Xiaobo Li

South China Botanical Garden, Chinese Academy of Sciences
Xingke Road 723#, Tianhe District
Guangzhou, 510650
China

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Research Interests

My current research focuses primarily on the effects of agricultural land use on soil nitrogen cycling, particularly on nitrate microbial assimilation. 

Education

2010.09 - 2013.07  Ph.D. Environmental Science, Institute of Soil Science, Chinese Academy of Sciences

Dissertation: Denitrification in the Wetland and Flooded Rice-paddy in Eastern China

2007.09 - 2010.07  M.S. Soil Science, Institute of Applied Ecology, Chinese Academy of Sciences

2003.09 - 2007.07  B.A. Agricultural Resources and the Environment, College of Land and Environment, Shenyang Agricultural University

Work Experience

Assistant Professor, South China Botanical Garden, Chinese Academy of Sciences, 2013-present

Selected Publications

Xiaobo Li, Longlong Xia, Xiaoyuan Yan*. Application of membrane inlet mass spectrometry to directly quantify denitrification in flooded rice paddy soil. Biology and Fertility of Soils, 50(6): 891-900, 2014

Xiaobo Li, Yongqiu Xia, Yuefei Li, Todd M. Kana, Sonoko D. Kimura, Masanori Saito, Xiaoyuan Yan*. Sediment denitrification in waterways in a rice-paddy-dominated watershed in eastern China. Journal of Soils and Sediments, 13(4): 783-792, 2013

Hongbo He, Xiaobo Li, Wei Zhang, Xudong Zhang*. Differentiating the dynamics of native and newly immobilized amino sugars in soil frequently amended with inorganic nitrogen and glucose. European Journal of Soil Science, 62(1): 144-151, 2011

Xiaobo Li, Wei Zhang, Qiuxiang Tian, Huijie Lu, Xueli Ding, Hongbo He*, Xudong Zhang*,  Transformation of urea to amino sugar and its effect on dynamics of soil amino sugar pool. Acta Pedologica Sinica, 48(6): 1189-1195, 2011 (In Chinese)