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Xiaoming Zou is affiliated with the University of Puerto Rico in the United States. Their research spans multiple domains, primarily focusing on agricultural and biological sciences, environmental science, and engineering. Within these fields, Xiaoming Zou addresses several subfields including soil science, electrical and electronic engineering, ecology, global and planetary change, and plant science.

The scientist's work covers a diverse range of topics. Key research areas include soil carbon and nitrogen dynamics, microgrid control and optimization, forest ecology and biodiversity studies, plant water relations and carbon dynamics, invertebrate taxonomy and ecology, and the interactions between mycorrhizal fungi and plants.

Xiaoming Zou has published frequently in journals such as Soil Biology and Biochemistry, SSRN Electronic Journal, Applied Soil Ecology, Geoderma, and Agricultural and Forest Meteorology.

  • Soil Biology and Biochemistry
  • SSRN Electronic Journal
  • Applied Soil Ecology
  • Geoderma
  • Agricultural and Forest Meteorology

The scholar has collaborated extensively with various coauthors. Frequent coauthors include Honghua Ruan, Han Y. H. Chen, Manuel Delgado-Baquerizo, Jiahui Liao, and Guobing Wang.

  • Honghua Ruan
  • Han Y. H. Chen
  • Manuel Delgado-Baquerizo
  • Jiahui Liao
  • Guobing Wang

Recent publications by Xiaoming Zou address diverse ecological and environmental topics. Selected recent works are:

  • Global meta-analysis reveals positive effects of biochar on soil microbial diversity, 2023, Geoderma
  • Coherent responses of terrestrial C:N stoichiometry to drought across plants, soil, and microorganisms in forests and grasslands, 2020, Agricultural and Forest Meteorology
  • A general pattern of trade-offs between ecosystem resistance and resilience to tropical cyclones, 2022, Science Advances
  • Tree roots exert greater influence on soil microbial necromass carbon than above-ground litter in subtropical natural and plantation forests, 2022, Soil Biology and Biochemistry
  • A Research Framework to Integrate Cross-Ecosystem Responses to Tropical Cyclones, 2020, BioScience

Best Publications

  • Global decomposition experiment shows soil animal impacts on decomposition are climate-dependent

    Diana H. Wall;Mark A. Bradford;Mark G. St. John;John A. Trofymow

  • Tropical forests of Xishuangbanna, China

    Min Cao;Xiaoming Zou;Xiaoming Zou;Matthew Warren;Hua Zhu

  • Estimating soil labile organic carbon and potential turnover rates using a sequential fumigation–incubation procedure

    XM Zou;XM Zou;HH Ruan;Y Fu;XD Yang

  • Labile carbon retention compensates for CO2 released by priming in forest soils

    Na Qiao;Na Qiao;Douglas Schaefer;Evgenia Blagodatskaya;Evgenia Blagodatskaya;Xiaoming Zou;Xiaoming Zou

  • Soil microarthropod contributions to decomposition dynamics : Tropical-temperate comparisons of a single substrate

    L. Heneghan;D. C. Coleman;X. Zou;D. A. Crossley

  • A new method for estimating gross phosphorus mineralization and immobilization rates in soils

    Xiaoming Zou;Dan Binkley;Kenneth G. Doxtader

  • Soil macrofauna and litter nutrients in three tropical tree plantations on a disturbed site in Puerto Rico

    Matthew W. Warren;Xiaoming Zou

  • EXOTIC EARTHWORMS ACCELERATE PLANT LITTER DECOMPOSITION IN A PUERTO RICAN PASTURE AND A WET FOREST

    Z. G. Liu;X. M. Zou

  • Variation in forest soil fungal diversity along a latitudinal gradient

    Ling-Ling Shi;Ling-Ling Shi;Peter E. Mortimer;Peter E. Mortimer;J. W. Ferry Slik;Xiao-Ming Zou;Xiao-Ming Zou

  • Soil microbial community composition under Eucalyptus plantations of different age in subtropical China.

    Yusong Cao;Shenglei Fu;Xiaoming Zou;Honglin Cao

  • Long-term influence of deforestation on tree species composition and litter dynamics of a tropical rain forest in Puerto Rico

    Xiaoming Zou;Carol P. Zucca;Robert B. Waide;William H. McDowell

  • Soil Microarthropod Community Structure and Litter Decomposition Dynamics: A Study of Tropical and Temperate Sites

    L Heneghan;D.C Coleman;X Zou;D.A Crossley

  • Invasion of exotic earthworms into ecosystems inhabited by native earthworms

    P. F. Hendrix;G. H. Baker;M. A. Callaham;G. A. Damoff

  • 16S rRNA gene analyses of bacterial community structures in the soils of evergreen broad-leaved forests in south-west China

    On Chim Chan;Xiaodong Yang;Yun Fu;Zhili Feng

  • Above- and belowground carbon inputs affect seasonal variations of soil microbial biomass in a subtropical monsoon forest of southwest China

    Wenting Feng;Xiaoming Zou;Xiaoming Zou;Douglas Schaefer

  • Effects of Dinitrogen-Fixing Trees on Phosphorus Biogeochemical Cycling in Contrasting Forests

    Xiaoming Zou;Dan Binkley;Bruce A. Caldwell

  • Comparing soil organic carbon dynamics in plantation and secondary forest in wet tropics in Puerto Rico

    Yiqing Li;Ming Xu;Xiaoming Zou;Xiaoming Zou;Peijun Shi

  • Plant carbon inputs and environmental factors strongly affect soil respiration in a subtropical forest of southwestern China

    Douglas A. Schaefer;Wenting Feng;Xiaoming Zou;Xiaoming Zou

  • CHANGES IN EARTHWORM DENSITY AND COMMUNITY STRUCTURE DURING SECONDARY SUCCESSION IN ABANDONED TROPICAL PASTURES

    Xiaoming Zou;Grizelle Gonzalez

  • Species effects on earthworm density in tropical tree plantations in Hawaii

    Xiaoming Zou

  • Earthworm abundance and functional group diversity regulate plant litter decay and soil organic carbon level: A global meta-analysis

    Wei Huang;Wei Huang;Grizelle González;Xiaoming Zou;Xiaoming Zou

Frequent Co-Authors

Grizelle González
Grizelle González US Forest Service
Shenglei Fu
Shenglei Fu Henan University
Weixin Zhang
Weixin Zhang Hefei University of Technology
Ming Xu
Ming Xu University of Michigan–Ann Arbor
Paul F. Hendrix
Paul F. Hendrix University of Georgia
Mac A. Callaham
Mac A. Callaham US Forest Service
Peter E. Mortimer
Peter E. Mortimer Kunming Institute of Botany
David C. Coleman
David C. Coleman University of Georgia
William H. McDowell
William H. McDowell University of New Hampshire
Evgenia Blagodatskaya
Evgenia Blagodatskaya Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research

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