Liu Zhanfeng

Biography

He is currently working as professor in South China Botanical Garden, the Chinese Academy of Sciences. He has completed his P.hD. degree in Ecology from Research Center for Eco-Environmental Sciences, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China.

Research Interest

Zhanfeng Liu works as an associate professor of soil microbial ecology and restoration ecology. His research explores the biotic links between aboveground and belowground communities and their consequences for ecosystem functioning, with a particular focus on plant-microbe interaction. Much of his research is field based, and includes work in Swedish subarctic tundra, subtropical orchards and forests, and temperate steppes in China. Current projects focus on the response and adaption of soil microbial communities to global warming, plant-microbe interaction across vegetation restoration or successional chronosequence, the effects of different management practices on ecosystem carbon cycling and the ecological role of understory vegetation in forests.