Isotopic Explorations of Fungal Functioning in Ecosystems

报告人：Prof. Erik Alan Hobbie（University of New Hampshire, USA； Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shenyang, China）

日期：2023年12月8日（周五）

时间：10:00–11:30

地点：城环学院109教室

报告人简介

Dr. Hobbie is a research professor at the University of New Hampshire, USA, and currently a PIFI (President’s Initiative for Foreign Investigators) fellow at the Institute of Applied Ecology in Shenyang. The goal of his research is to assess the interactions among plants and ectomycorrhizal fungi in terrestrial ecosystems, particularly in regards to their influences on carbon and nitrogen dynamics. His recent research has included (1) linking fungal morphology belowground to functional attributes of diverse ectomycorrhizal fungi, (2) responses of ectomycorrhizal fungi to anthropogenic nitrogen deposition, (3) responses of ectomycorrhizal fungi in elevated CO2 and temperature experiments, (4) improving the interpretation of natural abundance and tracer stable isotope signatures, and (5) assessing potential changes in rodent diets (including mushrooms) in Austria over the last 90 years from museum specimens in response to nitrogen deposition. As a research tool, he primarily uses natural abundance and tracer applications of stable isotopes of carbon and nitrogen. He has published 95 journal articles, 42 as first author. International awards include a Fulbright Fellowship at the Museum of Natural History in Vienna, Austria, in 2022, a Liaoning Province award in 2020 to collaborate at the Institute of Applied Ecology, visiting professorships from the Center of Ecological Research, Kyoto University, in Fall 2018 and Fall 2019, Keynote Speaker at the Sixth International Symposium on Physiological Processes in Roots of Woody Plants in 2014 in Nagoya, Japan, and a Bullard Fellowship at Harvard University in 2011-2012. After receiving his PhD from the University of Virginia in 1997, he had a National Research Council post-doctoral position at the US Environmental Protection Agency in 1997-1999 and a post-doctoral position at the Max Planck Institute for Biogeochemistry in 2000-2001 (Germany) before joining the University of New Hampshire in 2002.