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Overview

Yongfei Bai is affiliated with the Chinese Academy of Sciences in China. Their research primarily spans the fields of Agricultural and Biological Sciences and Environmental Science, with substantial contributions in Plant Science, Soil Science, Nature and Landscape Conservation, Ecology, and Global and Planetary Change.

The scientist's work covers key topics such as Soil Carbon and Nitrogen Dynamics, Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies, Mycorrhizal Fungi and Plant Interactions, Rangeland Management and Livestock Ecology, Plant Parasitism and Resistance, Plant and animal studies, and Land Use and Ecosystem Services.

Yongfei Bai has published extensively in leading scientific venues. Some frequent publication venues include Soil Biology and Biochemistry, Journal of Ecology, Agriculture Ecosystems & Environment, Applied Soil Ecology, and Journal of Applied Ecology.

Frequent co-authors in their research network include Dima Chen, Xiaoming Lu, Liji Wu, Ying Wu, and Yujin Zhao.

Among recent papers authored by Yongfei Bai are:

  • Grassland soil carbon sequestration: Current understanding, challenges, and solutions (2022, Science)
  • The global carbon sink potential of terrestrial vegetation can be increased substantially by optimal land management (2022, Communications Earth & Environment)
  • Nitrogen-induced acidification, not N-nutrient, dominates suppressive N effects on arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi (2020, Global Change Biology)
  • Soil acidification reduces the effects of short-term nutrient enrichment on plant and soil biota and their interactions in grasslands (2020, Global Change Biology)
  • Long-term regional evidence of the effects of livestock grazing on soil microbial community structure and functions in surface and deep soil layers (2022, Soil Biology and Biochemistry)

Their research addresses significant environmental issues such as soil carbon dynamics, nutrient effects on soil organisms, and ecosystem responses to land use and management. This body of work contributes to understanding ecological processes relevant to soil health, vegetation, and sustainable land management practices.

Best Publications

  • Ecosystem stability and compensatory effects in the Inner Mongolia grassland

    Yongfei Bai;Xingguo Han;Jianguo Wu;Jianguo Wu;Zuozhong Chen

  • Grassland soil carbon sequestration: Current understanding, challenges, and solutions

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  • Tradeoffs and thresholds in the effects of nitrogen addition on biodiversity and ecosystem functioning: evidence from inner Mongolia Grasslands

    Yongfei Bai;Jianguo Wu;Jianguo Wu;Christopher M. Clark;Shahid Naeem

  • Primary production and rain use efficiency across a precipitation gradient on the Mongolia Plateau.

    Yongfei Bai;Jianguo Wu;Jianguo Wu;Qi Xing;Qingmin Pan

  • Carbon pools in China's terrestrial ecosystems: New estimates based on an intensive field survey

    Xuli Tang;Xia Zhao;Yongfei Bai;Zhiyao Tang

  • Effects of national ecological restoration projects on carbon sequestration in China from 2001 to 2010.

    Fei Lu;Huifeng Hu;Wenjuan Sun;Jiaojun Zhu

  • Plant diversity enhances productivity and soil carbon storage.

    Shiping Chen;Wantong Wang;Wenting Xu;Yang Wang

  • Divergent accumulation of microbial necromass and plant lignin components in grassland soils.

    Tian Ma;Shanshan Zhu;Zhiheng Wang;Dima Chen

  • The Future of Complementarity: Disentangling Causes from Consequences

    Kathryn E. Barry;Liesje Mommer;Jasper van Ruijven;Christian Wirth;Christian Wirth

  • Linking stoichiometric homoeostasis with ecosystem structure, functioning and stability.

    Qiang Yu;Quansheng Chen;James J. Elser;Nianpeng He

  • Grassland responses to grazing: effects of grazing intensity and management system in an Inner Mongolian steppe ecosystem

    Philipp Schönbach;Hongwei Wan;Martin Gierus;Yongfei Bai

  • Grazing alters ecosystem functioning and C:N:P stoichiometry of grasslands along a regional precipitation gradient

    Yongfei Bai;Jianguo Wu;Jianguo Wu;Chris M. Clark;Qingmin Pan

  • Patterns of plant carbon, nitrogen, and phosphorus concentration in relation to productivity in China's terrestrial ecosystems

    Zhiyao Tang;Wenting Xu;Guoyi Zhou;Yongfei Bai

  • Positive linear relationship between productivity and diversity: evidence from the Eurasian Steppe

    Yongfei Bai;Jianguo Wu;Jianguo Wu;Qingmin Pan;Jianhui Huang

  • Evidence that acidification-induced declines in plant diversity and productivity are mediated by changes in below-ground communities and soil properties in a semi-arid steppe

    Dima Chen;Zhichun Lan;Xue Bai;James B. Grace

  • The global carbon sink potential of terrestrial vegetation can be increased substantially by optimal land management

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  • Reconciling multiple impacts of nitrogen enrichment on soil carbon: plant, microbial and geochemical controls.

    Chenglong Ye;Chenglong Ye;Dima Chen;Steven J. Hall;Shang Pan

  • Effects of nitrogen enrichment on belowground communities in grassland: Relative role of soil nitrogen availability vs. soil acidification

    Dima Chen;Dima Chen;Zhichun Lan;Shuijin Hu;Yongfei Bai

  • Comparing physiological responses of two dominant grass species to nitrogen addition in Xilin River Basin of China

    Shiping Chen;Yongfei Bai;Lixia Zhang;Xingguo Han

  • Differential responses of soil bacterial communities to long-term N and P inputs in a semi-arid steppe

    Ning Ling;Dima Chen;Hui Guo;Jiaxin Wei

  • Soil acidification exerts a greater control on soil respiration than soil nitrogen availability in grasslands subjected to long‐term nitrogen enrichment

    Dima Chen;Dima Chen;Jianjun Li;Zhichun Lan;Shuijin Hu

  • Changes in the abundance of C3/C4 species of Inner Mongolia grassland: evidence from isotopic composition of soil and vegetation

    Maximilian H. O. M. Wittmer;Karl Auerswald;Yongfei Bai;Rudi Schäufele

  • Rate-specific responses of prokaryotic diversity and structure to nitrogen deposition in the Leymus chinensis steppe

    Minjie Yao;Junpeng Rui;Jiabao Li;Yumei Dai

Frequent Co-Authors

Dima Chen
Dima Chen Inner Mongolia University
Xingguo Han
Xingguo Han Hebei University
Jianguo Wu
Jianguo Wu Arizona State University
Shuijin Hu
Shuijin Hu North Carolina State University
Jianhui Huang
Jianhui Huang Chinese Academy of Sciences
Friedhelm Taube
Friedhelm Taube Kiel University
Karl Auerswald
Karl Auerswald Technical University of Munich
Jingyun Fang
Jingyun Fang Peking University
Hans Schnyder
Hans Schnyder Technical University of Munich
Shiping Chen
Shiping Chen Chinese Academy of Sciences

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