FREW LAB
Jiahao Wen
Jiahao Wen is a PhD student originally from Sichuan, China. He holds a MSc degree in Plant Ecology from Shanghai Jiao Tong University in China, and a MSc degree in Ecology from Utah State University in the USA.
Before joining the Hawkesbury Institute for the Environment, Jiahao researched nutrient interactions between plants, soil, water, and dust, particularly on phosphorus biogeochemistry. Funded by the Centre of Excellence for Plant Success in Nature and Agriculture,
Jiahao’s PhD work will center on sorghum (its crop wild relatives -CWRs) and . Under the supervision of Ian Wright, Adam Frew, Rachael Gallagher, and David Jordan (University of Queensland), he will combine experimental and desktop approaches to explore the ecology of the AM symbiosis in sorghum, the community assembly processes, and the outcomes for plants, as well as trait-climate-biogeography patterns within CWRs. Jiahao is relatively new to the fungal world and CWRs, but is excited to start this new chapter of his academic journey.
Selected Publications
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Ma, Z., Xu, W., Chen, Y., Wen, J. (2024), A study of the influence of the type of land use on the enzymatic activity of soils in southwestern China, Forests, Vol. 15, 581
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Wen, J., Brahney, J., Lin, Y., Ma, Z., Sun, N., Zheng, J., Ji, H., Kang, H., Du, B., Liang, G., Umair, M., Liu, C. (2022), The scaling of leaf nitrogen and phosphorus along a phosphorus availability gradient in a subtropical forest Plant Ecology, Vol. 223, 995-1006
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Wen, J., Ji,H., Sun, N., Tao, H., Du, B., Hui, D., Liu, C. (2018), Imbalanced plant stoichiometry at contrasting geologic-derived phosphprus sites in subtropics: the role of microelements and plant functional group Plant and Soil, Vol. 430, 113-125
