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Xiaoli Cheng

Xiaoli Cheng

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Environmental Sciences

D-Index
47
Citations
8367
World Ranking
5790
National Ranking
589

Overview

Xiaoli Cheng is affiliated with Yunnan University in China and has a research profile that spans environmental science and agricultural and biological sciences. Their work primarily focuses on soil science and ecology, with additional interests covering environmental chemistry, global and planetary change, and nature and landscape conservation.

The researcher has contributed extensively to topics related to soil carbon and nitrogen dynamics, peatlands and wetlands ecology, soil and water nutrient dynamics, ecology and vegetation dynamics studies, microbial community ecology and physiology, soil erosion and sediment transport, and the effects of fire on ecosystems.

Recent papers authored or coauthored by Xiaoli Cheng include:

  • Keystone species affect the relationship between soil microbial diversity and ecosystem function under land use change in subtropical China (2021, Functional Ecology)
  • Meta-analysis shows the impacts of ecological restoration on greenhouse gas emissions (2024, Nature Communications)
  • Particulate organic carbon is more sensitive to nitrogen addition than mineral-associated organic carbon: A meta-analysis (2023, Soil and Tillage Research)
  • Differential response of soil CO2, CH4, and N2O emissions to edaphic properties and microbial attributes following afforestation in central China (2021, Global Change Biology)
  • Stronger effect of litter quality than micro-organisms on leaf and root litter C and N loss at different decomposition stages following a subtropical land use change (2021, Functional Ecology)

Their frequent coauthors include:

  • Qiong Chen
  • Chunyan Long
  • Junjun Wu
  • Yiqi Luo
  • Wen Yang

Publishing venues where Xiaoli Cheng has multiple contributions include:

  • Global Change Biology (8 publications)
  • Functional Ecology (7 publications)
  • Plant and Soil (5 publications)
  • The Science of The Total Environment (5 publications)
  • CATENA (5 publications)

Best Publications

  • Microbial mediation of carbon-cycle feedbacks to climate warming

    Jizhong Zhou;Kai Xue;Jianping Xie;Jianping Xie;Ye Deng

  • Spartina alterniflora invasions in the Yangtze River estuary, China: An overview of current status and ecosystem effects

    Bo Li;Chengz-hang Liao;Xiao-dong Zhang;Hui-li Chen

  • Soil microbial community and its interaction with soil carbon and nitrogen dynamics following afforestation in central China.

    Qi Deng;Xiaoli Cheng;Dafeng Hui;Qian Zhang

  • CH4 and N2O emissions from Spartina alterniflora and Phragmites australis in experimental mesocosms

    Xiaoli Cheng;Ronghao Peng;Jiquan Chen;Jiquan Chen;Yiqi Luo;Yiqi Luo

  • Change in soil organic carbon following the ‘Grain-for-Green’ programme in China

    K. Zhang;H. Dang;S. Tan;X. Cheng

  • Alterations in soil microbial community composition and biomass following agricultural land use change

    Qian Zhang;Junjun Wu;Fan Yang;Yao Lei

  • Short-term C4 plant Spartina alterniflora invasions change the soil carbon in C3 plant-dominated tidal wetlands on a growing estuarine Island

    Xiaoli Cheng;Xiaoli Cheng;Yiqi Luo;Yiqi Luo;Jiquan Chen;Jiquan Chen;Guanghui Lin;Guanghui Lin

  • Summer rain pulse size and rainwater uptake by three dominant desert plants in a desertified grassland ecosystem in northwestern China

    Xiaoli Cheng;Xiaoli Cheng;Shuqing An;Bo Li;Jiquan Chen

  • Dissolved trace elements and heavy metals in the Danjiangkou Reservoir, China

    Siyue Li;Zhifang Xu;Xiaoli Cheng;Quanfa Zhang

  • Spatio-temporal dynamics of nutrients in the upper Han River basin, China.

    Siyue Li;Wenzhi Liu;Sheng Gu;Xiaoli Cheng

  • Consequences of short-term C4 plant Spartina alterniflora invasions for soil organic carbon dynamics in a coastal wetland of Eastern China

    Wen Yang;Hui Zhao;Xinglong Chen;Shenglai Yin

  • The impact of agricultural land use changes on soil organic carbon dynamics in the Danjiangkou Reservoir area of China

    Xiaoli Cheng;Yuanhe Yang;Ming Li;Xiaolin Dou

  • Soil carbon dynamics following land-use change varied with temperature and precipitation gradients: evidence from stable isotopes

    Kerong Zhang;Haishan Dang;Quanfa Zhang;Xiaoli Cheng

  • Linking litter production, quality and decomposition to vegetation succession following agricultural abandonment

    Kerong Zhang;Xiaoli Cheng;Haishan Dang;Chen Ye

  • Assessing the effects of short-term Spartina alterniflora invasion on labile and recalcitrant C and N pools by means of soil fractionation and stable C and N isotopes

    Xiaoli Cheng;Xiaoli Cheng;Jiquan Chen;Jiquan Chen;Yiqi Luo;Yiqi Luo;Rachel Henderson

  • Effects of land use/land cover and climate changes on terrestrial net primary productivity in the Yangtze River Basin, China, from 2001 to 2010

    Yulong Zhang;Yulong Zhang;Conghe Song;Conghe Song;Kerong Zhang;Xiaoli Cheng

  • Leaf litter traits predominantly control litter decomposition in streams worldwide

    Menghua Zhang;Xiaoli Cheng;Qinghong Geng;Zheng Shi

  • Impacts of Spartina alterniflora invasion on soil organic carbon and nitrogen pools sizes, stability, and turnover in a coastal salt marsh of eastern China

    Wen Yang;Shuqing An;Hui Zhao;Lingqian Xu

  • Sediment denitrification in Yangtze lakes is mainly influenced by environmental conditions but not biological communities.

    Wenzhi Liu;Lu Yao;Xiaoliang Jiang;Laodong Guo

  • Spatial relationships among species, above-ground biomass, N, and P in degraded grasslands in Ordos Plateau, northwestern China

    X. Cheng;X. Cheng;S. An;J. Chen;B. Li

  • Consequences of afforestation for soil nitrogen dynamics in central China

    Ming Li;Ming Li;Xuhui Zhou;Quanfa Zhang;Xiaoli Cheng

  • Spatial and temporal patterns of the water quality in the Danjiangkou Reservoir, China

    Siyue Li;Xiaoli Cheng;Zhifang Xu;Hongyin Han

Frequent Co-Authors

Quanfa Zhang
Quanfa Zhang Chinese Academy of Sciences
Yiqi Luo
Yiqi Luo Cornell University
Shuqing An
Shuqing An Nanjing University
Jiquan Chen
Jiquan Chen Michigan State University
Conghe Song
Conghe Song University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Siyue Li
Siyue Li Chinese Academy of Sciences
Dafeng Hui
Dafeng Hui Tennessee State University
Guanghui Lin
Guanghui Lin Tsinghua University
Xuhui Zhou
Xuhui Zhou Northeast Forestry University
Jiakuan Chen
Jiakuan Chen Fudan University

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