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Hai Ren is affiliated with the Chinese Academy of Sciences in China and has contributed extensively to the fields of Agricultural and Biological Sciences as well as Environmental Science. Their research spans several subfields including Plant Science, Ecology, Soil Science, Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, and Nature and Landscape Conservation.

The scientist's main topics of work focus on Soil Carbon and Nitrogen Dynamics, Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies, Plant and animal studies, Coastal wetland ecosystem dynamics, Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics, Mycorrhizal Fungi and Plant Interactions, and Conservation, Biodiversity, and Resource Management.

Hai Ren has coauthored numerous papers with frequent collaborators such as Dafeng Hui, Jun Wang, Shuguang Jian, Zhanfeng Liu, and Hongfang Lü. Their research has appeared consistently in key publication venues, with multiple publications in Global Ecology and Conservation, Journal of Environmental Management, Biological Diversity, Biodiversity Science, and SSRN Electronic Journal.

Some of the recent papers authored or coauthored by Hai Ren include:

  • Supply and demand assessment of urban recreation service and its implication for greenspace planning - A case study on Guangzhou, 2020, Landscape and Urban Planning
  • Faster accumulation and greater contribution of glomalin to the soil organic carbon pool than amino sugars do under tropical coastal forest restoration, 2022, Global Change Biology
  • Coastal blue carbon in China as a nature-based solution toward carbon neutrality, 2023, The Innovation
  • Soil C:N:P stoichiometry in tropical forests on Hainan Island of China: Spatial and vertical variations, 2021, CATENA
  • The effect of nature exposure, nature connectedness on mental well-being and ill-being in a general Chinese population, 2022, Landscape and Urban Planning

The range of research topics covered by Hai Ren illustrates a focus on ecosystem dynamics, biogeochemical cycles, and the interaction between human activities and natural environments. Their work includes examining carbon pools in forest restoration, assessing urban greenspace needs, and exploring coastal wetland contributions to carbon neutrality.

Best Publications

  • China’s response to a national land-system sustainability emergency

    Brett A Bryan;Brett A Bryan;Lei Gao;Yangqiong Ye;Yangqiong Ye;Xiufeng Sun;Xiufeng Sun

  • Global variation in elevational diversity patterns

    Qinfeng Guo;Douglas A. Kelt;Zhongyu Sun;Hongxiao Liu

  • Sonneratia apetala Buch.Ham in the mangrove ecosystems of China: An invasive species or restoration species?

    Hai Ren;Hongfang Lu;Weijun Shen;Charlie Huang

  • Carbon stocks and potential carbon storage in the mangrove forests of China

    Hongxiao Liu;Hai Ren;Dafeng Hui;Wenqing Wang

  • Climate and litter C/N ratio constrain soil organic carbon accumulation

    Guoyi Zhou;Guoyi Zhou;Shan Xu;Philippe Ciais;Stefano Manzoni

  • Integrated emergy, energy and economic evaluation of rice and vegetable production systems in alluvial paddy fields: implications for agricultural policy in China.

    Hongfang Lu;Yu Bai;Hai Ren;Daniel E. Campbell

  • Productivity as related to diversity and age in planted versus natural forests

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  • Nurse plant theory and its application in ecological restoration in lower subtropics of China

    Hai Ren;Long Yang;Nan Liu

  • Biomass accumulation and carbon storage of four different aged Sonneratia apetala plantations in Southern China

    Hai Ren;Hua Chen;Zhi’an Li;Weidong Han

  • Degraded ecosystems in China: status, causes, and restoration efforts

    Hai Ren;Wei-Jun Shen;Hong-Fang Lu;Xiang-Ying Wen

  • Facilitation by two exotic Acacia: Acacia auriculiformis and Acacia mangium as nurse plants in South China

    Long Yang;Nan Liu;Hai Ren;Jun Wang

  • Wild Plant Species with Extremely Small Populations Require Conservation and Reintroduction in China

    Hai Ren;Qianmei Zhang;Hongfang Lu;Hongxiao Liu

  • Restoration of mangrove plantations and colonisation by native species in Leizhou bay, South China

    Hai Ren;Shuguang Jian;Hongfang Lu;Qianmei Zhang

  • Supply and demand assessment of urban recreation service and its implication for greenspace planning-A case study on Guangzhou

    Hongxiao Liu;Roy P. Remme;Perrine Hamel;Huifu Nong

  • Conservation and economic viability of nature reserves: An emergy evaluation of the Yancheng Biosphere Reserve

    Hongfang Lu;Daniel Campbell;Jie Chen;Pei Qin

  • Mangrove succession enriches the sediment microbial community in South China

    Quan Chen;Qian Zhao;Jing Li;Shuguang Jian

  • Emergy synthesis of an agro-forest restoration system in lower subtropical China

    Hong-Fang Lu;Daniel E. Campbell;Zhi-An Li;Hai Ren

  • Emergy and economic evaluations of four fruit production systems on reclaimed wetlands surrounding the Pearl River Estuary, China

    Hong-Fang Lu;Wen-Ling Kang;Daniel E. Campbell;Hai Ren

  • Wetland changes and mangrove restoration planning in Shenzhen Bay, Southern China

    Hai Ren;Xiaoming Wu;Tianzhu Ning;Gu Huang

  • Changes in biodiversity and ecosystem function during the restoration of a tropical forest in south China.

    Hai Ren;ZhiAn Li;WeiJun Shen;ZuoYue Yu

  • Community Comparison and Determinant Analysis of Understory Vegetation in Six Plantations in South China

    Wenjun Duan;Hai Ren;Shenglei Fu;Jun Wang

  • Effects of changing precipitation regimes on dryland soil respiration and C pool dynamics at rainfall event, seasonal and interannual scales

    Weijun Shen;Weijun Shen;G. Darrel Jenerette;Dafeng Hui;Richard P. Phillips

Frequent Co-Authors

Shuguang Jian
Shuguang Jian South China Institute of Botany
Jun Wang
Jun Wang University of Central Florida
Dafeng Hui
Dafeng Hui Tennessee State University
Daniel E. Campbell
Daniel E. Campbell Environmental Protection Agency
Songjun Zeng
Songjun Zeng South China Institute of Botany
Zhian Li
Zhian Li Chinese Academy of Sciences
Jianguo Wu
Jianguo Wu Arizona State University
Brett A. Bryan
Brett A. Bryan Deakin University
Wanhui Ye
Wanhui Ye Chinese Academy of Sciences
Guoyi Zhou
Guoyi Zhou Nanjing University of Information Science and Technology

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