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Author Profile
Editor-in-Chief: JSS
Co-editor: ESPR
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Xu, Zhihong |
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zhihong.xu@griffith.edu.au |
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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 & Horticultural Research
School of Biomolecular and Physical Sciences
Science, Environment, Engineering & Technology Group
Griffith University
Nathan, QLD 4111, Australia
Tel: 07-3735 3822; Fax: 07-3735 7773; E-mail: zhihong.xu@griffith.edu.au
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
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- 8 JSS (6) 389-397 (2008), Soil nitrogen mineralization and fate of (15NH4)2SO4 in field-incubated soil in a hardwood plantation of subtropical Australia: the effect of mulching
- 9 JSS (2) 148-160 (2009), Culture-dependent and Culture-independent Microbial Investigation of Pine Litters and Soil in Subtropical Australia
- 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 (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
- 6 JSS (4) 191 (2006), Editors Meeting JSS, ESPR and Int JLCA am 13–14 October 2006 in Heidelberg, Germany
- 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
- ESPR – Online First, Carbon/nitrogen ratio as a major factor for predicting the effects of organic wastes on soil bacterial communities assessed by DNA-based molecular techniques
- JSS – Online First, Experimental Study of Erigeron annuus (L.) Pers., a Green Manure for Ameliorating Soils Exposed to Acid Rains in Southern China
- JSS – Online First, An improved method for purifying high-molecular-weight DNA from forest leaf litters suitable for PCR
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