| Academic degree: | Prof. |  | | Last name: | Xu | | First name: | Zhihong | | Responsible for: | JSS - Soils; ESPR-Area 1.1: Behavior of chemicals in soils and their interactions with biota | | Organization/Institute: | Griffith University | | Department: | Centre for Forestry & Horticultural Research, School of Biomolecular and Physical Sciences | | Position: | Director | | Street, Number, POB: | Kessels Road 170 | | Postal code, City: | QLD 4111 Nathan, Brisbane | | State: | | | Country: | Australia | | Phone: | | | Fax: | | | E-mail address: | zhihong.xu@griffith.edu.au | | Url: | http://www.griffith.edu.au/centre/cfhr | | Curriculum vitae: | Editor-in-Chief of the area "Soils" in JSS
Professor Zhihong Xu
Director, Centre for Forestry and Horticultural Research
School of Biomolecular and Physical Sciences
Griffith University
Kessels Road
Nathan, Brisbane, QLD 4111
Australia
T: +61 7 3735 3822
F: +61 7 3735 7773
zhihong.xu@griffith.edu.au
www.griffith.edu.au/centre/cfhr
ESPR: Co-Principal Subject Editor for Area 1:
Terrestrial Ecology and Biology / Soil and Sediment: Toxicology-related subjects
CURRENT POSITION (2005):
- Director, Centre for Forestry & Horticultural Research
- Professor, School of Science, Griffith University
- Guest Professor, College of Environmental Science and Natural Resource, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, China
MAJOR RESEARCH INTERESTS
- Soil organic matter dynamics and nutrient
cycling in terrestrial ecosystems;
- soil and plant processes in response to global change and environmental pollution;
- stable isotopes (13C & 18O) and tree water use efficiency;
- soil fertility and plant nutrition;
- application of stable isotope (15N & 13C) tracing and nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) techniques for studying soil and plant processes;
- molecular soil microbiology; molecular tree nutrition
- Global climate change and ecosystem functions
EDUCATION AND QUALIFICATIONS
- January 1982: B.Sc. in chemistry from Jiangxi Normal University, Nanchang, P.R. China
- December 1984: M.Sc. in soil science from Institute of Soil Science, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Nanjing, P.R. China
- September 1991: PhD in environmental science from Faculty of Environmental Sciences, Griffith University, Australia
SPECIAL FUNCTIONS
- Overseas Assessor of Chinese Academy of Sciences
- Consulting Editorial Board, Plant and Soil
- Consulting Editor, Pedosphere
- Subject Editor, Environmental Science & Pollution Research
- Advisory Editorial Board, Griffith Journal of the Environment
| | Areas of interest: | | terrestrial ecology | | ecophysiological responses of plants | | nutrient cycling | | climate change | | biodiversity and ecosystem dynamics | | forestry | | soil fertility | | soil ecology | | soil biochemistry | | soil chemistry | | |
| | Articles: | 20 UWSF (3) 157-158 (2008), Accolades for Almut Beate Heinrich, our managing-editor
13 LCA (4) 287-289 (2008), Accolades for Almut Beate Heinrich, our Managing-Editor
8 JSS (3) 149-150 (2008), Accolades for Almut Beate Heinrich, our Managing-Editor
15 ESPR (4) 291-292 (2008), Accolades for Almut Beate Heinrich, our Managing-Editor
8 JSS (2) 99-105 (2008), Soil Carbon and Nutrient Pools, Microbial Properties and Gross Nitrogen Transformations in Adjacent Natural Forest and Hoop Pine Plantations of Subtropical Australia (7 pp)
7 JSS (6) 432 (2007), Thanks to Our Referees of 2007
6 JSS (4) 191 (2006), Editors Meeting JSS, ESPR and Int JLCA am 13–14 October 2006 in Heidelberg, Germany
7 JSS (1) 61-62 (2007), International Symposium on Forest Soils and Ecosystem Health: Linking Local Management to Global Change Challenges. 19–23 August 2007, Noosa, Southeast Queensland, Australia
13 ESPR (5) 287-292 (2006), The New ESPR Subject Area Framework. Area 1: Terrestrial Ecology and Biology / Soil and Sediment: Toxicology-related subjects
13 ESPR (5) 293-298 (2006), Fingerprinting Global Climate Change and Forest Management Within Rhizosphere Carbon and Nutrient Cycling Processes
6 JSS (4) 243-248 (2006), Effect of Overlying Windrowed Harvest Residues on Soil Carbon and Nitrogen in Hoop Pine Plantations of Subtropical Australia (6 pp)
6 JSS (2) 63-66 (2006), On the Nature and Ecological Functions of Soil Soluble Organic Nitrogen (SON) in Forest Ecosystems
6 JSS (2) 68-74 (2006), The Age of E-mail Submission has passed – The Age of ESS Submission has arrived
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