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Ming Dong

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Ecology and Evolution

D-Index
57
Citations
9871
World Ranking
2753
National Ranking
57

Ming Dong publication distribution in Ecology and Evolution in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Ecology and Evolution in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Ming Dong sits on this spectrum.

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37 publications 531+

This scientist: 184 publications — 68th percentile

68% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 531 publications or more.

Ming Dong D-index placement in Ecology and Evolution in 2026

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Ecology and Evolution scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Ming Dong sits on this spectrum.

30 D-Index: 95 scientists 31 D-Index: 123 scientists 32 D-Index: 191 scientists 33 D-Index: 245 scientists 34 D-Index: 252 scientists 35 D-Index: 244 scientists 36 D-Index: 249 scientists 37 D-Index: 244 scientists 38 D-Index: 254 scientists 39 D-Index: 254 scientists 40 D-Index: 280 scientists 41 D-Index: 274 scientists 42 D-Index: 266 scientists 43 D-Index: 233 scientists 44 D-Index: 248 scientists 45 D-Index: 208 scientists 46 D-Index: 201 scientists 47 D-Index: 213 scientists 48 D-Index: 207 scientists 49 D-Index: 172 scientists 50 D-Index: 209 scientists 51 D-Index: 199 scientists 52 D-Index: 153 scientists 53 D-Index: 169 scientists 54 D-Index: 163 scientists 55 D-Index: 148 scientists 56 D-Index: 120 scientists 57 D-Index: 146 scientists 58 D-Index: 137 scientists 59 D-Index: 140 scientists 60 D-Index: 104 scientists 61 D-Index: 119 scientists 62 D-Index: 118 scientists 63 D-Index: 99 scientists 64 D-Index: 77 scientists 65 D-Index: 100 scientists 66 D-Index: 86 scientists 67 D-Index: 83 scientists 68 D-Index: 75 scientists 69 D-Index: 94 scientists 70 D-Index: 57 scientists 71 D-Index: 68 scientists 72 D-Index: 59 scientists 73 D-Index: 63 scientists 74 D-Index: 66 scientists 75 D-Index: 60 scientists 76 D-Index: 42 scientists 77 D-Index: 49 scientists 78 D-Index: 39 scientists 79 D-Index: 37 scientists 80 D-Index: 43 scientists 81 D-Index: 41 scientists 82 D-Index: 45 scientists 83 D-Index: 34 scientists 84 D-Index: 40 scientists 85 D-Index: 35 scientists 86 D-Index: 55 scientists 87 D-Index: 24 scientists 88 D-Index: 24 scientists 89 D-Index: 30 scientists 90 D-Index: 23 scientists 91 D-Index: 25 scientists 92 D-Index: 27 scientists 93 D-Index: 27 scientists 94 D-Index: 13 scientists 95 D-Index: 23 scientists 96 D-Index: 12 scientists 97 D-Index: 14 scientists 98 D-Index: 19 scientists 99 D-Index: 16 scientists 100 D-Index: 14 scientists 101 D-Index: 5 scientists 102 D-Index: 21 scientists 103 D-Index: 16 scientists 104 D-Index: 10 scientists 105 D-Index: 7 scientists 106 D-Index: 7 scientists 107 D-Index: 7 scientists 108 D-Index: 6 scientists 109 D-Index: 9 scientists 110 D-Index: 11 scientists 111 D-Index: 12 scientists 112 D-Index: 9 scientists 113 D-Index: 7 scientists 114 D-Index: 3 scientists 115 D-Index: 8 scientists 116 D-Index: 5 scientists 117 D-Index: 11 scientists 118 D-Index: 4 scientists 119 D-Index: 2 scientists 120 D-Index: 5 scientists 121+ D-Index: 100 scientists
30 D-Index 121+

This scientist: 57 D-Index — 69th percentile

69% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 121 D-Index or more.

Overview

Ming Dong is affiliated with the Chinese Academy of Sciences in China, contributing extensively to research in Agricultural and Biological Sciences and Environmental Science. Their work covers a variety of subfields including Plant Science, Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, Nature and Landscape Conservation, and Global and Planetary Change.

The scientist's research topics notably include:

  • Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies
  • Plant and animal studies
  • Mycorrhizal Fungi and Plant Interactions
  • Plant responses to elevated CO2
  • Plant Pathogens and Fungal Diseases
  • Coastal wetland ecosystem dynamics
  • Atmospheric chemistry and aerosols

Ming Dong has published numerous papers, some of the most recent and cited are:

  • "Interrelationships between tetracyclines and nitrogen cycling processes mediated by microorganisms: A review," 2020, Bioresource Technology
  • "Spatio-temporal characteristics of cultural ecosystem services and their relations to landscape factors in Hangzhou Xixi National Wetland Park, China," 2023, Ecological Indicators
  • "ABA-regulated ploidy-related genes and non-structural carbon accumulation may underlie cold tolerance in tetraploid Fragaria moupinensis," 2020, Environmental and Experimental Botany
  • "Physiological and transcriptomic response reveals new insight into manganese tolerance of Celosia argentea Linn.," 2023, Journal of Hazardous Materials
  • "Progress and Prospects of Ecosystem Disservices: An Updated Literature Review," 2022, Sustainability

Frequent co-authors associated with Ming Dong include:

  • Yao-Bin Song (19 co-authored works)
  • Lijuan Zou (6 co-authored works)
  • Tuo Qi (6 co-authored works)
  • Johannes H. C. Cornelissen (6 co-authored works)
  • Wen-Hong Dai (4 co-authored works)

Ming Dong's publications have appeared repeatedly in several venues, including:

  • SSRN Electronic Journal (5 publications)
  • Research Square (Research Square) (3 publications)
  • Frontiers in Microbiology (2 publications)
  • Frontiers in Plant Science (2 publications)
  • Forests (2 publications)

Best Publications

  • Climate, soil and plant functional types as drivers of global fine-root trait variation

    Grégoire T. Freschet;Oscar J. Valverde‐Barrantes;Caroline M. Tucker;Joseph M. Craine

  • The compadre Plant Matrix Database: an open online repository for plant demography

    Roberto Salguero-Gómez;Roberto Salguero-Gómez;Roberto Salguero-Gómez;Owen R. Jones;C. Ruth Archer;Yvonne M. Buckley;Yvonne M. Buckley

  • Coordinated variation in leaf and root traits across multiple spatial scales in Chinese semi-arid and arid ecosystems

    Guofang Liu;Grégoire T. Freschet;Xu Pan;Johannes H. C. Cornelissen

  • United we stand, divided we fall: a meta-analysis of experiments on clonal integration and its relationship to invasiveness.

    Yao-Bin Song;Yao-Bin Song;Fei-Hai Yu;Fei-Hai Yu;Lidewij H. Keser;Lidewij H. Keser;Wayne Dawson

  • Plasticity in morphology and biomass allocation in Cynodon dactylon, a grass species forming stolons and rhizomes.

    M. Dong;H. de Kroon

  • Quantification of the Impact of Land-Use Changes on Ecosystem Services: A Case Study in Pingbian County, China

    Ren-Qiang Li;Ming Dong;Jian-Yong Cui;Li Li Zhang

  • Invasive alien plants in China: role of clonality and geographical origin

    Jian Liu;Jian Liu;Ming Dong;Ming Dong;Shi Li Miao;Zhen Yu Li

  • Clonal integration helps Psammochloa villosa survive sand burial in an inland dune

    Feihai Yu;Feihai Yu;Ming Dong;Bertil Krüsi

  • Clonal integration affects growth, photosynthetic efficiency and biomass allocation, but not the competitive ability, of the alien invasive Alternanthera philoxeroides under severe stress.

    Ning Wang;Fei-Hai Yu;Ping-Xing Li;Wei-Ming He

  • Germination of dimorphic seeds of the desert annual halophyte Suaeda aralocaspica (Chenopodiaceae), a C4 plant without Kranz anatomy.

    Lei Wang;Zhenying Huang;Carol C. Baskin;Jerry M. Baskin

  • A Trade-off Between Guerrilla and Phalanx Growth Forms in Leymus secalinus Under Different Nutrient Supplies

    Xue-Hua Ye;Fei-Hai Yu;Ming Dong

  • Clonal integration enhances survival and performance of Potentilla anserina, suffering from partial sand burial on Ordos plateau, China

    Feihai Yu;Yufu Chen;Ming Dong

  • Do rhizome severing and shoot defoliation affect clonal growth of Leymus chinensis at ramet population level

    Zhengwen Wang;Linghao Li;Xingguo Han;Ming Dong

  • Global to community scale differences in the prevalence of convergent over divergent leaf trait distributions in plant assemblages

    Grégoire T. Freschet;André T. C. Dias;David D. Ackerly;Rien Aerts

  • Clonal integration supports the expansion from terrestrial to aquatic environments of the amphibious stoloniferous herb Alternanthera philoxeroides.

    Ning Wang;Ning Wang;Feihai Yu;Pingxing Li;Weiming He

  • Adaptation of rhizome connections in drylands: increasing tolerance of clones to wind erosion.

    Fei-Hai Yu;Ning Wang;Ning Wang;Wei-Ming He;Yu Chu

  • Invasive alien plant species in China: regional distribution patterns

    Jian Liu;Jian Liu;Shi-Chu Liang;Feng-Hong Liu;Ren-Qing Wang

  • Morphological responses to local light conditions in clonal herbs from contrasting habitats, and their modification due to physiological integration.

    Ming Dong

  • Clonal plasticity in response to rhizome severing and heterogeneous resource supply in the rhizomatous grass Psammochloa villosa in an Inner Mongolian dune, China

    Ming Dong;Bao Alaten

  • Invasive clonal plant species have a greater root-foraging plasticity than non-invasive ones.

    Lidewij H. Keser;Lidewij H. Keser;Wayne Dawson;Yao-Bin Song;Fei-Hai Yu

  • Possible Role of Pectin-containing Mucilage and Dew in Repairing Embryo DNA of Seeds Adapted to Desert Conditions

    Zhenying Huang;Ivan Boubriak;Daphne J. Osborne;Ming Dong

Frequent Co-Authors

Fei-Hai Yu
Fei-Hai Yu Taizhou University
Zhenying Huang
Zhenying Huang Chinese Academy of Sciences
Johannes H. C. Cornelissen
Johannes H. C. Cornelissen Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
William K. Cornwell
William K. Cornwell University of New South Wales
Marinus J. A. Werger
Marinus J. A. Werger Utrecht University
Niels P. R. Anten
Niels P. R. Anten Wageningen University & Research
Andreas Prinzing
Andreas Prinzing University of Rennes
Kun-Fang Cao
Kun-Fang Cao Guangxi University
Jerry M. Baskin
Jerry M. Baskin Chinese Academy of Sciences
Carol C. Baskin
Carol C. Baskin University of Kentucky

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