Ooid Scientific

At Ooid Scientific, we are active, publishing scientists with a broad range of expertise. You can read our latest publications by following the links below. Alternatively, you can send us an email and we can provide you a copy.

Freshwater & Riparian Ecology

  • Perez J,…Middleton JA et al. Positive Feedback on Climate Warming by Stream Microbial Decomposers Indicated by a Global Space-For-Time Substitution Study. Global Change Biology, 2025.
  • Martin BC, Middleton JA. Characterisation of dissolved organic nitrogen and its potential bioavailability in the Peel-Harvey catchment, a report by Ooid Scientific prepared for the Department of Water and Environmental Regulation, Perth, Western Australia. 2024
  • Boyero L, …Middleton JA et al. Impacts of detritivore diversity loss on instream decomposition are greatest in the tropics. Nature Communications. 2021; 12, 1-11.
  • Boyero L, …Middleton JA. Latitude dictates plant diversity effects on instream decomposition. Science Advances. 2021; 7, 1–8.
  • Saccò M, Blyth AJ, Humphreys WF, Middleton JA, White NE, Campbell M, et al. (2020) Tracking down carbon inputs underground from an arid zone Australian calcrete. PLoS ONE. 2020.15(8): e0237730.
  • Middleton JA, de Sosa L, Martin BC, Jones D, Gleeson DB. Soil microbes of an urban remnant riparian zone have greater potential for N removal than a degraded riparian zone. Environmental Microbiology. 2020; 22(8), 3302–3314.
  • Middleton JA, Grierson PF, Pettit N, Kelly L, Beesley LS. Multi-scale characterisation of stream nutrients and carbon dynamics in sandy near coastal catchments of south-western australia. Science of the Total Environment. 2020; 720: 1-11.

Marine Ecology

  • Jung EMU, Martin BC, Kendrick GA, Middleton JA, Skrzypek G, Pernice M, Daygon VD, Doomun SNE, De Souza DP, Fraser MW. Light and Hydrogen Sulfide Cause Multilevel Disruption of Carbon Metabolism in the Seagrass Halophila ovalis. Environmental Science & Technology. 2025.
  • Webster C, McMahon K, Ross C, Afrifa-Yamoah E, Said N, Hovey R, Martin BC, Strydom S. Two decades of seagrass monitoring data show drivers include ENSO, climate warming and local stressors. Prepared for the WAMSI Westport Marine Science Program. Western Australian Marine Science Institution,Perth, Western Australia. July 2024.
  • Jongen R, Marzinelli E, Bugnot AB, Martin BC, et al. Integrating belowground interactions into seagrass restoration strategies. Oceanography and Marine Biology. 2024; 62.
  • Martin BC, Giraldo-Ospina A, Bell S, Cambridge M, Fraser MW, Gibbons B, Harvey E, Kendrick GA, Langlois T, Spencer C, Hovey R. Deep meadows: Deep-water seagrass habitats revealed Ecology. 2023; 104.
  • Jung EMU, Majeed NAB, Booth M, Austin R, Sinclair E, Fraser MW, Martin BC, Oppermann LMF, Bollen M, Kendrick GA. Marine heatwave and reduced light scenarios cause species-specific metabolomic changes in seagrasses under ocean warming. New Phytologist. 2023; 239, 1692-1706
  • Fraser MW, Martin BC, Wong HL, Burns BP, Kendrick GA. Sulfide intrusion in a habitat forming seagrass can be predicted from the relative abundance of sulfur cycling genes in sediments. Science of the Total Environment. 2023; 864
  • Bayer PE, Fraser MW, Martin BC, Petereit J, Severn-Ellis A, Sinclair E, Batley J, Kendrick GA, Edwards D. Not all pathways are the same – unique adaptations to submerged environments emerge from comparative seagrass genomics. BioRxiv. 2022
  • Jung EMU, Cosgrove JJ, Martin BC, Bollen M, Kendrick GA, Fraser M. Seasonal links between metabolites and traditional seagrass metrics in the seagrass Halophila ovalis in an estuarine system. Ecological Indicators. 2022; 143
  • Martin BC, Middleton JA, Skrzypek G, Kendrick GA, Cosgrove J, Fraser M. Composition of seagrass root associated bacteria and heavy metal concentrations in an anthropogenically influenced estuary. Frontiers in Marine Science. 2022; 8, 1-15.
  • Scholtz VV, Martin BC, Meyer R, Schramm A, Fraser MW, Nielson LP,  Kendrick GA, Risgaard‐Petersen N, Burdorf LDW, Marshall IPG. Cable bacteria at oxygen-releasing roots of aquatic plants: a widespread and diverse plant-microbe association. New Phytologist. 2021; 232, 2138-2151.
  • Martin BC, Middleton JA, Fraser MW, Marshall IPG, Scholz VV, Hausl B, Schmidt H. Cutting out the middle clam: lucinid endosymbiotic bacteria are also associated with seagrass roots worldwide. ISME Journal. 2020; 14, 2901-2905.
  • Martin BC, Sanchez-Alarcon M, Gleeson D., Middleton JA, Fraser MW, Ryan MH, Holmer M, Kendrick GA, Kilminster K. Root microbiomes as indicators of seagrass health. FEMS Microbial Ecology. 2020; 96: 1-9.
  • Martin BC, Fraser MW, Kendrick GA, Strydom S. The 2020 survey of selected seagrass meadows in Cockburn Sound, Owen Anchorage and Warnbro Sound. Report for DWER on behalf of Cockburn Sound Management Council. 2020.
  • Martin BC, Bougoure J, Ryan MH, Bennett WW, Colmer TD, Joyce NK, Olsen YS, Kendrick GA. Oxygen loss from seagrass roots coincides with colonisation of sulphide-oxidising cable bacteria and reduced sulphide stress. The ISME Journal. 2019; 13: 707-710.
  • Martin BC. Cutting out the middle clam. Behind the Paper, Nature Microbiology Community. 2020.
  • Phelps CM, Bernasconi R, Danks M, Gasol JM, Hopkins AJM, Jones J, Kavazos CRJ, Martin BM, Tarquinio F, Huggett M. Microbiomes of Western Australian marine environments, Journal of the Royal Society of Western Australia. 2019; 101: 17-43.
  • Olsen YS, Fraser MW, Martin BC, Pomeroy A., Lowe R., Pedersen O., Kendrick GA. In situ oxygen dynamics in rhizomes of Posidonia sinuosa – impact of light, water column oxygen, current speed and wave velocity. Marine Ecology Progress Series. 2018; 590: 67-77.
  • Martin BC, Statton JS, Siebers AR, Grierson PF, Ryan MH, Kendrick GA. Colonizing tropical seagrasses increase root exudation under fluctuating and continuous low light. Limnology and Oceanography. 2017; 63: 381-391.

Agriculture, Soil Science & Biotechnology

  • Middleton JA, Martin BC, Kidd DR, Wisdom JMB, Ryan MH, Jenkins SN. Black soldier fly (Hermetia illucens) larvae residue (frass) influences bacterial more than fungal communities in field-grown crops and pastures. Journal of Insects as Food and Feed. 2025
  • Jenkins SN, Langa SP, Middleton JA, Martin BC, Wheat L, Gleeson DB. Processing poultry manure with black soldier fly technology lowers N2O and CO2 gas emissions from soil. Journal of Insects as Food and Feed. 2025
  • Doughty KH, Middleton JA, Salini MJ, Kragt ME, Partridge JC, Hemmi JM, Martin BC. Food for thought: valuable bioproduction pathways emerge in a circular food production model. Cleaner and Circular Bioeconomy. 2024; 9.
  • Gurung SK, Mickan BS, Middleton JA, Singh PJ, Jenkins SN, Rengel Z, Siddique KHM, Solaiman ZM. Manure-derived black soldier fly frass enhanced the growth of chilli plants (Capsicum annuum L.) and altered rhizopshere bacterial community. Applied Soil Ecology. 2024; 202.
  • Bravo-Escobar AV, O’Donnell AJ, Middleton JA, Grierson PF. Differences in dissolved organic matter (DOM) composition of soils from native eucalypt forests and exotic pine plantations impacted by wildfire in Southwest Australia. Geoderma Regional. 2024; 37.
  • Jenkins SN, Middleton JA, Huang Z, Mickan BS, Andersen MO, Wheat L, Waite IS, Abbott LK. Combining frass and fatty acid co-products derived from Black soldier fly larvae farming shows potential as a slow release fertiliser. Science of the Total Environment. 2023; 899.
  • Robinson JM, Hodgson R, Krauss SL, Liddicoat C, Malik AA, Martin BC, Mohr JJ, Moreno-Mateos D, Munoz-Rojas M, Peddle SD, Breed MF. Opportunities and challenges for microbiomics in ecosystem restoration. Trends in Ecology & Evolution. 2023; 38
  • Gleeson DB, Martin BC, Lardner T, Ball AS, Grice K, Holman AI, Trolove A, Manix M, Tibbett M, Bending GD, Hilton S, Ryan MH. Natural attenuation of legacy hydrocarbon spills in pristine soils is feasible despite difficult environmental conditions in the monsoon tropics. Science of the Total Environment. 2021; 799, 1-10.
  • D Minemba, BC Martin, MH Ryan, EJ Veneklaas, DB Gleeson. Phosphate fertiliser alters carboxylates and bacterial communities in sweet potato (Ipomoea batatas (L.) Lam.) rhizosheaths. Plant and Soil. 2020; 454, 245-260.
  • Martin BC, George SJ, Price CA, Shahsavari E, Ball AS, Tibbett M., Ryan MH. Citrate and malonate increase microbial activity and alter microbial community composition in uncontaminated and diesel-contaminated soil microcosms. SOIL. 2016; 2: 487-498
  • Martin BC, George SJ, Price CA, Ryan MH, Tibbett M. The role of root exuded low molecular weight organic anions in facilitating petroleum hydrocarbon degradation: Current knowledge and future directions. Science of the Total Environment. 2014; 472: 642-653.