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Shenggong Li is affiliated with the Chinese Academy of Sciences in China. Their research primarily spans Environmental Science and Agricultural and Biological Sciences, with a focus on several subfields including Global and Planetary Change, Nature and Landscape Conservation, Plant Science, Soil Science, and Ecology.

The scientist's research topics encompass a range of areas such as Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics, Soil Carbon and Nitrogen Dynamics, Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies, Mycorrhizal Fungi and Plant Interactions, Remote Sensing in Agriculture, Forest Ecology and Management, and Climate Variability and Models.

Shenggong Li has published frequently in various academic journals. Notable publication venues include:

  • SSRN Electronic Journal
  • The Science of The Total Environment
  • New Phytologist
  • Ecological Indicators
  • Remote Sensing

Frequent collaborators in their research include Liang Kou, Xiaoli Fu, Qun Guo, Zhongmin Hu, and Lei Jiang.

Examples of recent papers authored or co-authored by Shenggong Li are:

  • Plant Trait Networks: Improved Resolution of the Dimensionality of Adaptation, 2020, Trends in Ecology & Evolution
  • Tree growth rate and soil nutrient status determine the shift in nutrient-use strategy of Chinese fir plantations along a chronosequence, 2020, Forest Ecology and Management
  • Mapping forest type and age in China's plantations, 2020, The Science of The Total Environment
  • Mycorrhizal symbiosis pathway and edaphic fertility frame root economics space among tree species, 2022, New Phytologist
  • Predicting ecosystem productivity based on plant community traits, 2022, Trends in Plant Science

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

  • Genetic analysis of rice grain quality.

    P. He;S. G. Li;Q. Qian;Y. Q. Ma

  • Spatial patterns and climate drivers of carbon fluxes in terrestrial ecosystems of China

    Gui-Rui Yu;Xian-Jin Zhu;Yu-Ling Fu;Hong-Lin He

  • Grassland desertification by grazing and the resulting micrometeorological changes in Inner Mongolia

    Sheng Gong Li;Yoshinobu Harazono;Takehisa Oikawa;Ha Lin Zhao

  • Net ecosystem carbon dioxide exchange over grazed steppe in central Mongolia

    S.-G. Li;J. Asanuma;W. Eugster;A. Kotani

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

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

  • Spatial variations in aboveground net primary productivity along a climate gradient in Eurasian temperate grassland: effects of mean annual precipitation and its seasonal distribution

    Qun Guo;Zhongmin Hu;Shenggong Li;Xuanran Li;Xuanran Li

  • Chinese ecosystem research network: Progress and perspectives

    Bojie Fu;Shenggong Li;Xiubo Yu;Ping Yang

  • 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

  • Effects of stand age, richness and density on productivity in subtropical forests in China

    Shuai Ouyang;Wenhua Xiang;Xiangping Wang;Wenfa Xiao

  • Ecosystem Traits Linking Functional Traits to Macroecology.

    Nianpeng He;Congcong Liu;Shilong Piao;Lawren Sack

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

    Li Xu;Guirui Yu;Nianpeng He;Qiufeng Wang

  • Environmental controls over carbon exchange of three forest ecosystems in eastern China

    Gui-Rui Yu;Lei-Ming Zhang;Xiao-Min Sun;Yu-Ling Fu

  • Productivity, Respiration, and Light-Response Parameters of World Grassland and Agroecosystems Derived From Flux-Tower Measurements

    Tagir G Gilmanov;L Aires;Z Barcza;V S Baron

  • Precipitation‐use efficiency along a 4500‐km grassland transect

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  • Spatial distribution of carbon balance in forest ecosystems across East Asia

    Ryuichi Hirata;Nobuko Saigusa;Susumu Yamamoto;Yoshikazu Ohtani

  • Energy partitioning and its biophysical controls above a grazing steppe in central Mongolia

    Sheng-Gong Li;Werner Eugster;Jun Asanuma;Ayumi Kotani

  • Temporal and spatial variations in the seasonal patterns of CO2 flux in boreal, temperate, and tropical forests in East Asia

    Nobuko Saigusa;Susumu Yamamoto;Ryuichi Hirata;Yoshikazu Ohtani

  • Climate and litter C/N ratio constrain soil organic carbon accumulation

    Guoyi Zhou;Guoyi Zhou;Shan Xu;Philippe Ciais;Stefano Manzoni

  • A comparison of different measures for stabilizing moving sand dunes in the Horqin Sandy Land of Inner Mongolia, China.

    Tong-Hui Zhang;Ha-Lin Zhao;Sheng-Gong Li;Feng-Rui Li

  • Evapotranspiration from a Mongolian steppe under grazing and its environmental constraints

    Sheng-Gong Li;Jun Asanuma;Ayumi Kotani;Gombo Davaa

Frequent Co-Authors

Guirui Yu
Guirui Yu Chinese Academy of Sciences
Huimin Wang
Huimin Wang Chinese Academy of Sciences
Zhongmin Hu
Zhongmin Hu South China Normal University
Xiaomin Sun
Xiaomin Sun Chinese Academy of Sciences
Xuefa Wen
Xuefa Wen Chinese Academy of Sciences
Junhua Yan
Junhua Yan Chinese Academy of Sciences
Nianpeng He
Nianpeng He Chinese Academy of Sciences
Shijie Han
Shijie Han Chinese Academy of Sciences
Qiufeng Wang
Qiufeng Wang Chinese Academy of Sciences
Yakov Kuzyakov
Yakov Kuzyakov University of Göttingen

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