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Overview

Dejun Li is affiliated with the Chinese Academy of Sciences in China, focusing primarily on Agricultural and Biological Sciences as well as Environmental Science. Their research integrates multiple subfields, including Soil Science, Plant Science, Ecology, Environmental Chemistry, and Atmospheric Science.

The scientist's work concentrates on key topics such as Soil Carbon and Nitrogen Dynamics, Peatlands and Wetlands Ecology, Microbial Community Ecology and Physiology, Soil and Water Nutrient Dynamics, Composting and Vermicomposting Techniques, Legume Nitrogen Fixing Symbiosis, and Mycorrhizal Fungi and Plant Interactions.

Among recent publications are the following papers:

  • Gene-informed decomposition model predicts lower soil carbon loss due to persistent microbial adaptation to warming (2020, Nature Communications)
  • Retention of deposited ammonium and nitrate and its impact on the global forest carbon sink (2022, Nature Communications)
  • Tree species diversity increases soil microbial carbon use efficiency in a subtropical forest (2023, Global Change Biology)
  • Biochar drives humus formation during composting by regulating the specialized metabolic features of microbiome (2023, Chemical Engineering Journal)
  • Soil carbon accumulation with increasing temperature under both managed and natural vegetation restoration in calcareous soils (2021, The Science of The Total Environment)

Dejun Li frequently publishes in venues such as SSRN Electronic Journal, The Science of The Total Environment, Bioresource Technology, Geoderma, and Functional Ecology.

They have collaborated extensively with several researchers, including:

  • Kelin Wang
  • Pengpeng Duan
  • Kongcao Xiao
  • Hao Chen
  • Qiumei Liu

Best Publications

  • Global patterns of the dynamics of soil carbon and nitrogen stocks following afforestation: a meta-analysis

    Dejun Li;Shuli Niu;Yiqi Luo

  • Nitrogen addition reduces soil respiration in a mature tropical forest in southern China

    Jiangming Mo;Wei Zhang;Weixing Zhu;Per Gundersen

  • A framework for benchmarking land models

    Yiqi Luo;J. Randerson;G. Abramowitz;C. Bacour

  • Changes in nitrogen and phosphorus limitation during secondary succession in a karst region in southwest China

    Wei Zhang;Jie Zhao;Fujing Pan;Dejun Li

  • Soil properties control decomposition of soil organic carbon: Results from data-assimilation analysis

    Xia Xu;Xia Xu;Zheng Shi;Dejun Li;Ana Rey

  • Plant growth and mortality under climatic extremes: An overview

    Shuli Niu;Yiqi Luo;Dejun Li;Shuanghe Cao

  • Soil microbial processes and resource limitation in karst and non‐karst forests

    Hao Chen;Dejun Li;Kongcao Xiao;Kelin Wang

  • Nitrogen isotopic signature of soil-released nitric oxide (NO) after fertilizer application

    Dejun Li;Xinming Wang

  • Net primary productivity and rain‐use efficiency as affected by warming, altered precipitation, and clipping in a mixed‐grass prairie

    Xia Xu;Rebecca A. Sherry;Shuli Niu;Shuli Niu;Dejun Li

  • Soil Microbial Community Responses to a Decade of Warming as Revealed by Comparative Metagenomics

    Chengwei Luo;Luis M. Rodriguez-R;Eric R. Johnston;Liyou Wu

  • Effects of nitrogen addition on activities of soil nitrogen acquisition enzymes:A meta-analysis

    Hao Chen;Dejun Li;Jie Zhao;Kongcao Xiao

  • Dynamics of soil organic carbon and nitrogen following agricultural abandonment in a karst region

    Dejun Li;Li Wen;Liqiong Yang;Pan Luo

  • Nitrogen addition aggravates microbial carbon limitation: Evidence from ecoenzymatic stoichiometry

    Hao Chen;Dejun Li;Jie Zhao;Wei Zhang

  • Emission of volatile organic sulfur compounds (VOSCs) during aerobic decomposition of food wastes.

    Ting Wu;Ting Wu;Xinming Wang;Dejun Li;Zhigang Yi

  • Retention of deposited ammonium and nitrate and its impact on the global forest carbon sink

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  • Emissions of nitrous oxide from three tropical forests in Southern China in response to simulated nitrogen deposition

    Wei Zhang;Jiangming Mo;Guirui Yu;Yunting Fang

  • 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

  • Plant community structure regulates responses of prairie soil respiration to decadal experimental warming

    Xia Xu;Xia Xu;Zheng Shi;Dejun Li;Dejun Li;Xuhui Zhou;Xuhui Zhou

  • Rapid recuperation of soil nitrogen following agricultural abandonment in a karst area, southwest China

    Li Wen;Dejun Li;Liqiong Yang;Pan Luo

  • Effects of nitrogen deposition on carbon cycle in terrestrial ecosystems of China: A meta-analysis.

    Hao Chen;Dejun Li;Geshere A. Gurmesa;Guirui Yu

  • Tree species diversity increases soil microbial carbon use efficiency in a subtropical forest

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  • Response of soil respiration to simulated N deposition in a disturbed and a rehabilitated tropical forest in southern China

    Jiangming Mo;Wei Zhang;Weixing Zhu;Yunting Fang

  • Ecosystem photosynthesis regulates soil respiration on a diurnal scale with a short-term time lag in a coastal wetland

    Guangxuan Han;Yiqi Luo;Dejun Li;Jianyang Xia

Frequent Co-Authors

Yiqi Luo
Yiqi Luo Cornell University
Kelin Wang
Kelin Wang Chinese Academy of Sciences
Jiangming Mo
Jiangming Mo Chinese Academy of Sciences
Jizhong Zhou
Jizhong Zhou University of Oklahoma
Hao Chen
Hao Chen Chinese Academy of Sciences
Shuli Niu
Shuli Niu Chinese Academy of Sciences
Xuhui Zhou
Xuhui Zhou Northeast Forestry University
Xinming Wang
Xinming Wang Chinese Academy of Sciences
Gary Lanigan
Gary Lanigan Teagasc - The Irish Agriculture and Food Development Authority
Liyou Wu
Liyou Wu University of Oklahoma

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