香港中文大学地理与资源管理系

黎育科教授

本系職員

黎育科教授

Associate Professor

BSSc, MPhil (CUHK)
PhD (McGill)
MISoilSci

(852) 3943-6528

dyflai@cuhk.edu.hk

RESEARCH PROJECTS

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

  • 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
  • Director, Center for Environmental Policy and Resource Management, CUHK
  • Chair, Research Committee, GRM
  • Chair, Environment and Sustainable Environment Committee, Chung Chi College
  • Associate Editor, Mires and Peat
  • Associate Editor, Frontiers in Forests and Global Change
  • Associate Editor, Frontiers in Soil Science
  • Editorial Board Member, Frontiers in Earth Science
  • Editorial Board Member, Sustainability
  • Member, World Wide Fund for Nature Hong Kong (WWF-HK) Mai Po Management Committee
  • Member, Hong Kong Diploma of Secondary Education (HKDSE) Geography Subject Committee

SUGGESTED RESEARCH TOPICS FOR POSTGRADUATE STUDENTS

Carbon cycling in wetland and terrestrial ecosystems

Biogeochemical cycling & ecosystem services in urban environments

Impacts of climate change and human activities on ecosystem carbon and nutrient dynamics