Welcome to my research pages

I am Dr. Nadia Soudzilovskaia, an ecologist studying how interactions between plant and soil microorganisms affect carbon cycling in soil, and provisioning of ecosystem services. I am working as Professor Ecosystem Functioning, Leader of Ecotron Research at Hasselt
University, Belgium (https://www.uhasselt.be/). 

The research of my group focusses on the following topics:

• Quantitative ecology of mycorrhizas (PhD students: Olivier Nouwen; Weilin Huang; postdoc Rik Verdonk; assoc Prof. Francois Rineau)

• Relationships between plant-soil interactions and biogeochemical processes (PhD students: Riccardo Mancinelli; Chenguang Gao; Rene Schaeffer; Shenglei Hao; Maria Druet; young scientist Sofie Thijs)

• Biogeography of plant - soil interactions (PhD student Quan Li; postdoc Mili Barcelo)

Selected Publications 2022-2023 (* - papers of PhD students Soudzilovskaia group):

• M. Barcelo, P. Van Bodegom, N. Soudzilovskaia Fine-resolution global maps of root biomass carbon colonized by arbuscular and ectomycorrhizal fungi https://www.nature.com/articles/s41597-022-01913-2

• C. Gao et al., N. Soudzilovskaia Plant community responses to alterations in soil abiotic and biotic conditions are decoupled for above‐and below‐ground traits https://besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/1365-2745.14070

• N. Soudzilovskaia, et al. FungalRoot: Global online database of plant mycorrhizal associations. https://nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/nph.16569

• H.J. Hawkins et al.. incl. N. Soudzilovskaia Mycorrhizal mycelium as a global Carbon pool doi: 10.1016/j.cub.2023.02.027

• C. Gao, et al., N. Soudzilovskaia Soil Biota Adversely Affect the Resistance and Recovery of Plant Communities Subjected to Drought https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10021-022-00785-2

• L. Hauser et al., incl. N. Soudzilovskaia Linking Land Use and Plant Functional Diversity Patterns in Sabah, Borneo, through Large-Scale Spatially Continuous Sentinel-2 Inference https://www.mdpi.com/2073-445X/11/4/572

• M. Barceló, et al., N. Soudzilovskaia Mycorrhizal tree impacts on topsoil biogeochemical properties in tropical forests https://besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/1365-2745.13868

• W. Huang, et al., N.Soudzilovskaia Mycelium chemistry differs markedly between ectomycorrhizal and arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi https://www.nature.com/articles/s42003-022-03341-9

• W. Huang, et al., N. Soudzilovskaia Implementation of mycorrhizal mechanisms into soil carbon model improves the prediction of long-term processes of plant litter decomposition

• W. Xu incl. N. Soudzilovskaia Global beta-diversity of angiosperm trees is shaped by Quaternary climate change https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/sciadv.add8553

• E. Jabłońska, W. Kotowski, N. Soudzilovskaia Desiccation Avoidance and Hummock Formation Traits of rich fen Bryophytes https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s13157-023-01669-4

• S Díaz et al., incl. N. Soudzilovskaia The global spectrum of plant form and function: enhanced species-level trait dataset https://www.nature.com/articles/s41597-022-01774-9

• N. Eisenhauer et al., incl. N. Soudzilovskaia Frontiers in soil ecology—Insights from the World Biodiversity Forum 2022 https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1002/sae2.12031

• L. Tedersoo, incl. N. Soudzilovskaia Global patterns in endemicity and vulnerability of soil fungi https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/gcb.16398

• W. Guo, et al, incl. N. Soudzilovskaia High exposure of global tree diversity to human pressure https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2026733119

• J.S.. Joswig, et al., incl. N. Soudzilovskaia Climatic and soil factors explain the two-dimensional spectrum of global plant trait variation https://www.nature.com/articles/s41559-021-01616-8