The leader of the Environmental Ecology and Restoration Research Team is Professor Du Daolin/Researcher. The team is supported by cutting-edge theories and technologies from disciplines such as environmental ecology, botany, microbiology, environmental science and engineering, and environmental ecotoxicology. Guided by national policies, regional ecological environment characteristics, and prominent ecological and environmental issues, the team explores the coupling relationships and underlying mechanisms of various ecological elements such as plants, soil, microorganisms, and environmental factors. At present, the team's research is mainly divided into two directions: biological invasion and environmental safety, environmental protection and ecological restoration. It is positioned on environmental ecological mechanisms and ecological restoration, environmental microbial ecology and application, ecological toxicology and health, ecosystem carbon sequestration and sink enhancement, invasive organism management and control, and ecological civilization construction.
Contact: Professor Du Daolin
E-mail： daolindu@163.com ;
For more detailed information, please refer to the website of the Institute of Environmental Ecology, Jiangsu University: http://iee.ujs.edu.cn/
（1） The main research areas of the team are:
1. Invasion of Ecology and Security
Focusing on the biosafety issues dominated by invasive plants, with elucidating the environmental ecological effects, environmental ecological risk levels, and driving mechanisms of successful invasion of invasive plants as the research core, this study focuses on the field of invasive ecology under global climate change. The research content involves invasive ecology, global change ecology, chemical ecology, evolutionary ecology, molecular ecology, environmental microbial ecology, etc., elucidating the biological ecological effects, environmental impacts, invasion mechanisms, and prevention and control of invasive plants from macro to micro levels, laying a theoretical foundation for building a warning and prevention platform for biosafety issues dominated by invasive plants in China, and promoting the construction of ecological civilization in China.
2. Environmental Ecology and Mechanism
Study the impact and mechanism of typical environmental problems such as environmental pollution, climate change, acid rain, etc. on individual organisms, populations, communities, ecosystems, landscapes, etc. from different levels and perspectives; The response and mechanism of different ecosystems such as wetlands and their composition to global change; Research on the impact and mechanisms of industrial and urbanization processes on different types of ecosystems and their functions.
3. Ecotoxicology and Health
Based on the toxicology research and detection of environmental pollutants, this study investigates the environmental ecological behavior, pollution mechanisms, and ecotoxicology of new pollutants, heavy metals, pesticides, fertilizers, acid rain, nitrogen deposition, and other chemicals and potential pollutants (such as ionic liquids, nanomaterials, etc.) that may enter the ecological environment, as well as various biological pollutants, from different levels such as molecules, cells, individuals, populations, and ecosystems, and their ecological toxicity effects and mechanisms on plants, animals, and cells; At the same time, we are engaged in the development and risk assessment of rapid detection technologies for fungal toxins, antibiotics, and new pollutants, exploring their impact on ecosystems, potential hazards and mechanisms to biological and ecosystem health, and their prevention and control.
4. Environmental Microorganisms and Resource Utilization Applications
Microorganisms play a very important role in ecosystems, directly affecting ecosystem functions such as material cycling and energy flow, and therefore have great potential for application in environmental pollution control. The application of environmental microorganisms and resource utilization mainly focuses on the response of rhizosphere microorganisms to various environmental stresses under the "microbial plant interaction" system, the regulatory mechanisms of various ecosystem processes, and the application of corresponding microbial resources in the remediation of polluted water bodies and soils, in order to provide safety guarantees for public health and the stability and development of the ecological environment.
5. Ecological Restoration and Ecological Civilization Construction
Carry out research on the development and utilization of biological ecological resources, especially through the combination of environmental science and modern biological ecological engineering technology as the main carrier, research and develop the application of biology in environmental governance, and then carry out research and development work on the restoration of ecological environmental pollutants such as difficult to degrade industrial organic wastewater, SO2, nitrogen oxides, solid waste, water pollutants, agricultural non-point source pollution, and damaged ecosystems in the process of urbanization. At the same time, in the context of ecological crises such as heavy metal pollution, organic pollution, and plant invasion, the main research area is the invaded wetlands along the eastern, southeastern, and southern coasts of China, focusing on the biogeochemical cycling processes and mechanisms of elements in the processes of carbon sequestration and sink enhancement, interaction between pollutants and biogenic elements (such as carbon, nitrogen, sulfur, phosphorus, etc.), and ecological restoration of polluted coastal estuarine wetlands; And explore the ways to achieve resource utilization of invasive plants in coastal estuarine wetlands.
