• Email: j.hemamali@bangor.ac.uk
• Phone: 07901794023
• Address: 2nd Floor, Environment Centre Wales, 
• Deiniol Road, Bangor, Gwynedd, LL57 2UW

• PhD

2025

• PublishedGreenhouse gas removal in agricultural peatland via raised water levels and soil amendment
  Peduru Hewa, J., Brown, R., Rhymes, J., McNamara, N., Chadwick, D., Jones, D. L. & Evans, C., 21 Feb 2025, In: Biochar. 7, 1, p. 39 39.
  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
• PublishedIron oxides promote physicochemical stabilization of carbon despite enhancing microbial activity in the rice rhizosphere
  Sun, H., Ma, X., Van Zwieten, L., Luo, Y., Brown, R., Guggenberger, G., Tang, S., Kuzyakov, Y. & Peduru Hewa, J., 1 Jan 2025, In: Science of the Total Environment. 958, 178019.
  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
• PublishedMicrobial Necromass Carbon Distribution Differs Between Four Soil Types After Long‐Term Straw Return
  Xie, M., Jeewani, P. H., Van Zwieten, L., Liu, Z., Liu, S., Lu, S. & Wang, Z., 1 Jun 2025, In: European Journal of Soil Science. 76, 3, e70129.
  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
• E-pub ahead of printRewetting alongside biochar and sulphate addition mitigates greenhouse gas emissions and retain carbon in degraded upland peatlands
  Peduru Hewa, J., Brown, R., Evans, C. D., Cook, J., Roberts, B. P., Fraser, M. D., Chadwick, D. & Jones, D. L., 1 Aug 2025, In: Soil Biology and Biochemistry. 207
  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

2024

• PublishedDistinct biophysical and chemical mechanisms governing sucrose mineralization and soil organic carbon priming in biochar amended soils: evidence from 10 years of field studies
  Zhang, H., Ma, T., Wang, L., Yu, X., Zhao, X., Gao, W., Van Zwieten, L., Singh, B. P., Li, G., Lin, Q., Chadwick, D., Lu, S., Luo, Y., Xu, J., Jones, D. L. & Peduru Hewa, J., 22 May 2024, In: Biochar. 6, 1, p. 52
  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

2023

• PublishedThe coupling between iron and carbon and iron reducing bacteria control carbon sequestration in paddy soils
  Yao, Y., Wang, L., Peduru Hewa, J., Van Zwieten, L., Gong, L., Tan, B. & Zhang, G., 1 Apr 2023, In: Catena. 223, 106937.
  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

2021

• PublishedAbiotic and biotic regulation on carbon mineralization and stabilization in paddy soils along iron oxide gradients
  Peduru Hewa, J., Van Zwieten, L., Zhu, Z., Ge, T., Guggenberger, G., Luo, Y. & Xu, J., 1 Sept 2021, In: Soil Biology and Biochemistry. 160
  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
• PublishedArbuscular mycorrhizal fungi and goethite promote carbon sequestration via hyphal-aggregate mineral interactions
  Peduru Hewa, J., Luo, Y., Yu, G., FU, Y., He, X., van Zwieten, L., Liang, C., Kumar , A., He, Y., Kuzyakov, Y., Qin, H., Guggenberger, G. & Xu, J., 1 Nov 2021, In: Soil Biology and Biochemistry. 162, 108417.
  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
• PublishedDecomposition of substrates with recalcitrance gradient, primed CO2, and its relations with soil microbial diversity in post-fire forest soils
  Zhang, J., ling, L., Singh, B. P., Luo, Y., Peduru Hewa, J. & Xu, J., 1 Sept 2021, In: Journal of Soils and Sediments. 21, p. 3007-3017
  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
• PublishedOrganic matter chemistry and bacterial community structure regulate decomposition processes in post-fire forest soils
  ling, L., FU, Y., Peduru Hewa, J., Tang, C., Pan, S., Reid, B. J., Gunina, A., Li, Y., Li, Y., Cai, Y., Kuzyakov, Y., Li, Y., Su, W. Q., Singh, B. P., Luo, Y. & Xu, J., 1 Sept 2021, In: Soil Biology and Biochemistry. 160, 108311.
  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
• PublishedThe stoichiometric C-Fe ratio regulates glucose mineralization and stabilization via microbial processes
  Peduru Hewa, J., ling, L., FU, Y., van Zwieten, L., Zhu, Z., Ge, T., Guggenberger, G., Luo, Y. & Xu, J., 1 Feb 2021, In: Geoderma. 383, 114769.
  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

2020

• PublishedRusty sink of rhizodeposits and associated keystone microbiomes
  Peduru Hewa, J., Gunina, A., Tao, L., Zhu, Z., Kuzyakov, Y., Van Zwieten, L., Guggenberger, G., Shen, C., Yu, G., Singh, B. P., Pan, S., Luo, Y. & Xu, J., 1 Aug 2020, In: Soil Biology and Biochemistry. 147, 107840, 107840.
  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article
• PublishedShifts in the bacterial community along with root-associated compartments of maize as affected by goethite
  Peduru Hewa, J., Chen, L., Van Zwieten, L., Shen, C., Guggenberger, G., Luo, Y. & Xu, J., 1 Nov 2020, In: Biology and Fertility of Soils. 56, p. 1201-1210
  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review