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Chengjun Ji

Chengjun Ji

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Environmental Sciences

D-Index
41
Citations
6887
World Ranking
7679
National Ranking
729

Overview

Chengjun Ji is affiliated with Peking University in China and has conducted extensive research within the fields of Environmental Science and Agricultural and Biological Sciences. Their work spans several subfields, including Nature and Landscape Conservation, Soil Science, Ecology, Global and Planetary Change, and Plant Science.

The primary research topics addressed by Chengjun Ji include Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies, Soil Carbon and Nitrogen Dynamics, Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics, Plant and animal studies, Forest ecology and management, Forest Ecology and Biodiversity Studies, and Peatlands and Wetlands Ecology.

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Chengjun Ji are:

  • Jiangling Zhu
  • Zhiyao Tang
  • Jingyun Fang
  • Suhui Ma
  • Qiong Cai

Chengjun Ji has published in a variety of scientific journals, with recurrent contributions to the following venues:

  • The Science of The Total Environment
  • Journal of Plant Ecology
  • Soil Biology and Biochemistry
  • Plant and Soil
  • Journal of Plant Research

Some notable recent publications include:

  • Multispecies forest plantations outyield monocultures across a broad range of conditions, 2022, Science
  • Soil carbon persistence governed by plant input and mineral protection at regional and global scales, 2021, Ecology Letters
  • Upward shift and elevational range contractions of subtropical mountain plants in response to climate change, 2021, The Science of The Total Environment
  • Patterns and determinants of soil microbial residues from tropical to boreal forests, 2020, Soil Biology and Biochemistry
  • Progressive nitrogen limitation across the Tibetan alpine permafrost region, 2020, Nature Communications

Best Publications

  • Storage, patterns and controls of soil organic carbon in the Tibetan grasslands

    Yuanhe Yang;Jingyun Fang;Yanhong Tang;Chengjun Ji

  • Multispecies forest plantations outyield monocultures across a broad range of conditions

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  • Above- and belowground biomass allocation in Tibetan grasslands.

    Yuanhe Yang;Jingyun Fang;Chengjun Ji;Wenxuan Han;Wenxuan Han

  • Significant soil acidification across northern China's grasslands during 1980s–2000s

    Yuanhe Yang;Yuanhe Yang;Yuanhe Yang;Chengjun Ji;Wenhong Ma;Shifeng Wang

  • Aboveground biomass in Tibetan grasslands

    Y.H. Yang;J.Y. Fang;Y.D. Pan;C.J. Ji

  • Decadal soil carbon accumulation across Tibetan permafrost regions

    Jinzhi Ding;Leiyi Chen;Chengjun Ji;Gustaf Hugelius;Gustaf Hugelius

  • The permafrost carbon inventory on the Tibetan Plateau: a new evaluation using deep sediment cores

    Jinzhi Ding;Fei Li;Guibiao Yang;Leiyi Chen

  • Soil carbon persistence governed by plant input and mineral protection at regional and global scales

    Leiyi Chen;Kai Fang;Bin Wei;Shuqi Qin

  • Changes in topsoil carbon stock in the Tibetan grasslands between the 1980s and 2004

    Yuanhe Yang;Jingyun Fang;Pete Smith;Yanhong Tang

  • Vertical patterns of soil carbon, nitrogen and carbon: nitrogen stoichiometry in Tibetan grasslands

    Y. H. Yang;J. Y. Fang;D. L. Guo;C. J. Ji

  • Linking temperature sensitivity of soil CO2 release to substrate, environmental, and microbial properties across alpine ecosystems

    Jinzhi Ding;Leiyi Chen;Beibei Zhang;Beibei Zhang;Li Liu

  • Responses of forest ecosystems to increasing N deposition in China: A critical review.

    Di Tian;Enzai Du;Lai Jiang;Suhui Ma

  • Soil microbial carbon and nutrient constraints are driven more by climate and soil physicochemical properties than by nutrient addition in forest ecosystems

    Xin Jing;Xin Jing;Xiao Chen;Jingyun Fang;Chengjun Ji

  • Upward shift and elevational range contractions of subtropical mountain plants in response to climate change.

    Kuiling Zu;Zhiheng Wang;Xiangyun Zhu;Jonathan Lenoir

  • Carbon stocks and changes of dead organic matter in China's forests

    Jianxiao Zhu;Huifeng Hu;Shengli Tao;Xiulian Chi

  • Increased topsoil carbon stock across China's forests

    Yuanhe Yang;Pin Li;Jinzhi Ding;Xia Zhao

  • Patterns and determinants of soil microbial residues from tropical to boreal forests

    Guoping Chen;Suhui Ma;Di Tian;Wen Xiao

  • Scaling of nitrogen and phosphorus across plant organs in shrubland biomes across Northern China

    Xian Yang;Zhiyao Tang;Chengjun Ji;Hongyan Liu

  • Nitrogen deposition has minor effect on soil extracellular enzyme activities in six Chinese forests.

    Xin Jing;Xiao Chen;Mao Tang;Zongju Ding

  • Rain use efficiency across a precipitation gradient on the Tibetan Plateau

    Yuanhe Yang;Jingyun Fang;Philip A. Fay;Jesse E. Bell

  • Soil inorganic carbon stock in the Tibetan alpine grasslands

    Yuanhe Yang;Jingyun Fang;Chengjun Ji;Wenhong Ma

  • Soil carbon persistence governed by plant input and mineral protection at the regional and global scales

    Leiyi Chen;Kai Fang;Bin Wei;Shuqi Qin

Frequent Co-Authors

Jingyun Fang
Jingyun Fang Peking University
Yuanhe Yang
Yuanhe Yang Chinese Academy of Sciences
Zhiyao Tang
Zhiyao Tang Peking University
Biao Zhu
Biao Zhu Peking University
Haihua Shen
Haihua Shen Chinese Academy of Sciences
Peter Smith
Peter Smith University of Aberdeen
Jin-Sheng He
Jin-Sheng He Peking University
Wenxuan Han
Wenxuan Han China Agricultural University
David G. Robinson
David G. Robinson Heidelberg University
Yude Pan
Yude Pan US Forest Service

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