• Soil carbon cycling
• Soil virus ecology
• Plastic film mulching in agriculture

While the physical theory of sorption is well understood, detailed research of phage sorption in real soils and its ecological implications is lack. We aim to investigate whether surface properties of phage particles and soil components predict phage sorption in vitro and in situ.

Dechang Ji, Liwei Ge, Lukas Van Zwieten, Tingting An, Shuangyi Li, Yakov Kuzyakov, Fan Ding, Jingkuan Wang. 2024.
Contrasting effects of maize straw and its biochar on aggregation and soil organic matter stabilization. Plant and Soil, 495, 221-233.,

Zhaojie Jia, Dechang Ji, Mingxuan Li, Huadong Zang, Zhengyu Wang, Shitong Li, Jie Lu, Jingkuan Wang, Changrong Yan, Fan Ding. 2023.
Aboveground litter input is not important for soil microbes during the non-growing season. Journal of Soils and Sediments, 23, 1654-1661.

Dechang Ji, Fan Ding, FA Dijkstra, Zhaojie Jia, Shuangyi Li, Jingkuan Wang. 2022.
Crop residue decomposition and nutrient release are independently affected by nitrogen fertilization, plastic film mulching, and residue type. European Journal of Agronomy, 138, 126535.

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