Sina Adl
Professor
Soil Science
University of Saskatchewan
Canada
Biography
Prof. Sina Adl he is working as professor in Department of Soil Science atUniversity of SaskatchewanUniversity. He is editor-in-chief of the Journal of Rhizosphere. He has authored several research articles. He is apast-president of the International Society for Protistology (2010-2013).
Research Interest
Soil biology, Protist diversity and systematics, Soil micro-invertebrates, Nutrient cycling, Food webs, Community structure, Microbial ecology, Recent work included following nutrient paths through soil food webs using the stable isotopes 15N and 13C. We have recently worked on a variety of other aspects of soil ecology and field management. These include long term effects of field management on soil biology and nutrients; and soil amendments (composted municipal solid waste, manure, biosolids, biochar); organic agriculture and no-tillage. We have worked with a variety of soil samples from the sub-arctic, to grasslands, desert crusts, temperate to tropical forests, agricultural fields, and with micro-fossils in amber. We rely on sampling commercial agricultural fields and forest plantations, experimental field sites, greenhouse seedling experiments, and microcosms.
Publications
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Adl SM, Habura A, Eglit Y. Amplification primers of SSU rDNA for soil protists. Soil Biology and Biochemistry. 2014 Feb 28;69:328-42.
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Crotty FV, Blackshaw RP, Adl SM, Inger R, Murray PJ. Divergence of feeding channels within the soil food web determined by ecosystem type. Ecology and evolution. 2014 Jan 1;4(1):1-3.
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Richardson E, Walker G, MacIntyre G, Quideau S, Dacks JB, Adl S. Next-Generation Sequencing of Protists as a Measure of Natural Soil Microbial Eukaryotic Community in the Oil Sands Region.
