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Overview

Xingliang Xu is affiliated with the Chinese Academy of Sciences in China and has contributed extensively to the fields of Agricultural and Biological Sciences and Environmental Science. Their research primarily focuses on Soil Science, Plant Science, Ecology, Nature and Landscape Conservation, and Global and Planetary Change.

The scientist's work covers various topics, including:

  • Soil Carbon and Nitrogen Dynamics
  • Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies
  • Peatlands and Wetlands Ecology
  • Legume Nitrogen Fixing Symbiosis
  • Plant nutrient uptake and metabolism
  • Soil and Water Nutrient Dynamics
  • Rangeland Management and Livestock Ecology

Xu has published in notable journals and publication venues, with a frequent presence in:

  • Plant and Soil
  • Rhizosphere
  • Biology and Fertility of Soils
  • The Science of The Total Environment
  • SSRN Electronic Journal

Recent papers by Xu demonstrate their involvement in current environmental and ecological research. Among these are:

  • Grassland changes and adaptive management on the Qinghai-Tibetan Plateau, 2022, Nature Reviews Earth & Environment
  • Carbon and nitrogen recycling from microbial necromass to cope with C:N stoichiometric imbalance by priming, 2020, Soil Biology and Biochemistry
  • Carbon and nitrogen cycling on the Qinghai-Tibetan Plateau, 2022, Nature Reviews Earth & Environment
  • C:N:P stoichiometry regulates soil organic carbon mineralization and concomitant shifts in microbial community composition in paddy soil, 2020, Biology and Fertility of Soils
  • Microbial functional changes mark irreversible course of Tibetan grassland degradation, 2022, Nature Communications

Collaboration is a consistent element in Xu's work. Frequent co-authors include:

  • Yakov Kuzyakov
  • Min Liu
  • Yanfen Wang
  • Yuqiang Tian
  • Xiaoyong Cui

Best Publications

  • Competition between roots and microorganisms for nitrogen: mechanisms and ecological relevance

    Yakov Kuzyakov;Yakov Kuzyakov;Xingliang Xu

  • Black carbon decomposition and incorporation into soil microbial biomass estimated by 14C labeling

    Yakov Kuzyakov;Irina Subbotina;Haiqing Chen;Irina Bogomolova

  • Evolutionary history resolves global organization of root functional traits

    Zeqing Ma;Dali Guo;Xingliang Xu;Mingzhen Lu

  • Carbon and nitrogen recycling from microbial necromass to cope with C:N stoichiometric imbalance by priming

    Jun Cui;Zhenke Zhu;Xingliang Xu;Shoulong Liu

  • Do invasive alien plants benefit more from global environmental change than native plants

    Yanjie Liu;Yanjie Liu;Ayub M. O. Oduor;Ayub M. O. Oduor;Zhen Zhang;Anthony Manea

  • The Kobresia pygmaea ecosystem of the Tibetan highlands – Origin, functioning and degradation of the world's largest pastoral alpine ecosystem: Kobresia pastures of Tibet

    Georg Miehe;Per Marten Schleuss;Elke Seeber;Wolfgang Babel

  • Effect of grazing on carbon stocks and assimilate partitioning in a Tibetan montane pasture revealed by 13CO2 pulse labeling

    Silke Hafner;Sebastian Unteregelsbacher;Elke Seeber;Becker Lena

  • Heterotrophic microbial communities use ancient carbon following glacial retreat

    Richard D Bardgett;Andreas Richter;Roland Bol;Mark H Garnett

  • Microbial stoichiometric flexibility regulates rice straw mineralization and its priming effect in paddy soil

    Zhenke Zhu;Tida Ge;Yu Luo;Shoulong Liu

  • Labile carbon retention compensates for CO2 released by priming in forest soils

    Na Qiao;Na Qiao;Douglas Schaefer;Evgenia Blagodatskaya;Evgenia Blagodatskaya;Xiaoming Zou;Xiaoming Zou

  • Isotopic evidence for oligotrophication of terrestrial ecosystems

    Joseph M. Craine;Andrew J. Elmore;Lixin Wang;Julieta Aranibar

  • C:N:P stoichiometry regulates soil organic carbon mineralization and concomitant shifts in microbial community composition in paddy soil

    Xiaomeng Wei;Zhenke Zhu;Yi Liu;Yu Luo

  • 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

  • Carbon input and allocation by rice into paddy soils: A review

    Yalong Liu;Yalong Liu;Tida Ge;Zhenke Zhu;Shoulong Liu

  • Effects of permafrost degradation on ecosystems

    Zhao-ping Yang;Yang Hua Ou;Xing-liang Xu;Lin Zhao

  • Root biomass distribution in alpine ecosystems of the northern Tibetan Plateau

    Xiaojia Li;Xianzhou Zhang;Jianshuang Wu;Zhenxi Shen

  • Spatio-temporal variations determine plant-microbe competition for inorganic nitrogen in an alpine meadow

    Xingliang Xu;Hua Ouyang;Andreas Richter;Wolfgang Wanek

  • Carbon and nitrogen additions induce distinct priming effects along an organic-matter decay continuum.

    Na Qiao;Xingliang Xu;Yuehua Hu;Evgenia Blagodatskaya

  • New approaches for evaluation of soil health, sensitivity and resistance to degradation

    Yakov Kuzyakov;Anna Gunina;Kazem Zamanian;Jing Tian

  • Quantitative effects of wind erosion on the soil texture and soil nutrients under different vegetation coverage in a semiarid steppe of northern China

    Yuchun Yan;Xiaoping Xin;Xingliang Xu;Xu Wang

  • Methane emissions by alpine plant communities in the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau

    Guangmin Cao;Xingliang Xu;Ruijun Long;Qilan Wang

  • Influence of nitrogen fertilization on soil ammonia oxidizer and denitrifier abundance, microbial biomass, and enzyme activities in an alpine meadow

    Xiao-Fang Tian;Hang-Wei Hu;Qiong Ding;Ming-Hua Song

  • Responses of grassland vegetation to climatic variations on different temporal scales in Hulun Buir Grassland in the past 30 years

    Geli Zhang;Xingliang Xu;Caiping Zhou;Hongbin Zhang

  • Effect of vegetation coverage on aeolian dust accumulation in a semiarid steppe of northern China

    Yuchun Yan;Xingliang Xu;Xiaoping Xin;Guixia Yang

  • Effect of grazing on carbon stocks and assimilate partitioning in a Tibetan montane pasture revealed

    Silke Hafner;Sebastian U Nte Regelsbacher;Elke S Eeber;B Ecker Lena

  • Data from: Isotopic evidence for oligotrophication of terrestrial ecosystems

    Joseph M. Craine;Andrew J. Elmore;Lixin Wang;Julieta Aranibar

Frequent Co-Authors

Yakov Kuzyakov
Yakov Kuzyakov University of Göttingen
Georg Guggenberger
Georg Guggenberger University of Hannover
Georg Miehe
Georg Miehe Philipp University of Marburg
Yanfen Wang
Yanfen Wang Chinese Academy of Sciences
Thomas Foken
Thomas Foken University of Bayreuth
Evgenia Blagodatskaya
Evgenia Blagodatskaya Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research
Yaoming Ma
Yaoming Ma Chinese Academy of Sciences
Huimin Wang
Huimin Wang Chinese Academy of Sciences
Xiaoyong Cui
Xiaoyong Cui University of Chinese Academy of Sciences
Wolfgang Wanek
Wolfgang Wanek University of Vienna

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