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I'm interested in plant-soil-microorganisms and everything in-between. Plant-microbial interactions in the rhizosphere are pivotal in governing key ecosystem processes such as primary productivity, decomposition of SOM, and nutrient cycling. Such interactions are widespread in terrestrial ecosystems at the global scale and having a holistic understanding of the underlying mechanisms will help in developing sustainable systems and mitigating climate change. I am using various stable and radioactive isotopes and classical ecological approaches to understand such mechanisms.
- Increase Agricultural Nutrient Use Efficiency by Optimizing Plant-Soil-Microorganism Interactions (link)
- Priming Effects in the Rhizosphere of Maize: Mechanisms and Field Relevance (link)
- Impact of Microstegium vimineum Invasion on SOM decomposition in Temperate Forests (link)
- Rhizosphere biogeochemistry
- Root traits
- Plant-soil feedbacks effects
- Intercropping and crop rotation
- Rhizosphere priming effects
- Soil organic matter decomposition and flux partitioning
- Use of stable and radioactive isotopes(14C, 33P, 15N, δ13C)
