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Lingli Liu publication distribution in Environmental Sciences in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Environmental Sciences in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Lingli Liu sits on this spectrum.

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41 publications 690+

This scientist: 203 publications — 65th percentile

65% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 690 publications or more.

Lingli Liu D-index placement in Environmental Sciences in 2026

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Environmental Sciences scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Lingli Liu sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 126+

This scientist: 56 D-Index — 63rd percentile

63% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 126 D-Index or more.

Overview

Lingli Liu is affiliated with the Chinese Academy of Sciences in China and has an extensive body of research focused on environmental science and agricultural and biological sciences. Their work spans numerous topics related to soil carbon and nitrogen dynamics, plant water relations and carbon dynamics, and microbial community ecology, among others.

Their research interests broadly cover:

  • Soil Carbon and Nitrogen Dynamics
  • Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics
  • Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies
  • Remote Sensing in Agriculture
  • Mycorrhizal Fungi and Plant Interactions
  • Plant responses to elevated CO2
  • Microbial Community Ecology and Physiology

Lingli Liu's major fields of study include Environmental Science and Agricultural and Biological Sciences. Within these, subfields of particular focus are Ecology, Soil Science, Global and Planetary Change, Plant Science, and Nature and Landscape Conservation.

Among the recent papers authored or coauthored by Lingli Liu are:

  • "Terrestrial carbon sinks in China and around the world and their contribution to carbon neutrality" (2022) published in Science China Life Sciences
  • "Critical transition of soil bacterial diversity and composition triggered by nitrogen enrichment" (2020) published in Ecology
  • "Long-term nitrogen input alters plant and soil bacterial, but not fungal beta diversity in a semiarid grassland" (2021) published in Global Change Biology
  • "Plant carbon inputs through shoot, root, and mycorrhizal pathways affect soil organic carbon turnover differently" (2021) published in Soil Biology and Biochemistry
  • "Patterns and determinants of soil microbial residues from tropical to boreal forests" (2020) published in Soil Biology and Biochemistry

Their frequent coauthors include Meifeng Deng, Weixing Liu, Yuntao Wu, Yanjun Su, and Sen Yang, indicating a collaborative research environment with repeating partnerships over multiple studies.

The venues where Lingli Liu publishes also highlight the focus of their research. These include Global Change Biology, New Phytologist, Nature Communications, Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research), and Soil Biology and Biochemistry.

Best Publications

  • Plant phenology and global climate change: Current progresses and challenges

    Shilong Piao;Shilong Piao;Qiang Liu;Anping Chen;Ivan A. Janssens

  • A global perspective on belowground carbon dynamics under nitrogen enrichment

    Lingli Liu;Tara L. Greaver

  • A review of nitrogen enrichment effects on three biogenic GHGs: the CO2 sink may be largely offset by stimulated N2O and CH4 emission.

    Lingli Liu;Tara L. Greaver

  • Shifting plant species composition in response to climate change stabilizes grassland primary production.

    Huiying Liu;Zhaorong Mi;Li Lin;Yonghui Wang

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

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

  • Evidence for a weakening relationship between interannual temperature variability and northern vegetation activity

    Shilong Piao;Shilong Piao;Huijuan Nan;Chris Huntingford;Philippe Ciais

  • Terrestrial carbon sinks in China and around the world and their contribution to carbon neutrality

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  • A meta-analysis of 1,119 manipulative experiments on terrestrial carbon-cycling responses to global change

    Jian Song;Jian Song;Shiqiang Wan;Shiqiang Wan;Shilong Piao;Shilong Piao;Alan K. Knapp

  • Effects of nitrogen deposition and empirical nitrogen critical loads for ecoregions of the United States

    Linda H. Pardo;Mike E. Fenn;Christine L. Goodale;Linda. H. Geiser

  • How inhibiting nitrification affects nitrogen cycle and reduces environmental impacts of anthropogenic nitrogen input

    Chunlian Qiao;Lingli Liu;Shuijin Hu;Jana E. Compton

  • Different responses of soil respiration and its components to nitrogen addition among biomes: a meta-analysis

    Lingyan Zhou;Xuhui Zhou;Baocheng Zhang;Meng Lu

  • Soil respiration under climate warming: differential response of heterotrophic and autotrophic respiration

    Xin Wang;Lingli Liu;Shilong Piao;Ivan A. Janssens

  • Key ecological responses to nitrogen are altered by climate change

    T.L. Greaver;C.M. Clark;J.E. Compton;D. Vallano

  • A cross-biome synthesis of soil respiration and its determinants under simulated precipitation changes.

    Lingli Liu;Xin Wang;Marc J. Lajeunesse;Guofang Miao

  • Global patterns and substrate-based mechanisms of the terrestrial nitrogen cycle

    Shuli Niu;Aimée T. Classen;Jeffrey S. Dukes;Paul Kardol

  • Afforestation neutralizes soil pH

    Songbai Hong;Shilong Piao;Shilong Piao;Anping Chen;Yongwen Liu

  • Variability of above-ground litter inputs alters soil physicochemical and biological processes: a meta-analysis of litterfall-manipulation experiments

    Shan Xu;Lingli Liu;E. J. Sayer

  • Ecological effects of nitrogen and sulfur air pollution in the US: what do we know?

    Tara L Greaver;Timothy J Sullivan;Jeffrey D Herrick;Mary C Barber

  • Climate change impacts of US reactive nitrogen

    Robert W. Pinder;Eric A. Davidson;Christine L. Goodale;Tara L. Greaver

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

    Weixing Liu;Lin Jiang;Sen Yang;Zhou Wang

  • global patterns of the responses of leaf-level photosynthesis and respiration in terrestrial plants to experimental warming

    Junyi Liang;Jianyang Xia;Lingli Liu;Shiqiang Wan;Shiqiang Wan

  • Effects of elevated concentrations of atmospheric CO2 and tropospheric O3 on leaf litter production and chemistry in trembling aspen and paper birch communities

    Lingli Liu;John S. King;Christian P. Giardina

Frequent Co-Authors

Shilong Piao
Shilong Piao Peking University
Zhenhua Wang
Zhenhua Wang Soochow University
Bin Wang
Bin Wang University of Hawaii at Manoa
Shiqiang Wan
Shiqiang Wan Henan University
Emma J. Sayer
Emma J. Sayer Lancaster University
Jingyun Fang
Jingyun Fang Peking University
Shuijin Hu
Shuijin Hu North Carolina State University
Christine L. Goodale
Christine L. Goodale Cornell University
Lin Jiang
Lin Jiang Georgia Institute of Technology
Shushi Peng
Shushi Peng Peking University

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