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Editor-in-Chief: JSS
Co-editor: ESPR
Name Xu, Zhihong
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E-Mail zhihong.xu@griffith.edu.au
URL http://www.griffith.edu.au/centre/cfhr
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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


    • 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)
    • 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) 293-298 (2006), Fingerprinting Global Climate Change and Forest Management Within Rhizosphere Carbon and Nutrient Cycling Processes
    • 13 ESPR (5) 287-292 (2006), The New ESPR Subject Area Framework. Area 1: Terrestrial Ecology and Biology / Soil and Sediment: Toxicology-related subjects
    • 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
    • JSS – Online First, In situ mineral 15N dynamics and fate of added 15NH4+ in hoop pine plantation and adjacent native forest in subtropical Australia
    • JSS – Online First, An improved method for purifying high-molecular-weight DNA from forest leaf litters suitable for PCR
    • JSS – Online First, Soil nitrogen mineralization and fate of (15NH4)2SO4 in field-incubated soil in a hardwood plantation of subtropical Australia: the effect of mulching
    • JSS – Online First, An improved method for purifying high-molecular-weight DNA from forest leaf litters suitable for PCR
    • JSS – Online First, An improved method for purifying high-molecular-weight DNA from forest leaf litters suitable for PCR
    • JSS – Online First, In situ mineral 15N dynamics and fate of added 15NH4+ in hoop pine plantation and adjacent native forest in subtropical Australia
    • JSS – Online First, An improved method for purifying high-molecular-weight DNA from forest leaf litters suitable for PCR
    • JSS – Online First, Soil Microbial Functional Diversity under Intensively Managed Bamboo Plantations in Southern China

 

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