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  Xiaoyong Chen

  Full Professor
  708-534-4557 ext. 4557
  Office Location: F1308
  
  College: CAS

  
 
Programs:
Environmental Biology - Master of Science
Biology - Bachelor of Science
Division of Science Mathematics and Technology

  
  

FACULTY PROFILE

Dr. Chen earned a BSc in Forestry and MSc in Forest Ecology from Central South University of Forestry and Technology of China, and a PhD in Plant Ecophysiology from Charles Darwin University, Australia. He joined the faculty of Governors State University in 2006. Prior to that, Dr. Chen was a Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Toronto and University of British Columbia (Okanagan), Canada. His research focuses on how environmental change and human activity affect biodiversity, carbon storage and sequestration, soil CO2 flus, nutrient cycle, and ecosystem services in plant/forest ecosystems.

Dr. Chen teaches several courses for biology program, includes BIOL 1100/1101 Human Biology/Lab; BIOL 1500 General Biology; BIOL 4460/4461 Plant Physiology/Lab; BIOL 4990/4992 Undergraduate Research I/II; BIOL 4536/4537 Environmental Hydrology/Lab; BIOL 8860/8861 Ecosystem Ecology/Lab.

RECENT PUBLICATIONS IN PEER-REVIEWED JOURNALS

  • Cao, J., Yan,W., Farooq, T.H., Chen, X., Wang, J., Yuan, C., Qi, Y. & Khan, K.A. 2023. Ecological Stoichiometry of N and P across a Chronosequence of Chinese Fir Plantation Forests. Forests. 2023, 14, 1685.
  • Zou, D., Wu, Y., Peng, Y., Lei, J., Wang, G., Wang, J., Pan, Y., Yan, W. & Chen, X. 2023. Characterization and application of Fe-modified biochar alleviating Cr(VI) stress in pak choi seedling cultivated in Cr-polluted hydroponics. Chemosphere. 340 (2023) 139793.
  • Lei, J., Cao, Y., Wang, J., Chen, Y., Peng, Y., Shao, Q., Dan, Q., Xu, Y., Chen, X., Dang, P. & Yan, W. 2023. Soil nutrients, enzyme activities, and microbial communities along a chronosequence of Chinese fir plantations in subtropical China. Plants. 2023, 12, 1931. https:// doi.org/10.3390/plants12101931.
  • Wang, Z., Yan, W., Peng, Y., Wan, M., Farooq, T.H., Fan, W., Lei, J., Yuan, C., Wang, W., Qi, Y. & Chen, X. 2023. Biomass production and carbon stocks in poplar-crop agroforestry chronosequence in subtropical central China. Plants. 2023, 12, 2451. https://doi.org/10.3390/ plants12132451.
  • Wang, W., Peng, Y., Chen, Y., Lei, S., Wang, X., Farooq, T.H., Liang, X., Zhang, C., Yan, W. & Chen, X. 2023. Ecological stoichiometry and stock distribution of C, N, and P in three forest types in a Karst region of China. Plants. 2023, 12, 2503. https://doi.org/10.3390/plants12132503.
  • Zhang, X., Sun, W., Chen, X., Chen, L., Lv, Z., He, H. & Yan, W. 2023. Integrated physiological and transcriptomic analysis reveals mechanism of leaf in Phellodendron Chinense Schneid seedlings response to drought stress. Industrial Crops and Products. 198 (2023), 116679, ISSN 0926-6690.
  • Lei, J., Peng, Y., Cao, J., Li, R., Jia, Q., Shi, X., Zhou, T., Yan, W. & Chen, X. 2023. Changes in soil phosphorus fractions following the conversion of Chinese fir plantations to evergreen broad-leaved forests in subtropical China. Eur J Forest Res (2023). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10342-023-01561-0.
  • Jiang, M., Chen, Z., Wu, Y., Luo, J., Zhang, A., Chen, X., Zeng, Y., Wang, G., Wang, Y. & Zhao Y. 2023. Novel PbMoO4 loaded N-biochar composites with enhanced adsorption-photocatalytic removal of tetracycline. Optical Materials. 137 (2023) 113540.
  • Zhang, X., Li, Y., Lei, J., Li, Z., Tan, Q., Xie, L., Xiao, Y., Liu, T., Chen, X., Wen, Y., Xiang, W., Kuzyakov, Y. & Yan, W. 2023. Time-dependent effects of microplastics on soil bacteriome. Journal of Hazardous Materials. 447, 130762. 137 (2023) 113540.
  • Zheng, W., Wu, Q., Rao, C., Chen, X., Wang, E., Liang, X. & Yan, W. 2023. Characteristics and interactions of soil bacteria, phytocommunity and soil properties in rocky desertification ecosystems of Southwest China. Catena. 220 (2023) 106731.
  • Luo, J., Wu, Y., Jiang, M., Zhang, A., Chen, X., Zeng, Y., Wang, Y., Zhao, Y. & Wang, G. 2023. Novel ZnFe2O4/BC/ZnO photocatalyst for high-efficiency degradation of tetracycline under visible light irradiation. Chemosphere. 311(1), 2023, 137041.
  • Zheng, W., Hu, L., Chen, Z., Tang, J., Pan, Y., Yan, W., Chen, X., Peng, Y. & Chen, L. 2023. Effects of perfluorinated compounds homologues on chemical property, microbial composition, richness and diversity of urban forest soil. Ecotoxicology and Environmental Safety. 249 (2023) 114458.
  • Wang, J., Wang, H., Lin, Q., Wu, Y., He, X., Chen, X., Yan, W. & Zhao, J. 2023. Legume biological nitrogen fixation improves but chemical nitrogen fertilizer suppresses soil nematode communities in a Camellia oleifera plantation. Land Degradation & Development. 34(5), 1403-1414.
  • Yang, H., He, T., Wu, Y. Luo,J., Zhang, A., Chen, X., Zeng, Y., Wang, Y., Zhao, Y. & Wang G. 2022. Magnetically recyclable PbMoO4/BC/Fe3O4 composite for tetracycline removal: fabrication, performance, and mechanism. Journal of Materials Science. 57, 21853–21868.
  • Farooq, T.H., Chen, X., Shakoor, A., Rashid, M.H.U., Kumar, U., Alhomrani, M., Alamri, A.S., Ravindran, B. & Yan, W. 2022. Unraveling the importance of forest structure and composition driving soil microbial and enzymatic responses in the subtropical forest soils. Forests, 13, 1535. https://doi.org/10.3390/f13101535.
  • Hu, X., Chen, X., Tang, Y., Xu, Z., Zeng, Y., Wang, Y., Zhao, Y., Wu, Y. & Wang, G. 2022. Effects of g-C3N4 on bacterial community and tetracycline resistance genes in two typical sediments in tetracycline pollution remediation. Frontiers in Microbiology, 13:964401. doi.org/10.3389/fmicb.2022.964401.
  • Liu, T., Wu, X., Li, H., Ning, C., Li, Y., Zhang, X., He, J., Filimonenko, E., Chen, S., Chen, X., Gibson, D., Kuzyakov, Y. & Yan, W. 2022. Soil quality and r – K fungal communities in plantations after conversion from subtropical forest. Catena, 219:106584. doi.org/10.1016/j.catena.2022.106584.
  • Yan, W., Farooq, T.H., Chen, Y., Wang, W., Shabbir, R., Kumar, U., Riaz, M.U., Alotaibi, S.S., Peng, Y. & Chen, X. 2022. Soil nitrogen transformation process influenced by litterfall manipulation in two subtropical forest types. Front. Plant Sci. 13:923410. doi: 10.3389/fpls.2022.923410.
  • Yan, W., Farooq, T.H., Chen, Y., Wang, W., Shabbir, R., Kumar, U., Riaz, M.U., Alotaibi, S.S., Peng, Y. & Chen, X. 2022. Soil nitrogen transformation process influenced by litterfall manipulation in two subtropical forest types. Front. Plant Sci. 13:923410. doi: 10.3389/fpls.2022.923410.
  • Luo, J., Wu, Y., Chen, X., He, T., Zeng, Y., Wang, G., Wang, Y., Zhao, Y. & Chen, Z. 2022. Synergistic adsorption-photocatalytic activity using Z-scheme based magnetic ZnFe2O4/CuWO4 heterojunction for tetracycline removal. Journal of Alloys and Compounds, 910, 164954, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jallcom.2022.164954.
  • Tang, Y., Hu, X., Xu, Z., Chen, X., Zeng, Y., Wang, G., Wang, Y., Liu, G., Zhao, Y. & Wu, Y. 2022. The effects of g-C3N4/biochar and g-C3N4 on bacterial community in riverbed sediment. Environ Sci Pollut Res. (2022). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11356-022-21884-6.
  • Wang, Y., Chen, X., Zou, D., Lei, J., Wu, X., Wang, J. Yan, W. & Liang, X. 2022. Biomass, carbon storage and nutrient content of coarse woody debris in secondary-growth forests in southern Hunan. Acta Ecologica Sinica, 42(8): 3441-3448.
  • Farooq, T., Li, Z., Yan, W., Shakoor, A., Kumar, U., Shabbir, R., Peng, Y., Alotaibi, S., Wrobel, J., Kalaji, H. & Chen, X. 2022. Variations in litterfall dynamics, C:N:P stoichiometry and associated nutrient return in pure and mixed stands of Camphor tree and Masson pine forests in Subtropical China. Front. Environ. Sci. doi: 10.3389/fenvs.2022.903039.
  • Farooq, T., Li, Z., Yan, W., Shakoor, A., Kumar, U., Shabbir, R., Peng, Y., Alotaibi, S., Wrobel, J., Kalaji, H. & Chen, X. 2022. Variations in litterfall dynamics, C:N:P stoichiometry and associated nutrient return in pure and mixed stands of Camphor tree and Masson pine forests in Subtropical China. Front. Environ. Sci. doi: 10.3389/fenvs.2022.903039.
  • Li, Z., Yan, W., Liu, Y., Liang, X. & Chen, X. 2022. Simulation of soil CO2 efflux under different hydrothermal conditions based on general regression neural network. Agricultural and Forest Meteorology, 316 (2022) 108847.
  • Hu, X., Peng, K., Chen, Y., Chen, X., Liu, S., Zhao, Y., Wu, Y. & Xu, Z. 2022. Effect of g-C3N4 on biodiversity and structure of bacterial community in sediment of Xiangjiang River under tetracycline pressure. Ecotoxicology, https://doi.org/10.1007/s10646-022-02525-7.
  • Xiao, Y., Li, Y., Shi, Y., Li, Z., Zhang, X., Liu, T., Farooq, T., Pan, Y., Chen, X. & Yan, W. 2022. Combined toxicity of zinc oxide nanoparticles and cadmium inducing root damage in Phytolacca Americana L. Science of the Total Environment, 806(3), 151211. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2021.151211/.
  • Yan, W., Wang, W., Peng, Y. and Chen, X. 2022. Evaluation of biomass and carbon stocks in three pine forest types in karst area of southwestern China. Journal of Sustainable Forestry, 41(1):18-32.

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