Mao Xiali
Brief Education and Work Background
Zhejiang University, Doctor of Soil Science, Sep 2015-Jun 2020
Zhejiang University, Postdoctoral Research, Jul 2020-Jun 2024
Zhejiang University of Science&Technology , Environment engineering, Jul 2024-Present
Email: maoxiali1215@126.com
Main Research Interests
Dr. Mao’s research is focused on soil organic carbon dynamics and its influencing mechanisms across natural ecosystems and farmland ecosystems. She mainly carries out work in three aspects: the composition and stabilization characteristics of soil organic carbon pools through physical and chemical methods and characterization techniques, the temperature sensitivity and underlying mechanism of soil organic carbon decomposition, and the microbial mechanism of coupled transformation of soil carbon, nitrogen and phosphorus, and its relationship with the change of soil carbon pools by applying isotope techniques. Dr. Mao also masters in the detection techniques of soil biomarkers (aliphatic compounds, lignin phenols and amino sugars).
Main Research Projects
1. National Natural Science Foundation of China Youth Fund Project, No. 32401378. The impacts of nitrogen forms and temperature on soil stable organic carbon formation and its microbial mechanisms, 2025/01-2027/12. Under study, Host.
2. National Natural Science Foundation of China, No. 32171639. Responses of organic carbon in different soil layer depths to climate change and the underlying mechanisms, 2022/01-2025/12. Under study, Participant.
Main Published Papers
1. Mao X L , Sun T, Zhu L J, et al. Microbial adaption to soil stoichiometric imbalances regulated the size of mineral-associated organic carbon pool under continuous organic amendments. Geoderma. 2024, 405, 116883.
2. Mao X L , Sun T, Liu X, et al. Disentangle the drivers of soil organic carbon mineralization and their temperature sensitivity in both topsoil and subsoil: Implication of thermal stability
and chemical composition. Ecological Indicators. 2024, 158, 111399.
3. Mao X L , Zheng J Y, Yu W, et al. Climate-induced shifts in composition and protection regulate temperature sensitivity of carbon decomposition through soil profile. Soil Biology
and Biochemistry. 2022, 172, 108743.
4. Mao X L, Zwieten L V, Zhang M K, et al. Soil parent material controls organic matter stocks and retention patterns in subtropical China. Journal of Soils and Sediments. 2020, 20(5): 2426-2438.
5. Mao X L , Xu X L, Lu K P, et al. Effect of 17 years of organic and inorganic fertilizer applications on soil phosphorus dynamics in a rice–wheat rotation cropping system in eastern China. Journal of Soils and Sediments. 2015, 15, 1889–1899.
6. Sun T, Mao X L , Han K F, et al. Nitrogen addition increased soil particulate organic carbon via plant carbon input whereas reduced mineral- associated organic carbon through attenuating mineral protection in agroecosystem. Science of the Total Environment. 2023, 899, 165705.
7. Guo X W, Mao X L , Yu W, et al. A field incubation approach to evaluate the depth dependence of soil biogeochemical responses to climate change. Global change biology. 2023, 29, 909–920.
8. Sun T, Mao X L , Ma Q X, et al. Response of rice yield to organic amendments was regulated by soil chemical properties, microbial functional genes and bacterial community rather than fungal community. Applied Soil Ecology. 2023, 188, 104923.
9. Xu X L, Mao X L , Zwieten L V, et al. Wetting-drying cycles during a rice-wheat crop rotation rapidly (im)mobilize recalcitrant soil phosphorus. Journal of Soils and Sediments.
2020, 20, 3921-3930.
