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83
Citations
24422
World Ranking
718
National Ranking
16

Overview

Shuli Niu is affiliated with the Chinese Academy of Sciences in China and has an extensive research portfolio spanning Environmental Science and Agricultural and Biological Sciences. The scientist's work primarily focuses on areas such as Global and Planetary Change, Ecology, Soil Science, Nature and Landscape Conservation, and Plant Science.

Their research explores several main topics, including:

  • Soil Carbon and Nitrogen Dynamics
  • Peatlands and Wetlands Ecology
  • Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics
  • Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies
  • Atmospheric and Environmental Gas Dynamics
  • Climate Variability and Models
  • Soil and Water Nutrient Dynamics

Among recent publications attributed to Shuli Niu are:

  • Terrestrial carbon sinks in China and around the world and their contribution to carbon neutrality, 2022, Science China Life Sciences
  • Global patterns and controlling factors of soil nitrification rate, 2020, Global Change Biology
  • Carbon and nitrogen cycling on the Qinghai-Tibetan Plateau, 2022, Nature Reviews Earth & Environment
  • Plant Trait Networks: Improved Resolution of the Dimensionality of Adaptation, 2020, Trends in Ecology & Evolution
  • Global soil-derived ammonia emissions from agricultural nitrogen fertilizer application: A refinement based on regional and crop-specific emission factors, 2020, Global Change Biology

Shuli Niu collaborates frequently with several coauthors, including:

  • Jinsong Wang
  • Dashuan Tian
  • Ruiyang Zhang
  • Yiqi Luo
  • Zhaolei Li

The scientist often publishes in journals such as:

  • Global Change Biology
  • The Science of The Total Environment
  • Agricultural and Forest Meteorology
  • Faculty Opinions - Post-Publication Peer Review of the Biomedical Literature
  • Functional Ecology

Best Publications

  • Quantifying global soil carbon losses in response to warming

    Thomas W. Crowther;Katherine E.O. Todd-Brown;Clara W. Rowe;William R. Wieder

  • A global analysis of soil acidification caused by nitrogen addition

    Dashuan Tian;Shuli Niu

  • Global patterns of the dynamics of soil carbon and nitrogen stocks following afforestation: a meta-analysis

    Dejun Li;Shuli Niu;Yiqi Luo

  • Air temperature optima of vegetation productivity across global biomes.

    Mengtian Huang;Shilong Piao;Shilong Piao;Philippe Ciais;Josep Peñuelas

  • Water-mediated responses of ecosystem carbon fluxes to climatic change in a temperate steppe

    Shuli Niu;Mingyu Wu;Yi Han;Jianyang Xia

  • Terrestrial carbon sinks in China and around the world and their contribution to carbon neutrality

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  • Aggravated phosphorus limitation on biomass production under increasing nitrogen loading: a meta-analysis

    Yong Li;Shuli Niu;Guirui Yu

  • A meta-analysis of 1,119 manipulative experiments on terrestrial carbon-cycling responses to global change

    Jian Song;Jian Song;Shiqiang Wan;Shiqiang Wan;Shilong Piao;Shilong Piao;Alan K. Knapp

  • Water-use efficiency in response to climate change: from leaf to ecosystem in a temperate steppe

    Shuli Niu;Xuerong Xing;Zhe Zhang;Jianyang Xia

  • Joint control of terrestrial gross primary productivity by plant phenology and physiology

    Jianyang Xia;Shuli Niu;Philippe Ciais;Ivan A Janssens

  • Microbes drive global soil nitrogen mineralization and availability.

    Zhaolei Li;Dashuan Tian;Bingxue Wang;Jinsong Wang

  • A framework for benchmarking land models

    Yiqi Luo;J. Randerson;G. Abramowitz;C. Bacour

  • Response of ecosystem carbon exchange to warming and nitrogen addition during two hydrologically contrasting growing seasons in a temperate steppe

    Jianyang Xia;Shuli Niu;Shiqiang Wan

  • Photosynthetic overcompensation under nocturnal warming enhances grassland carbon sequestration.

    Shiqiang Wan;Jianyang Xia;Weixing Liu;Shuli Niu

  • Global patterns and substrate-based mechanisms of the terrestrial nitrogen cycle

    Shuli Niu;Aimée T. Classen;Jeffrey S. Dukes;Paul Kardol

  • Nitrogen effects on net ecosystem carbon exchange in a temperate steppe

    Shuli Niu;Mingyu Wu;Yi Han;Jiangyang Xia

  • Increased temperature and precipitation interact to affect root production, mortality, and turnover in a temperate steppe: implications for ecosystem C cycling

    Wenming M. Bai;Shiqiang Q. Wan;Shuli L. Niu;Weixing X. Liu

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

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

  • Global patterns and controlling factors of soil nitrification rate

    Zhaolei Li;Zhaolei Li;Zhaolei Li;Zhaoqi Zeng;Dashuan Tian;Jinsong Wang

  • Plant growth and mortality under climatic extremes: An overview

    Shuli Niu;Yiqi Luo;Dejun Li;Shuanghe Cao

  • Costimulation of soil glycosidase activity and soil respiration by nitrogen addition

    Ji Chen;Yiqi Luo;Yiqi Luo;Jianwei Li;Xuhui Zhou

  • Coordinated approaches to quantify long-term ecosystem dynamics in response to global change

    Yiqi Luo;Jerry Melillo;Shuli Niu;Claus Beier

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

    Zhongmin Hu;Shenggong Li;Qun Guo;Shuli Niu

  • FLUXNET-CH4 Synthesis Activity : Objectives, Observations, and Future Directions

    Sara H. Knox;Robert B. Jackson;Benjamin Poulter;Gavin McNicol

Frequent Co-Authors

Yiqi Luo
Yiqi Luo Cornell University
Shiqiang Wan
Shiqiang Wan Henan University
Jianyang Xia
Jianyang Xia East China Normal University
Guirui Yu
Guirui Yu Chinese Academy of Sciences
Xuhui Zhou
Xuhui Zhou Northeast Forestry University
Nianpeng He
Nianpeng He Chinese Academy of Sciences
Gaoming Jiang
Gaoming Jiang Chinese Academy of Sciences
Junji Cao
Junji Cao Chinese Academy of Sciences
Linghao Li
Linghao Li Chinese Academy of Sciences
Jian Sun
Jian Sun Chinese Academy of Sciences

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