Faculty Member
Prof. LAI Yuk Fo, Derrick
RESEARCH PROJECTS
What is the Contribution of Terrestrial Vegetated Ecosystems on Lantau Island to Carbon Storage and Sequestration? Principal Investigator, Lantau Conservation Fund, Sustainable Lantau Office, 05/2024-04/2027, HK$ 2,169,640
Assessing the Contribution of Coastal Wetlands on Lantau Island to Carbon Sequestration in Hong Kong, Principal Investigator, Lantau Conservation Fund, Sustainable Lantau Office, 05/2023-04/2026, HK$ 2,494,740
Are Tree Stems Significant Methane Sources in the Subtropical Estuarine Mangrove?, Principal Investigator, General Research Fund, Research Grants Council of Hong Kong, 01/2022-12/2024, HK$ 1,175,632
Is There a Functional Microphytobenthos in Tropical Mangrove Ecosystems?, Principal Investigator, General Research Fund, Research Grants Council of Hong Kong, 01/2021-12/2023, HK$ 996,285
Effects of Experimental Litterfall and Throughfall Manipulations on Soil Greenhouse Gas Exchange in a Subtropical Secondary Forest, Principal Investigator, General Research Fund, Research Grants Council of Hong Kong, 01/2016-12/2018, HK$ 706,972
Soil Respiration in a Subtropical Secondary Forest in Hong Kong: Temporal Variations and the Effects of Climate Change, Principal Investigator, General Research Fund, Research Grants Council of Hong Kong, 01/2015-12/2017, HK$ 680,683
Biosphere-Atmosphere Exchange of Greenhouse Gases in a Subtropical Mangrove Wetland in Hong Kong, Principal Investigator, Early Career Scheme, Research Grants Council of Hong Kong, 01/2014-12/2017, HK$ 1,749,000
A Comparison of Carbon Storage in Coastal Wetland Soils Between Hong Kong and Germany, Principal Investigator, Germany/Hong Kong Joint Research Scheme 2013/14, Research Grants Council of Hong Kong and Germany Academic Exchange Service (DAAD), 01/2014-12/2015, HK$ 89,600
SELECTED PUBLICATIONS
Please see my Google Scholar profile for the full list of publications.
Edited book
- Ouyang, X., Lee, S.Y., Lai, D.Y.F., & Marchard, C. (Eds.) (2022). Carbon Mineralization in Coastal Wetlands: From Litter Decomposition to Greenhouse Gas Dynamics. Oxford, United Kingdom: Elsevier. doi: 1016/C2018-0-05009-4.
Journal papers
- Xu, S., Wang, J.J., Sayer, E.J., Lam, S.K., & Lai, D.Y.F. (2024). Precipitation change affects forest soil carbon inputs and pools: A global meta-analysis. Science of the Total Environment, 908, 168171, doi: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2023.168171.
- Loo, Y.P., Ouyang, X., Lai, D.Y.F. & Lee, S.Y. (2024). The microphytobenthos are abundant and mediate key carbon fluxes in tropical mangroves. Estuaries and Coasts, 47, 963-980, doi: 10.1007/s12237-024-01339-6.
- Tan, L., Yang, P., Lin, X., Lin, Y., Zhang, L., Tong, C., Hong, Y., Lai, D.Y.F., & Tang, K.W. (2024). Latitudinal responses of wetland soil nitrogen pools to plant invasion and subsequent aquaculture reclamation along the southeastern coast of China. Agriculture, Ecosystems & Environment, 363, 108874, doi: 10.1016/j.agee.2023.108874.
- Lu, W., Xiao, J., Gao, H., Jia, Q., Li, Z., Liang, J., Xing, Q., Mao, D., Li, H., Chu, X., Chen, H., Guo, H., Han, G., Zhao, B., Chen, L., Lai, D.Y.F., Liu, S., & Lin, G. (2024). Carbon fluxes of China’s coastal wetlands and impacts of reclamation and restoration. Global Change Biology, 30(4), e17280, doi: 10.1111/gcb.17280.
- Xu, S., Su, F., Sayer, E., Lam, S.K., Lu, X., Liu, C., & Lai, D.Y.F. (2023). Fine root litter quality regulates soil carbon storage efficiency in subtropical forest soils. Soil Ecology Letters, 5, 230182, doi: 10.1007/s42832-023-0182-6.
- Liu, J., Valach, A., Baldocchi, D., & Lai, D.Y.F. (2022). Biophysical controls of ecosystem-scale methane fluxes from a subtropical estuarine mangrove: Multiscale, nonlinearity, asynchrony and causality. Global Biogeochemical Cycles, 36(6), e2021GB007179, doi: 10.1029/2021GB007179.
- Zhou, T., Liu, J., Lie, Z., & Lai, D.Y.F. (2022). Effects of applying different carbon substrates on nutrient removal and greenhouse gas emissions by constructed wetlands treating carbon-depleted hydroponic wastewater. Bioresource Technology, 357, 127312, doi: 10.1016/j.biortech.2022.127312.
- Cui, J., Lam, S.K., Xu, S., & Lai, D.Y.F. (2022). The response of soil-atmosphere greenhouse gas exchange to changing plant litter inputs in terrestrial forest ecosystems. Science of the Total Environment, 838, 155995, doi: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2022.155995.
- Cui, J., Glatzel, S., Bruckman, V.J., Wang, B., & Lai, D.Y.F. (2021). Long-term effects of biochar application on greenhouse gas production and microbial community in temperate forest soils under increasing temperature. Science of the Total Environment, 767, 145021, doi: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2021.145021.
- Law, M.M.S., & Lai, D.Y.F. (2021). Impacts of wetting-drying cycles on short-term carbon and nitrogen dynamics in Amynthas earthworm casts. Pedosphere, 31(3), 423-432, doi: 10.1016/S1002-0160(20)60081-9.
- Yang, P., Huang, J., Tan, L., Tong, C., Jin, B., Hu, B., Gao, C., Yuan, J., Lai, D.Y.F., & Yang, H. (2021). Large variations in indirect N2O emission factors (EF5) from coastal aquaculture systems in China from plot to regional scales. Water Research, 200, 117208, doi: 10.1016/j.watres.2021.117208.
- Yang, P., Yang, H., Sardans, J., Tong, C., Zhao, G., Peñuelas, J., Li, L., Zhang, Y., Tan, L., Chun, K.P., & Lai, D.Y.F. (2020). Large spatial variations in diffusive CH4 fluxes from a subtropical coastal reservoir affected by sewage discharge in southeast China. Environmental Science & Technology, 54(22), 14192-14203, doi: 10.1021/acs.est.0c03431.
- Liu, J., Zhou, Y., Valach, A., Shortt, R., Kasak, K., Rey-Sanchez, C., Hemes, K.S., Baldocchi, D., & Lai, D.Y.F. (2020). Methane emissions reduce the radiative cooling effect of a subtropical estuarine mangrove wetland by half. Global Change Biology, 26(9), 4998-5016, doi: 10.1111/gcb.15247.
- Liu, J., & Lai, D.Y.F. (2019). Subtropical mangrove wetland is a stronger carbon dioxide sink in the dry than wet seasons. Agricultural and Forest Meteorology, 278, 107644, doi: 10.1016/ j.agrformet.2019.107644.
- Liu, J., Hartmann, S.C., Keppler, F., & Lai, D.Y.F. (2019). Simultaneous abiotic production of greenhouse gases (CO2, CH4, and N2O) in subtropical soils. Journal of Geophysical Research: Biogeosciences, 124(7), 1977-1987, doi: 10.1029/2019JG005154.
Teaching Fields
- Global Change and Ecosystem Ecology
- Soil Science
- Physical Geography
Research interests
- Carbon Cycling in Terrestrial and Wetland Ecosystems
- Urban Ecology and Biogeochemistry
- Ecosystem Restoration and Management
- Soils and the Environment
- Sustainable Agriculture
Services/ Posts
- Director, Physical Geography Experimental Station, GRM
- Chair, Research Committee, GRM
- Chair, Environment and Sustainable Environment Committee, Chung Chi College
- Associate Editor, Frontiers in Forests and Global Change
- Associate Editor, Frontiers in Soil Science
- Associate Editor, Global Biogeochemical Cycles
- Associate Editor, Mires and Peat
- Vice-Chair, Asian Soil Laboratory Network (SEALNET), FAO of the United Nations
- Member, World Wide Fund for Nature Hong Kong (WWF-HK) Mai Po Management Committee
- Member, CDC-HKEAA Committee on Geography
