Nelson, M., (1998). Wetland systems for bioregenerative reclamation of wastewater — from closed systems to developing countries, Life Support and Biosphere Science, 5(3): 357-369.

Nelson, M., Finn, M, Wilson, C., Zabel, B., van Thillo, M., Hawes, P., and R. Fernandez, (1999). Bioregenerative recycle of wastewater in Biosphere 2 using a created wetland: two year results, Ecological Engineering 13: 189-197.

Nelson, M., Odum, H.T., Brown, M.T., and A. Alling, (2001). “Living off the land”: resource efficiency of wetland wastewater treatment, invited paper presented at COSPAR conference, Warsaw, Poland, July, 2000, Advances in Space Research vol 27(9): 1546-1556,  2001

Nelson, M., R. Tredwell, A. Czech, G. Depuy, M. Suraja and F. Cattin, (2008). Worldwide Applications of Wastewater Gardens and Ecoscaping: Decentralised Systems which Transform Sewage from Problem to Productive, Sustainable Resource, International Conference on Decentralised Water and Wastewater Systems, Environmental Technology Centre, Murdoch University, Fremantle, W.A. July 2006, published in: Decentralised Water and Wastewater Systems : International Conference, Fremantle, Western Australia, 10-12 July 2006, pp. 63-73, edited by Kuruvilla Mathew, Stewart Dallas, Goen Ho, IWA Publications, London, 2008

Nelson, M., and Wolverton, B.C., 2011. Plants + Soil/Wetland Microbes and Food Crop Systems that also Clean Air and Water. Advances in Space Research (47) 4:582-590. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.asr.2010.10.007

Nelson, M., 2020. The challenge of managing water and nutrient cycles in a mini-world – the lessons from Biosphere 2, Global Water Forum,  https://globalwaterforum.org/2020/08/06/the–challenge–ofmanaging–water–and–nutrient–cycles–in–a–mini–world–the–lessons–from–biosphere–2/

Wolverton, B. C., & Nelson, M. (2020). Using plants and soil microbes to purify indoor air:

lessons from NASA and Biosphere 2 experiments. Field Actions Science Reports. The journal of field actions, (Special Issue 21), 54-59, Veolia Institute.

Nelson, M., Cattin, F., Tocchetto, D., & Hafouda, L. (2022). Wastewater Gardens Systems in Yucatan, Mexico; Northwest Australia; Northern Algeria and Southern Iraq. In Constructed Wetlands for Wastewater Treatment in Hot and Arid Climates (pp. 357-378). Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-03600-2_20.