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D-Index
44
Citations
15378
World Ranking
4942
National Ranking
1695

Daliang Ning 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 Daliang Ning sits on this spectrum.

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This scientist: 119 publications — 32nd percentile

32% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Daliang Ning 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 Daliang Ning sits on this spectrum.

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This scientist: 44 D-Index — 41st percentile

41% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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Overview

Daliang Ning is affiliated with the University of Oklahoma in the United States and conducts research primarily in the fields of Environmental Science and Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology. Their work focuses extensively on microbial community ecology and physiology, examining how microbial communities respond to environmental changes and interact within ecosystems.

The main topics covered in Daliang Ning's research include:

  • Microbial Community Ecology and Physiology
  • Gut microbiota and health
  • Soil Carbon and Nitrogen Dynamics
  • Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies
  • Wastewater Treatment and Nitrogen Removal
  • Evolution and Genetic Dynamics
  • Water Treatment and Disinfection

Subfields of study are centered on:

  • Ecology
  • Molecular Biology
  • Pollution
  • Soil Science
  • Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis

Daliang Ning has published in a range of scientific venues, with the most frequent being:

  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Microbiome
  • The ISME Journal
  • Nature Communications
  • Water Research

Their recent published papers include:

  • "Climate warming enhances microbial network complexity and stability" (2021, Nature Climate Change)
  • "A quantitative framework reveals ecological drivers of grassland microbial community assembly in response to warming" (2020, Nature Communications)
  • "Small and mighty: adaptation of superphylum Patescibacteria to groundwater environment drives their genome simplicity" (2020, Microbiome)
  • "Reduction of microbial diversity in grassland soil is driven by long-term climate warming" (2022, Nature Microbiology)
  • "Microecological Koch's postulates reveal that intestinal microbiota dysbiosis contributes to shrimp white feces syndrome" (2020, Microbiome)

Frequent collaborators in their work include:

  • Jizhong Zhou
  • Yunfeng Yang
  • Linwei Wu
  • Liyou Wu
  • Joy D. Van Nostrand

Best Publications

  • Stochastic Community Assembly: Does It Matter in Microbial Ecology?

    Jizhong Zhou;Jizhong Zhou;Jizhong Zhou;Daliang Ning

  • Climate warming enhances microbial network complexity and stability

    Mengting Maggie Yuan;Mengting Maggie Yuan;Xue Guo;Xue Guo;Linwei Wu;Ya Zhang

  • A quantitative framework reveals ecological drivers of grassland microbial community assembly in response to warming.

    Daliang Ning;Daliang Ning;Mengting Yuan;Mengting Yuan;Linwei Wu;Ya Zhang

  • A general framework for quantitatively assessing ecological stochasticity

    Daliang Ning;Ye Deng;Ye Deng;Ye Deng;James M Tiedje;Jizhong Zhou

  • Global diversity and biogeography of bacterial communities in wastewater treatment plants

    Linwei Wu;Daliang Ning;Bing Zhang;Yong Li

  • Temperature mediates continental-scale diversity of microbes in forest soils

    Jizhong Zhou;Jizhong Zhou;Jizhong Zhou;Ye Deng;Ye Deng;Lina Shen;Chongqing Wen

  • Biodegradation of Polyethylene and Plastic Mixtures in Mealworms (Larvae of Tenebrio molitor) and Effects on the Gut Microbiome.

    Anja Malawi Brandon;Shu-Hong Gao;Renmao Tian;Daliang Ning;Daliang Ning

  • Reduction of microbial diversity in grassland soil is driven by long-term climate warming

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  • Small and mighty: adaptation of superphylum Patescibacteria to groundwater environment drives their genome simplicity

    Renmao Tian;Daliang Ning;Zhili He;Ping Zhang

  • Climate warming leads to divergent succession of grassland microbial communities

    Xue Guo;Jiajie Feng;Zhou Shi;Xishu Zhou;Xishu Zhou

  • Biodegradation of polystyrene wastes in yellow mealworms (larvae of Tenebrio molitor Linnaeus): Factors affecting biodegradation rates and the ability of polystyrene-fed larvae to complete their life cycle

    Shan Shan Yang;Anja Malawi Brandon;James Christopher Andrew Flanagan;Jun Yang

  • Oral microbiota of periodontal health and disease and their changes after nonsurgical periodontal therapy

    Casey Chen;Chris Hemme;Chris Hemme;Chris Hemme;Joan Beleno;Zhou Jason Shi

  • Ubiquity of polystyrene digestion and biodegradation within yellow mealworms, larvae of Tenebrio molitor Linnaeus (Coleoptera: Tenebrionidae).

    Shan-Shan Yang;Wei-Min Wu;Anja M. Brandon;Han-Qing Fan

  • Biodegradability of wastewater determines microbial assembly mechanisms in full-scale wastewater treatment plants

    Bing Zhang;Daliang Ning;Yunfeng Yang;Joy D. Van Nostrand

  • Microecological Koch’s postulates reveal that intestinal microbiota dysbiosis contributes to shrimp white feces syndrome

    Zhijian Huang;Shenzheng Zeng;Jinbo Xiong;Dongwei Hou

  • Seasonal dynamics of the microbial community in two full-scale wastewater treatment plants: Diversity, composition, phylogenetic group based assembly and co-occurrence pattern

    Chenxiang Sun;Bing Zhang;Daliang Ning;Ya Zhang

  • Deterministic Assembly and Diversity Gradient Altered the Biofilm Community Performances of Bioreactors.

    Zhaojing Zhang;Zhaojing Zhang;Zhaojing Zhang;Ye Deng;Ye Deng;Kai Feng;Weiwei Cai;Weiwei Cai

  • Environmental stress mediates groundwater microbial community assembly.

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  • Evaluation of the reproducibility of amplicon sequencing with Illumina MiSeq platform.

    Chongqing Wen;Chongqing Wen;Liyou Wu;Yujia Qin;Joy D. Van Nostrand

  • Gene-informed decomposition model predicts lower soil carbon loss due to persistent microbial adaptation to warming.

    Xue Guo;Xue Guo;Qun Gao;Qun Gao;Mengting Yuan;Gangsheng Wang

  • Microbial community assembly differs across minerals in a rhizosphere microcosm.

    Thea Whitman;Thea Whitman;Rachel Neurath;Rachel Neurath;Adele Perera;Ilexis Chu‐Jacoby

  • Biogeographic patterns of microbial co-occurrence ecological networks in six American forests

    Qichao Tu;Qichao Tu;Qingyun Yan;Ye Deng;Ye Deng;Sean T. Michaletz

  • Electrical selection for planktonic sludge microbial community function and assembly.

    Aijie Wang;Ke Shi;Daliang Ning;Haoyi Cheng

  • Warming-induced permafrost thaw exacerbates tundra soil carbon decomposition mediated by microbial community.

    Jiajie Feng;Cong Wang;Jiesi Lei;Yunfeng Yang

  • Climate warming accelerates temporal scaling of grassland soil microbial biodiversity.

    Xue Guo;Xishu Zhou;Xishu Zhou;Lauren Hale;Lauren Hale;Mengting Yuan;Mengting Yuan

Frequent Co-Authors

Jizhong Zhou
Jizhong Zhou University of Oklahoma
Zhili He
Zhili He Sun Yat-sen University
Yunfeng Yang
Yunfeng Yang Tsinghua University
Ye Deng
Ye Deng Chinese Academy of Sciences
Joy D. Van Nostrand
Joy D. Van Nostrand University of Oklahoma
Liyou Wu
Liyou Wu University of Oklahoma
Yiqi Luo
Yiqi Luo Cornell University
Adam P. Arkin
Adam P. Arkin Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
James M. Tiedje
James M. Tiedje Michigan State University
Sean T. Michaletz
Sean T. Michaletz University of British Columbia

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