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Overview

Manqiang Liu is affiliated with Nanjing Agricultural University in China and has made extensive contributions to the fields of Agricultural and Biological Sciences and Environmental Science. Their research predominantly spans Plant Science, Soil Science, Ecology, Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, and Mechanical Engineering.

The scientist's work centers on topics that include Soil Carbon and Nitrogen Dynamics, Nematode management and characterization studies, Legume Nitrogen Fixing Symbiosis, Isotope Analysis in Ecology, Mycorrhizal Fungi and Plant Interactions, Microbial Community Ecology and Physiology, and Insect and Arachnid Ecology and Behavior.

Frequent coauthors collaborating with Manqiang Liu include:

  • Xiaoyun Chen
  • Feng Hu
  • Zhengkun Hu
  • Xin Gong
  • Chongzhe Zhang

Manqiang Liu has published extensively in several academic venues, with the most numerous publications appearing in:

  • Soil Biology and Biochemistry
  • SSRN Electronic Journal
  • Biology and Fertility of Soils
  • Applied Soil Ecology
  • New Phytologist

Notable recent papers by Manqiang Liu include:

  • "Organic fertilization promotes crop productivity through changes in soil aggregation," 2021, Soil Biology and Biochemistry
  • "Nutrient-induced acidification modulates soil biodiversity-function relationships," 2024, Nature Communications
  • "Trophic interactions as determinants of the arbuscular mycorrhizal fungal community with cascading plant-promoting consequences," 2020, Microbiome
  • "Energy flux across multitrophic levels drives ecosystem multifunctionality: Evidence from nematode food webs," 2022, Soil Biology and Biochemistry
  • "Active phoD-harboring bacteria are enriched by long-term organic fertilization," 2020, Soil Biology and Biochemistry

Best Publications

  • Strategies used by soil biota to overcome soil organic matter stability — why is dead organic matter left over in the soil?

    Klemens Ekschmitt;Manqiang Liu;Silke Vetter;Oliver Fox

  • Nematode grazing promotes bacterial community dynamics in soil at the aggregate level

    Yuji Jiang;Manqiang Liu;Jiabao Zhang;Yan Chen

  • Organic amendments with reduced chemical fertilizer promote soil microbial development and nutrient availability in a subtropical paddy field: The influence of quantity, type and application time of organic amendments

    Manqiang Liu;Feng Hu;Xiaoyun Chen;Qianru Huang

  • Changes in tetracycline partitioning and bacteria/phage-comediated ARGs in microplastic-contaminated greenhouse soil facilitated by sophorolipid.

    Mingming Sun;Mao Ye;Wentao Jiao;Yanfang Feng

  • Deciphering the associations between soil microbial diversity and ecosystem multifunctionality driven by long‐term fertilization management

    Gongwen Luo;Christopher Rensing;Huan Chen;Manqiang Liu

  • Understanding how long-term organic amendments increase soil phosphatase activities: Insight into phoD- and phoC-harboring functional microbial populations

    Gongwen Luo;Bo Sun;Ling Li;Minghui Li

  • Interaction matters: synergy between vermicompost and PGPR agents improves soil quality, crop quality and crop yield in the field

    Xiuchao Song;Manqiang Liu;Di Wu;Bryan S. Griffiths

  • Earthworms Coordinate Soil Biota to Improve Multiple Ecosystem Functions.

    Ting Liu;Xiaoyun Chen;Xin Gong;Ingrid M. Lubbers

  • Heavy metal and nutrient changes during vermicomposting animal manure spiked with mushroom residues.

    Xiuchao Song;Manqiang Liu;Di Wu;Lin Qi

  • Effects of earthworms on soil enzyme activity in an organic residue amended rice–wheat rotation agro-ecosystem

    Jun Tao;Bryan Griffiths;Shujie Zhang;Xiaoyun Chen

  • A sequential extraction procedure reveals that water management affects soil nematode communities in paddy fields

    Manqiang Liu;Xiaoyun Chen;Jiangtao Qin;Jiangtao Qin;Dong Wang

  • Soil quality assessment of wheat-maize cropping system with different productivities in China: Establishing a minimum data set

    Peng Li;Kun Shi;Yuanyuan Wang;Dening Kong

  • Trophic interactions as determinants of the arbuscular mycorrhizal fungal community with cascading plant-promoting consequences

    Yuji Jiang;Lu Luan;Kaijie Hu;Manqiang Liu

  • Long-term nitrogen & phosphorus additions reduce soil microbial respiration but increase its temperature sensitivity in a Tibetan alpine meadow

    Hui Guo;Chenglong Ye;Hao Zhang;Shang Pan

  • Influence of bacterial-feeding nematodes on nitrification and the ammonia-oxidizing bacteria (AOB) community composition

    Haifeng Xiao;Bryan Griffiths;Xiaoyun Chen;Manqiang Liu

  • Effects of nitrogen fertilization and straw amendment on soil microbial biomass and soil functions after heat stress

    Xiao-Yun Chen;Shi Chen;Man-Qiang Liu;Jia-Guo Jiao

  • Vermicompost increases defense against root-knot nematode (Meloidogyne incognita) in tomato plants

    Zhenggao Xiao;Manqiang Liu;Linhui Jiang;Xiaoyun Chen

  • Aggregate-related changes in network patterns of nematodes and ammonia oxidizers in an acidic soil

    Yuji Jiang;Bo Sun;Huixin Li;Manqiang Liu

  • Agriculture erases climate constraints on soil nematode communities across large spatial scales

    Xianping Li;Huimin Zhu;Stefan Geisen;Céline Bellard

  • Long-term fertilization regimes drive the abundance and composition of N-cycling-related prokaryotic groups via soil particle-size differentiation

    Gongwen Luo;Ville-Petri Friman;Huan Chen;Manqiang Liu

  • Biochar Combined with Vermicompost Increases Crop Production While Reducing Ammonia and Nitrous Oxide Emissions from a Paddy Soil

    Di Wu;Yanfang Feng;Lihong Xue;Manqiang Liu

Frequent Co-Authors

Feng Hu
Feng Hu Nanjing Agricultural University
Huixin Li
Huixin Li Nanjing Agricultural University
Bryan S. Griffiths
Bryan S. Griffiths Scotland's Rural College
Michael Bonkowski
Michael Bonkowski University of Cologne
Shuijin Hu
Shuijin Hu North Carolina State University
Ning Ling
Ning Ling Nanjing Agricultural University
Shiwei Guo
Shiwei Guo Nanjing Agricultural University
Joann K. Whalen
Joann K. Whalen McGill University
A. P. Schwab
A. P. Schwab Texas A&M University
Guozhen Du
Guozhen Du Lanzhou University

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