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Ecology and Evolution

D-Index
88
Citations
31213
World Ranking
522
National Ranking
12

Overview

Ye Deng is affiliated with the Chinese Academy of Sciences in China. Their research predominantly lies at the intersection of Environmental Science, Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology, and Agricultural and Biological Sciences. Within these overarching fields, they focus on subfields including Ecology, Molecular Biology, Plant Science, Soil Science, and Pollution.

The scientist's work addresses a diverse array of topics such as Microbial Community Ecology and Physiology, Gut Microbiota and Health, Soil Carbon and Nitrogen Dynamics, Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies, Legume Nitrogen Fixing Symbiosis, Air Quality and Health Impacts, and Vehicle Emissions and Performance.

Ye Deng's publication record includes multiple recent papers contributing to understanding microbial and environmental processes. Notable publications include:

  • Temperature sensitivity of SOM decomposition is linked with a K-selected microbial community, 2021, Global Change Biology
  • iNAP: An integrated network analysis pipeline for microbiome studies, 2022, iMeta
  • Warming reshaped the microbial hierarchical interactions, 2021, Global Change Biology
  • The Great Oxidation Event expanded the genetic repertoire of arsenic metabolism and cycling, 2020, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • Temperature and microbial interactions drive the deterministic assembly processes in sediments of hot springs, 2021, The Science of The Total Environment

The scientist commonly publishes in venues such as The Science of The Total Environment, Frontiers in Microbiology, Environmental Research, PubMed, and Global Change Biology.

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Ye Deng include Kai Feng, Shuzhen Li, Songsong Gu, Shang Wang, and Xiongfeng Du, reflecting a network of research partnerships largely centered on microbiological and environmental studies.

In addition to journal articles, Ye Deng has contributed to book literature, notably publishing "Microbial Regulation of Soil Carbon Cycling in Terrestrial Ecosystems" in 2023 with Frontiers Media.

Best Publications

  • Molecular ecological network analyses

    Ye Deng;Yi-Huei Jiang;Yunfeng Yang;Zhili He

  • Deep-sea oil plume enriches indigenous oil-degrading bacteria.

    Terry C. Hazen;Eric A. Dubinsky;Todd Z. DeSantis;Gary L. Andersen

  • A general framework for quantitatively assessing ecological stochasticity

    Daliang Ning;Ye Deng;Ye Deng;Ye Deng;James M Tiedje;Jizhong Zhou

  • Functional Molecular Ecological Networks

    Jizhong Zhou;Jizhong Zhou;Jizhong Zhou;Ye Deng;Feng Luo;Zhili He

  • Phylogenetic Molecular Ecological Network of Soil Microbial Communities in Response to Elevated CO2

    Jizhong Zhou;Jizhong Zhou;Jizhong Zhou;Ye Deng;Feng Luo;Zhili He

  • Stochasticity, succession, and environmental perturbations in a fluidic ecosystem

    Jizhong Zhou;Jizhong Zhou;Jizhong Zhou;Ye Deng;Ye Deng;Ping Zhang;Kai Xue

  • Correlation detection strategies in microbial data sets vary widely in sensitivity and precision

    Sophie Weiss;Will Van Treuren;Catherine Lozupone;Karoline Faust;Karoline Faust

  • Global diversity and biogeography of bacterial communities in wastewater treatment plants

    Linwei Wu;Daliang Ning;Bing Zhang;Yong Li

  • Microbial mediation of carbon-cycle feedbacks to climate warming

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

  • Temperature mediates continental-scale diversity of microbes in forest soils

    Jizhong Zhou;Jizhong Zhou;Jizhong Zhou;Ye Deng;Ye Deng;Lina Shen;Chongqing Wen

  • Reproducibility and quantitation of amplicon sequencing-based detection

    Jizhong Zhou;Jizhong Zhou;Jizhong Zhou;Liyou Wu;Ye Deng;Xiaoyang Zhi

  • Biodiversity and species competition regulate the resilience of microbial biofilm community.

    Kai Feng;Zhaojing Zhang;Zhaojing Zhang;Weiwei Cai;Weiwei Cai;Wenzong Liu

  • Network succession reveals the importance of competition in response to emulsified vegetable oil amendment for uranium bioremediation.

    Ye Deng;Ye Deng;Ping Zhang;Yujia Qin;Qichao Tu

  • High-Throughput Metagenomic Technologies for Complex Microbial Community Analysis: Open and Closed Formats

    Jizhong Zhou;Jizhong Zhou;Jizhong Zhou;Zhili He;Yunfeng Yang;Ye Deng;Ye Deng

  • Temperature sensitivity of SOM decomposition is linked with a K-selected microbial community

    Hui Li;Shan Yang;Mikhail V Semenov;Fei Yao

  • NCycDB: a curated integrative database for fast and accurate metagenomic profiling of nitrogen cycling genes.

    Qichao Tu;Lu Lin;Lei Cheng;Ye Deng

  • Metagenomic insights into evolution of a heavy metal-contaminated groundwater microbial community

    Christopher L Hemme;Ye Deng;Terry J Gentry;Terry J Gentry;Matthew W Fields

  • GeoChip 3.0 as a high-throughput tool for analyzing microbial community composition, structure and functional activity

    Zhili He;Ye Deng;Joy D Van Nostrand;Qichao Tu

  • Tundra soil carbon is vulnerable to rapid microbial decomposition under climate warming

    Kai Xue;Kai Xue;Mengting M. Yuan;Zhou J. Shi;Yujia Qin

  • Stochastic assembly leads to alternative communities with distinct functions in a bioreactor microbial community.

    Jizhong Zhou;Jizhong Zhou;Jizhong Zhou;Wenzong Liu;Wenzong Liu;Ye Deng;Yi-Huei Jiang

  • Metagenomic analysis reveals a marked divergence in the structure of belowground microbial communities at elevated CO2

    Zhili He;Meiying Xu;Ye Deng;Sanghoon Kang

  • Microbial gene functions enriched in the Deepwater Horizon deep-sea oil plume

    Zhenmei Lu;Zhenmei Lu;Ye Deng;Joy D Van Nostrand;Zhili He

Frequent Co-Authors

Jizhong Zhou
Jizhong Zhou University of Oklahoma
Zhili He
Zhili He Sun Yat-sen University
Joy D. Van Nostrand
Joy D. Van Nostrand University of Oklahoma
Liyou Wu
Liyou Wu University of Oklahoma
Kai Xue
Kai Xue Chinese Academy of Sciences
Aijie Wang
Aijie Wang Harbin Institute of Technology
Terry C. Hazen
Terry C. Hazen University of Tennessee at Knoxville
Ninghua Zhu
Ninghua Zhu Chinese Academy of Sciences
James M. Tiedje
James M. Tiedje Michigan State University
Yunfeng Yang
Yunfeng Yang Tsinghua University

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