Xiaolin Song

Associate Professor

College of Horticulture, Northwest A&F University

3 Taicheng Road,

Yangling, Shaanxi Province, 712100, China

E-mail: song-xiaolin@nwafu.edu.cn; fenying23@163.com

Team website profile:

https://sbft.nwsuaf.edu.cn/szdwB/fgjzcjsB/1c0acdbbbc204b2c905da349f929b935.html

Education and work experience

2020.07-: Associate Professor, College of Horticulture, Northwest A&F University, Yangling, Shaaxi, China;

2017.07-2020.06: Postdoctoral / Assistant Researcher in Agricultural Water and Soil Engineering, College of Mechnical and Electronic Engineering, Northwest A&F University, Yangling, Shaaxi, China;

2013.09-2017.06: Ph.D. in Soil and water conservation and desertification control, Institute of Soil and Water Conservation, Northwest A&F University, Yangling, Shaaxi, China;

2011.03-2012-05: Lecturer, Hunan Radio and TV University, Changsha, Hunan, China;

2008.09-2011.06: M.S. in Plant Nutrition, College of Resources & Environment, Hunan Agricultural University, Changsha, Hunan, China;

2004.09-2008.06: B.D. in Agricultural Resources and Environment, College of Resources & Environment, Hunan Agricultural University, Changsha, Hunan, China.

Research interests

Pro. SONG is mainly engaged in the research of High Efficiency Utilization of Apple Water and Fertilizer in Dry Areas.

Funding

The Ministry of Science and Technology's national key research and development program topics (Research and Integrated Application of Water Saving and Efficiency Technology for Special Economic Forest in Loess Plateau of Northern Shaanxi, 2016YFC0400204),

National Natural Science Foundation of China on the surface of the project (The process, driving mechanism and regulation of water recharge consumption in apple orchard in loess hilly region, 41771316; Study on Water Consumption Mechanism and Water Use Strategy of Red Jujube Forest in Loess Hilly Region, 41571506; Water and Heat Coupling Effect and Regulation of Soil Covering and Cultivating with Dry Jujube Garden in Loess Hilly Region, 51579212)

National Natural Science Foundation of China Youth Fund (A Study on N2O Emission Mechanism and Simulation of Different Cover Farmland in Loess Plateau, 41807328) , et al.

Awards

(1) SONG Xiaolin (10/11). The first prize of the Science and Technology Progress Award of Shaanxi Province (2019-J-4007-1-R10). Drought Process and Rain Water Resource Utilization in Loess Plateau, 2019.

(2) SONG Xiaolin (10/11). First Prize of the Science and Technology Award of Shaanxi Provincial Higher Education. “Drought Process and Rain Water Resource Utilization in Loess Plateau”, 2018.

(3) SONG Xiaolin (5/11). Second Prize of Yan'an Science and Technology Award, China (2015-2-12-R5). "Demonstration and Promotion of Integrated Technology demonstration and promotion of fertilization water in dryland apple pits", 2015.

(4) SONG Xiaolin (4/8), Method of rainwater accumulation and deep infiltration in mountain economic forest. Innovation Patent in IP Australia. Patent number: 2021100698

(5) SONG Xiaolin (4/6), Technical Specifications for Rainwater collection and infiltration system in Orchard of Loess Plateau. Technical Specification for Shaanxi Province. DB 61/T 1324-2020.

(6) SONG Xiaolin (3/17), Technical Specifications for intercropping with soybean rape or daylily in apple orchards in semi-arid area. Technical Specification for Shaanxi Province. DB 61/T 1360-2020.

Selected Publications

（1） Xiaolin Song, Pute Wu, Xiaodong Gao, Jie Yao, Yufeng Zou, Xining Zhao^*, Kadambot H. M. Siddique, Wei Hu. Rainwater collection and infiltration (RWCI) systems promote deep soil water and organic carbon restoration in water-limited sloping orchards. Agricultural Water Management. 2020, 242, 106400.

（2） Xiaolin Song, Xiaodong Gao, Paul R. Weckler, Wei Zhang, Jie Yao, Yong Wu, Yufeng Zou, Pute Wu, Xining Zhao^*, Kadambot H. M. Siddique. An in-situ rainwater collection and infiltration system to improve plant-available water and fine root growth for drought resistance. Applied Engineering in Agriculture. 2020, 35(5): 807-814.

（3） Xiaolin Song, Xiaodong Gao, Pute Wu^*, Xining Zhao^*, Wei Zhang, Yufeng Zou, Kadambot H. M. Siddique. Drought responses of profile plant-available water and fine-root distributions in apple ( malus pumila Mill  . ) orchards in a Loessial, semi-arid, Hilly area of China. Science of the Total Environment. 2020, 723, 137739.

（4） Song Xiaolin, Gao Xiaodong, Zou Yufeng, Chau Henry, Wu Pute*, Zhao Xining*, Kadambot H. M. Siddique. 2020. Vertial variation in shallow and deep soil moisture in an apple orchard in the loess hilly-gully area of north China. Soil Use and Management. 1-12. DOI: 10.111/sum.12598.

（5） Xiaolin Song, Xiaodong Gao, Dyck Miles, Wei Zhang, Pute Wu, Jie Yao, Xining Zhao^*. Soil water and root distribution of apple trees (Malus pumila Mill) stands in relation to stand age and rainwater collection and infiltration system (RWCI) in a hilly region of the Loess Plateau, China. Catena, 2018, 170: 324-334.

（6） Xiaolin Song #, Xiaodong Gao#, Xining Zhao^*, Pute Wu^*, Miles Dyck. Spatial distribution of soil moisture and fine roots in rain-fed apple orchards employing a Rainwater Collection and Infiltration (RWCI) system on the Loess Plateau of China. Agricultural Water Management, 2017, 184: 170-177.

(7)    Song Xiaolin, Zhao Xining, Gao Xiaodong, Wu Pute, Ma Wen, Yao Jie, Jiang Xiaoli, Zhang Wei. 2017. Spatial heterogeneity of soil moisture of mountain apple orchards with rainwater collection and infiltration (RWCI) system in the Loess Plateau, China. Chinese Journal of Applied Ecology, 28 (11): 3544-3552. (in Chinese with English abstract)

(8)   Song Xiaolin, Wu Pute*, Zhao Xining, Gao Xiaodong. 2016. Distribution characteristic of apple tree root and soil moisture with hole application of both water and fertilizer in the Loess Plateau[J]. Transactions of the Chinese Society of Agricultural Engineering (Transactions of the CSAE), 32(7): 121－128. (in Chinese with English abstract)