个人简介

PhD in Environmental Sciences, 1991, Griffith University. MSc in Soil Science, 1984, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Nanjing, People’s Republic of China. BSc in Chemistry, 1982, Jiangxi Normal University, Nanchang, People’s Republic of China. Director, Environmental Futures Research Institute, Griffith University, Nathan, since 2009. Professor, Plant and Soil System, School of Natural Sciences, Griffith University, Nathan, appointed April 2006.

研究领域

Global climate change and forest management Biogeochemical cycles of carbon and nutrients Soil and environmental chemistry Tree nutrition and forest ecophysiology Wood quality and chemistry Forest soils and ecosystem management Stable isotope and nuclear magnetic resonance techniques Sustainable landscape and food security

Professor Xu has undertaken research projects extensively in: (a) biogeochemical processes of carbon (C) and nutrients in terrestrial ecosystems from agricultural, agroforestry and forest ecosystems in Australia, China, Europe and USA; (b) development and application of innovative stable isotope, biomolecular and physiological techniques for assessing both genetic and environmental controls of plant water and nutrient use efficiency; (c) soil fertility and plant nutrition; (d) development and application of advanced stable isotope, nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) and biomolecular techniques for studying biogeochemical processes of C and nutrient cycling which underpin ecosystem productivity and sustainability; (e) environmental management and food security; and (f) innovative tree ring technologies for unravelling long-term and complex impacts of climate change and local management / historical episodes on biogeochemical cycles, ecosystem productivity and sustainability.

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Bastias BA, Xu ZH and Cairney JWG 2006 Influence of long-term repeated prescribed burning on mycelial communities of ectomycorrhizal fungi determined by DGGE profiling of DNA from hyphal ingrowth bags. New Phytol. 172, 149-158. Burton J, Chen CR, Xu ZH and Ghadiri H 2007 Gross nitrogen transformations in adjacent native and plantation forests of subtropical Australia. Soil Biol. Biochem. 39, 426-433. Chen CR, Xu ZH and Mathers NJ 2004 Soil carbon pools in adjacent natural and plantation forests of subtropical Australia. Soil Sci. Soc. Am. J. 68, 282-291. Ge Y, He JZ, Zhu YG, Zhang JB, Xu ZH, Zhang LM and Zheng YM 2008 Differences in soil bacterial diversity: driven by contemporary disturbances or historical contingencies? ISME Journal 2, 254-264. He JZ, Xu ZH and Hughes J 2006 Molecular bacterial diversity of a forest soil under residue management regimes in subtropical Australia. FEMS Microbiology Ecology 55, 38-47. Huang ZQ, Xu ZH, Blumfield TJ and Bubb KA 2008 Foliar δ13C and δ18O reveal differential physiological responses of canopy foliage to pre-planting weed control in a young spotted gum (Corymbia citriodora subsp. Variegata) plantation. Tree Physiol. 28, 1535-1543. Sun FF, Kuang YW, Wen DZ, Xu ZH, Li JL, Zuo WD, Li J and Hou EQ 2010 Long-term tree growth rate, water use efficiency and tree ring nitrogen isotope composition of Pinus massoniana in response to global climate change and local nitrogen deposition in southern China. J. Soils Sediments 10, 1453-1465. Xu Y, Li WJ, Shao XM, Xu ZH and Nugroho P 2014 Long-term trends in intrinsic water-use efficiency and growth of subtropical Pinus tabulaeformis Carr. and Pinus Taiwanesis Hayata in central China. J. Soils Sediments 14, 917-927. Xu ZH, Saffigna PG, Farquhar GD, Simpson JA, Haines RJ, Walker S, Osborne DO and Guinto D 2000 Carbon isotope discrimination and oxygen isotope composition in clones of the F1 hybrid between slash pine (Pinus elliottii) and Caribbean pine (P. caribaea) in relation to tree growth, water-use efficiency and foliar nutrient concentration in subtropical Australia. Tree Physiol. 20, 1049-1055. Xu ZH, Ward S, Chen CR, Blumfield T, Prasolova NV and Liu JX 2008 Soil carbon and nutrient pools, microbial properties and gross nitrogen transformations in adjacent natural forest and hoop pine plantations of subtropical Australia. J. Soils Sediments 8, 99-105.