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Overview

Mai-He Li is affiliated with the Swiss Federal Institute for Forest, Snow and Landscape Research in Switzerland, with extensive research contributions primarily in the fields of Environmental Science and Agricultural and Biological Sciences. Their work spans a variety of subfields, including Plant Science, Nature and Landscape Conservation, Global and Planetary Change, Soil Science, and Atmospheric Science.

Their main research topics focus on Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics, Soil Carbon and Nitrogen Dynamics, Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies, Tree-ring Climate Responses, Forest Ecology and Management, Microbial Community Ecology and Physiology, and Seedling Growth and Survival Studies.

Mai-He Li's recent published papers include:

  • Responses of soil nitrogen and phosphorus cycling to drying and rewetting cycles: A meta-analysis (2020) in Soil Biology and Biochemistry
  • Soil physicochemical properties drive the variation in soil microbial communities along a forest successional series in a degraded wetland in northeastern China (2021) in Ecology and Evolution
  • Rhizosphere activity in an old-growth forest reacts rapidly to changes in soil moisture and shapes whole-tree carbon allocation (2020) in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • Extreme Precipitation on Consecutive Days Occurs More Often in a Warming Climate (2021) in Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society
  • Exogenous GABA promotes adaptation and growth by altering the carbon and nitrogen metabolic flux in poplar seedlings under low nitrogen conditions (2020) in Tree Physiology

The frequent co-authors collaborating with Mai-He Li include:

  • Hong S. He
  • Fei-Hai Yu
  • Xin Sui
  • Arthur Geßler
  • Beat Frey

Mai-He Li has published consistently in several venues notable for contributions to environmental and plant sciences. These venues include Frontiers in Plant Science, SSRN Electronic Journal, Tree Physiology, The Science of The Total Environment, and Microorganisms.

Best Publications

  • Improved Brassica rapa reference genome by single-molecule sequencing and chromosome conformation capture technologies.

    Lei Zhang;Xu Cai;Jian Wu;Min Liu

  • Source/sink removal affects mobile carbohydrates in Pinus cembra at the Swiss treeline

    Mai He Li;Günter Hoch;Christian Körner

  • Recovery of trees from drought depends on belowground sink control

    Frank Hagedorn;Jobin Joseph;Jobin Joseph;Martina Peter;Jörg Luster

  • Regional assessment of environmental vulnerability in the Tibetan Plateau: Development and application of a new method

    X. D. Wang;X. H. Zhong;S. Z. Liu;J. G. Liu

  • 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

  • Mobile carbohydrates in Himalayan treeline trees I. Evidence for carbon gain limitation but not for growth limitation.

    Mai-He Li;Mai-He Li;Wen-Fa Xiao;San-Gen Wang;Gen-Wei Cheng

  • Nitrogen and carbon source-sink relationships in trees at the Himalayan treelines compared with lower elevations

    Mai-He Li;Wen-Fa Xiao;Peili Shi;San-Gen Wang

  • Coupled response of soil carbon and nitrogen pools and enzyme activities to nitrogen and water addition in a semi-arid grassland of Inner Mongolia

    Ruzhen Wang;Timothy R. Filley;Zhuwen Xu;Xue Wang

  • Fractal characteristics of soils under different land-use patterns in the arid and semiarid regions of the Tibetan Plateau, China

    Xiaodan Wang;Mai-He Li;Mai-He Li;Shuzhen Liu;Gangcai Liu

  • Responses of soil nitrogen and phosphorus cycling to drying and rewetting cycles: A meta-analysis

    Decai Gao;Decai Gao;Edith Bai;Maihe Li;Maihe Li;Chunhong Zhao;Chunhong Zhao

  • Litterfall production, decomposition and nutrient use efficiency varies with tropical forest types in Xishuangbanna, SW China: a 10-year study

    Jian-Wei Tang;Jian-Wei Tang;Min Cao;Jian-Hou Zhang;Mai-He Li

  • Plant functional diversity modulates global environmental change effects on grassland productivity

    Zhuwen Xu;Zhuwen Xu;Mai‐He Li;Niklaus E. Zimmermann;Shao‐Peng Li

  • Warming-induced upward migration of the alpine treeline in the Changbai Mountains, northeast China

    Haibo Du;Jie Liu;Mai-He Li;Ulf Büntgen

  • Seasonal Exposure to Drought and Air Warming Affects Soil Collembola and Mites

    Guo Liang Xu;Thomas M. Kuster;Madeleine S. Günthardt-Goerg;Matthias Dobbertin

  • Growth responses of Picea abies and Larix decidua to elevation in subalpine areas of Tyrol, Austria

    Mai He Li;Jian Yang;Norbert Kräuchi

  • Land use change effects on diversity of soil bacterial, Acidobacterial and fungal communities in wetlands of the Sanjiang Plain, northeastern China.

    Xin Sui;Rongtao Zhang;Beat Frey;Libin Yang

  • Variation in Carbon Storage and Its Distribution by Stand Age and Forest Type in Boreal and Temperate Forests in Northeastern China

    Yawei Wei;Maihe Li;Hua Chen;Hua Chen;Bernard J. Lewis

  • Effects of microsite on growth of Pinus cembra in the subalpine zone of the Austrian Alps

    Mai-He Li;Mai-He Li;Jian Yang

  • Effects of water and nitrogen addition on species turnover in temperate grasslands in northern China.

    Zhuwen Xu;Shiqiang Wan;Haiyan Ren;Xingguo Han

  • Extreme precipitation on consecutive days occurs more often in a warming climate

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  • Damage to the oxygen-evolving complex by superoxide anion, hydrogen peroxide, and hydroxyl radical in photoinhibition of photosystem II

    Yu Guang Song;Bin Liu;Lan Fen Wang;Mai He Li

  • Rates of litter decomposition and soil respiration in relation to soil temperature and water in different-aged Pinus massoniana forests in the Three Gorges Reservoir Area, China.

    Wenfa Xiao;Xiaogai Ge;Lixiong Zeng;Zhilin Huang

  • Resprouting ability and mobile carbohydrate reserves in an oak shrubland decline with increasing elevation on the eastern edge of the Qinghai–Tibet Plateau

    Wan-Ze Zhu;Jin-Song Xiang;San-Gen Wang;Mai-He Li

  • Patterns of Plant Biomass Allocation in Temperate Grasslands across a 2500-km Transect in Northern China

    Wentao Luo;Yong Jiang;Xiaotao Lü;Xue Wang

  • Homeostatic levels of nonstructural carbohydrates after 13 yr of drought and irrigation in Pinus sylvestris.

    Leonie Schönbeck;Leonie Schönbeck;Arthur Gessler;Günter Hoch;Nate G. McDowell

  • Responses of fine roots and soil N availability to short-term nitrogen fertilization in a broad-leaved Korean pine mixed forest in northeastern China

    Cunguo Wang;Shijie Han;Yumei Zhou;Caifeng Yan

Frequent Co-Authors

Yong Jiang
Yong Jiang Hebei University
Arthur Gessler
Arthur Gessler ETH Zurich
Marcus Schaub
Marcus Schaub Swiss Federal Institute for Forest, Snow and Landscape Research
Xingguo Han
Xingguo Han Hebei University
Fei-Hai Yu
Fei-Hai Yu Taizhou University
Hong S. He
Hong S. He University of Missouri
Shijie Han
Shijie Han Chinese Academy of Sciences
Xiao-Tao Lü
Xiao-Tao Lü Chinese Academy of Sciences
Ivano Brunner
Ivano Brunner Swiss Federal Institute for Forest, Snow and Landscape Research

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