1. Di HJ, Cameron KC, Shen JP, Winefield CS, O'Callaghan M, Bowatte S, He JZ*. 2009. Nitrification driven by bacteria and not archaea in nitrogen-rich grassland soils. Nature Geoscience. 2 (9): 621-624.
2. Liu XZ, Zhang LM, Prosser JI, He JZ*. 2009. Abundance and community structure of sulfate reducing prokaryotes in a paddy soil of southern China under different fertilization regimes. Soil Biology & Biochemistry, 41: 687-694.
3. Li F, Zheng YM, He JZ*. 2009. Microbes influence the fractionation of arsenic in paddy soils with different fertilization regimes. Science of the Total Environment, 407: 2631-2640.
4. Meng YT, Zheng YM, Zhang LM, He JZ*. 2009. Biogenic Mn oxides for effective adsorption of Cd from aquatic environment. Environmental Pollution, 157: 2577-2583.
5. He JZ*, Zheng Y, Chen CR, He YQ, Zhang LM. 2008. Microbial composition and diversity of an upland red soil under long-term fertilization treatments as revealed by culture-dependent and culture-independent approaches. J Soils Sediments, 8: 349-358.
6. Shen JP, Zhang LM, Zhu YG, Zhang JB, He JZ*. 2008. Abundance and composition of ammonia-oxidizing bacteria and ammonia-oxidizing archaea communities of an alkaline sandy loam. Environmental Microbiology, 10(6): 1601-1611.
7. Chen XP, Zhu YG, Xia Y, Shen JP, He JZ*. 2008. Ammonia-oxidizing archaea: important players in paddy rhizosphere soil? Environmental Microbiology, 10 (8): 1978-1987.
8. He JZ*, Zhang LM, Jin SS, Zhu YG, Liu F. 2008. Bacterial communities inside and surrounding soil iron-manganese nodules. Geomicrobiology Journal, 25: 14-24.
9. Ge Y, He JZ*, Zhu YG, Zhang JB, Xu ZH, Zhang LM, Zheng YM. 2008. Differences in soil bacterial diversity: driven by contemporary disturbances or historical contingencies? The ISME Journal, 2(3): 254-264.
10. Zhang LM, Liu F, Tan WF, Feng XH, Zhu YG, He JZ*. 2008. Microbial DNA extraction and analyses of soil iron-manganese nodules. Soil Biology & Biochemistry, 40(6): 1364-1369.
11. Xia Y, Zhu YG, Gu Q, He JZ*. 2007. Does long-term fertilization treatment affect the response of soil ammonia-oxidizing bacterial communities to Zn contamination? Plant & Soil, 301 (1-2): 245-254.
12. He JZ*, Shen JP, Zhang LM, Zhu YG, Zheng YM, Xu MG, Di HJ. 2007. Quantitative analyses of the abundance and composition of ammonia-oxidizing bacteria and ammonia-oxidizing archaea of a Chinese upland red soil under long-term fertilization practices. Environmental Microbiology, 9(9): 2364-2374.
13. He JZ*, Xu ZH, Hughes J. 2006. Molecular bacterial diversity of a forest soil under residue management regimes in subtropical Australia. FEMS Microbiology Ecology, 55: 38-47.
14. He JZ*, Xu ZH, Hughes J. 2005. Analyses of soil fungal communities in adjacent natural forest and hoop pine plantation ecosystems of subtropical Australia using molecular approaches based on 18S rRNA genes. FEMS Microbiology Letters, 247:91-100.
15. He JZ*, Xu ZH, Hughes J. 2005. Pre-lysis washing improves DNA extraction from a forest soil. Soil Biology & Biochemistry, 37(12):2337-2341.