Prof. Lu Sen
Organization: Research Institute of Forestry, Chinese Academy of Forestry
Research category: Ecology
Research field: Forest ecology
E-mail: asen205@cau.edu.cn
Prof. Lu Sen's research focus on soil water, heat, carbon and nitrogen cycling, economic forest cultivation and salt stress. A series of research progress on soil carbon and nitrogen cycling, quantification of soil evaporation processes, chemical molecular composition and degradation of forest soil organic matter in agroforestry systems were obtained.
Soil surface heat flux determination and its effects on surface energy balance. National Science Foundation of China. 2019-2022.
Simulation of vapor transport in subsurface soil during evaporation process. National Science Foundation of China. 2014-2017.
Study on the transport mechanism of water vapor in homogeneous soil under temperature gradient. National Science Foundation of China. 2010-2012.
Song Xueshu, Shaomin Shi, Sen Lu, Rongxiu Ren, Chunxia He, Ping Meng, Jinsong Zhang, Changjun Yin, Xiao Zhang. 2021. Changes in soil chemical properties following afforestation of cropland with Robinia pseudoacacia in the southeastern Loess Plateau of China. Forest Ecology and Management. 487:118993.
Lu Sen, Tusheng Ren, Robert Horton. 2020. Estimating the components of apparent thermal conductivity of soils at various water contents and temperatures. Geoderma. 376:114530.
Lu Sen, Yili Lu, Wei Peng, Zhaoqiang Ju, Tusheng Ren. 2019. A generalized relationship between thermal conductivity and matric suction of soils. Geoderma. 337:491-497.
Lu Sen, Hesong Wang, Ping Meng, Jinsong Zhang, Xiao Zhang. 2018. Determination of soil ground heat flux through heat pulse and plate methods: Effects of subsurface latent heat on surface energy balance closure. Agricultural and Forest Meteorology. 260-261:176-182.
Lu Sen, Zhaoqiang Ju, Tusheng Ren, and Robert Horton. 2009. A general approach to estimate soil water content from thermal inertia. Agricultural and Forest Meteorology. 149(10):1693-1698.
Lu Sen, Tusheng Ren, Yuanshi Gong and Robert Horton. 2007. An improved model for predicting soil thermal conductivity from water content at room temperature. Soil Science Society of America Journal. 71(1): 8-14.
