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Ecology and Evolution
China
2026

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Ecology and Evolution

D-Index
105
Citations
39312
World Ranking
215
National Ranking
3

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2026 - Research.com Ecology and Evolution in China Leader Award
  • 2025 - Research.com Ecology and Evolution in China Leader Award
  • 2023 - Research.com Ecology and Evolution in China Leader Award
  • 2022 - Research.com Ecology and Evolution in China Leader Award

Overview

Guirui Yu is affiliated with the Chinese Academy of Sciences in China and has contributed extensively to the field of environmental science. Their body of work spans a variety of subfields and topics, with a particular focus on global and planetary change, ecology, atmospheric science, nature and landscape conservation, and water science and technology.

The main fields of study represented in Guirui Yu's publications include:

  • Environmental Science

Within this discipline, the subfields of study are:

  • Global and Planetary Change
  • Ecology
  • Atmospheric Science
  • Nature and Landscape Conservation
  • Water Science and Technology

Their research work addresses several core topics such as:

  • Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics
  • Atmospheric and Environmental Gas Dynamics
  • Soil Carbon and Nitrogen Dynamics
  • Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies
  • Remote Sensing in Agriculture
  • Climate variability and models
  • Land Use and Ecosystem Services

Guirui Yu has coauthored numerous publications with frequent collaborators, including:

  • Nianpeng He
  • Zhi Chen
  • Qiufeng Wang
  • Lang Han
  • Meng Yang

The scientist's published papers have appeared repeatedly in several specialized publication venues, such as:

  • PubMed
  • Agricultural and Forest Meteorology
  • China Scientific Data
  • SSRN Electronic Journal
  • The Science of The Total Environment

Representative recent papers authored or coauthored by Guirui Yu include:

  • "Plant Trait Networks: Improved Resolution of the Dimensionality of Adaptation" (2020), published in Trends in Ecology & Evolution
  • "Carbon sequestration of Chinese forests from 2010 to 2060: spatiotemporal dynamics and its regulatory strategies" (2021), published in Science Bulletin
  • "Energy endowment, environmental regulation, and energy efficiency: Evidence from China" (2022), published in Technological Forecasting and Social Change
  • "Hyperspectral inversion of soil heavy metals in Three-River Source Region based on random forest model" (2021), published in CATENA
  • "Determining dominating control mechanisms of inland water carbon cycling processes and associated gross primary productivity on regional and global scales" (2020), published in Earth-Science Reviews

Best Publications

  • The impacts of climate change and human activities on biogeochemical cycles on the Qinghai-Tibetan Plateau

    Huai Chen;Qiuan Zhu;Changhui Peng;Ning Wu;Ning Wu

  • Carbon pools in China's terrestrial ecosystems: New estimates based on an intensive field survey

    Xuli Tang;Xia Zhao;Yongfei Bai;Zhiyao Tang

  • Effects of national ecological restoration projects on carbon sequestration in China from 2001 to 2010.

    Fei Lu;Huifeng Hu;Wenjuan Sun;Jiaojun Zhu

  • Stabilization of atmospheric nitrogen deposition in China over the past decade

    Guirui Yu;Yanlong Jia;Nianpeng He;Jianxing Zhu

  • Climate change, human impacts, and carbon sequestration in China.

    Jingyun Fang;Jingyun Fang;Guirui Yu;Lingli Liu;Shuijin Hu;Shuijin Hu

  • Global estimates of evapotranspiration and gross primary production based on MODIS and global meteorology data

    Wenping Yuan;Shuguang Liu;Shuguang Liu;Guirui Yu;Jean Marc Bonnefond

  • High carbon dioxide uptake by subtropical forest ecosystems in the East Asian monsoon region

    Guirui Yu;Zhi Chen;Shilong Piao;Shilong Piao;Changhui Peng;Changhui Peng

  • Overview of ChinaFLUX and evaluation of its eddy covariance measurement

    Gui-Rui Yu;Xue-Fa Wen;Xiao-Min Sun;Bertrand D. Tanner

  • Aggravated phosphorus limitation on biomass production under increasing nitrogen loading: a meta-analysis

    Yong Li;Shuli Niu;Guirui Yu

  • Soil enzyme activity and stoichiometry in forest ecosystems along the North-South Transect in eastern China (NSTEC)

    Zhiwei Xu;Guirui Yu;Xinyu Zhang;Nianpeng He

  • Effects of vegetation control on ecosystem water use efficiency within and among four grassland ecosystems in China

    Zhongmin Hu;Guirui Yu;Yuling Fu;Xiaomin Sun

  • Water-use efficiency of forest ecosystems in eastern China and its relations to climatic variables.

    Guirui Yu;Xia Song;Qiufeng Wang;Yunfen Liu

  • Spatial patterns and climate drivers of carbon fluxes in terrestrial ecosystems of China

    Gui-Rui Yu;Xian-Jin Zhu;Yu-Ling Fu;Hong-Lin He

  • Carbon storage in the grasslands of China based on field measurements of above- and below-ground biomass

    Jiangwen Fan;Huaping Zhong;Warwick Harris;Guirui Yu

  • Spatial and decadal variations in inorganic nitrogen wet deposition in China induced by human activity

    Yanlong Jia;Guirui Yu;Nianpeng He;Xiaoyun Zhan

  • The composition, spatial patterns, and influencing factors of atmospheric wet nitrogen deposition in Chinese terrestrial ecosystems.

    Jianxing Zhu;Nianpeng He;Qiufeng Wang;Guofu Yuan

  • Partitioning of evapotranspiration and its controls in four grassland ecosystems: Application of a two-source model

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  • Comparison of satellite-based evapotranspiration models over terrestrial ecosystems in China

    Yang Chen;Jiangzhou Xia;Shunlin Liang;Shunlin Liang;Jinming Feng;Jinming Feng

  • Regional drought-induced reduction in the biomass carbon sink of Canada's boreal forests

    Zhihai Ma;Changhui Peng;Qiuan Zhu;Huai Chen

  • The variations in soil microbial communities, enzyme activities and their relationships with soil organic matter decomposition along the northern slope of Changbai Mountain

    Zhiwei Xu;Guirui Yu;Xinyu Zhang;Jianping Ge

  • Temperature sensitivity of soil respiration is affected by prevailing climatic conditions and soil organic carbon content: A trans-China based case study

    Ze-Mei Zheng;Gui-Rui Yu;Yu-Ling Fu;Yue-Si Wang

  • C:N:P stoichiometry in China's forests: From organs to ecosystems

    Jiahui Zhang;Ning Zhao;Congcong Liu;Hao Yang

Frequent Co-Authors

Nianpeng He
Nianpeng He Chinese Academy of Sciences
Xiaomin Sun
Xiaomin Sun Chinese Academy of Sciences
Qiufeng Wang
Qiufeng Wang Chinese Academy of Sciences
Shenggong Li
Shenggong Li Chinese Academy of Sciences
Yiping Zhang
Yiping Zhang Chinese Academy of Sciences
Shijie Han
Shijie Han Chinese Academy of Sciences
Yingnian Li
Yingnian Li Chinese Academy of Sciences
Xuefa Wen
Xuefa Wen Chinese Academy of Sciences
Huimin Wang
Huimin Wang Chinese Academy of Sciences
Huajun Fang
Huajun Fang Chinese Academy of Sciences

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