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Yuanhe Yang is a researcher affiliated with the Chinese Academy of Sciences in China. Their scientific work primarily focuses on environmental sciences, earth and planetary sciences, and agricultural and biological sciences. Within these domains, their research spans subfields such as atmospheric science, ecology, soil science, global and planetary change, and environmental chemistry.

Yang's research concentrates on a set of key topics that include climate change and permafrost, soil carbon and nitrogen dynamics, cryospheric studies and observations, peatlands and wetlands ecology, microbial community ecology and physiology, geology and paleoclimatology research, and soil and water nutrient dynamics.

The scientist has contributed to several notable publications, some of which have garnered significant scientific attention. Examples of recent papers include:

  • Terrestrial carbon sinks in China and around the world and their contribution to carbon neutrality, 2022, Science China Life Sciences
  • Spatial heterogeneity and environmental predictors of permafrost region soil organic carbon stocks, 2021, Science Advances
  • Rice paddy soils are a quantitatively important carbon store according to a global synthesis, 2021, Communications Earth & Environment
  • Global soil profiles indicate depth-dependent soil carbon losses under a warmer climate, 2022, Nature Communications
  • Soil carbon persistence governed by plant input and mineral protection at regional and global scales, 2021, Ecology Letters

Yang frequently publishes in journals such as Global Change Biology, Nature Communications, Science China Life Sciences, Functional Ecology, and Nature Geoscience. These venues reflect a consistent engagement with ecological and environmental research topics relevant to global change and earth system science.

The scientist collaborates regularly with colleagues in the field. Frequent co-authors include Yunfeng Peng, Dianye Zhang, Leiyi Chen, Shuqi Qin, and Dan Kou, reflecting ongoing partnerships within the research community.

Best Publications

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

    Xuli Tang;Xia Zhao;Yongfei Bai;Zhiyao Tang

  • Storage, patterns and controls of soil organic carbon in the Tibetan grasslands

    Yuanhe Yang;Jingyun Fang;Yanhong Tang;Chengjun Ji

  • Terrestrial carbon sinks in China and around the world and their contribution to carbon neutrality

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  • Responses of ecosystem nitrogen cycle to nitrogen addition: a meta-analysis

    Meng Lu;Meng Lu;Yuanhe Yang;Yiqi Luo;Yiqi Luo;Changming Fang

  • Minor stimulation of soil carbon storage by nitrogen addition: A meta-analysis

    Meng Lu;Meng Lu;Xuhui Zhou;Yiqi Luo;Yiqi Luo;Yuanhe Yang

  • Above- and belowground biomass allocation in Tibetan grasslands.

    Yuanhe Yang;Jingyun Fang;Chengjun Ji;Wenxuan Han;Wenxuan Han

  • Regulation of priming effect by soil organic matter stability over a broad geographic scale.

    Leiyi Chen;Li Liu;Shuqi Qin;Guibiao Yang

  • Storage, patterns and environmental controls of soil organic carbon in China

    Yuanhe Yang;Anwar Mohammat;Jianmeng Feng;Rui Zhou

  • Spatial heterogeneity and environmental predictors of permafrost region soil organic carbon stocks

    Umakant Mishra;Gustaf Hugelius;Eitan Shelef;Yuanhe Yang

  • Large-scale pattern of biomass partitioning across China's grasslands

    Yuanhe Yang;Jingyun Fang;Wenhong Ma;Dali Guo

  • Significant soil acidification across northern China's grasslands during 1980s–2000s

    Yuanhe Yang;Yuanhe Yang;Yuanhe Yang;Chengjun Ji;Wenhong Ma;Shifeng Wang

  • Carbon and nitrogen dynamics during forest stand development: a global synthesis

    Yuanhe Yang;Yiqi Luo;Adrien C. Finzi

  • Aboveground biomass in Tibetan grasslands

    Y.H. Yang;J.Y. Fang;Y.D. Pan;C.J. Ji

  • Ecosystem carbon stocks and their changes in China’s grasslands

    JingYun Fang;YuanHe Yang;WenHong Ma;Anwar Mohammat

  • Nitrogen availability regulates topsoil carbon dynamics after permafrost thaw by altering microbial metabolic efficiency.

    Leiyi Chen;Li Liu;Chao Mao;Shuqi Qin

  • Decadal soil carbon accumulation across Tibetan permafrost regions

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

  • The permafrost carbon inventory on the Tibetan Plateau: a new evaluation using deep sediment cores

    Jinzhi Ding;Fei Li;Guibiao Yang;Leiyi Chen

  • Soil carbon stock and its changes in northern China's grasslands from 1980s to 2000s

    Yuanhe Yang;Jingyun Fang;Wenhong Ma;Pete Smith

  • Global soil profiles indicate depth-dependent soil carbon losses under a warmer climate

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  • Temperature sensitivity of SOM decomposition governed by aggregate protection and microbial communities

    Shuqi Qin;Leiyi Chen;Kai Fang;Qiwen Zhang

  • Environmental factors covary with plant diversity-productivity relationships among Chinese grassland sites

    Wenhong Ma;Jin-Sheng He;Yuanhe Yang;Xiangping Wang

  • Carbon : nitrogen stoichiometry in forest ecosystems during stand development

    Yuanhe Yang;Yiqi Luo

  • Relationship between variability in aboveground net primary production and precipitation in global grasslands

    Yuanhe Yang;Jingyun Fang;Wenhong Ma;Wei Wang

Frequent Co-Authors

Jingyun Fang
Jingyun Fang Peking University
Chengjun Ji
Chengjun Ji Peking University
Yiqi Luo
Yiqi Luo Cornell University
Haihua Shen
Haihua Shen Chinese Academy of Sciences
Peter Smith
Peter Smith University of Aberdeen
Jun Wang
Jun Wang University of Central Florida
Wenxuan Han
Wenxuan Han China Agricultural University
Zhiyao Tang
Zhiyao Tang Peking University
Benjamin W. Abbott
Benjamin W. Abbott Brigham Young University
Jinbo Zhang
Jinbo Zhang Nanjing Normal University

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