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Changming Fang

Changming Fang

D-Index & Metrics

Ecology and Evolution

D-Index
46
Citations
10409
World Ranking
4581
National Ranking
104

Changming Fang publication distribution in Ecology and Evolution in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Ecology and Evolution in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Changming Fang sits on this spectrum.

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37 publications 531+

This scientist: 100 publications — 19th percentile

19% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 531 publications or more.

Changming Fang D-index placement in Ecology and Evolution in 2026

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Ecology and Evolution scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Changming Fang sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 121+

This scientist: 46 D-Index — 46th percentile

46% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 121 D-Index or more.

Overview

Changming Fang is affiliated with Fudan University in China and specializes in Environmental Science, with a research focus spanning Ecology, Soil Science, Global and Planetary Change, Molecular Biology, and Civil and Structural Engineering.

Their primary research topics include Soil Carbon and Nitrogen Dynamics, Peatlands and Wetlands Ecology, Microbial Community Ecology and Physiology, Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics, Coastal Wetland Ecosystem Dynamics, Soil and Unsaturated Flow, and Atmospheric and Environmental Gas Dynamics.

Changming Fang has contributed to multiple research articles published in notable venues, including:

  • Differences in the temperature dependence of wetland CO2 and CH4 emissions vary with water table depth, 2021, Nature Climate Change
  • Rising Temperature May Trigger Deep Soil Carbon Loss Across Forest Ecosystems, 2020, Advanced Science
  • Spatiotemporal variability of fire effects on soil carbon and nitrogen: A global meta-analysis, 2021, Global Change Biology
  • Microbial respiratory thermal adaptation is regulated by r-/K-strategy dominance, 2022, Ecology Letters
  • The thermal response of soil microbial methanogenesis decreases in magnitude with changing temperature, 2020, Nature Communications

The scientist frequently publishes in venues such as Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research), Global Change Biology, Ecology Letters, Nature Communications, and Nature Climate Change.

Changming Fang has collaborated extensively with several frequent co-authors, including Ming Nie, Bo Li, Jinquan Li, Junmin Pei, and Hongyang Chen.

Best Publications

  • Effects of straw carbon input on carbon dynamics in agricultural soils: a meta-analysis.

    Chang Liu;Meng Lu;Jun Cui;Bo Li

  • Altered ecosystem carbon and nitrogen cycles by plant invasion: a meta-analysis.

    Chengzhang Liao;Chengzhang Liao;Ronghao Peng;Yiqi Luo;Yiqi Luo;Xuhui Zhou

  • Similar response of labile and resistant soil organic matter pools to changes in temperature

    Changming Fang;Pete Smith;J B Moncrieff;Joanne Ursula Smith

  • Responses of ecosystem carbon cycle to experimental warming: a meta‐analysis

    Meng Lu;Xuhui Zhou;Qiang Yang;Hui Li

  • Responses of ecosystem nitrogen cycle to nitrogen addition: a meta-analysis

    Meng Lu;Meng Lu;Yuanhe Yang;Yiqi Luo;Yiqi Luo;Changming Fang

  • Minor stimulation of soil carbon storage by nitrogen addition: A meta-analysis

    Meng Lu;Meng Lu;Xuhui Zhou;Yiqi Luo;Yiqi Luo;Yuanhe Yang

  • Impact of Global Warming on Soil Organic Carbon

    Pete Smith;Changming Fang;Julian J.C. Dawson;John B. Moncrieff

  • Invasion of Spartina alterniflora Enhanced Ecosystem Carbon and Nitrogen Stocks in the Yangtze Estuary, China

    Chengzhang Liao;Yiqi Luo;Yiqi Luo;Lifen Jiang;Xuhui Zhou

  • Using Hyperspectral Vegetation Indices as a Proxy to Monitor Soil Salinity

    Ting-Ting Zhang;Sheng-Lan Zeng;Yu Gao;Zu-Tao Ouyang

  • The effects of plantation practice on soil properties based on the comparison between natural and planted forests: a meta-analysis

    Chengzhang Liao;Yiqi Luo;Yiqi Luo;Changming Fang;Jiakuan Chen

  • Ecosystem Carbon Stock Influenced by Plantation Practice: Implications for Planting Forests as a Measure of Climate Change Mitigation

    Chengzhang Liao;Yiqi Luo;Yiqi Luo;Changming Fang;Bo Li

  • The variation of soil microbial respiration with depth in relation to soil carbon composition

    Changming Fang;John B. Moncrieff

  • Long-term changes in topsoil chemical properties under centuries of cultivation after reclamation of coastal wetlands in the Yangtze Estuary, China

    Jun Cui;Chang Liu;Zhaolei Li;Li Wang

  • Bioturbation of Burrowing Crabs Promotes Sediment Turnover and Carbon and Nitrogen Movements in an Estuarine Salt Marsh

    Jin Qing Wang;Xiao Dong Zhang;Li Fen Jiang;Mark D. Bertness

  • Litter pool sizes, decomposition, and nitrogen dynamics in Spartina alterniflora -invaded and native coastal marshlands of the Yangtze Estuary

    Cheng Zhang Liao;Cheng Zhang Liao;Yi Qi Luo;Yi Qi Luo;Chang Ming Fang;Jia Kuan Chen

  • Rhizosphere effects on soil bacterial abundance and diversity in the Yellow River Deltaic ecosystem as influenced by petroleum contamination and soil salinization

    Ming Nie;Xiao-dong Zhang;Jin-qing Wang;Li-fen Jiang

  • Understanding Plant-Microbe Interactions for Phytoremediation of Petroleum-Polluted Soil

    Ming Nie;Ming Nie;Yijing Wang;Jiayi Yu;Ming Xiao

  • Differences in the temperature dependence of wetland CO2 and CH4 emissions vary with water table depth

    Hongyang Chen;Xiao Xu;Changming Fang;Bo Li

  • Carbon cycle: A warm response by soils

    Pete Smith;Changming Fang

  • Spatial heterogeneity of temperature sensitivity of soil respiration: A global analysis of field observations

    Jinquan Li;Junmin Pei;Elise Pendall;Changming Fang

  • Exotic plant influences soil nematode communities through litter input

    Huili Chen;Huili Chen;Bo Li;Changming Fang;Jiakuan Chen

  • A global perspective on agroecosystem nitrogen cycles after returning crop residue

    Min Wang;Elise Pendall;Changming Fang;Bo Li

  • Assessing impact of land uses on land salinization in the Yellow River Delta, China using an integrated and spatial statistical model

    Ting-Ting Zhang;Sheng-Lan Zeng;Yu Gao;Zu-Tao Ouyang

  • Responses of bacterial and fungal communities to an elevation gradient in a subtropical montane forest of China

    Han Meng;Ke Li;Ming Nie;Ming Nie;Jia-Rong Wan

Frequent Co-Authors

Bo Li
Bo Li Fudan University
Jiakuan Chen
Jiakuan Chen Fudan University
Yiqi Luo
Yiqi Luo Cornell University
Bin Zhao
Bin Zhao Fudan University
Elise Pendall
Elise Pendall Western Sydney University
Xuhui Zhou
Xuhui Zhou Northeast Forestry University
Jin-Sheng He
Jin-Sheng He Peking University
Peter B. Reich
Peter B. Reich University of Minnesota
Mark D. Bertness
Mark D. Bertness Brown University
Yuanhe Yang
Yuanhe Yang Chinese Academy of Sciences

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