BSc, MSc, PhDContact details for Associate Professor Chengrong Chen
Research Expertise
- Nutrient cycling and soil fertility in terrestrial ecosystems
- Chemical, biochemical and biological processes governing soil nutrient dynamics in terrestrial ecosystems
- Rhizosphere dynamics of organic matter and associated nutrients in forest ecosystems
- Use of isotope 33P, 15N and 13C in characterization of soil nutrient availability & dynamics
- Land resource management and mine rehabilitation.
- Agricultural disposal of recycled organics
- Application of NMR (13C & 31P) to characterize the nature of soil C and P
- Application of Biolog, biomarker and DNAbased molecular approaches to determine microbial diversity and function
- Impacts of global climate change on soil microbial processes
Current Projects
- Impacts of grassland afforestation on soil phosphorus dynamics and associated microbial processes: a review
- The nature and ecological functions of soil soluble organic nitrogen in contrasting forest ecosystems
- Fingerprints of global climate change and forest management on rhizosphere carbon and nutrient cycling
- Di-ammonium phosphate fertiliser dynamics in unmarked and gypsumamended residue sand
- An improved technique for estimating the nitrogen availability of recycled organic wastes applied to agriculture land
Publications
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