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Ecology and Evolution

D-Index
50
Citations
7803
World Ranking
3907
National Ranking
85

Xiao-Tao Lü publication distribution in Ecology and Evolution in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Ecology and Evolution in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Xiao-Tao Lü sits on this spectrum.

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37 publications 531+

This scientist: 155 publications — 55th percentile

55% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 531 publications or more.

Xiao-Tao Lü D-index placement in Ecology and Evolution in 2026

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Ecology and Evolution scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Xiao-Tao Lü sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 121+

This scientist: 50 D-Index — 56th percentile

56% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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Overview

Xiao-Tao Lü is affiliated with the Chinese Academy of Sciences in China. Their research spans several fields, primarily focusing on Agricultural and Biological Sciences as well as Environmental Science.

The main subfields of study for Xiao-Tao Lü include:

  • Soil Science
  • Plant Science
  • Nature and Landscape Conservation
  • Ecology
  • Environmental Chemistry

Key topics addressed throughout their scientific career consist of:

  • Soil Carbon and Nitrogen Dynamics
  • Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies
  • Soil and Water Nutrient Dynamics
  • Peatlands and Wetlands Ecology
  • Botany and Plant Ecology Studies
  • Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics
  • Plant nutrient uptake and metabolism

Xiao-Tao Lü's work has been published extensively in various academic journals. Frequent publication venues include:

  • Plant and Soil
  • Global Change Biology
  • Journal of Plant Ecology
  • Ecological Processes
  • The Science of The Total Environment

Some of their recent papers are:

  • Carbon limitation overrides acidification in mediating soil microbial activity to nitrogen enrichment in a temperate grassland (2021, Global Change Biology)
  • Increasing rates of long-term nitrogen deposition consistently increased litter decomposition in a semi-arid grassland (2020, New Phytologist)
  • Nitrogen enrichment buffers phosphorus limitation by mobilizing mineral-bound soil phosphorus in grasslands (2021, Ecology)
  • Decoupled responses of above- and below-ground stability of productivity to nitrogen addition at the local and larger spatial scale (2022, Global Change Biology)
  • Coexistence of multiple leaf nutrient resorption strategies in a single ecosystem (2021, The Science of The Total Environment)

Collaborations are evident in the repeated co-authorship with certain researchers. Frequent co-authors include:

  • Xingguo Han
  • Guojiao Yang
  • Yanyu Hu
  • Shuang-Li Hou
  • Junjie Yang

Best Publications

  • Aridity threshold in controlling ecosystem nitrogen cycling in arid and semi-arid grasslands

    Chao Wang;Xiaobo Wang;Dongwei Liu;Honghui Wu

  • Habitat-specific patterns and drivers of bacterial β-diversity in China's drylands.

    Xiao-Bo Wang;Xiao-Tao Lü;Jing Yao;Zheng-Wen Wang

  • Nitrogen deposition weakens plant–microbe interactions in grassland ecosystems

    Cunzheng Wei;Qiang Yu;Qiang Yu;Edith Bai;Xiaotao Lü

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

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

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

    Yunhai Zhang;Michel Loreau;Xiaotao Lü;Nianpeng He

  • Rapid plant species loss at high rates and at low frequency of N addition in temperate steppe

    Yunhai Zhang;Xiaotao Lü;Forest Isbell;Carly Stevens

  • Nitrogen addition regulates soil nematode community composition through ammonium suppression.

    Cunzheng Wei;Huifen Zheng;Qi Li;Xiaotao Lü

  • Nutrient resorption responses to water and nitrogen amendment in semi-arid grassland of Inner Mongolia, China

    Xiao-Tao Lü;Xing-Guo Han

  • Nitrogen and water availability interact to affect leaf stoichiometry in a semi-arid grassland

    Xiao Tao Lü;De Liang Kong;Qing Min Pan;Matthew E. Simmons

  • Scale-dependent effects of climate and geographic distance on bacterial diversity patterns across northern China's grasslands.

    Xiaobo Wang;Xiaobo Wang;Joy D. Van Nostrand;Ye Deng;Xiaotao Lu

  • Carbon limitation overrides acidification in mediating soil microbial activity to nitrogen enrichment in a temperate grassland.

    Qiushi Ning;Qiushi Ning;Stephan Hättenschwiler;Xiaotao Lü;Paul Kardol

  • Plasticity in leaf and stem nutrient resorption proficiency potentially reinforces plant–soil feedbacks and microscale heterogeneity in a semi‐arid grassland

    Xiao‐Tao Lü;Grégoire T. Freschet;Dan F. B. Flynn;Xing‐Guo Han

  • Changes in litter quality induced by N deposition alter soil microbial communities

    Yingbin Li;T. Martijn Bezemer;Junjie Yang;Xiaotao Lü

  • Increasing rates of long-term nitrogen deposition consistently increased litter decomposition in a semi-arid grassland.

    Shuang-Li Hou;Stephan Hättenschwiler;Jun-Jie Yang;Seeta Sistla

  • Ecosystem carbon storage and partitioning in a tropical seasonal forest in Southwestern China

    Xiao-Tao Lü;Xiao-Tao Lü;Jiang-Xia Yin;Martin R. Jepsen;Jian-Wei Tang

  • Methane emissions from the trunks of living trees on upland soils.

    Zhi‐Ping Wang;Qian Gu;Feng‐Dan Deng;Jian‐Hui Huang

  • Plant nitrogen uptake drives responses of productivity to nitrogen and water addition in a grassland

    Xiao-Tao Lü;Feike A. Dijkstra;De-Liang Kong;Zheng-Wen Wang

  • Soil moisture and land use are major determinants of soil microbial community composition and biomass at a regional scale in northeastern China

    L. Ma;C. Guo;X. Lü;S. Yuan

  • Mowing mitigates the negative impacts of N addition on plant species diversity.

    Guo-Jiao Yang;Xiao-Tao Lü;Carly J. Stevens;Guang-Ming Zhang

  • Testing the growth rate hypothesis in vascular plants with above- and below-ground biomass.

    Qiang Yu;Honghui Wu;Nianpeng He;Xiaotao Lü

  • Structure, tree species diversity and composition of tropical seasonal rainforests in Xishuangbanna, south-west China.

    XT Lü;JX Yin;JW Tang

Frequent Co-Authors

Xingguo Han
Xingguo Han Hebei University
Chao Wang
Chao Wang University of Southern California
Nianpeng He
Nianpeng He Chinese Academy of Sciences
Yong Jiang
Yong Jiang Hebei University
Edith Bai
Edith Bai Chinese Academy of Sciences
Feike A. Dijkstra
Feike A. Dijkstra University of Sydney
Jin-Sheng He
Jin-Sheng He Peking University
Mai-He Li
Mai-He Li Swiss Federal Institute for Forest, Snow and Landscape Research
Jizhong Zhou
Jizhong Zhou University of Oklahoma
Wenju Liang
Wenju Liang Chinese Academy of Sciences

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