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Ecology and Evolution

D-Index
57
Citations
12817
World Ranking
2703
National Ranking
959

Overview

Lin Jiang is a researcher affiliated with the Georgia Institute of Technology in the United States. Their work primarily focuses on environmental science and agricultural and biological sciences, contributing extensively to these fields through numerous publications.

The scientist's research spans several subfields, including nature and landscape conservation, plant science, ecology, ecology, evolution, behavior and systematics, as well as global and planetary change. These areas reflect a broad engagement with both theoretical and applied aspects of ecological and environmental studies.

The main topics covered in Lin Jiang's work include:

  • Ecology and vegetation dynamics studies
  • Plant and animal studies
  • Soil carbon and nitrogen dynamics
  • Species distribution and climate change
  • Mycorrhizal fungi and plant interactions
  • Plant water relations and carbon dynamics
  • Microbial community ecology and physiology

Lin Jiang has published research in several frequent venues, indicating a consistent presence in leading journals within ecology and related disciplines. These publication venues include:

  • Global Change Biology
  • Ecology
  • Journal of Ecology
  • Faculty Opinions - Post-Publication Peer Review of the Biomedical Literature
  • Ecology Letters

Their recent papers showcase a sustained focus on ecological processes, soil biodiversity, and effects of environmental changes on ecosystems. Selected recent papers include:

  • Alpine grassland plants grow earlier and faster but biomass remains unchanged over 35 years of climate change, 2020, Ecology Letters
  • Critical transition of soil bacterial diversity and composition triggered by nitrogen enrichment, 2020, Ecology
  • Long-term nitrogen input alters plant and soil bacterial, but not fungal beta diversity in a semiarid grassland, 2021, Global Change Biology
  • Nutrient-induced acidification modulates soil biodiversity-function relationships, 2024, Nature Communications
  • Island biogeography of soil bacteria and fungi: similar patterns, but different mechanisms, 2020, The ISME Journal

Lin Jiang collaborates frequently with other researchers. Frequent coauthors include:

  • Xian Yang
  • Shaopeng Wang
  • Shaopeng Li
  • Lingli Liu
  • Shiqiang Wan

Best Publications

  • The return of the variance: intraspecific variability in community ecology

    Cyrille Violle;Cyrille Violle;Brian J. Enquist;Brian J. Enquist;Brian J. McGill;Lin Jiang

  • Habitat fragmentation and biodiversity conservation: key findings and future challenges

    Maxwell C. Wilson;Xiao Yong Chen;Richard T. Corlett;Raphael K. Didham

  • Phylogenetic limiting similarity and competitive exclusion

    Cyrille Violle;Cyrille Violle;Cyrille Violle;Diana R. Nemergut;Diana R. Nemergut;Zhichao Pu;Lin Jiang

  • Climate warming reduces the temporal stability of plant community biomass production.

    Zhiyuan Ma;Huiying Liu;Zhaorong Mi;Zhenhua Zhang

  • Global patterns in the biogeography of bacterial taxa

    Diana R. Nemergut;Elizabeth K. Costello;Micah Hamady;Catherine Lozupone

  • Changes in assembly processes in soil bacterial communities following a wildfire disturbance

    Scott Ferrenberg;Sean P O'Neill;Sean P O'Neill;Joseph E Knelman;Joseph E Knelman;Bryan Todd

  • Towards a trait-based quantification of species niche

    Cyrille Violle;Lin Jiang

  • Diversity-dependent stability under mowing and nutrient addition: evidence from a 7-year grassland experiment

    Haijun Yang;Lin Jiang;Linghao Li;Ang Li

  • Decreases in average bacterial community rRNA operon copy number during succession

    Diana R Nemergut;Joseph E Knelman;Scott Ferrenberg;Teresa Bilinski

  • Different Effects of Species Diversity on Temporal Stability in Single‐Trophic and Multitrophic Communities

    Lin Jiang;Zhichao Pu

  • Environmental changes drive the temporal stability of semi-arid natural grasslands through altering species asynchrony

    Zhuwen Xu;Zhuwen Xu;Haiyan Ren;Mai-He Li;Jasper van Ruijven

  • Alpine grassland plants grow earlier and faster but biomass remains unchanged over 35 years of climate change

    Hao Wang;Hao Wang;Huiying Liu;Guangmin Cao;Zhiyuan Ma

  • Critical transition of soil bacterial diversity and composition triggered by nitrogen enrichment

    Weixing Liu;Lin Jiang;Sen Yang;Zhou Wang

  • Soil microbial community composition and respiration along an experimental precipitation gradient in a semiarid steppe

    Cancan Zhao;Yuan Miao;Chengde Yu;Lili Zhu

  • Long-term nitrogen input alters plant and soil bacterial, but not fungal beta diversity in a semiarid grassland.

    Weixing Liu;Weixing Liu;Lingli Liu;Xian Yang;Meifeng Deng

  • Island biogeography of soil bacteria and fungi: similar patterns, but different mechanisms.

    Shao peng Li;Shao peng Li;Pandeng Wang;Pandeng Wang;Yongjian Chen;Maxwell C. Wilson

  • COMMUNITY ASSEMBLY IN THE PRESENCE OF DISTURBANCE: A MICROCOSM EXPERIMENT

    Lin Jiang;Shivani N. Patel

  • Temperature-dependent interactions explain unexpected responses to environmental warming in communities of competitors

    Lin Jiang;Peter J. Morin

  • Experimental demonstration of the importance of competition under disturbance

    Cyrille Violle;Zhichao Pu;Lin Jiang

  • Species colonisation, not competitive exclusion, drives community overdispersion over long‐term succession

    Shao-peng Li;Shao-peng Li;Shao-peng Li;Marc W. Cadotte;Scott J. Meiners;Zheng-shuang Hua

  • Convergence and divergence in a long‐term old‐field succession: the importance of spatial scale and species abundance

    Shao‐peng Li;Marc W. Cadotte;Marc W. Cadotte;Scott J. Meiners;Zhichao Pu

  • An experimental test of Darwin's naturalization hypothesis.

    Lin Jiang;Jiaqi Tan;Zhichao Pu

Frequent Co-Authors

Shiqiang Wan
Shiqiang Wan Henan University
Changhui Peng
Changhui Peng University of Quebec at Montreal
Huai Chen
Huai Chen Chinese Academy of Sciences
Yangjian Zhang
Yangjian Zhang Hebei University
Cyrille Violle
Cyrille Violle Centre national de la recherche scientifique, CNRS
Dafeng Hui
Dafeng Hui Tennessee State University
Xingguo Han
Xingguo Han Hebei University
Jin-Sheng He
Jin-Sheng He Peking University
Marc W. Cadotte
Marc W. Cadotte University of Toronto
Lingli Liu
Lingli Liu Chinese Academy of Sciences

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