Zakiya Leggett
Asst Professor
Jordan Hall 3124
Education
Doctorate Philosophy in Forestry North Carolina State University 2004
Master Forestry Duke University 2000
Bachelor of Science CAENS Tuskegee University 1999
Area(s) of Expertise
Soil Ecology, Nutrient Cycling, Sustainability
Publications
- Inclusion in citizen science: The conundrum of rebranding , SCIENCE (2021)
- Mortality patterns following a hickory decline event - Is density reduction key to maintaining bitternut hickory? , FOREST ECOLOGY AND MANAGEMENT (2021)
- Catalyzing rapid discovery of gold-precipitating bacterial lineages with university students , PeerJ (2020)
- Human Dimensions: Raising Black Excellence by Elevating Black Ecologists Through Collaboration, Celebration, and Promotion , The Bulletin of the Ecological Society of America (2020)
- Impacts on soil nitrogen availability of converting managed pine plantation into switchgrass monoculture for bioenergy , SCIENCE OF THE TOTAL ENVIRONMENT (2019)
- Effects of forest-based bioenergy feedstock production on shallow groundwater quality of a drained forest soil , Science of The Total Environment (2018)
- Impacts of forest-based bioenergy feedstock production on soil nitrogen cycling , Forest Ecology and Management (2018)
- Soil and Aggregate-Associated Carbon in a Young Loblolly Pine Plantation , Soil Science (2017)
- Soil CO2 efflux and root productivity in a switchgrass and loblolly pine intercropping system , Forests (2016)
- Biofuel intercropping effects on soil carbon and microbial activity , Ecological Applications (2015)