Earth Sciences, 75(4), 1–12. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12665-015-4874-9
Guyot, A., Ostergaard, K. T., Lenkopane, M., Fan, J., & Lockington, D. A. (2013). Using electrical resistivity tomography to differentiate sapwood from heartwood: application to conifers. Tree Physiology, 33(2), 187–194. https://doi.org/10.1093/treephys/tps128
Scheer, C., Rowlings, D. W., Migliorati, M. D. A., Lester, D. W., Bell, M. J., Grace, P. R., Scheer, C., Rowlings, D. W., Migliorati, M. D. A., Lester, D. W., Bell, M. J., & Grace, P. R. (2016). Effect of enhanced efficiency fertilisers on nitrous oxide emissions in a sub-tropical cereal cropping system. Soil Research, 54(5), 544–551. https://doi.org/10.1071/SR15332
Pastur, G. J. M., Esteban, R. S., Cellini, J. M., Lencinas, M. V., Peri, P. L., & Neyland, M. G. (2014). Survival and growth of Nothofagus pumilio seedlings under several microenvironments after variable retention harvesting in southern Patagonian forests. Annals of Forest Science, 71(3), 349–362. https://doi.org/10.1007/s13595-013-0343-3
González, L., Boroschek, R., & Verdugo, G. (2009). Experimental study to correlate change in the structural frequency and foundation soil water content. Proceedings of the 17th International Conference on Soil Mechanics and Geotechnical Engineering (Volumes 1, 2, 3 and 4), 2040–2043. https://doi.org/10.3233/978-1-60750-031-5-2040
Livesley, S. J., Kiese, R., Graham, J., Weston, C. J., Butterbach-Bahl, K., & Arndt, S. K. (2008). Trace gas flux and the influence of short-term soil water and temperature dynamics in Australian sheep grazed pastures of differing productivity. Plant and Soil, 309(1), 89. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11104-008-9647-8
Henn, J. J., Anderson, C. B., Kreps, G., Lencinas, M. V., Soler, R., & Pastur, G. M. (2014). Determining Abiotic and Biotic Factors that Limit Transplanted Nothofagus pumilio Seedling Success in Abandoned Beaver Meadows in Tierra del Fuego. Ecological Restoration, 32(4), 369–378. https://doi.org/10.3368/er.32.4.369
Scheer, C., Rowlings, D. W., Grace, P. R., Scheer, C., Rowlings, D. W., & Grace, P. R. (2016). Non-linear response of soil N2O emissions to nitrogen fertiliser in a cotton–fallow rotation in sub-tropical Australia. Soil Research, 54(5), 494–499. https://doi.org/10.1071/SR14328
Commander, L. E., Rokich, D. P., Renton, M., Dixon, K. W., & Merritt, D. J. (2013). Optimising seed broadcasting and greenstock planting for restoration in the Australian arid zone. Journal of Arid Environments, 88, 226–235. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jaridenv.2012.08.012
Harris, S., Orense, R. P., & Itoh, K. (2016). Site-specific warning system for rainfall-induced slope failure. Japanese Geotechnical Society Special Publication, 2(32), 1171–1176. https://doi.org/10.3208/jgssp.ATC1-3-08
De Rosa, D., Rowlings, D. W., Biala, J., Scheer, C., Basso, B., McGree, J., & Grace, P. R. (2016). Effect of organic and mineral N fertilizers on N2O emissions from an intensive vegetable rotation. Biology and Fertility of Soils, 52(6), 895–908. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00374-016-1117-5
Harris, S. J., Orense, R. P., & Itoh, K. (2012). Back analyses of rainfall-induced slope failure in Northland Allochthon formation. Landslides, 9(3), 349–356. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10346-011-0309-1
Muñoz-Rojas, M., Lewandrowski, W., Erickson, T. E., Dixon, K. W., & Merritt, D. J. (2016). Soil respiration dynamics in fire affected semi-arid ecosystems: Effects of vegetation type and environmental factors. Science of The Total Environment, 572, 1385–1394. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2016.02.086
Pérez Flores, M., Martínez Pastur, G., Cellini, J. M., & Lencinas, M. V. (2019). Recovery of understory assemblage along 50 years after shelterwood cut harvesting in Nothofagus pumilio Southern Patagonian forests. Forest Ecology and Management, 450, 117494. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.foreco.2019.117494
Martínez Pastur, G. J., Peri, P. L., Cellini, J. M., Lencinas, M. V., Barrera, M., & Ivancich, H. (2011). Canopy structure analysis for estimating forest regeneration dynamics and growth in Nothofagus pumilio forests. Annals of Forest Science, 68(3), 587. https://doi.org/10.1007/s13595-011-0059-1
Martínez Pastur, G. J., Cellini, J. M., Lencinas, M. V., Barrera, M., & Peri, P. L. (2011). Environmental variables influencing regeneration of Nothofagus pumilio in a system with combined aggregated and dispersed retention. Forest Ecology and Management, 261(1), 178–186. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.foreco.2010.10.002