Yu Hong obtained her Master of Science in Ecology from the School of Life Science and Technology at Central South University of Forestry and Technology in July 2007. From September 2020 until now, she is pursuing a PhD in Ecology at the same school.
Since July 2007, she has been an associate researcher at the Institute of Agricultural Resources and Environment, Ningxia Academy of Agricultural Sciences.
Her research focuses on fertilizer application and its impact on the environment, agricultural environmental protection, and the control of agricultural non-point source pollution.
Prof. Wenhua Xiang is dean of the College of Life and Environmental Sciences at the Central South Forestry University of Science and Technology. He obtained a Master’s degree in forest ecology from the Central South Forestry University in 1991 and completed a PhD in Ecology at the Central South Forestry University in 2003. He was a visiting scholar at the School of Resources, Environment and Society at the Australian National University in 2002 and conducted soil nitrogen isotope research at the Institute of Ecosystems and Chemical Ecology at the University of Vienna, Austria, in 2010. His research topics mainly include forest biomass, fine root production, soil N cycle, and forest community structure.
Prof. Pifeng Lei is a professor at the College of Life and Environmental Sciences, Central South University of Forestry Science and Technology (CSUFT). He is also the vice dean of the College of Life Sciences and Technology. He received a Master’s from the Central South Forestry University in 2004 and earned a PhD in ecology from the University of Freiburg (Germany) in 2011. Additionally, he is executive director of the Hunan Ecological Society, director of the Forest Ecology Branch of the Chinese Society of Forestry, director of the Forest Resources Branch of the China Natural Resources Association, and director of the Hunan Forestry Society. His research interests mainly include relationships between biodiversity and ecosystem functioning, root growth and turnover, subsurface ecology, and aspects of carbon and phosphorus cycling.
Prof. Xi Fang currently serves as a professor and a doctoral supervisor at the College of Life and Environmental Sciences, Central South University of Forestry Science and Technology (CSUFT).
Her research topics mainly include the carbon cycle and carbon balance in subtropical forest ecosystems, and community structure, productivity, and carbon sink function, as well as nutrient transformation and cycling and soil fertility evolution in the forest vegetation restoration process.
