Rong Lang

Researcher, NJ, Ekosystems Ecology Unit

E-mail

Presentation

Researcher, experienced in greenhouse gas emission measurements, statistical analysis and spatiotemporal analysis of satellite images with GIS.

Research

My research at SLU includes:

- Estimating cover crop biomass and soil carbon sequestration from satellite images.

- Construct crop rotation sequences from Land Parcel Identification System (LPIS) and historical satellite images.

- Analyzing the long-term field experiments to assess crop rotation and fertilization effects on soil carbon and greenhouse gas emissions.

- Analyzing the Swedish crop and soil inventory on agricultural soils and Land Use and Coverage Area frame Survey (LUCAS) to assess spatiotemporal changes of soil carbon and underlying drivers.

In my doctorial study, I assessed land use change effect on greenhouse gas emissions in tropical forests and rubber plantations and investigated processes into soil profiles at the plot level.

Research groups

Ecosystem Ecology

Teaching

Supervising literature projects in Soil Biology Biogeochemical Cycles.

Teaching workshop on plant production and soil carbon in Ekologi för miljö och vatten.

Selected publications

Sigrid Trier Kjær, Rong Lang, Thomas Kätterer, and Peter Dörsch, 2026. Species Specific Effects of Cover Crops on Nitrous Oxide Emissions in Hemiboreal Cereal Production: The Importance of Freeze-Thaw Driven Emissions. Agriculture, Ecosystems & Environment, 397, 110061. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.agee.2025.110061.

Benjamin Bukombe, Martin A. Bolinder, Gunnar Börjesson, Lorenzo Menichetti, Rong Lang, Keith Paustian, and Thomas Kätterer, 2026. Soil carbon accrual in ley rotations compared with cereal monoculture after four decades at four long-term experiments in Sweden. Agriculture, Ecosystems & Environment, 396, 110004. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.agee.2025.110004.

J.W.G. Addy, C. MacLaren, R. Lang, 2024. A Bayesian approach to analyzing long-term agricultural experiments. European Journal of Agronomy, 159: 127227. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.eja.2024.127227.

Rong Lang, Martin A. Bolinder, Gunnar Börjesson, Thomas Kätterer, 2025. Crop rotation with ley and nitrogen fertilization reduced soil carbon loss in three Swedish long-term field experiments, European Journal of Soil Science, 76(1): e70072. https://doi.org/10.1111/ejss.70072.

Lang, R., Goldberg, S. D., Blagodatsky, S., Piepho, H.-P., Hoyt, A. M., Harrison, R. D., Xu, J., & Cadisch, G. (2020). Mechanism of methane uptake in profiles of tropical soils converted from forest to rubber plantations. Soil Biology and Biochemistry, 145, 107796. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.soilbio.2020.107796.

Lang, R., Goldberg, S., Blagodatsky, S., Piepho, H.-P., Harrison, R. D., Xu, J., & Cadisch, G. (2019). Converting forests into rubber plantations weakened the soil CH4 sink in tropical uplands. Land Degradation & Development, 30(18), 2311-2322. https://doi.org/10.1002/ldr.3417

Laub, M., Blagodatsky, S., Lang, R., Yang, X., & Cadisch, G. (2018). A mixed model for landscape soil organic carbon prediction across continuous profile depth in the mountainous subtropics. Geoderma, 330, 177-192. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.geoderma.2018.05.020.