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Xiaoyong Cui is affiliated with the University of Chinese Academy of Sciences in China. Their research primarily spans the fields of Environmental Science and Agricultural and Biological Sciences, with a considerable focus on subfields such as Ecology, Soil Science, Plant Science, Global and Planetary Change, and Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics.

The scientist's main research topics include Soil Carbon and Nitrogen Dynamics, Rangeland Management and Livestock Ecology, Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies, Peatlands and Wetlands Ecology, Microbial Community Ecology and Physiology, Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics, and Mycorrhizal Fungi and Plant Interactions.

Among their recent publications are studies that address key environmental and ecological issues. Notable papers include:

  • The impact of environmental regulation policy on firms' energy-saving behavior: A quasi-natural experiment based on China's low-carbon pilot city policy (2022) published in Resources Policy
  • The Global-DEP conceptual framework - research on dryland ecosystems to promote sustainability (2020) published in Current Opinion in Environmental Sustainability
  • The significance of tree-tree interactions for forest ecosystem functioning (2021) published in Basic and Applied Ecology
  • Meta-analysis of the impacts of phosphorus addition on soil microbes (2022) published in Agriculture Ecosystems & Environment
  • Livelihood resilience in pastoral communities: Methodological and field insights from Qinghai-Tibetan Plateau (2022) published in The Science of The Total Environment

The work of Xiaoyong Cui appears frequently in several publication venues, with multiple papers featured in the following journals: SSRN Electronic Journal, Geoderma, Journal of Soils and Sediments, Agriculture Ecosystems & Environment, and The Science of The Total Environment.

Collaboration is a significant aspect of their research, with frequent co-authors including Yanfen Wang, Yanbin Hao, Zhihong Xu, Rongxiao Che, and Linfeng Li. This network reflects an active engagement within the scientific community, contributing to diverse projects in environmental and agricultural sciences.

Best Publications

  • Effects of warming and grazing on soil N availability, species composition, and ANPP in an alpine meadow

    Shiping Wang;Jichuang Duan;Guangping Xu;Yanfen Wang

  • Carbon dioxide exchange between the atmosphere and an alpine meadow ecosystem on the Qinghai–Tibetan Plateau, China

    Tomomichi Kato;Yanhong Tang;Song Gu;Xiaoyong Cui

  • Effect of long-term grazing on soil organic carbon content in semiarid steppes in Inner Mongolia

    Xiaoyong Cui;Yanfen Wang;Haishan Niu;Jing Wu

  • Terrestrial N2O emissions and related functional genes under climate change: A global meta-analysis

    Linfeng Li;Linfeng Li;Zhenzhen Zheng;Weijin Wang;Weijin Wang;Joel A. Biederman

  • Energy exchange between the atmosphere and a meadow ecosystem on the Qinghai-Tibetan Plateau

    Song Gu;Song Gu;Yanhong Tang;Xiaoyong Cui;Tomomichi Kato

  • Degraded patch formation significantly changed microbial community composition in alpine meadow soils

    Rongxiao Che;Yanfen Wang;Kexin Li;Zhihong Xu

  • Short-term variation of CO2 flux in relation to environmental controls in an alpine meadow on the Qinghai-Tibetan Plateau

    Song Gu;Yanhong Tang;Mingyuan Du;Tomomichi Kato

  • Litter amendment rather than phosphorus can dramatically change inorganic nitrogen pools in a degraded grassland soil by affecting nitrogen-cycling microbes

    Rongxiao Che;Rongxiao Che;Jinling Qin;Iman Tahmasbian;Fang Wang;Fang Wang

  • Earlier-Season Vegetation Has Greater Temperature Sensitivity of Spring Phenology in Northern Hemisphere

    Miaogen Shen;Yanhong Tang;Jin Chen;Xi Yang

  • Characterizing evapotranspiration over a meadow ecosystem on the Qinghai-Tibetan Plateau

    Song Gu;Song Gu;Song Gu;Yanhong Tang;Xiaoyong Cui;Mingyuan Du

  • Autotrophic and symbiotic diazotrophs dominate nitrogen-fixing communities in Tibetan grassland soils.

    Rongxiao Che;Yongcui Deng;Fang Wang;Weijin Wang

  • Seasonal and interannual variation in water vapor and energy exchange over a typical steppe in Inner Mongolia, China

    Yanbin Hao;Yanfen Wang;Xiangzhong Huang;Xiaoyong Cui

  • Precipitation shapes communities of arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi in Tibetan alpine steppe.

    Jing Zhang;Fang Wang;Rongxiao Che;Ping Wang

  • Asymmetric sensitivity of first flowering date to warming and cooling in alpine plants

    S. P. Wang;F. D. Meng;J. C. Duan;Y. F. Wang

  • Responses of soil respiration and its components to drought stress

    Yanfen Wang;Yanbin Hao;Xiao Yong Cui;Haitao Zhao

  • Partitioning pattern of carbon flux in a Kobresia grassland on the Qinghai‐Tibetan Plateau revealed by field 13C pulse‐labeling

    Yibo Wu;Hongchao Tan;Yongcui Deng;Jing Wu

  • Total and active soil fungal community profiles were significantly altered by six years of warming but not by grazing

    Rongxiao Che;Shiping Wang;Yanfen Wang;Zhihong Xu

  • The Global-DEP conceptual framework — research on dryland ecosystems to promote sustainability

    Bojie Fu;Mark Stafford-Smith;Yanfeng Wang;Binfang Wu

  • Livelihood resilience in pastoral communities: Methodological and field insights from Qinghai-Tibetan Plateau.

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  • Plasticity in stomatal size and density of potato leaves under different irrigation and phosphorus regimes

    Yanqi Sun;Fei Yan;Xiaoyong Cui;Fulai Liu

  • Seasonal patterns of gross primary production and ecosystem respiration in an alpine meadow ecosystem on the Qinghai‐Tibetan Plateau

    Tomomichi Kato;Yanhong Tang;Song Gu;Mitsuru Hirota;Mitsuru Hirota

  • Predominance of Precipitation and Temperature Controls on Ecosystem CO2 Exchange in Zoige Alpine Wetlands of Southwest China

    Yan Bin Hao;Xiao Yong Cui;Yan Fen Wang;Xu Rong Mei

Frequent Co-Authors

Yanfen Wang
Yanfen Wang Chinese Academy of Sciences
Yanbin Hao
Yanbin Hao University of Chinese Academy of Sciences
Zhihong Xu
Zhihong Xu Griffith University
Shiping Wang
Shiping Wang Chinese Academy of Sciences
Yanhong Tang
Yanhong Tang Peking University
Kai Xue
Kai Xue Chinese Academy of Sciences
Yichao Rui
Yichao Rui Purdue University West Lafayette
Xingliang Xu
Xingliang Xu Chinese Academy of Sciences
Joel A. Biederman
Joel A. Biederman United States Department of Agriculture
Xinquan Zhao
Xinquan Zhao Chinese Academy of Sciences

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