1.采用¹³C和¹⁵N稳定性同位素技术研究森林生态系统C、N和水循环及其土壤微生物结构、过程和功能研究

2.全球气候变化（包括N沉降、降水格局等）对森林生态系统结构、过程和功能影响及反馈

3.水土流失地区、矿区废弃地等退化生态系统植被恢复与评价

博士研究生，《现代生态学进展专题讲座》

硕士研究生，《高级森林生态学》

本科生，《森林生态学》和《林业碳汇计量》

1.国家自然科学基金面上项目“昆虫食叶行为对亚热带典型常绿阔叶林叶凋落物分解及SOC周转的影响”（2021-2024），主持人

2.国家自然科学基金海峡联合基金重点项目“亚热带重要人工林凋落物化学结构对土壤有机碳周转和稳定性影响及其机制”（2019-2022），主持人

3.国家重点研发项目子课题“重点区域杉木速丰林丰产增效技术集成与示范”（2017-2020），主持人

4.国家自然基金项目面上项目“半干旱区不同类型生态系统土壤有机碳分解速度对干湿交替响应及其机制”（2013-2016），主持人

5.国家自然基金青年基金项目“科尔沁沙地农田造林对土壤有机碳库储量和稳定性影响及其机制”（2010-2013），主持人

6.福建省高等学校新世纪优秀人才支持计划“亚热带不同树种人工林地上和地下凋落物输入对土壤有机碳形成影响及机制”（2016-2019），主持人

7.福建省科技厅对外国际合作项目“杉木和闽楠苗木P养分高效承载技术研发与示范”（2017-2020），主持人

8.土壤与农业可持续发展国家重点实验室开放课题“杉木人工林凋落物转变为土壤有机质过程中微生物介导作用”（2016-2019），主持人

9.中国科学院青年创新促进会会员青年人才科研启动项目（2012-2015），主持人

10. 中国科学院院长优秀奖学金启动科研项目（2010-2012），主持人

1. Qingyan Qiu, Mengjiao Li, Abubakari Said Mgelwa, Ya-Lin Hu*. Divergent mineralization of exogenous organic substrates and their priming effects depending on soil types. Biology and Fertility of Soils, 2023, 59: 87-101

2.    Qigyan Qiu, Hao Wang, Qiufang Zhang, Abubakari Said Mgelwa, Biao Zhu, Yalin Hu*. Negative priming effect from tree leaf and root residues with contrasting chemical composition. Geoderma, 2022, 427: 116118

3.    Qingyan Qiu, S. Franz Bender, Abubakari Said Mgelwa, Ya-Lin Hu*, Arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi mitigate soil nitrogen and phosphorus losses: A meta-analysis. Science of the Total Environment, 2022, 807: 150857

4.    Tian Chen, Xiao‑Min Hong, Ya‑Lin Hu*, Qing‑Kui Wang, Li‑Zhong Yu, Xian‑Wei Wang. Effects of litter input on the balance of new and old soil organic carbon under natural forests along a climatic gradient in China. Biogeochemistry, 2022, 160:409-421

5.   Mbezele Junior Yannick Ngaba, Bol Roland, Ya-Lin Hu*. Stable isotopic signatures of carbon and nitrogen in soil aggregates following the conversion of natural forests to managed plantations in eastern China. Plant and Soil, 2021, 459:371–385.

6.   Jun Liu, Xiaoyu Liu, Qingni Song, Zacchaeus G. Compson, Carri J. LeRoy, Fenggang Luan, Hui Wang, Yalin Hu*, Qingpei Yang*. Synergistic effects: a common theme in mixed-species litter decomposition. New Phytologist, 2020, 227: 757–765

7.   Yuzhe Wang, Junqiang Zheng, Xian Liu, QiangYan, Ya-Lin Hu*. Short-term impact of fire-deposited charcoal on soil microbial community abundance and composition in a subtropical plantation in China. Geoderma, 2020, 359:113992

8.   Abubakari Said Mgelwa, Zabibu Kabalika, Ya-Lin Hu*. Increasing importance of nitrate-nitrogen and organic nitrogen concentrations in bulk and throughfall precipitationacross urban forests in southern China.Global Ecology and Conservation,2020, 22:e00983

9.   Abubakari Said Mgelwa, Ya-Lin Hu*, Jin-Fu Liu, Qingyan Qiu, Zheng Liu, Mbezele Junior Yannick Ngaba. Differential patterns of nitrogen and δ¹⁵N in soil and foliar along two urbanized rivers in a subtropical coastal city of southern China. Environmental Pollution,2019, 244:907-914

10.  Abubakari Said Mgelwaa, Ya-Lin Hu*,Wen-Bin Xu, Zhi-Qiang Ge, Tan-Wei Yu。Soil carbon and nitrogen availability are key determinants of soil microbial biomass and respiration in forests along urbanized rivers of southern China. Urban Forestry & Urban Greening,2019,43:126351

11.  Yuzhe Wang, Xian Liu, Qing Yan, Ya-Lin Hu*. Impacts of slash burning on soil carbon pools vary with slope position in a pine plantation in subtropical China.Catena, 2019,183:104212

12.  Mbezele Junior Yannick Ngaba, Ya-Lin Hu*, Roland Bol, Xiang-Qing Ma, Shao-Fei Jin, Abubakari Said Mgelwa.Effects of land use change from natural forest to plantation on C, N and natural abundance of ¹³C and ¹⁵N along a climate gradient in eastern China. Scientific Reports, 2019, 9:16516

13.  Jin-Tao Li, Jun-Jian Wang, De-Hui Zeng, Shan-Yu Zhao, Wan-Ling Huang, Xue-Kai Sun, Ya-Lin Hu*. 2018. The influence of drought intensity on soil respiration during and after multiple drying-rewetting cycles. Soil Biology and Biochemistry,127: 82-89

14.  Ya‐Lin Hu,Abubakari Said Mgelwa, Anand Narain Singh, De‐Hui Zeng*.Differential responses of the soil nutrient status, biomass production, and nutrient uptake for three plant species to organic amendments of placer gold mine‐tailing soils. Land Degradation & Development, 2018,29:2836-2845

15.  Hu YL*, Zeng DH, Ma XQ, Chang SX.2016. Root  rather than leaf litter input drives soil carbon sequestration after  afforestation on a marginal cropland. Forest Ecology and Management, 362: 38-45

16.  Hu YL*, Wang CY, Zeng DH. 2015. Soil amendment improves tree growth and soil carbon and nitrogen pools in Mongolian pine plantations on post-mining land in northeast China. Land Degradation & Development, 26(8): 807-812

17.  Hu YL, Hu Y, Zeng DH, Chang SX. 2015. Exponential fertilization and plant competition effects on the growth and N nutrition of trembling aspen and white spruce seedlings. Canadian Journal of Forest Research, 45: 78-86.

18.  Hu YL, Wu FP, Zeng DH and Chang SX. 2014.  Wheat straw and its biochar had contrasting effects on soil C and N cycling two growing seasons after addition to a Black Chernozemic soil planted to barley.  Biology and Fertility of Soils, 50 (8): 1291-1299

19.  Hu YL, Yan E, Choi W, Salifu F, Tan X, Chen ZC, Zeng DH and Chang SX. 2014. Soil nitrification and foliar delta N-15 declined with stand age in trembling aspen and jack pine forests in northern Alberta, Canada. Plant and Soil, 376 (1-2): 399-409

20.  Hu YL*, Zeng DH, Chang SX, Mao R. 2013. Dynamics of soil and root C stocks following afforestation of croplands with poplars in a semi-arid region in northeast China. Plant and Soil, 368:  619-627

21.  Hu YL, Jung K, Zeng DH, Chang SX. 2013.  Nitrogen- and sulfur-deposition-altered soil microbial community functions and enzyme activities in a boreal mixedwood forest in western Canada. Canadian Journal of Forest Research, 43: 777-784.

22.  Hu YL, Zeng DH, Liu XY, Zhang YL, Chen ZH, Wang ZQ. 2010. Responses of soil chemical and biological properties to nitrogen addition in a Dahurian larch plantation in Northeast China. Plant and Soil, 333: 81-92

23.  Zeng DH, Hu YL*, Chang SX, Fan ZP. 2009. Land cover change effects on soil chemical and biological properties after planting Mongolian pine (Pinus  sylvestris var. mongolica) in sandy lands in Keerqin, northeastern  China. Plant and Soil, 317:121-133

24.  Hu YL, Zeng DH, Fan ZP, Chen GS, Zhao Q, Pepper D. 2008. Changes in ecosystem carbon stocks following grassland afforestation on a semiarid sandy soil at southeastern Keerqin Sandy Lands, China. Journal of Arid Environments, 72: 2193-2200

25.  Hu YL, Wang S L, Zeng D H.2006. Effects of single Chinese fir and mixed leaf litters on soil chemical, microbial properties and soil enzyme activities. Plant and Soil, 282: 379-386.

26.  豆梦珂，张伟东，杨庆朋，陈龙池，刘晔嘉，胡亚林^*．杉木种植和磷添加对土壤微生物生物量及胞外酶活性的影响． 应用生态学报，2023，34( 3) :631－638

27.  陈甜, 元方慧, 张琳梅, 胡亚林*．不同化学性质叶凋落物添加对土壤有机碳矿化及激发效应的影响．应用生态学报，2022，33( 10) : 2602－2610

28.  张琳梅, 李梦娇, 元方慧, 胡亚林*．红壤和风沙土添加不同化学结构有机碳对外源碳去向及累积贡献的影响. 应用生态学报，2022，33( 10) : 2593－2601

29.  洪小敏, 魏强, 李梦娇, 余坦蔚, 严强, 胡亚林*. 亚热带典型森林地上和地下凋落物输入对土壤新老有机碳动态平衡的影响. 应用生态学报, 2021, 32(3): 825-835

30.   李梦娇, 陈甜, 洪小敏, 余坦蔚, 胡亚林*.不同化学结构外源碳添加对红壤和沙土有机碳矿化动态的影响. 生态学杂志, 2021, 40(6): 1609-1617

31.  余坦蔚, 葛志强, 严强, 李梦娇, 洪小敏, 陈甜, 胡亚林*. 杉木人工林自然衰老叶和绿色叶凋落物分解对间伐强度和施肥的响应. 生态学杂志, 2021, 40(6): 1589-1598

32.  葛志强,赵姗宇,林贵刚,孙学凯,胡亚林*.降水变化对科尔沁沙地樟子松人工林土壤氮矿化和淋溶的影响.生态学报,2020,40(18):6564-6572

33.  胡亚林，王承义，王泓泉，曾德慧. 2014.  大兴安岭古利库砂金矿废弃地土壤重金属含量特征.  生态学杂志, 33(10):  2796-2802

34.  胡亚林, 曾德慧, 姜涛. 2009. 科尔沁沙地退耕杨树人工林生态系统C、N、P储量和分配格局. 生态学报, 29(8):4206-4214

35.  白雪爽,  胡亚林*, 曾德慧, 蒋志荣. 2008.  半干旱沙区退耕还林对碳储量和分配格局的影响.  生态学杂志, 27(10):  1647-1652（通讯作者）

36.  胡亚林, 曾德慧, 范志平, 艾桂艳. 2007.  半干旱区沙质退化草地造林对土壤质量的影响.  应用生态学报, 18(11):  2391-2397.

37.  胡亚林, 曾德慧, 汪思龙, 董文亭. 2007. 管理措施对人工林土壤质量的影响. 生态学杂志, 26(11): 1697-1702.

38.  胡亚林, 汪思龙, 颜绍馗. 2006.  影响土壤微生物活性与群落结构因素研究进展.  土壤通报, 37(1):  170-176.

39.  胡亚林, 汪思龙, 颜绍馗, 高洪. 2005.  杉木人工林取代天然次生阔叶林对土壤生物活性的影响. 应用生态学报, 16(8): 1411-1416.

40.  胡亚林, 汪思龙, 黄宇, 于小军. 2005.  凋落物化学组成对土壤微生物学性状及土壤酶活性的影响. 生态学报, 25(10): 2662-2668.

1. 2023年，荣获梁希科学技术奖二等奖，排名第3人

2. 2020年，荣获辽宁省自然科学进步奖三等奖，排名第1人