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Associate Professor Chengrong Chen

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Dr Chengrong ChenBSc, MSc, PhD

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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

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