My name is Jing Zhang and I am a joint-training PhD student from China. My doctoral major is ecology and my research direction is ecosystem ecology. I am very happy to join the Microbial Ecology group to research the relationship between mycorrhizal and soil organic carbon under Håkan Wallander’s direction.
My PhD project is “Arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi resource and its contribution to soil organic carbon in subtropical forests in southern China”. Therefore, my research is focus on mycorrhizal biomass, diversity and glomalin-related soil protein, soil microbial community structure, and the contribution of arbuscular mycorrhizae to soil organic carbon sequestration in natural tropical forests and under climate change scenario. I have done these works in southern China during the first two year of my PhD period. Now I will study in LU for 18 month to research how to use isotope to study mycorrhizae under natural geothermal soil temperature gradients in Iceland. After finish my research here, I will go back to China and get my PhD degree.
