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Guozhen Du is affiliated with Lanzhou University in China and has contributed extensively to the fields of environmental science and agricultural and biological sciences. Their research focus includes plant science, nature and landscape conservation, ecology, evolution, behavior and systematics, and soil science, reflecting a broad engagement with ecological and environmental dynamics.

They have published research on key topics such as ecology and vegetation dynamics studies, plant and animal studies, soil carbon and nitrogen dynamics, nematode management and characterization studies, microbial community ecology and physiology, land use and ecosystem services, and plant parasitism and resistance.

Recent publications include:

  • "Nutrient-induced acidification modulates soil biodiversity-function relationships," 2024, Nature Communications
  • "Dominant plants affect litter decomposition mainly through modifications of the soil microbial community," 2021, Soil Biology and Biochemistry
  • "Direct and indirect effects of temperature and precipitation on alpine seed banks in the Tibetan Plateau," 2020, Ecological Applications
  • "Soil Seed Banks, Alternative Stable State Theory, and Ecosystem Resilience," 2021, BioScience
  • "High soil pH enhances the network interactions among bacterial and archaeal microbiota in alpine grasslands of the Tibetan Plateau," 2020, Environmental Microbiology

Their work appears frequently in several publication venues, notably:

  • Global Ecology and Conservation
  • Frontiers in Plant Science
  • Journal of Ecology
  • Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
  • Soil Biology and Biochemistry

Guozhen Du has collaborated regularly with a group of co-authors, including Shuaiwei Luo, Wei Qi, Xianhui Zhou, Xiangtai Wang, and Guixin Li, indicating a consistent network of research partnerships.

Best Publications

  • Herbivores and nutrients control grassland plant diversity via light limitation

    Elizabeth T. Borer;Eric W. Seabloom;Daniel S. Gruner;W. Stanley Harpole

  • Grassland productivity limited by multiple nutrients

    Philip A. Fay;Suzanne M. Prober;W. Stanley Harpole;Johannes M. H. Knops

  • Effect of fencing and grazing on a Kobresia-dominated meadow in the Qinghai-Tibetan Plateau

    Gao-Lin Wu;Guo-Zhen Du;Zhen-Heng Liu;Simon Thirgood

  • Direct and indirect influences of 8 yr of nitrogen and phosphorus fertilization on Glomeromycota in an alpine meadow ecosystem

    Yongjun Liu;Yongjun Liu;Guoxi Shi;Lin Mao;Gang Cheng

  • Global change effects on plant communities are magnified by time and the number of global change factors imposed

    Kimberly J. Komatsu;Meghan L. Avolio;Nathan P. Lemoine;Forest Isbell

  • Asynchrony among local communities stabilises ecosystem function of metacommunities

    Kevin R. Wilcox;Andrew T. Tredennick;Sally E. Koerner;Emily Grman

  • Dynamics of arbuscular mycorrhizal fungal community structure and functioning along a nitrogen enrichment gradient in an alpine meadow ecosystem.

    Shengjing Jiang;Yongjun Liu;Jiajia Luo;Mingsen Qin

  • Seed mass and germination in an alpine meadow on the eastern Tsinghai–Tibet plateau

    Haiyan Bu;Xuelin Chen;Xiuli Xu;Kun Liu

  • Geographic variation in seed mass within and among nine species of Pedicularis (Orobanchaceae): effects of elevation, plant size and seed number per fruit

    Hui Guo;Susan J. Mazer;Guozhen Du

  • Phylogenetic structure of arbuscular mycorrhizal community shifts in response to increasing soil fertility

    Yongjun Liu;Yongjun Liu;Nancy Collins Johnson;Lin Mao;Guoxi Shi

  • The effects of long-term fertilization on the temporal stability of alpine meadow communities

    Zhongling Yang;Jasper van Ruijven;Guozhen Du

  • Regional Contingencies in the Relationship between Aboveground Biomass and Litter in the World's Grasslands

    Lydia R. O’Halloran;Elizabeth T. Borer;Eric W. Seabloom;Andrew S. MacDougall

  • The role of biomass allocation strategy in diversity loss due to fertilization

    Kechang Niu;Yanjiang Luo;Philippe Choler;Guozhen Du

  • Role of soil seed bank along a disturbance gradient in an alpine meadow on the Tibet plateau

    Miaojun Ma;Xianhui Zhou;Guozhen Du

  • Community-wide germination strategies in an alpine meadow on the eastern Qinghai-Tibet plateau: phylogenetic and life-history correlates

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  • Predicting invasion in grassland ecosystems: Is exotic dominance the real embarrassment of richness?

    Eric W. Seabloom;Elizabeth T. Borer;Yvonne M. Buckley;Elsa E. Cleland

  • Fertilization decreases species diversity but increases functional diversity: A three-year experiment in a Tibetan alpine meadow

    Kechang Niu;Kechang Niu;Philippe Choler;Francesco de Bello;Francesco de Bello;Nicholas Mirotchnick

  • The allometry of reproductive biomass in response to land use in Tibetan alpine grasslands.

    Kechang Niu;Kechang Niu;Philippe Choler;Binbin Zhao;Guozhen Du

  • Response of microbial functional groups involved in soil N cycle to N, P and NP fertilization in Tibetan alpine meadows

    Wenbin Ma;Shengjing Jiang;Féline Assemien;Mingsen Qin

  • Identifying response groups of soil nitrifiers and denitrifiers to grazing and associated soil environmental drivers in Tibetan alpine meadows

    Zhen Xie;Xavier Le Roux;Chuanpei Wang;Zhenkuan Gu

  • Grazing practices affect the soil microbial community composition in a Tibetan alpine meadow

    Fei Yang;Kechang Niu;Courtney G. Collins;Xuebin Yan

  • The Relationship between Species Richness and Evenness in Plant Communities along a Successional Gradient: A Study from Sub-Alpine Meadows of the Eastern Qinghai-Tibetan Plateau, China

    Hui Zhang;Robert John;Zechen Peng;Jianli Yuan

  • Impacts of altitude and position on the rates of soil nitrogen mineralization and nitrification in alpine meadows on the eastern Qinghai–Tibetan Plateau, China

    Shihu Zhang;Dongdong Chen;Dashuai Sun;Xiangtao Wang

Frequent Co-Authors

Gao-Lin Wu
Gao-Lin Wu Lanzhou University
Carol C. Baskin
Carol C. Baskin University of Kentucky
Huyuan Feng
Huyuan Feng Lanzhou University
Yann Hautier
Yann Hautier Utrecht University
Jerry M. Baskin
Jerry M. Baskin Chinese Academy of Sciences
Elizabeth T. Borer
Elizabeth T. Borer University of Minnesota
Johannes M. H. Knops
Johannes M. H. Knops Xi’an Jiaotong-Liverpool University
Carly J. Stevens
Carly J. Stevens Lancaster University
Rebecca L. McCulley
Rebecca L. McCulley University of Kentucky
Jennifer Firn
Jennifer Firn Queensland University of Technology

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