B.Engineering (Agronomy), MSc, PhD
Visiting Research Fellow, Environmental Futures Centre
Email: f.reverchon@griffith.edu.au
Research Expertise
- Soil and microbial ecology (community structure of soil saprophytic fungi, ecology of ectomycorrhizal fungi, nitrogen-fixing bacteria)
- Plant-mirobe interactions (ectomycorrhizal fungi, rhizobium)
- Soil sciences (soil and litter chemistry, volcanic soils, biogeochemical sciences)
Current Projects
- Impact of prescribed burning on nitrogen inputs and N-fixing bacteria associated with understorey Acacia species in a natural subtropical forest
Publications
- Reverchon, F., Ortega-Larrocea, M.P., Pérez-Moreno, J., Peña-Ramírez, V.M., Siebe, C. 2010.Changes in community structure of ectomycorrhizal fungi associated to Pinus montezumae across avolcanic soil chronosequence at Sierra Chichinautzin, Mexico. Canadian Journal of Forest Research 40: 1165-1174.
- Reverchon, F., Ortega-Larrocea, M.P., Pérez-Moreno, J. 2010. Saprophytic fungal communitieschange in diversity and species composition across a volcanic soil chronosequence at Sierra delChichinautzin, Mexico. Annals of Microbiology 60(2): 217-226.
- Reverchon, F., Ortega-Larrocea, M.P., Pérez-Moreno, J. Soil factors influencingectomycorrhizal sporome distribution in neotropical forests dominated by Pinus montezumae,Mexico. Mycoscience. Accepted.