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YU Jun
Title:Associate Professor
Subject:taxonomy of arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi and soil microbial ecology
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Professional experience

12/2013-present: Associate Professor, Institute of Applied Ecology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shenyang, China

02/2012-11/2013: Assistant Professor, Institute of Applied Ecology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shenyang, China

02/2010-12/2011: Postdoctoral Researcher, the Mina & Everard Goodman Faculty of Life Sciences, Bar-Ilan University, Ramat-Gan, Israel

Education

2003-2008:  Ph.D., Crop Cultivation

           China Agricultural University, Beijing, China

1999-2003:  B.S., Agronomy

           China Agricultural University, Beijing, China

  • Taxonomy of arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi, the recovery of soil microbial communities during the revegetation of desertified grassland in drylands, and the formation, composition and ecological functions of biological soil crusts (biocrusts).

  • 1)       Yu J.*, Xue Z., He X., Liu C., Steinberger Y., 2017. Shifts in composition and diversity of arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi and glomalin contents during revegetation of desertified semiarid grassland. Applied Soil Ecology, 115: 60-67.

    2)       Yu J., Unc A., Zhang X., Steinberger Y.*, 2016. Responses of the soil microbial catabolic profile and diversity to vegetation rehabilitation in degraded semiarid grassland. Applied Soil Ecology, 101:124-131.

    3)       Yu J.*, Guan P., Zhang X., Ma N., Steinberger Y., 2016. Biocrusts beneath replanted shrubs account for the enrichment of macro and micronutrients in semi-arid sandy land. Journal of Arid Environments, 128:1-7.

    4)       Yu J., Glazer N., Steinberger Y.*, 2014. Carbon utilization, microbial biomass, and respiration in biological soil crusts in the Negev Desert. Biology and Fertility of Soils, 50:285-293.

    5)       Yu J., Grishkan I., Steinberger Y.*, 2013. Microfungal-community diversity in Zygophyllum dumosum and Hammada scoparia root zones in the northern Negev Desert. Journal of Basic Microbiology, 53:390-400.

    6)       Yu J., Kidron G.J., Pen-Mouratov S., Wasserstrom H., Barness G., Steinberger Y.*, 2012. Do development stages of biological soil crusts determine activity and functional diversity in a sand-dune ecosystem? Soil Biology & Biochemistry, 51: 66-72.

    7)       Yu J. and Steinberger Y.*, 2012. Soil microbial metabolic profiles in two geomorphological units in a semistable sand-dune ecosystem. Soil Biology & Biochemistry, 45:71-78.

    8)       Yu J. and Steinberger Y.*, 2012. Vertical distribution of soil microbial biomass and its association with shrubs from the Negev Desert. Journal of Arid Environments, 78:110-118.

    9)       Yu J., Grishkan I., Sherman C., Steinberger Y.*, 2012. Spatiotemporal variability of cultivable microfungal communities inhabiting playa in the western Negev Desert, Israel. Journal of Arid Environments, 81:9-17.

    10)   Yu J. and Steinberger Y.*, 2012. Spatiotemporal changes in abiotic properties, microbial CO2 evolution, and biomass in playa and crust-covered interdune soils in a sand-dune desert ecosystem. European Journal of Soil Biology, 50:7-14.

    11)   Yu J. and Steinberger Y.*, 2011. Vertical distribution of microbial community functionality under the canopies of Zygophyllum dumosum and Hammada scoparia in the Negev Desert, Israel. Microbial Ecology, 62:218-227.

    12)   Yan J.a, Yu J.a, Tao G.C., Vos J., Bouman B.A.M., Xie G.H.*, Meinke H., 2010. Yield formation and tillering dynamics of direct-seeded rice in flooded and nonflooded soils in the Huai River Basin of China. Field Crops Research, 116: 252-259. (a co-first author)

  • 2016       “Visiting Scholar” Scholarship under the State Scholarship Fund (China)

    2014-2016  Effects of artificial vegetation liters on composition and catabolic diversity of soil microbial communities in sandy regions. National Natural Science Foundation of China, ￥240,000, PI