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78
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World Ranking
923
National Ranking
21

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Nianpeng He is affiliated with the Chinese Academy of Sciences in China and has contributed extensively to environmental science and agricultural and biological sciences. Their research spans various subfields, including nature and landscape conservation, ecology, global and planetary change, soil science, and ecology, evolution, behavior, and systematics.

The scientist's work addresses a diverse range of topics, prominently featuring ecology and vegetation dynamics studies, soil carbon and nitrogen dynamics, plant water relations and carbon dynamics, plant and animal studies, peatlands and wetlands ecology, species distribution and climate change, as well as remote sensing in agriculture.

Nianpeng He has coauthored frequently with several researchers, including Mingxu Li, Li Xu, Guirui Yu, Congcong Liu, and Jiahui Zhang. Their collaborative efforts have supported a broad array of scientific investigations.

The scientist publishes regularly in journals that focus on environmental and ecological research. Notable publication venues include Ecological Indicators, The Science of The Total Environment, Frontiers in Plant Science, SSRN Electronic Journal, and Soil Biology and Biochemistry.

Recent publications by Nianpeng He include the following papers:

  • Plant Trait Networks: Improved Resolution of the Dimensionality of Adaptation (2020, Trends in Ecology & Evolution)
  • Headwater stream ecosystem: an important source of greenhouse gases to the atmosphere (2020, Water Research)
  • C:N:P stoichiometry in terrestrial ecosystems in China (2021, The Science of The Total Environment)
  • China's current forest age structure will lead to weakened carbon sinks in the near future (2023, The Innovation)
  • Microbial metabolic response to winter warming stabilizes soil carbon (2021, Global Change Biology)

Best Publications

  • Carbon pools in China's terrestrial ecosystems: New estimates based on an intensive field survey

    Xuli Tang;Xia Zhao;Yongfei Bai;Zhiyao Tang

  • Effects of national ecological restoration projects on carbon sequestration in China from 2001 to 2010.

    Fei Lu;Huifeng Hu;Wenjuan Sun;Jiaojun Zhu

  • Stabilization of atmospheric nitrogen deposition in China over the past decade

    Guirui Yu;Yanlong Jia;Nianpeng He;Jianxing Zhu

  • Factors Influencing Leaf Chlorophyll Content in Natural Forests at the Biome Scale

    Ying Li;Ying Li;Nianpeng He;Nianpeng He;Jihua Hou;Li Xu

  • Soil enzyme activity and stoichiometry in forest ecosystems along the North-South Transect in eastern China (NSTEC)

    Zhiwei Xu;Guirui Yu;Xinyu Zhang;Nianpeng He

  • Linking stoichiometric homoeostasis with ecosystem structure, functioning and stability.

    Qiang Yu;Quansheng Chen;James J. Elser;Nianpeng He

  • Microbes drive global soil nitrogen mineralization and availability.

    Zhaolei Li;Dashuan Tian;Bingxue Wang;Jinsong Wang

  • Patterns of plant carbon, nitrogen, and phosphorus concentration in relation to productivity in China's terrestrial ecosystems

    Zhiyao Tang;Wenting Xu;Guoyi Zhou;Yongfei Bai

  • Spatial and decadal variations in inorganic nitrogen wet deposition in China induced by human activity

    Yanlong Jia;Guirui Yu;Nianpeng He;Xiaoyun Zhan

  • The composition, spatial patterns, and influencing factors of atmospheric wet nitrogen deposition in Chinese terrestrial ecosystems.

    Jianxing Zhu;Nianpeng He;Qiufeng Wang;Guofu Yuan

  • Stoichiometric homeostasis of vascular plants in the Inner Mongolia grassland

    Qiang Yu;James J. Elser;Nianpeng He;Honghui Wu

  • The variations in soil microbial communities, enzyme activities and their relationships with soil organic matter decomposition along the northern slope of Changbai Mountain

    Zhiwei Xu;Guirui Yu;Xinyu Zhang;Jianping Ge

  • C:N:P stoichiometry in China's forests: From organs to ecosystems

    Jiahui Zhang;Ning Zhao;Congcong Liu;Hao Yang

  • Plant Trait Networks: Improved Resolution of the Dimensionality of Adaptation

    Nianpeng He;Nianpeng He;Ying Li;Ying Li;Congcong Liu;Li Xu

  • Variation and evolution of C:N ratio among different organs enable plants to adapt to N-limited environments

    Jiahui Zhang;Nianpeng He;Nianpeng He;Congcong Liu;Li Xu

  • Convergent responses of nitrogen and phosphorus resorption to nitrogen inputs in a semiarid grassland.

    Xiao-Tao Lü;Sasha Reed;Qiang Yu;Nian-Peng He

  • A global synthesis of the rate and temperature sensitivity of soil nitrogen mineralization: latitudinal patterns and mechanisms.

    Yuan Liu;Changhui Wang;Nianpeng He;Xuefa Wen

  • A synthesis of the effect of grazing exclusion on carbon dynamics in grasslands in China

    Zhongmin Hu;Shenggong Li;Qun Guo;Shuli Niu

  • Ecosystem Traits Linking Functional Traits to Macroecology.

    Nianpeng He;Congcong Liu;Shilong Piao;Lawren Sack

  • Carbon and nitrogen store and storage potential as affected by land-use in a Leymus chinensis grassland of northern China

    Nianpeng He;Qiang Yu;Ling Wu;Yuesi Wang

  • Carbon storage in China's terrestrial ecosystems: A synthesis.

    Li Xu;Guirui Yu;Nianpeng He;Qiufeng Wang

  • Nitrogen enrichment weakens ecosystem stability through decreased species asynchrony and population stability in a temperate grassland.

    Yunhai Zhang;Michel Loreau;Xiaotao Lü;Nianpeng He

Frequent Co-Authors

Guirui Yu
Guirui Yu Chinese Academy of Sciences
Qiufeng Wang
Qiufeng Wang Chinese Academy of Sciences
Yang Gao
Yang Gao Google (United Kingdom)
Xingguo Han
Xingguo Han Hebei University
Xuefa Wen
Xuefa Wen Chinese Academy of Sciences
Shuli Niu
Shuli Niu Chinese Academy of Sciences
Shenggong Li
Shenggong Li Chinese Academy of Sciences
Xiaomin Sun
Xiaomin Sun Chinese Academy of Sciences
Shilong Piao
Shilong Piao Peking University
Xiao-Tao Lü
Xiao-Tao Lü Chinese Academy of Sciences

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