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D-Index
88
Citations
26902
World Ranking
529
National Ranking
13

Overview

Keping Ma is affiliated with the Chinese Academy of Sciences in China. Their primary research focuses on environmental science and agricultural and biological sciences, with an emphasis on several subfields including nature and landscape conservation, global and planetary change, ecology, evolution, behavior and systematics, ecological modeling, and general ecology.

Their main topics of study cover a broad spectrum related to ecology and biodiversity, including ecology and vegetation dynamics studies, plant and animal studies, species distribution and climate change, conservation, biodiversity and resource management, forest ecology and management, land use and ecosystem services, as well as forest management and policy.

Keping Ma has contributed to numerous scientific papers published in prominent venues. Some of the recent papers include:

  • Sampling biases shape our view of the natural world, 2021, Ecography
  • Functional diversity effects on productivity increase with age in a forest biodiversity experiment, 2021, Nature Ecology & Evolution
  • ForestGEO: Understanding forest diversity and dynamics through a global observatory network, 2020, Biological Conservation
  • Species richness stabilizes productivity via asynchrony and drought-tolerance diversity in a large-scale tree biodiversity experiment, 2021, Science Advances
  • The global significance of biodiversity science in China: an overview, 2021, National Science Review

The researcher frequently publishes in journals such as Biodiversity Science, Nature Ecology & Evolution, Journal of Ecology, Global Ecology and Conservation, and Biological Conservation.

Among frequent coauthors, Keping Ma collaborates most often with Helge Bruelheide, Xiaojuan Liu, Xiangcheng Mi, Bernhard Schmid, and Shan Li. These collaborations are reflected by numerous joint publications.

Best Publications

  • Valuing nature's contributions to people: the IPBES approach

    Unai Pascual;Unai Pascual;Patricia Balvanera;Sandra Díaz;György Pataki

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

    Xuli Tang;Xia Zhao;Yongfei Bai;Zhiyao Tang

  • Partitioning beta diversity in a subtropical broad-leaved forest of China

    Pierre Legendre;Xiangcheng Mi;Haibao Ren;Keping Ma

  • Impacts of species richness on productivity in a large-scale subtropical forest experiment.

    Yuanyuan Huang;Yuxin Chen;Nadia Castro-Izaguirre;Martin Baruffol;Martin Baruffol

  • CTFS-ForestGEO: A worldwide network monitoring forests in an era of global change

    Kristina J. Anderson-Teixeira;Kristina J. Anderson-Teixeira;Stuart J. Davies;Stuart J. Davies;Amy C. Bennett;Erika B. Gonzalez-Akre

  • Global importance of large‐diameter trees

    James A. Lutz;Tucker J. Furniss;Daniel J. Johnson;Stuart J. Davies

  • Sampling biases shape our view of the natural world

    Alice C. Hughes;Michael C. Orr;Keping Ma;Mark J. Costello

  • Scale-dependent relationships between tree species richness and ecosystem function in forests

    Ryan A. Chisholm;Helene C. Muller-Landau;Kassim Abdul Rahman;Daniel P. Bebber

  • Designing forest biodiversity experiments : general considerations illustrated by a new large experiment in subtropical China

    Helge Bruelheide;Karin Nadrowski;Thorsten Assmann;Jürgen Bauhus

  • Tree species richness increases ecosystem carbon storage in subtropical forests

    Xiaojuan Liu;Stefan Trogisch;Jin-Sheng He;Pascal A. Niklaus

  • Biodiversity across trophic levels drives multifunctionality in highly diverse forests

    Andreas Schuldt;Thorsten Assmann;Matteo Brezzi;Matteo Brezzi;François Buscot

  • Community assembly during secondary forest succession in a Chinese subtropical forest

    Helge Bruelheide;Martin Böhnke;Sabine Both;Teng Fang

  • Forests and Their Canopies: Achievements and Horizons in Canopy Science.

    Akihiro Nakamura;Roger L. Kitching;Min Cao;Thomas J. Creedy;Thomas J. Creedy

  • Crop Wild Relatives—Undervalued, Underutilized and under Threat?

    Brian V. Ford-Lloyd;Markus Schmidt;Susan J. Armstrong;Oz Barazani

  • Phylogenetic and functional alpha and beta diversity in temperate and tropical tree communities

    Nathan G. Swenson;David L. Erickson;Xiangcheng Mi;Norman Alan Bourg

  • Species richness stabilizes productivity via asynchrony and drought-tolerance diversity in a large-scale tree biodiversity experiment

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  • Differential soil fungus accumulation and density dependence of trees in a subtropical forest

    Lei Chen;Nathan G. Swenson;Niuniu Ji;Xiangcheng Mi

  • PAPER Geographical sampling bias in a large distributional database and its effects on species richness-environment models

    Wenjing Yang;Wenjing Yang;Keping Ma;Holger Kreft

  • Functional diversity effects on productivity increase with age in a forest biodiversity experiment.

    Franca J. Bongers;Bernhard Schmid;Helge Bruelheide;Frans Bongers

  • Species-area relationships explained by the joint effects of dispersal limitation and habitat heterogeneity.

    Guochun Shen;Mingjian Yu;Xin-Sheng Hu;Xiangcheng Mi

  • ForestGEO: Understanding forest diversity and dynamics through a global observatory network

    Stuart J. Davies;Iveren Abiem;Kamariah Abu Salim;Salomón Aguilar

  • Impacts of urea N addition on soil microbial community in a semi-arid temperate steppe in northern China

    Naili Zhang;Shiqiang Wan;Linghao Li;Jie Bi

  • Community assembly during secondary forest succession in a Chinese subtropical forest

    Helge Bruelheide;Martin Bohnke;Sabine Both;Fang Teng

Frequent Co-Authors

Bernhard Schmid
Bernhard Schmid University of Zurich
Helge Bruelheide
Helge Bruelheide Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg
Zhanqing Hao
Zhanqing Hao Northwestern Polytechnical University
I-Fang Sun
I-Fang Sun National Dong Hwa University
Pascal A. Niklaus
Pascal A. Niklaus University of Zurich
Andreas Schuldt
Andreas Schuldt University of Göttingen
Thomas Scholten
Thomas Scholten University of Tübingen
Werner Härdtle
Werner Härdtle Leuphana University of Lüneburg
Christian Wirth
Christian Wirth Leipzig University

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