Dr Francesca Brailsford
BSc. (Hons) MSc PhD

Current PhD

• Samantha Viljoen: Microplastics in agricultural soils

Current Masters

• Sion Fowler Chiew: Investigating Soil Carbon Stocks and Sequestration Potentials in Southeast Asian Agroecological Systems: Implications for Sustainable Agriculture and Climate Change Mitigation
• Mitchell Walton: Continuous Nitrate Detection in Western Australian Soils
• Benjamin Southern: Soil re-engineering for carbon sequestration and crop performance in the West Australian Wheatbelt

Journals

• Brailsford, F., Glanville, H., Marshall, M., Yates, C., Owen, A., Golyshin, P., Johnes, P., Jones, D., (2021), Land cover and nutrient enrichment regulates low-molecular weight dissolved organic matter turnover in freshwater ecosystems, Limnology and Oceanography, , , pages -.
• Horn, E., Emily, C., Jones, D., Hoyle, F., Brailsford, F., Murphy, D., (2021), Addition of base cations increases microbial carbon use efficiency and biomass in acidic soils, Soil Biology & Biochemistry, 161, , .

• Yates CA, Johnes PJ, Brailsford FL, Evans CD, Evershed RP, Glanville HC, Jones DL, Lloyd CEM, Marshall MR, Owen AT (2022) Determining patterns in the composition of dissolved organic matter in fresh waters according to land use and management. Biogeochem [DOI: 10.1007/s10533-022-00964-2]
• Lloyd CEM, Mena-Rivera LA, Pemberton JA, Johnes PJ, Jones DL, Yates CA, Brailsford FL, Glanville HC, McIntyre CA, Evershed RP (2022) Characterisation of riverine dissolved organic matter using a complementary suite of chromatographic and mass spectrometric methods. Biogeochem [DOI: 10.1007/s10533-022-00913-z]
  
• Brailsford FL, Glanville HC, Marshall MR, Yates CA, Owen AT, Golyshin PN, Johnes PJ, Jones DL (2021) Land cover and nutrient enrichment regulates low‐molecular weight dissolved organic matter turnover in freshwater ecosystems. Liminol Oceanogr 66: 2979-2987 [DOI: 10.1002/lno.11852]
• Horn EL, Cooledge EC, Jones DL, Hoyle FC, Brailsford FL, Murphy DV (2021) Addition of base cations increases microbial carbon use efficiency and biomass in acidic soils. Soil Biol Biochem 161: 108392 [DOI: 10.1016/j.soilbio.2021.108392]
• Seymour M, Edwards FK, Cosby BJ, Bista I, Scarlett PM, Brailsford FL, Glanville HC, de Bruyn M, Carvalho GR, Creer S (2021) Environmental DNA provides higher resolution assessment of riverine biodiversity and ecosystem function via spatio-temporal nestedness and turnover partitioning. Commun Biol 4:1-12 [DOI: 10.1038/s42003-021-02031-2]
• Brailsford FL, Glanville HC, Wang D, Golyshin PN, Johnes PJ, Yates CA, Jones DL (2020) Rapid microbial consumption of dissolved organic sulphur (DOS) in freshwaters. Biogeochem 149: 105–113 [DOI: 10.1007/s10533-020-00669-4]
• Distaso MA, Bargiela R, Brailsford FL, Williams GB, Wright S, Lunev EA, Toshchakov SV, Yakimov MM, Jones DL, Golyshin PN, Golyshina OV (2020) High Representation of Archaea Across All Depths in Oxic and Low-pH Sediment Layers Underlying an Acidic Stream. Front Microbiol 11: 576520 [DOI: 10.3389/fmicb.2020.576520]
• Brailsford FL, Glanville HC, Golyshin PN, Marshall MR, Lloyd CE, Johnes PJ, Jones DL (2019) Nutrient enrichment induces a shift in dissolved organic carbon (DOC) metabolism in oligotrophic freshwater sediments. Sci Tot Environ 690: 1131-1139 [DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2019.07.054]
• Brailsford FL, Glanville HC, Golyshin PN, Johnes PJ, Yates CA, Jones DL (2019) Microbial uptake kinetics of dissolved organic carbon (DOC) compound groups from river water and sediments. Sci Rep 9: 11229 [DOI: 10.1038/s41598-019-47749-6]
• Yates C, Johnes P, Owen A, Brailsford F, Glanville H, Evans C, Marshall M, Jones D, Lloyd C, Jickells T, Evershed R (2019) Variation in dissolved organic matter (DOM) stoichiometry in freshwaters: Assessing the influence of land cover and soil C:N ratio on DOM composition. Liminol Oceanogr 64: 2328-2340 [DOI: 10.1002/lno.11186]
• Brailsford FL, Glanville HC, Marshall MR, Golyshin PN, Johnes PJ, Yates CA, Owen AT, Jones DL (2017) Microbial use of low molecular weight DOM in filtered and unfiltered freshwater: Role of ultra-small microorganisms and implications for water quality monitoring. Sci Total Environ 598: 377-384 [DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2017.04.049]
• Antwis RE, Griffiths SM, Harrison XA, Aranega-Bou P, Acre A, Bettridge AS, Brailsford FL et al. (2017) Fifty important research questions in microbial ecology. FEMS Microb Ecol 93: fix044 [DOI: 10.1093/femsec/fix044]