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Editorial Board

Editorial Board

  • Editor-in-Chief

    • Prof.  Stefan Scheu

      J.F. Blumenbach Institute of Zoology and Anthropology, University of Göttingen, Göttingen, Germany.

      Research Interests:
      soil ecology; soil food webs; evolutionary ecology.
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  • Editorial Board Members

    • Prof.  Xin Sun

      Institute of Urban Environment, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Xiamen, China.

      Research Interests:
      how global change factors influence the soil biodiversity and explore the underlying mechanisms.
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    • Dr.  Stefan Geisen

      Laboratory of Nematology, Wageningen University, Wageningen, The Netherlands.

      Research Interests:
      soil biodiversity interactions; particularly between microbiome predators (protists and nematodes) and their bacterial and fungal prey.
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    • Prof.  Marcel van der Heijden

      Department of Plant and Microbial Biology, University of Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland.

      Research Interests:
      ecology; mycorrhizas; agricultural; sustainability; soil biodiversity; plant-soil-interactions.
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    • Prof.  Anton Potapov

      Soil Zoology Division, Senckenberg Museum of Natural History Gorlitz, Görlitz, Germany.

      Research Interests:
      soil food webs; soil biodiversity; ecosystem functioning; energy flux; stable isotopes; springtails.
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    • Prof.  Yakov Kuzyakov

      • 1. Department of Soil Science of Temperate Ecosystems, Department of Agricultural Soil Science, University of Goettingen, Göttingen, Germany
      • 2. Peoples Friendship University of Russia (RUDN University), Moscow, Russia.
      Research Interests:
      soil science; soil biogeochemistry; isotopes; land use; rhizosphere.
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    • Prof.  Rong Li

      College of Resources and Environmental Sciences, Nanjing Agricultural University, Nanjing, China.

      Research Interests:
      soil microbial ecology; microbial-plant interaction mechanisms.
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    • Prof.  Manqiang Liu

      College of Resources and Environmental Sciences, Nanjing Agricultural University, Nanjing, China.

      Research Interests:
      soil fertility; agroecology; soil biology; environmental impact; assessment; sustainable agriculture; organic farming; organic agriculture; soil science; ecology; zoology.
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    • Prof.  Cindy Prescott

      Department of Forest and Conservation Sciences, The University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada.

      Research Interests:
      nutrient cycling; soil ecology; forest nutrition; ecological restoration.
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    • Prof.  Johannes Rousk

      Department of Biology, Ecology Building, Lund University, Lund, Sweden.

      Research Interests:
      microbial ecology; soil ecology; biogeochemistry; microbial growth efficiency; fungal growth; bacterial growth; microbial carbon budget.
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    • Prof.  Thibaud Decaens

      CEFE, University of Montpellier, CNRS, EPHE, IRD, Montpellier, France.

      Research Interests:
      community ecology; macro-ecology; biogeography; soil ecology; terrestrial invertebrates.
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    • Prof.  Marta Novo

      Department of Biodiversity, Ecology and Evolution, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Madrid, Spain.

      Research Interests:
      evolution; genetics; genomics; conservation biology; sequencing; invasive species; ecology and evolution; ecology; soil; biodiversity.
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    • Prof.  Yanjiang Cai

      College of Environment and Resources, College of Carbon Neutrality, Zhejiang Agriculture and Forestry University, Hangzhou, China.

      Research Interests:
      soil carbon cycling; soil nitrogen cycling; soil microbial ecology; soil ecology; greenhouse gas mitigation; soil health.
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    • Prof.  Uffe Nielsen

      Hawkesbury Institute for the Environment, Western Sydney University, Penrith, Australia.

      Research Interests:
      soil ecology.
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    • Prof.  Fuzhong Wu

      School of Geographical Sciences, Fujian Normal University, Fuzhou, China.

      Research Interests:
      carbon; climate change; soil; environment; carbon sequestration; litter decomposition; soil ecology.
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    • Dr.  Frank Hagedorn

      Forest Soils and Biogeochemistry, Swiss Federal Institute for Forest, Snow and Landscape Research (WSL), Birmensdorf, Switzerland.

      Research Interests:
      turnover and stability of soil organic matter; carbon and nutrient cycling under a changing climate and land-use; transport and transformation of nitrogen in forest soils and catchments; stable isotopes 13c and 15n; controls on dissolved organic carbon and nitrogen; treeline dynamics.
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    • Dr.  Stephan Hättenschwiler

      CEFE, Univ Montpellier, CNRS, EPHE, IRD, Montpellier, France.

      Research Interests:
      plant-soil interactions; litter decomposition; and nutrient cycling.
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    • Dr.  Yuting Liang

      State Key Laboratory of Soil and Sustainable Agriculture, Institute of Soil Science, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Nanjing, China.

      Research Interests:
      soil biology for cultivated land conservation; crop-microbe interaction for stress tolerance.
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    • Dr.  Nataliya Bilyera

      Geo-Biosphere Interactions, Department of Geosciences, University of Tübingen, Tübingen, Germany.

      Research Interests:
      microbial transformation of nutrients; soil-plant-microbial interactions in the rhizosphere; soil enzymology and enzyme imaging.
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    • Dr.  Ekatarina Filimonenko

      Sirius University of Science and Technology, Sirius Federal Area, Olympiysky pr., 1, Russia.

      Research Interests:
      geochemistry of mercury; land use change; differential thermal analysis; soil organic carbon; soil science; wildfires.
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    • Dr.  Mengting Maggie Yuan

      Pacific Biosciences Research Center, University of Hawai’i at Mānoa, Honolulu, HI 96822, USA.

      Research Interests:
      climate change; soil analysis; biogeochemical cycling; soil respiration; ecosystem functioning; nutrient cycling; soil ecology; carbon cycle; methane production; sequencing.
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    • Dr.  Kate Buckeridge

      Luxembourg Institute of Science and Technology, Belvaux 4362, Luxembourg.

      Research Interests:
      soil microbial ecology; terrestrial biogeochemistry (carbon and nutrient cycling); stable isotope ecology; soil carbon sequestration.
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    • Prof.  A. Stuart Grandy

      Center of Soil Biogeochemistry and Microbial Ecology, Department of Natural Resources and the Environment, University of New Hampshire, Durham, NH 03824, USA.

      Research Interests:
      agricultural soil science; biogeochemistry; agroecology
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