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National Ranking
68

Overview

Yingnian Li is affiliated with the Chinese Academy of Sciences in China and has contributed extensively to environmental science research. Their work predominantly focuses on global and planetary change, with strong involvement in atmospheric science, ecology, water science and technology, and nature and landscape conservation.

Li's research covers key topics including plant water relations and carbon dynamics, climate variability and models, atmospheric and environmental gas dynamics, climate change and permafrost, ecology and vegetation dynamics studies, cryospheric studies and observations, and peatlands and wetlands ecology.

Their recent papers illustrate a focus on carbon fluxes, ecosystem respiration, and the interactions of atmospheric water vapor and soil moisture with ecosystem processes. Notable publications include:

  • Carbon fluxes and environmental controls across different alpine grassland types on the Tibetan Plateau, 2021, Agricultural and Forest Meteorology
  • Warming homogenizes apparent temperature sensitivity of ecosystem respiration, 2021, Science Advances
  • Atmospheric water vapor and soil moisture jointly determine the spatiotemporal variations of CO2 fluxes and evapotranspiration across the Qinghai-Tibetan Plateau grasslands, 2021, The Science of The Total Environment
  • Precipitation rather than evapotranspiration determines the warm-season water supply in an alpine shrub and an alpine meadow, 2021, Agricultural and Forest Meteorology
  • Mapping Chinese annual gross primary productivity with eddy covariance measurements and machine learning, 2022, The Science of The Total Environment

Their collaborative work involves frequent co-authors such as Fawei Zhang, Hongqin Li, Peili Shi, Jingbin Zhu, and Yongsheng Yang.

Li publishes regularly in journals known for environmental and ecological studies. The most common publication venues include:

  • Agricultural and Forest Meteorology
  • SSRN Electronic Journal
  • The Science of The Total Environment
  • Scientia Sinica Vitae
  • Ecosystems

Best Publications

  • The FLUXNET2015 dataset and the ONEFlux processing pipeline for eddy covariance data

    Gilberto Pastorello;Carlo Trotta;Eleonora Canfora;Housen Chu

  • Grazing intensity alters soil respiration in an alpine meadow on the Tibetan plateau

    Guangmin Cao;Yanhong Tang;Wenhong Mo;Yuesi Wang

  • Effects of vegetation control on ecosystem water use efficiency within and among four grassland ecosystems in China

    Zhongmin Hu;Guirui Yu;Yuling Fu;Xiaomin Sun

  • Spatial patterns and climate drivers of carbon fluxes in terrestrial ecosystems of China

    Gui-Rui Yu;Xian-Jin Zhu;Yu-Ling Fu;Hong-Lin He

  • Temperature and biomass influences on interannual changes in CO2 exchange in an alpine meadow on the Qinghai‐Tibetan Plateau

    Tomomichi Kato;Yanhong Tang;Song Gu;Mitsuru Hirota

  • Spatiotemporal pattern of gross primary productivity and its covariation with climate in China over the last thirty years.

    Yitong Yao;Xuhui Wang;Yue Li;Tao Wang

  • Decadal soil carbon accumulation across Tibetan permafrost regions

    Jinzhi Ding;Leiyi Chen;Chengjun Ji;Gustaf Hugelius;Gustaf Hugelius

  • 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 warming and grazing on litter mass loss and temperature sensitivity of litter and dung mass loss on the Tibetan plateau

    Caiyun Luo;Guangping Xu;Zengguo Chao;Shiping Wang

  • Diurnal, seasonal and annual variation in net ecosystem CO2 exchange of an alpine shrubland on Qinghai-Tibetan plateau

    Liang Zhao;Yingnian Li;Shixiao Xu;Huakun Zhou

  • Short-term effect of increasing nitrogen deposition on CO2, CH4 and N2O fluxes in an alpine meadow on the Qinghai-Tibetan Plateau, China

    Chunming Jiang;Guirui Yu;Huajun Fang;Guangmin Cao

  • Development of a two-leaf light use efficiency model for improving the calculation of terrestrial gross primary productivity

    Mingzhu He;Mingzhu He;Weimin Ju;Weimin Ju;Yanlian Zhou;Jingming Chen;Jingming Chen

  • Modeling gross primary production of alpine ecosystems in the Tibetan Plateau using MODIS images and climate data

    Zhengquan Li;Guirui Yu;Xiangming Xiao;Yingnian Li

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

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

  • Depression of net ecosystem CO2 exchange in semi-arid Leymus chinensis steppe and alpine shrub

    Yu-Ling Fu;Gui-Rui Yu;Xiao-Min Sun;Ying-Nian Li

  • Fluxes of CO2, CH4, and N2O in an alpine meadow affected by yak excreta on the Qinghai-Tibetan plateau during summer grazing periods.

    Xingwu Lin;Shiping Wang;Xiuzhi Ma;Guangping 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

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

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

  • Global parameterization and validation of a two-leaf light use efficiency model for predicting gross primary production across FLUXNET sites

    Yanlian Zhou;Xiaocui Wu;Weimin Ju;Weimin Ju;Jing M. Chen

  • Spatial variability of water use efficiency in China's terrestrial ecosystems

    Xian-Jin Zhu;Gui-Rui Yu;Qiu-Feng Wang;Zhong-Min Hu

  • Effects of cloudiness change on net ecosystem exchange, light use efficiency, and water use efficiency in typical ecosystems of China

    Mi Zhang;Gui-Rui Yu;Jie Zhuang;Randy Gentry

Frequent Co-Authors

Guirui Yu
Guirui Yu Chinese Academy of Sciences
Peili Shi
Peili Shi Chinese Academy of Sciences
Yanhong Tang
Yanhong Tang Peking University
Xinquan Zhao
Xinquan Zhao Chinese Academy of Sciences
Yanfen Wang
Yanfen Wang Chinese Academy of Sciences
Huimin Wang
Huimin Wang Chinese Academy of Sciences
Junhua Yan
Junhua Yan Chinese Academy of Sciences
Shijie Han
Shijie Han Chinese Academy of Sciences
Xiaomin Sun
Xiaomin Sun Chinese Academy of Sciences
Shiping Wang
Shiping Wang Chinese Academy of Sciences

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