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Shaoshan An is affiliated with Northwest A&F University in China, with a research focus spanning Agricultural and Biological Sciences and Environmental Science. Their work has contributed extensively to the understanding of soil science and related ecological and environmental processes.

Their scholarship has explored several subfields, including:

  • Soil Science
  • Ecology
  • Plant Science
  • Pollution
  • Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics

Key topics within Shaoshan An's research include:

  • Soil Carbon and Nitrogen Dynamics
  • Microbial Community Ecology and Physiology
  • Peatlands and Wetlands Ecology
  • Soil erosion and sediment transport
  • Mycorrhizal Fungi and Plant Interactions
  • Forest Ecology and Biodiversity Studies
  • Microplastics and Plastic Pollution

Frequently publishing in venues such as:

  • CATENA
  • Applied Soil Ecology
  • Ecological Indicators
  • Journal of Environmental Management
  • The Science of The Total Environment

Recent notable papers authored or co-authored by Shaoshan An include:

  • "Extracellular enzyme activity and stoichiometry: The effect of soil microbial element limitation during leaf litter decomposition" (2020, Ecological Indicators)
  • "Soil microbial community and their functional genes during grassland restoration" (2022, Journal of Environmental Management)
  • "Metabolic pathways of CO2 fixing microorganisms determined C-fixation rates in grassland soils along the precipitation gradient" (2022, Soil Biology and Biochemistry)
  • "Identifying the Biogeographic Patterns of Rare and Abundant Bacterial Communities Using Different Primer Sets on the Loess Plateau" (2021, Microorganisms)
  • "The accumulation of microbial necromass carbon from litter to mineral soil and its contribution to soil organic carbon sequestration" (2021, CATENA)

They have collaborated frequently with several researchers, including:

  • Baorong Wang
  • Yimei Huang
  • Zhaolong Zhu
  • Qian Huang
  • Quanchao Zeng

Best Publications

  • Microbial necromass as the source of soil organic carbon in global ecosystems

    Baorong Wang;Shaoshan An;Shaoshan An;Chao Liang;Yang Liu

  • Soil aggregation, aggregate stability, organic carbon and nitrogen in different soil aggregate fractions under forest and shrub vegetation on the Loess Plateau, China

    Shaoshan An;Axel Mentler;Herwig Mayer;Winfried E.H. Blum

  • Deciphering factors driving soil microbial life‐history strategies in restored grasslands

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  • Nitrogen fertilization weakens the linkage between soil carbon and microbial diversity: A global meta‐analysis

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  • Changes in soil properties across a chronosequence of vegetation restoration on the Loess Plateau of China

    Feng Jiao;Feng Jiao;Zhong-Ming Wen;Zhong-Ming Wen;Shao-Shan An;Shao-Shan An

  • Revegetation as an efficient means of increasing soil aggregate stability on the Loess Plateau (China)

    Shao Shan An;Frédéric Darboux;Man Cheng

  • Negative effects of multiple global change factors on soil microbial diversity

    Yang Yang;Yang Yang;Yang Yang;Ting Li;Yunqiang Wang;Yunqiang Wang;Huan Cheng

  • Soil organic carbon distribution in relation to land use and its storage in a small watershed of the Loess Plateau, China

    Xuan Fang;Zhijing Xue;Bicheng Li;Shaoshan An;Shaoshan An

  • Ecological stoichiometry in leaves, roots, litters and soil among different plant communities in a desertified region of Northern China

    Yang Yang;Bing-Ru Liu;Shao-Shan An

  • Soil bacterial community response to vegetation succession after fencing in the grassland of China.

    Quanchao Zeng;Quanchao Zeng;Shaoshan An;Shaoshan An;Yang Liu

  • Soil extracellular enzyme stoichiometry reflects the shift from P- to N-limitation of microorganisms with grassland restoration

    Yang Yang;Yang Yang;Yang Yang;Chao Liang;Yunqiang Wang;Yunqiang Wang;Huan Cheng;Huan Cheng

  • Effects of slope aspect on soil nitrogen and microbial properties in the Chinese Loess region

    Yi-Mei Huang;Dong Liu;Shao-Shan An

  • Effects of different vegetation restoration measures on soil aggregate stability and erodibility on the Loess Plateau, China

    Yanxing Dou;Yang Yang;Shaoshan An;Zhaolong Zhu

  • Extracellular enzyme activity and stoichiometry: The effect of soil microbial element limitation during leaf litter decomposition

    Xuejuan Bai;Michaela A. Dippold;Shaoshan An;Baorong Wang

  • Initial soil formation by biocrusts: Nitrogen demand and clay protection control microbial necromass accrual and recycling

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  • Evaluation of soil microbial indices along a revegetation chronosequence in grassland soils on the Loess Plateau, Northwest China

    Shao-shan An;Yi-mei Huang;Fen-li Zheng;Fen-li Zheng

  • Global effects on soil respiration and its temperature sensitivity depend on nitrogen addition rate

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  • Soil aggregation and intra-aggregate carbon fractions in relation to vegetation succession on the Loess Plateau, China

    Man Cheng;Man Cheng;Yun Xiang;Zhijing Xue;Shaoshan An;Shaoshan An

  • Soil quality degradation processes along a deforestation chronosequence in the Ziwuling area, China

    Shaoshan An;Shaoshan An;Fenli Zheng;Fenli Zheng;Feng Zhang;Feng Zhang;Scott Van Pelt

  • Soil microbial community and their functional genes during grassland restoration.

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  • Links between Soil Fungal Diversity and Plant and Soil Properties on the Loess Plateau.

    Yang Yang;Yanxing Dou;Yimei Huang;Shaoshan An;Shaoshan An

  • Bacterial Community Responses to Soils along a Latitudinal and Vegetation Gradient on the Loess Plateau, China

    Quanchao Zeng;Yanghong Dong;Shaoshan An;Shaoshan An

  • Soil aggregate stability under different rain conditions for three vegetation types on the Loess Plateau (China)

    Quanchao Zeng;Quanchao Zeng;Frédéric Darboux;Cheng Man;Zhaolong Zhu

  • Soil and plant components ecological stoichiometry in four steppe communities in the Loess Plateau of China

    Quanchao Zeng;Xin Li;Yanghong Dong;Shaoshan An;Shaoshan An

  • Successional changes in soil stoichiometry after land abandonment in Loess Plateau, China

    Feng Jiao;Feng Jiao;Zhong-Ming Wen;Zhong-Ming Wen;Shao-Shan An;Shao-Shan An;Z. Yuan;Z. Yuan

Frequent Co-Authors

Yunqiang Wang
Yunqiang Wang Chinese Academy of Sciences
Frédéric Darboux
Frédéric Darboux INRAE : Institut national de recherche pour l'agriculture, l'alimentation et l'environnement
Fenli Zheng
Fenli Zheng Northwest A&F University
Yakov Kuzyakov
Yakov Kuzyakov University of Göttingen
Scott X. Chang
Scott X. Chang University of Alberta
Rattan Lal
Rattan Lal The Ohio State University
Dong Liu
Dong Liu Chinese Academy of Sciences

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