Ecology
The Department has 17 faculty and staff members including five full professors, ten associate professors and two lecturers. Among which, there are four Ph.D students’ supervisors and thirteen master students’ tutors, and there are 16 faculties who have obtained Ph.D degrees.
Regarding student education and training, the Department was authorized to confer doctoral degree (since 1998), master degree (since 1986) and bachelor degree (since 2003) in ecology. Currently there are about 230 undergraduate and 60 graduate students in the Department. The Department has an excellent teaching platform and many related achievements. Up to now, more than ten textbooks have been published, including Agricultural Ecology, General Ecology, Ecological Planning, etc. Among which, Agroecology course was authorized as the National-level and Provincial-level Excellent Courseware in 2006, National-level Bilingual Course in 2008，and the department faculty was conferred as “National Ecology Teaching Group” in 2007.
Regarding research sector, the Department has formed five research fields and teams including Ecological control of invasive organisms, Ecological safety of GMO, Environmental toxicity and biological remediation, Crop stress ecology, Ecological planning and eco-agriculture. There are one experiment farm at campus and three sites outside the campus for teaching and scientific research. Ecological laboratory platform was authorized as the Key Laboratory of Tropical Agro-environment, Ministry of Agriculture of China in 2012.
During “12th Five-year plan” period, the Department has been committed more than 30 scientific projects, including National Basic Research Program of China (973 program), Key Projects in the National Science & Technology Pillar Program, National Natural Science Foundation etc. The total research fund obtained was almost 30 million RMB. More than 150 academic papers have been published, among which 40 papers were indexed by SCI, ISTP and EI.
The Department is open to the outside world. It has accepted several visitors, guest professors and graduate students from Europe,America, Asia and Africa and withinChina. And it has sponsored several international, national and provincial conferences, meetings and trainings on agroecology, eco-agriculture, ecological models and ecotourism during the recent years.
The Department welcomes you for teaching and research, study and training, visiting and academic meeting, and any other cooperation! For more information, please feel free to contact us!
Principle Investigator
Jian-Wu WANG
Research field：
1.Nnon-target effects of genetic modified crops;
2.Optimizing ecological agricultural models in tropical and subtropical region in southern China, especially the cereals and legume intercropping systems.
Publications:
[1] Yinghua Shu,Yan Du, Jin Chen, Jiaxi Wei,Jianwu Wang*. Responses of the cutworm Spodoptera litura (Lepidoptera: Noctuidae) to two Bt corn hybrids expressing Cry1Ab.Scientific Report, 2017, 7, 41577.
[2] Yinghua Shu, Yanyan Zhang, Huilan Zeng, Yahui Zhang, Jianwu Wang*. Effects of Cry1Ab Bt maize straw return on bacterial community of earthworm Eisenia fetida. Chemosphere, 2017, 173, 1-13.
[3] Luo, S., Yu, L., Liu, Y., Zhang, Y., Yang, W., Li, Z., Wang JW(*).Effects of reduced nitrogen input on productivity and N2O emissions in a sugarcane/soybean intercropping system. European Journal of Agronomy, 2016, 81:78-85.
[4] Wang J W .Chapter3. Effects of Reduced Nitrogen Application Rates and Soybean Intercropping on Sugarcane Fields in Southern China. In Luo S, Gliessman S R (eds.). Agroecology in China: Science, Practice, and Sustainable Management. pp.61-78. CRC Press.2016. ISBN 9781482249347
[5] Zeng H, Tan F, Shu Y, Zhang Y,Feng Y,Wang J* . The Cry1Ab Protein Has Minor Effects on the Arbuscular Mycorrhizal Fungal Communities after Five Seasons of Continuous Bt Maize Cultivation. Plos One, 2015, 10(12):e0146041.
[6] Yinghua Shu, Yanyan Zhang, Miaomiao Cheng, Huilan Zeng, Jianwu Wang*. Multilevel assessment of Cry1Ab Bt-maize straw return affecting the earthworm Eisenia fetida. Chemosphere, 2015, 137, 59-69.
[7] Zeng H L, Tan F X, Zhang Y Y, Feng Y J, Shu Y H, Wang J W*. Effects of cultivation and return of Bacillus thuringiensis (Bt) maize on the diversity of the arbuscular mycorrhizal community in soils and roots of subsequently cultivated conventional maize. Soil Biology and Biochemistry, 2014, 75: 254-263
[8] Yang W T, Li Z X, Wang J W(*), Wu P, Zhang Y. Crop yield, nitrogen acquisition and sugarcane quality as affected by interspecific competition and nitrogen application. Field Crops Research, 2013, 146: 44-50
[9] Feng Y J, Wang J W*, Luo S M, Fan H Z, Jin Q. Costs of Jasmonic Acid Induced Defense in Aboveground and Belowground Parts of Corn (Zea mays L.). Journal of Chemical Ecology, 2012, 38: 984-991
[10] Shu, Y H, Zhang G R, Wang J W*. Response of the common cutworm Spodoptera litura to zinc stress: Zn accumulation, metallothionein and cell ultrastructure of the midgut. Science of the Total Environment, 2012, 438: 210-217
[11] Shu Y H, Du Y, Wang J W*. Molecular characterization and expression patterns of Spodoptera litura heat shock protein70/90, and their response to zinc stress. Comparative Biochemistry and Physiology, Part A, 2011, 158: 102-110
[12] Feng Y J, Ling L, Fan H Z, Liu Y H, Tan F X, Shu Y H, Wang J W*. Effects of temperature, water content and pH on degradation of Cry1Ab protein released from Bt corn straw in soil. Soil Biology and Biochemistry, 2011, 43: 1600-1606
[13] Shu Y H, Wang J W, Lu K, Zhou J L, Zhou Q, Zhang G R. The first vitellogenin receptor from a Lepidopteran insect: molecular characterization, expression patterns and RNAi analysis. Insect Molecular Biology, 2011, 20(1): 61-73
[14] Shu, Y H, Ma H H, Du Y, Li Z X, Feng Y J, Wang J W*. The presence of Bacillus thuringiensis (Bt) protein in earthworms Eisenia fetida has no deleterious effects on their growth and reproduction. Chemosphere, 2011, 85: 1648-1656
[15] Tan F X, Wang J W*, Chen Z N, Feng Y J, Chi G L, Rehman S U. Assessment of the arbuscular mycorrhizal fungal community in roots and rhizosphere soils of Bt corn and their non-Bt isolines. Soil Biology and Biochemistry, 2011, 43: 2473-2479
[16] Tan F X, Wang J W*, Feng Y J, Chi G L, Kong H L, Qiu H F, Wei S L. Bt corn plants and their straw have no apparent impact on soil microbial communities. Plant Soil, 2010, 329: 349-364
Prof. Jiaen Zhang
Research interests:
1.Agroecology and ecoagriculture
2.Soil ecology and global change
3.Invasive ecology and ecological control
4.Ecological planning and ecotourism
5.Ecosystem services and sustainable development
Prof. Huashou Li
Research interests：
1.Bioremediation of contaminated soil;
2.Pollution ecology and ecological toxicology;
3.Prevention and control of agricultural pollution;
4.Ecological agriculture model and technology;
Prof. Kunzheng Cai
Research interests：
(1) Agroecology and plant nutrition management. I will study the effects of intercropping on biodiversity and soil nutrient utilization; A non-chemical method (anaerobic soil disinfestation) was used for soil improvement and soil-borne disease control resulting from continuous cropping obstacle.
(2) Silicon or biochar and environment stress. My work focus on the role of silicon or biochar in enhancing the resistance of crop to heavy toxicity and pathogen stress. Physiological, molecular and proteomic approaches were used to probe the mechanisms of Si-mediated plant resistance against stress and improved plant health, silicon and organic amendments application in sustainable crop production is also my top concern on.
Prof. Jian Yan
Research interests：
1.Investigation on defense metabolites under biotic and abiotic stress;
2.Investigation on key genes of defense metabolites pathway;
I started a PhD program in phytochemistry at the Kunming institute of Botany of the Chinese Academy of Sciences after graduating from Yunnan University with an undergraduate degree in chemistry. I completed my PhD in 2007 and began working at the South China Botanical Garden of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, first as assistant professor and later as an associate professor. When I joined Georg Jander’s lab at Boyce Thompson Institute for Plant Research as visiting scholar and postdoctoral from 2011 to 2015, I received my first exposure to studying plant molecular biology and plant-insect interactions, which fascinated me. I worked to identify defensive non-protein amino acids and their biosynthetic pathways in plants. After returning to the South China Agricultural university. I still continue to investigate novel defensive metabolites, their biosynthetic pathways, and their functions in crop and medical plants.
Prof. Guikui Chen
1.Prevention and treatment of heavy metal pollution in soil;
2.Prevention and treatment of perchlorate pollution
3.Pollution ecology and ecological toxicology
