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The Jiang Community Ecology Lab is thrilled to participate in the 2023 Georgia Tech Earth Day Celebration on Apr. 18th.  We were excited to share our knowledge of biodiversity and the ecological importance of freshwater protozoa and phytoplankton with the general public.

Our interactive booth features microscopes and microcosms containing various protist and phytoplankton species, providing visitors with a close-up look at these fascinating organisms and their critical roles in our ecosystems.

We are grateful to everyone who stopped by our booth and showed their support for our mission. Thank you for joining us in celebrating our planet Earth and its remarkable diversity!

Check it out at https://doi.org/10.1111/ele.14119

 

Our lab member Jiong Wang has successfully completed and defended her master’s thesis on November 19, 2021 entitled: “The impact of copper oxide nanoparticles on bacterial community assembly”.

Congratulations and we wish you all the best as you embark on a new chapter in your life!

 

Xian Yang recently published her work on the effects of forest fragment size on leaf litter decomposition and the mechanisms underlying the litter decomposition-island area relationship in CATENA and her collaborative work with our visiting scholar Dr. Weixing Liu entitled “Long-term nitrogen input alters plant and soil bacterial, but not fungal beta diversity in a semiarid grassland” in Global Change Biology.

Find her work at:

Yang, X., Y. Wang, Q. Xu, W. Liu, L. Liu, Y. Wu, L. Jiang, and J. Lu. 2021. Soil fertility underlies the positive relationship between island area and litter decomposition in a fragmented subtropical forest landscape. CATENA 204:105414. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.catena.2021.105414

Liu, W., Liu, L., Yang, X., Deng, M., Wang, Z., Wang, P., Yang, S., Li, P., Peng, Z., Yang, L. and Jiang, L. 2021. Long-term nitrogen input alters plant and soil bacterial, but not fungal beta diversity in a semiarid grassland. Glob Change Biol. Accepted Author Manuscript. https://doi.org/10.1111/gcb.15681

 

Qianna Xu also published her meta-analysis on the relationship between species diversity and temporal stability in Ecology Letters:

Xu, Q., X. Yang, Y. Yan, S. Wang, M. Loreau, and L. Jiang. 2021. Consistently positive effect of species diversity on ecosystem, but not population, temporal stability. Ecology Letters. https://doi.org/10.1111/ele.13777

Congratulations everyone!

On October 31, 2019, our lab member Xian Yang defended her dissertation and earned her doctoral degree.

Congrats Dr. Yang!