• Biogeochemical cycling of carbon and nutrients in forest ecosystems

• Stable isotope (¹⁵N and ¹³C) and nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) techniques

• Soil resource sustainability as influenced by forest management

• Fire ecology

Undergraduate:

  - Natural Resources Conservation and English Communication

  - Foundations of Conservaation

Graduate:

  - Forest Ecology

  - Forest Soil

• Responses of soil nitrification to fire-deposited charcoal in subtropical forest plantations. (Science Fund for Distinguished Young Scholars of Fujian Agriculture and Forestry University, China 2021-2024, No. xjq202106)

• Nitrogen use strategies of Chinese fir (Cunninghamia lanceolate) through forest stand development. (National Natural Science Foundation of China 2018-2020, No. 31700378)

• Plasticity in nitrogen uptake preference of different-aged Chinese fir (Cunninghamia lanceolate). (The Department of Science and Technology, Fujian province, China 2018-2021, No. 2018J05046)

• Soil nutrients availability in response to slash burning in a Pinus massoniana plantation of subtropical China. (The Department of Education, Fujian Province, China 2017-2020, No. JAT170189)

1. Pengyu Jiao, Thomas H. DeLuca, Kuan Wang, Xian Liu, Yalin Hu, Yuzhe Wang*. Fire-deposited charcoal enhances soil microbial biomass in a recently harvested subtropical plantation forest. Geoderma, 2024, 448: 116964. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.geoderma.2024.116964

2. Liutao Cheng, Bingtao Wang, Mengfan Ren, Yuzhe Wang, Yalin Hu, Xian Liu*. Biochar produced at high temperature mitigates N2O emission and promotes nitrogen retention in subtropical forest soils. GCB Bioenergy, 2024, 16: e13132. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/gcbb.13132

3. Xian Liu, Zhi Yao, Liutao Cheng, Ziyue Gao, Lihong Ren, Yuzhe Wang, Yuhui Liu, Yalin Hu*. Condensed tannin addition decreased soil nitrate but increased soil enzyme activities in subtropical forest soil. Journal of Soils and Sediments, 2024, 24: 537-551.

4. Wen Guo, Pengyu Jiao, Larry C, M Lopez, Zelong Chen, Lili Wei, Xian Liu, Yalin Hu, Yuzhe Wang*. Nitrogen and phosphorous dynamics with stand development of Pinus massoniana plantations in Southeast China. Frontiers in Plant Science, 2023, 14: 1139945. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpls.2023.1139945 

5. Lili Wei*, Hualong Hong, Ming Yang Bee, Yangyang Wu, Patrick Ndayambaje, Chongling Yan, Shuh-Ji Kao, Poh Seng Chee, Yuzhe Wang. Different adaptive strategies of three mangrove species to nutrient enrichment. Plant Ecology, 2022, 223: 1093-1102.

6. Yuzhe Wang, Pengyu Jiao, Wen Guo, Dajun Du, Yalin Hu, Xiang Tan*, Xian Liu*. Changes in bulk and rhizosphere soil microbial diversity and composition along an age gradient of Chinese fir (Cunninghamia lanceolate) plantations in subtropical China. Frontiers in Microbiology, 2022, 12:777862. https://doi.org/10.3389/fmicb.2021.777862 

7. Yuzhe Wang, Junqiang Zheng, Xian Liu, Qiang Yan, Yalin Hu*. Short-term impact of fire-deposited charcoal on soil microbial community abundance and composition in a subtropical plantation in China. Geoderma, 2020, 359. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.geoderma.2019.113992 

8. Yuzhe Wang, Xian Liu, Qiang Yan, Yalin Hu^*. Impacts of slash burning on soil carbon pools vary with slope position in a pine plantation in subtropical China. Catena, 2019, 183. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.catena.2019.104212 

9. Yuzhe Wang, Junqiang Zheng, Zhihong Xu^*, Kadum M. Abdullah, Qixing Zhou. Effects of changed litter inputs on soil labile carbon and nitrogen pools in a eucalyptus-dominated forest of southeast Queensland, Australia. Journal of Soils and Sediments, 2019, 19(4): 1661-1671.

10. Yuzhe Wang, Junqiang Zheng, Sue E. Boyd, Zhihong Xu^*, Qixing Zhou. Effects of litter quality and quantity on chemical changes during eucalyptus litter decomposition in subtropical Australia. Plant and Soil, 2019, 442(1-2): 65-78.

11. Junqiang Zheng, Yuzhe Wang, Nan Hui, Haibo Dong, Chengrong Chen, Shijie Han, Zhihong Xu*. Changes in CH₄ production during different stages of litter decomposition under inundation and N addition. Journal of Soils and Sediments, 2017, 17, 949-959.

12. Yuzhe Wang^*, Lianwei Zhang, Hong Yang, Guijun Yan, Zhihong Xu^*, Chengrong Chen, Dongke Zhang. Biochar nutrient availability rather than its water holding capacity governs the growth of both C3 and C4 plants, Journal of Soils and Sediments, 2016, 16(3): 801-810.

13. Yuzhe Wang, Zhihong Xu^*, Junqiang Zheng, M. Abdullah Kadum, Qixing Zhou^*. δ¹⁵N of soil nitrogen pools and their dynamics under decomposing litters in a suburban native forest subject to repeated prescribed burning in south-east Queensland, Australia, Journal of Soils and Sediments, 2015, 15(5): 1063-1074.

14. Yan Zhao^#, Yuzhe Wang^#, Zhihong Xu^*, Li Fu. Impacts of prescribed burning on soil greenhouse gas fluxes in a suburban native forest of south-eastern Queensland, Australia. Biogeosciences, 2015, 12(13): 6279-6290.

15. Yuzhe Wang, Zhihong Xu^*, Qixing Zhou^*. Impact of fire on soil gross nitrogen transformations in forest ecosystems, Journal of Soils and Sediments, 2014, 14(6): 1030-1040

16. Iman Tahmasbian, Shahla Hosseini Bai, Yuzhe Wang, Sue Boyd, Jun Zhou, Roya Esmaeilani, Zhihong Xu. Using laboratory-based hyperspectral imaging method to determine carbon functional group distributions in decomposing forest litterfall. Catena, 2018, 167: 18-27.

17. Junqiang Zheng, Yuzhe Wang, Chengrong Chen, Qi Jiang, Shijie Han^*, Zhihong Xu^*. Effects of inundation and stranding on leaf litter decomposition and chemical transformation. Aquatic Sciences, 2017, 80, 9. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00027-017-0561-0 

18. Junqiang Zheng, Zhihong Xu^*, Yuzhe Wang, Haibo Dong, Chengrong Chen, Shijie Han. Non-additive effects of mixing different sources of dissolved organic matter on its biodegradation. Soil Biology and Biochemistry, 2014, 78(78): 160-169.

19. Xiulan Yan, Xiaoyong Liao^*, Yuzhe Wang, Peng Li, Dong Ma. Environmental risk presented by arsenic contamination of building and facility surfaces in a coking plant. Bulletin of Environmental Contamination and Toxicology, 2012, 88(6): 915-921.