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——Good news: On April 12, 2022, the Research.com website published the first edition of Top Plant Science and Agronomy Scientists in China. Among them, 111 scholars in the list of top scientists in Plant Science and Agronomy in China were selected, and the team PI Professor Feng Zhaozhong ranked in the TOP50, which is the only scientist selected by Nanjing University of Information Science and Technology in this field.

——Professor Feng Zhaozhong's research group published a research paper online in Nature Food, a sub-journal of Nature, which title is Ozone pollution threatens the production of major staple crops in East Asia.

——Professor Feng Zhaozhong's research group published a research paper in Journal of Environmental Sciences, which title is Biogenic volatile organic compound emissions from leaves and fruits of apple and peach trees during fruit development, and listed as a cover article on volume 108 year 2021.

——Science reported on August 25 on its album Biodiversity Conservation in a Changing Environment, published at Science Advances. The team's research paper Ozone affects plant, insect, and soil microbial communities: A threat to terrestrial ecosystems and biodiversity was reported.

——Good news: The results of the 2021 National Natural Science Foundation of China project review were announced, and the team was approved for 5 projects (1 key project, 1 surface project, and 3 youth science funds), with a direct funding of 4.2 million yuan.

Research Group Introduction

Brief

The research group “Ecological Effects of Environmental Change (EEEC)” investigates the effects of air pollution and climate change (surface ozone, nitrogen deposition, particulate matter, drought, warming), and their multi-factor interaction on the structure, process and function of cropland and/or forest ecosystem using several main experimental means such as open top chambers and O3-FACE platforms.

Our Work

1. Effects of atmospheric environmental change (e.g. increasing surface O3, enhanced N deposition and global warming, etc.) on C and N cycles and water use, as well as its combined mechanism in cropland and/or forest ecosystem using in situ filed observations, open top chambers and O3-FACE;
2. Feedback of urban plants to air pollutants;
3. Meta-analysis on plants and soil response to global environmental change.

Field Site

This site was built 2020, locates in Yangzhou city, Jiangsu province. As a field experiment and demonstration base, it mainly carries out with original site field observation, control experiments for environment change(OTCs, O3-FACE platform), now has:
1. World top Free-Air Controlled Environment system
2. Open Top Chamber(OTC)
3. DEnuder for Long-Term Atmospheric sampling(DELTA) and more advanced experiment platforms