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Overview

Xiangzhen Li is affiliated with the Chinese Academy of Sciences in China and has conducted extensive research in environmental science with a focus on microbial community ecology and physiology. Their body of work spans several interconnected subfields, including ecology, molecular biology, plant science, soil science, and behavior and systematics within ecology and evolution.

The scientist's research topics include:

  • Microbial Community Ecology and Physiology
  • Gut microbiota and health
  • Soil Carbon and Nitrogen Dynamics
  • Biocrusts and Microbial Ecology
  • Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies
  • Mycorrhizal Fungi and Plant Interactions
  • Legume Nitrogen Fixing Symbiosis

Xiangzhen Li has published frequently in journals such as:

  • SSRN Electronic Journal
  • Soil Biology and Biochemistry
  • Applied Soil Ecology
  • Geoderma
  • Journal of Environmental Management

Several recent papers exemplify their research contributions, including:

  • microeco: an R package for data mining in microbial community ecology (2020), published in FEMS Microbiology Ecology
  • Alkaline phosphatase activity mediates soil organic phosphorus mineralization in a subalpine forest ecosystem (2021), published in Geoderma
  • Distinct mechanisms shape soil bacterial and fungal co-occurrence networks in a mountain ecosystem (2020), published in FEMS Microbiology Ecology
  • Local community assembly mechanisms shape soil bacterial β diversity patterns along a latitudinal gradient (2020), published in Nature Communications
  • Precipitation balances deterministic and stochastic processes of bacterial community assembly in grassland soils (2022), published in Soil Biology and Biochemistry

Their work involves collaboration with multiple coauthors prominent in their field, including:

  • Chaonan Li
  • Minjie Yao
  • Lin Xu
  • Jiabao Li
  • Yongping Kou

Best Publications

  • microeco: an R package for data mining in microbial community ecology.

    Chi Liu;Chi Liu;Yaoming Cui;Xiangzhen Li;Minjie Yao

  • Dynamics of the bacterial community structure in the rhizosphere of a maize cultivar

    Xiangzhen Li;Xiangzhen Li;Junpeng Rui;Yuejian Mao;Anthony Yannarell

  • New insights into the function and global distribution of polyethylene terephthalate (PET)-degrading bacteria and enzymes in marine and terrestrial metagenomes

    Dominik Danso;Christel Schmeisser;Jennifer Chow;Wolfgang Zimmermann

  • The microbial gene diversity along an elevation gradient of the Tibetan grassland

    Yunfeng Yang;Ying Gao;Shiping Wang;Depeng Xu

  • Responses of the functional structure of soil microbial community to livestock grazing in the Tibetan alpine grassland

    Yunfeng Yang;Linwei Wu;Qiaoyan Lin;Mengting Yuan

  • The synthesis of n-caproate from lactate: a new efficient process for medium-chain carboxylates production

    Xiaoyu Zhu;Yong Tao;Cheng Liang;Xiangzhen Li

  • Analysis of 16S rRNA Amplicon Sequencing Options on the Roche/454 Next-Generation Titanium Sequencing Platform

    Hideyuki Tamaki;Hideyuki Tamaki;Chris L. Wright;Xiangzhen Li;Qiaoyan Lin;Qiaoyan Lin

  • Production of high-concentration n -caproic acid from lactate through fermentation using a newly isolated Ruminococcaceae bacterium CPB6

    Xiaoyu Zhu;Yan Zhou;Yan Zhou;Yi Wang;Tingting Wu

  • Antibiotic resistance genes and associated bacterial communities in agricultural soils amended with different sources of animal manures

    Xue-Mei Han;Hang-Wei Hu;Qing-Lin Chen;Li-Yuan Yang

  • Prokaryotic communities in pit mud from different-aged cellars used for the production of Chinese strong-flavored liquor.

    Yong Tao;Jiabao Li;Junpeng Rui;Zhancheng Xu

  • Functional potential of soil microbial communities in the maize rhizosphere.

    Xiangzhen Li;Junpeng Rui;Jingbo Xiong;Jiabao Li

  • Rate-specific responses of prokaryotic diversity and structure to nitrogen deposition in the Leymus chinensis steppe

    Minjie Yao;Junpeng Rui;Jiabao Li;Yumei Dai

  • Interspecies electron transfer in syntrophic methanogenic consortia: From cultures to bioreactors

    Liang Shen;Qingchuan Zhao;Xuee Wu;Xiangzhen Li

  • Soil pH is a major driver of soil diazotrophic community assembly in Qinghai-Tibet alpine meadows

    Yansu Wang;Yansu Wang;Chaonan Li;Yongping Kou;Jianjun Wang

  • Diet Diversity Is Associated with Beta but not Alpha Diversity of Pika Gut Microbiota.

    Huan Li;Tongtong Li;DeAnna E. Beasley;Petr Heděnec

  • Alkaline phosphatase activity mediates soil organic phosphorus mineralization in a subalpine forest ecosystem

    Jiabao Li;Ting Xie;He Zhu;Jun Zhou

  • High-efficiency motor neuron differentiation from human pluripotent stem cells and the function of Islet-1

    Qiuhao Qu;Dong Li;Kathleen R. Louis;Xiangzhen Li

  • Bacterial Signatures of “Red-Operculum” Disease in the Gut of Crucian Carp ( Carassius auratus )

    Tongtong Li;Huan Li;François-Joël Gatesoupe;Rong She

  • The core populations and co-occurrence patterns of prokaryotic communities in household biogas digesters

    Junpeng Rui;Jiabao Li;Shiheng Zhang;Xuefeng Yan

  • Bacterial community succession and metabolite changes during doubanjiang-meju fermentation, a Chinese traditional fermented broad bean (Vicia faba L.) paste

    Zhihua Li;Junpeng Rui;Xiangzhen Li;Jiabao Li

  • Soil microbial biomass C and N along a climatic transect in the Mongolian steppe

    Xiangzhen Li;Zuozhong Chen

Frequent Co-Authors

Jizhong Zhou
Jizhong Zhou University of Oklahoma
Huan Li
Huan Li Central South University
Shiping Wang
Shiping Wang Chinese Academy of Sciences
Zhili He
Zhili He Sun Yat-sen University
Andreas Brune
Andreas Brune Max Planck Society
Yunfeng Yang
Yunfeng Yang Tsinghua University
Jan Frouz
Jan Frouz Charles University
Yuanpeng Wang
Yuanpeng Wang Xiamen University
Roderick I. Mackie
Roderick I. Mackie University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Shenglei Fu
Shenglei Fu Henan University

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