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FU Shenglei

Professor
PH D (1999, Institute of Ecology, University of Georgia)
Honored to be ”°100 talents”± scientist of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, 2004.


(1) Research areas:
I am the Group leader of Restoration Project in the Ecological Research Center of South China Botanical Garden, the Chinese Academy of Sciences. I am currently supervising two laboratories: Laboratory of invertebrate animals, and laboratory of Soil microbiology (PLFA, FE, MPN approaches). Research areas of my group are: 1) comparative study on restoration progress between degraded tropical and subtropical ecosystems; 2) effects of landfills on soil biota and water quality; 3) impacts of forest composition on restoration progress; 4) mechanisms of adaptation of invasive species; 5) effects of girdling and defoliation on plant resource use efficiency and soil processes (root exudation, soil respiration and soil biota); 6) confounding effects of manure application on eucalyptus forest and on NEP (Net Ecosystem productivity); 7) Nematodes as bio-indicators of different ecosystems.

(2) Research experiences
07/2004-present   Professor. Ecological Research Center, South China Botanical Garden, the Chinese Academy of Sciences. Group leader of Restoration Project of Southern China. Responsibility: Supervise 7 research projects (see aforementioned research areas) and two laboratories: Laboratory of invertebrate animals, and laboratory of Soil microbiology (PLFA, FE, MPN approaches).

04/2002-06/2004   Postgraduate Researcher, and Project Scientist. Department of Nematology, University of California, Davis. Project: Coupling rhizosphere biogeochemical cycles to plant growth under different levels of carbon dioxide. Responsibilities include but not limited to designing experiments, manipulation of soil food webs (bacteria, fungi, microbivorous nematodes, microarthropods), identification of the taxonomic group of nematodes (to genus and species level), measurements of C and N fluxes for all components in the system, and writing research grants and papers.

01/2000-03/2002   Post-doctoral fellow. Dept of Environmental Studies, University of California, Santa Cruz. Project: Rhizosphere processes and soil organic matter decomposition. Responsible for partitioning of C source from rhizosphere and from decomposition of SOM, using 13C natural tracer technique and a novel ”°root-chamber”± method in combination with minirhizotron technique. Responsibilities also include writing research grants and papers, and lecturing and supervising students.

09/1996-12/1999   Research assistant (for Ph. D). Institute of Ecology, University of Georgia. Project: Plant roots, plant residue and aboveground herbivory as organizers of soil food webs. Responsible for measurement of C fluxes in different soil compartments (i.e. soil respiration, microbial biomass, nematodes and microarthropods) using 14C pulse labeling technique, and writing final reports and research papers.

10/1995-08/1996   Research Associate. South China Institute of Botany, Chinese Academy of Sciences. Project: Comparison of soil microbial biomass and major soil fauna in natural forests and plantation in Southern China. Responsible for measurement of microbial biomass C and N, and some major soil fauna groups (i.e. nematodes, microarthropod, earthworm, centipede) and writing research papers.

09/1994-09/1995 Visiting scientist. International Institute of Tropical Forestry, Puerto Rico. USDA, Forest Service. Project: Impact of hurricane Hugo on forest productivity and soil processes. Responsible for measurements of standing crop (DBH, tree height, canopy coverage) of all forest species, estimation of floor mass movement, determination of soil microbial biomass and respiration.

08/1991-08/1994   Technician. Soil Microbiology Lab, South China Institute of Botany, Chinese Academy of Sciences. Involved in various projects. Responsibilities include identification of soil microbes (bacteria, actinomycetes, fungi) and measurements of soil microbial biomass C and N, measurement of N fixing activity of various legume trees.

09/1988-08/1991   Research assistant (for M.S.). South China Institute of Botany, Chinese Academy of Sciences. Project: Nutrient Dynamics of Soil Micro-organisms in the Ecosystem of
"Forest, Orchard, Grassland and Fish-pond". Responsible for measurement of decomposition rates of various legume leaf litter and associated microbial and enzymatic activities.


(3) Major publications:
Fu, S, H. Ferris, D. Brown and R. Plant 2004. Does bacterial-farming, a positive feedback of nematodes on their bacteria prey, vary with nematode species and population density? Soil Biology and Biochemistry (accepted).

Fu, S. and W. Cheng. 2004. Defoliation affects rhizosphere respiration and rhizosphere priming effect on decomposition of soil organic matter under a sunflower species: Helianthus annuus. Plant and Soil (in press).

Brown D. H., H. Ferris, S. Fu and R. Plant. 2004. Modeling direct positive feedback between predator and prey. Theoretical Population Biology 65£¬143-152.

Cheng W., D.W. Johnson and S. Fu. 2003. Rhizosphere Priming Effects on Decomposition: Controls of Fertilization, Plant Species, and Phenology. Soil Science Society of America Journal 67, 1418-1427.

Fu, S., W. Cheng and R. Susfalk. 2002. Rhizosphere respiration varies with plant species and phenology: a greenhouse pot experiment. Plant and Soil 239, 133-140.

Susfalk R. B., W. Cheng, D. W. Johnson, R. F. Walker, P. Verburg and S. Fu. 2002. Lateral diffusion and atmospheric CO2 mixing compromis estimates of rhizosphere respiration in a forest soil. Canadian Journal of Forest Research 32, 1005-1015.

Fu, S.and W. Cheng. 2002. Rhizosphere priming effects on the decomposition of soil organic matter in C4 and C3 grassland soils. Plant and Soil 238 (2) 289-294.

Coleman D.C.,S. Fu. P. F. Hendrix and D. A. Crossley, Jr. 2002. Soil food webs in agroecosystems: Impacts of herbivory and tillage management. European Journal of Soil Biology38: 21-28.

Fu S., K. W. Kisselle, D. C. Coleman, P. F. Hendrix, D. A. Crossley, Jr.. 2001. The short-term impacts of aboveground herbivory (grasshopper) on the abundance and 14C activity of soil nematodes in conventional tillage and no-till agroecosystems. Soil Biology and Biochemistry 33(9), 1253-1258.

Kisselle K. W., C. J. Garrett , S. Fu, P. F. Hendrix, D. A. Crossley Jr., D. C. Coleman , and R. L. Potter 2001. Budgets for Root-derived C and litter-derived C: comparison between conventional tillage and no tillage soils. Soil Biology and Biochemistry (7-8), 1067-1075.

Fu. S., M. L. Cabrera, D. C. Coleman, K. W. Kisselle, C. J. Garrett, P. F. Hendrix, and D. A. Crossley, Jr. 2000. Soil carbon dynamics of conventional tillage and no-till agroecosystems at Georgia Piedmont: HSB-C models. Ecological Modeling 131, 229-248.

Fu S., D.C. Coleman, P.F. Hendrix and D.A. Crossley, Jr. 2000. Responses of trophic groups of soil nematodes to residue application under conventional tillage and no-till regimes. Soil Biology and Biochemistry 32, 1731-1741.

Fu S., D. C. Coleman, R. Schartz, R. Potter, D. A. Crossley, Jr. and P. F. Hendrix. 2000.14C distribution in soil compartments from crop residue in conventional tillage and no-till agroecosystems. Soil & Tillage Research 57(1-2), 31-41.

Fu S., C. R. Pedraza and A. E. Lugo. 1996. A twelve-year comparison of stand changes in a Mahogany plantation and a paired natural forest of similar age. Biotropica 28 (4a): 515-524.


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