Yuxiong Zheng

Yuxiong is a dynamic doctoral candidate hailing from the vibrant city of Maoming in Guangdong Province. Yuxiong has a keen interest in how forests cycle their nutrients and carbon, and the tiny yet mighty microbes that drive these processes. His explorations into the decomposition of forest debris and the intricate interactions of carbon and nitrogen in forest soils are shedding light on how these factors shape our global environment. Yuxiong is also working on the DigUpDirt project to survey AM fungal communities around Australia.

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Recent Publications (corresponding author indicated with *)

Frew, A.*, Zheng, Y.*, Wang, Z., Fu, Y., & Aguilar‐Trigueros, C. A. (2024). Causal determinism by plant host identity in arbuscular mycorrhizal fungal community assembly. Functional Ecology,  10.1111/1365-2435.14715

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Zheng, Y., Hu, Z.*, Jian, J., Chen, J., Osborne, B. B., Zhou, G., Xu, Q., Zheng, Z., Ma, L., He, X., Bell, S.M., Frew, A. (2024). Tree functional group mediates the effects of nutrient addition on soil nutrients and fungal communities beneath decomposing wood. Plant and Soil, 10.1007/s11104-024-06959-2