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Associate Professor Yolima Carrillo is a terrestrial ecosystem ecologist at Western Sydney University's Hawkesbury Institute for the Environment (HIE). Her research explores how climate change and management practices affect soil carbon, nutrient cycling, and rhizosphere processes through plant-soil-microbe interactions. She employs stable isotope tracers, microbial community assessments, and chemical analyses to study carbon-nitrogen-phosphorus dynamics in natural and agricultural systems.
Key research areas include drought impacts on plant-soil feedbacks, mycorrhizal symbiosis in carbon sequestration, biogeochemical responses to ecosystem restoration, and microbial mediation of nutrient cycling under elevated CO2. Carrillo co-founded the Stable Isotope in Biosphere Systems workshop and has led grants investigating silicon applications for drought resilience, nitrogen-water relationships, and soil inoculant effects on carbon stability.
Scientific Awards:
- Western Sydney University Women’s Fellowship Scheme (2015)
Current projects involve collaborations with researchers like David Tissue, Uffe Nielsen, and Jeff Powell on topics such as carbon-phosphorus balance in forests, rewilding for biodiversity restoration, and drought-nutrient stoichiometry. Her work spans field experiments, laboratory studies, and ecological modeling to address climate change mitigation through soil systems.
