My research projects focus on improving the understanding of soil-climate interactions and microbial feedbacks:
Using bioenergy croplands to study soil microbial response to thermal variation
Li J. S Jian, J de Koff, C Lane, G Wang, M Mayes, D Hui. 2018. Differential effects of nitrogen fertilization and warming on soil respiration and microbial dynamics in switchgrass croplands. Global Change Biology Bioenergy. In Press. DOI: 10.1111/gcbb.12515.
More are under development ...
Li J. S Jian, J de Koff, C Lane, G Wang, M Mayes, D Hui. 2018. Differential effects of nitrogen fertilization and warming on soil respiration and microbial dynamics in switchgrass croplands. Global Change Biology Bioenergy. In Press. DOI: 10.1111/gcbb.12515.
More are under development ...
Spatial heterogeneity of soil microbial communities in fertilized bioenergy croplands
Li J. CL Guo, SY Jian, C Yu, Q Deng, ED Dzantor and D Hui. 2018. Nitrogen fertilization elevated spatial heterogeneity of soil microbial biomass carbon and nitrogen in Switchgrass and Gammagrass croplands. Scientific Reports 8:1734. (Pubdate: 12-2017). [download PDF].
Nitrogen fertilization effects on soil microbial biomass and exoenzymes: a global meta-analysis
Jian S, J Li*, J Chen, G Wang, M Mayes, EK Dzantor, D Hui, and Y Luo. 2016. Soil extracellular enzyme activities, soil carbon and nitrogen storage under nitrogen fertilization: a meta-analysis. Soil Biology and Biochemistry 101: 32-43. (Pubdate: 10-2016) [download PDF]. (*Corresponding author)
Modeling soil microbial-enzyme decomposition processes
Li J, GS Wang, SD Allison, MA Mayes, YQ Luo. 2014. Soil carbon sensitivity to temperature and carbon use efficiency compared across microbial-ecosystem models of varying complexity. Biogeochemistry 119:67-84. (Pubdate: 01-2014) [download PDF]
Microbial routing of recalcitrant soil organic matter in a warmer climate
Li J, SE. Ziegler, CS. Lane, SA Billings. 2012. Warming-enhanced preferential microbial mineralization of humified boreal soil organic matter: interpretation of soil profiles along a climate transect using laboratory incubation. Journal of Geophysical Research (2012), Volume: 117, Pages: G02008, doi:10.1029/2011JG001769 (Pubdate: 04-2012) [download PDF]
Li J, SE. Ziegler, CS. Lane, SA Billings. 2013. Legacies of native climate regime govern the responses of boreal soil microbes to litter stoichiometry and temperature. Soil Biology and Biochemistry 66(0): 204-213. (Pubdate: 11-2013) [download PDF]
Modeling permafrost soil carbon cycle in a warmer climate
Li J, YQ Luo, S Natali, EA Schuur, J Xia, Eva Kowalczyk, YP Wang. 2014. Modeling ecosystem carbon cycle and permafrost thaw under annual and seasonal warming at a tundra site in Alaska. Journal of Geophysical Research: Biogeosciences 119(6): 2013JG002569. (Pubdate: 06-2014)[download PDF].
Micronutrients cycling
Li, J, DD Richter, A Mendoza, PR Heine. 2008. Four-decade responses of soil trace elements to an aggrading old-field forest: B, Mn, Zn, Cu and Fe. Ecology 89(10): 2911–2923. (Pubdate: 10-2008) [download PDF]
Iron biogeochemistry in terrestrial ecosystems
Li J, DD. Richter. 2012. Effects of two-century land use changes on soil iron crystallinity and accumulation in Southeastern Piedmont region, USA, Geoderma 173-174 (2012): 184-191. (Pubdate: 03-2012) [download PDF]
Li J, DD Richter, A Mendoza, PR Heine. 2010. Effects of land-use history on soil spatial heterogeneity of macro- and trace elements in the Southern Piedmont USA, Geoderma 156 (2010): 60-73. (Pubdate: 04-2010) [download PDF]