Zakiya Leggett
Asst Professor
Department of Forestry and Environmental Resources
Jordan Hall 3124
Area(s) of Expertise
Soil Ecology, Nutrient Cycling, Sustainability
Publications
- Catalyzing rapid discovery of gold-precipitating bacterial lineages with university students (2020)
- Human Dimensions: Raising Black Excellence by Elevating Black Ecologists Through Collaboration, Celebration, and Promotion (2020)
- Impacts on soil nitrogen availability of converting managed pine plantation into switchgrass monoculture for bioenergy (2019)
- Effects of forest-based bioenergy feedstock production on shallow groundwater quality of a drained forest soil (2018)
- Impacts of forest-based bioenergy feedstock production on soil nitrogen cycling (2018)
- Soil and Aggregate-Associated Carbon in a Young Loblolly Pine Plantation (2017)
- Soil CO2 efflux and root productivity in a switchgrass and loblolly pine intercropping system (2016)
- Biofuel intercropping effects on soil carbon and microbial activity (2015)
- Impacts of switchgrass-loblolly pine intercropping on soil physical properties of a drained forest (2015)
- Microbial nitrogen cycling response to forest-based bioenergy production (2015)
Education
Doctorate, Philosophy in Forestry, North Carolina State University (2004)
Master, Forestry, Duke University (2000)
Bachelor of Science, CAENS, Tuskegee University (1999)