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71
Citations
19407
World Ranking
1305
National Ranking
109

Overview

Hang-Wei Hu is affiliated with the University of Melbourne in Australia, focusing on research primarily within the Agricultural and Biological Sciences and Environmental Science fields. Their work encompasses several related subfields including Plant Science, Ecology, Soil Science, Molecular Biology, and Pollution.

Their research topics cover a range of environmental and biological processes, with particular attention to Microbial Community Ecology and Physiology, Soil Carbon and Nitrogen Dynamics, and interactions between Mycorrhizal Fungi and Plants. Additional topics include Legume Nitrogen Fixing Symbiosis, Gut Microbiota and Health, Wastewater Treatment and Nitrogen Removal, and the Environmental Impacts of Pharmaceuticals and Antibiotics.

Significant recent publications by Hang-Wei Hu include:

  • Multiple elements of soil biodiversity drive ecosystem functions across biomes, 2020, Nature Ecology & Evolution
  • Grazing and ecosystem service delivery in global drylands, 2022, Science
  • Speciation, transportation, and pathways of cadmium in soil-rice systems: A review on the environmental implications and remediation approaches for food safety, 2021, Environment International
  • Global homogenization of the structure and function in the soil microbiome of urban greenspaces, 2021, Science Advances
  • Soil bacterial taxonomic diversity is critical to maintaining the plant productivity, 2020, Environment International

Hang-Wei Hu frequently collaborates with several researchers, notably Ji-Zheng He, Qing-Lin Chen, Yongxin Lin, Yong-Guan Zhu, and Bao-Anh Thi Nguyen.

The scientist has published extensively in a variety of venues, including:

  • Faculty Opinions - Post-Publication Peer Review of the Biomedical Literature
  • Soil Biology and Biochemistry
  • The Science of The Total Environment
  • Journal of Sustainable Agriculture and Environment
  • SSRN Electronic Journal

Best Publications

  • An overview of microplastic and nanoplastic pollution in agroecosystems.

    Ee Ling Ng;Esperanza Huerta Lwanga;Simon M. Eldridge;Priscilla Johnston

  • Multiple elements of soil biodiversity drive ecosystem functions across biomes.

    Manuel Delgado-Baquerizo;Manuel Delgado-Baquerizo;Manuel Delgado-Baquerizo;Peter B. Reich;Peter B. Reich;Chanda Trivedi;David J. Eldridge

  • Ammonia-oxidizing archaea have more important role than ammonia-oxidizing bacteria in ammonia oxidation of strongly acidic soils

    Li-Mei Zhang;Hang-Wei Hu;Ju-Pei Shen;Ji-Zheng He

  • Microbial regulation of terrestrial nitrous oxide formation: understanding the biological pathways for prediction of emission rates

    Hang-Wei Hu;Deli Chen;Ji-Zheng He;Ji-Zheng He

  • Microbial regulation of the soil carbon cycle: evidence from gene-enzyme relationships.

    Pankaj Trivedi;Manuel Delgado-Baquerizo;Chanda Trivedi;Hangwei Hu

  • Rare microbial taxa as the major drivers of ecosystem multifunctionality in long-term fertilized soils

    Qing-Lin Chen;Qing-Lin Chen;Jing Ding;Dong Zhu;Hang-Wei Hu

  • Transfer of antibiotic resistance from manure-amended soils to vegetable microbiomes

    Yu-Jing Zhang;Hang-Wei Hu;Qing-Lin Chen;Brajesh K Singh

  • Grazing and ecosystem service delivery in global drylands

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  • Current insights into the autotrophic thaumarchaeal ammonia oxidation in acidic soils

    Ji-Zheng He;Hang-Wei Hu;Li-Mei Zhang

  • Long-Term Nickel Contamination Increases the Occurrence of Antibiotic Resistance Genes in Agricultural Soils.

    Hang-Wei Hu;Jun-Tao Wang;Jing Li;Xiu-Zhen Shi

  • Plant diversity represents the prevalent determinant of soil fungal community structure across temperate grasslands in northern China

    Yong-Liang Chen;Tian-Le Xu;Stavros D. Veresoglou;Hang-Wei Hu;Hang-Wei Hu

  • Comammox—a newly discovered nitrification process in the terrestrial nitrogen cycle

    Hang-Wei Hu;Hang-Wei Hu;Ji-Zheng He

  • Field‐based evidence for copper contamination induced changes of antibiotic resistance in agricultural soils

    Hang-Wei Hu;Jun-Tao Wang;Jing Li;Jun-Jian Li

  • pH-dependent distribution of soil ammonia oxidizers across a large geographical scale as revealed by high-throughput pyrosequencing

    Hang-Wei Hu;Li-Mei Zhang;Yu Dai;Hong-Jie Di

  • Aerobic composting reduces antibiotic resistance genes in cattle manure and the resistome dissemination in agricultural soils.

    Min Gou;Hang-Wei Hu;Yu-Jing Zhang;Jun-Tao Wang

  • Speciation, transportation, and pathways of cadmium in soil-rice systems: A review on the environmental implications and remediation approaches for food safety.

    Zhanming Li;Yi Liang;Hangwei Hu;Sabry M. Shaheen

  • Antibiotic resistance genes and associated bacterial communities in agricultural soils amended with different sources of animal manures

    Xue-Mei Han;Hang-Wei Hu;Qing-Lin Chen;Li-Yuan Yang

  • Comammox Nitrospira play an active role in nitrification of agricultural soils amended with nitrogen fertilizers

    Chaoyu Li;Hang-Wei Hu;Qing-Lin Chen;Deli Chen

  • Global homogenization of the structure and function in the soil microbiome of urban greenspaces

    Manuel Delgado-Baquerizo;David J. Eldridge;Yu-Rong Liu;Blessing Sokoya

  • Temporal succession of soil antibiotic resistance genes following application of swine, cattle and poultry manures spiked with or without antibiotics.

    Yu-Jing Zhang;Hang-Wei Hu;Min Gou;Jun-Tao Wang

  • Altitudinal distribution patterns of soil bacterial and archaeal communities along mt. Shegyla on the Tibetan Plateau.

    Jun-Tao Wang;Peng Cao;Hang-Wei Hu;Jing Li

  • New insights into the role of microbial community composition in driving soil respiration rates

    Yu-Rong Liu;Manuel Delgado-Baquerizo;Manuel Delgado-Baquerizo;Jun-Tao Wang;Hang-Wei Hu

Frequent Co-Authors

Ji-Zheng He
Ji-Zheng He University of Melbourne
Deli Chen
Deli Chen University of Melbourne
Li-Mei Zhang
Li-Mei Zhang Chinese Academy of Sciences
Manuel Delgado-Baquerizo
Manuel Delgado-Baquerizo Spanish National Research Council
Ju-Pei Shen
Ju-Pei Shen Chinese Academy of Sciences
Brajesh K. Singh
Brajesh K. Singh Western Sydney University
Yong-Guan Zhu
Yong-Guan Zhu Chinese Academy of Sciences
Pankaj Trivedi
Pankaj Trivedi Colorado State University
Baodong Chen
Baodong Chen Chinese Academy of Sciences
Peter B. Reich
Peter B. Reich University of Minnesota

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