Daliang Ning

16.5k total citations · 7 hit papers
75 papers, 8.9k citations indexed

About

Daliang Ning is a scholar working on Ecology, Molecular Biology and Pollution. According to data from OpenAlex, Daliang Ning has authored 75 papers receiving a total of 8.9k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 51 papers in Ecology, 35 papers in Molecular Biology and 21 papers in Pollution. Recurrent topics in Daliang Ning's work include Microbial Community Ecology and Physiology (49 papers), Gut microbiota and health (22 papers) and Wastewater Treatment and Nitrogen Removal (12 papers). Daliang Ning is often cited by papers focused on Microbial Community Ecology and Physiology (49 papers), Gut microbiota and health (22 papers) and Wastewater Treatment and Nitrogen Removal (12 papers). Daliang Ning collaborates with scholars based in China, United States and Canada. Daliang Ning's co-authors include Jizhong Zhou, James M. Tiedje, Yunfeng Yang, Ye Deng, Ya Zhang, Linwei Wu, Mengting Yuan, Xue Guo, Xishu Zhou and Liyou Wu and has published in prestigious journals such as Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Nature Communications and SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología.

In The Last Decade

Daliang Ning

74 papers receiving 8.8k citations

Hit Papers

5 papers align trajectories

What are hit papers?

Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if it has ≥500 total citations, achieves ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (this is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it), or reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

Stochastic Community Assembly: Does It Matter in Microbial Ecology?

2017 1.9k citations Jizhong Zhou, Daliang Ning profile →
Climate warming enhances microbial network complexity and stability

2021 1.4k citations Mengting Yuan, Xue Guo et al. profile →
A quantitative framework reveals ecological drivers of grassland microbial community assembly in response to warming

2020 853 citations Daliang Ning, Mengting Yuan et al. Nature Communications profile →
A general framework for quantitatively assessing ecological stochasticity

2019 761 citations Daliang Ning, Ye Deng et al. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences profile →
Temperature mediates continental-scale diversity of microbes in forest soils

2016 503 citations Jizhong Zhou, Ye Deng et al. Nature Communications profile →
Biodegradation of Polyethylene and Plastic Mixtures in Mealworms (Larvae ofTenebrio molitor) and Effects on the Gut Microbiome

2018 389 citations Anja Malawi Brandon, Renmao Tian et al. Environmental Science & Technology profile →
Land use conversion increases network complexity and stability of soil microbial communities in a temperate grassland

2023 103 citations Carolyn R. Cornell, Ya Zhang et al. The ISME Journal profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

Peers by citation overlap · career bar shows stage (early→late) cites · hero ref

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Daliang Ning China	32	5.0k	3.0k	2.2k	1.7k	1.3k	75	8.9k
Andrew S. Whiteley United Kingdom	42	3.9k 0.8×	2.6k 0.9×	1.5k 0.7×	1.8k 1.0×	1.8k 1.3×	109	8.3k
Joy D. Van Nostrand United States	64	6.9k 1.4×	3.9k 1.3×	2.6k 1.2×	2.0k 1.2×	2.7k 2.1×	189	13.0k
Francisco Dini‐Andreote United States	37	3.1k 0.6×	2.0k 0.7×	992 0.5×	2.6k 1.5×	869 0.7×	124	6.7k
Xiangzhen Li China	53	3.5k 0.7×	3.2k 1.1×	1.5k 0.7×	1.8k 1.0×	2.3k 1.7×	184	9.3k
A. Mark Osborn United Kingdom	44	3.9k 0.8×	2.4k 0.8×	3.7k 1.7×	1.1k 0.6×	808 0.6×	91	9.3k
Angela D. Kent United States	40	3.1k 0.6×	2.3k 0.8×	864 0.4×	1.4k 0.8×	1.1k 0.8×	101	6.7k
Thomas P. Curtis United Kingdom	53	4.4k 0.9×	3.4k 1.1×	2.5k 1.2×	849 0.5×	384 0.3×	153	11.6k
Albert Barberán United States	35	4.2k 0.8×	2.6k 0.9×	756 0.3×	2.0k 1.2×	2.1k 1.6×	76	7.7k
Joana Falcão Salles Netherlands	48	4.1k 0.8×	3.0k 1.0×	888 0.4×	3.6k 2.1×	1.4k 1.0×	144	9.0k
Paul L. E. Bodelier Netherlands	50	5.0k 1.0×	2.8k 0.9×	1.5k 0.7×	1.3k 0.8×	2.1k 1.6×	154	9.3k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Daliang Ning

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Daliang Ning. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Daliang Ning based on the total number of citations received by their joint publications. Widths of edges represent the number of papers authors have co-authored together. Node borders signify the number of papers an author published with Daliang Ning. Daliang Ning is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

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20 of 20 papers shown

Zhu, Congmin, Linwei Wu, Daliang Ning, et al.. (2025). Global diversity and distribution of antibiotic resistance genes in human wastewater treatment systems. Nature Communications. 16(1). 4006–4006. 19 indexed citations

Guo, Xue, Yamei Gao, Jiajie Feng, et al.. (2025). Warming stimulates cellulose decomposition by recruiting phylogenetically diverse but functionally similar microorganisms. ISME Communications. 5(1). ycae152–ycae152.

Lei, Jiesi, Siyang Jian, Xue Guo, et al.. (2024). Warming effects on grassland soil microbial communities are amplified in cool months. The ISME Journal. 18(1). 5 indexed citations

Shi, Ke, Bin Liang, Kai Feng, et al.. (2023). Electrostimulation triggers an increase in cross-niche microbial associations toward enhancing organic nitrogen wastewater treatment. Journal of Environmental Management. 331. 117301–117301. 9 indexed citations

Qin, Yujia, Liyou Wu, Qiuting Zhang, et al.. (2023). Effects of error, chimera, bias, and GC content on the accuracy of amplicon sequencing. mSystems. 8(6). e0102523–e0102523. 7 indexed citations

Xu, Tao, Xuanyu Tao, Megan L. Kempher, et al.. (2023). Functional and structural diversification of incomplete phosphotransferase system in cellulose-degrading clostridia. The ISME Journal. 17(6). 823–835. 15 indexed citations

Goff, Jennifer L., Michael P. Thorgersen, Yupeng Fan, et al.. (2022). Ecophysiological and genomic analyses of a representative isolate of highly abundant Bacillus cereus strains in contaminated subsurface sediments. Environmental Microbiology. 24(11). 5546–5560. 6 indexed citations

Kuang, Jialiang, Shun Han, Colin T. Bates, et al.. (2022). Resistance potential of soil bacterial communities along a biodiversity gradient in forest ecosystems. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 1(4). 399–411. 12 indexed citations

Kuang, Jialiang, et al.. (2021). High historical variability weakens the effects of current climate differentiation on microbial community dissimilarity and assembly. Global Change Biology. 27(22). 5963–5975. 4 indexed citations

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Wu, Bo, Feifei Liu, Aifen Zhou, et al.. (2020). Experimental evolution reveals nitrate tolerance mechanisms in Desulfovibrio vulgaris. The ISME Journal. 14(11). 2862–2876. 14 indexed citations

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Gao, Qun, Gangsheng Wang, Kai Xue, et al.. (2020). Stimulation of soil respiration by elevated CO₂is enhanced under nitrogen limitation in a decade-long grassland study. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 117(52). 33317–33324. 43 indexed citations

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Zou, Yina, Daliang Ning, Yong Huang, et al.. (2020). Functional structures of soil microbial community relate to contrasting N2O emission patterns from a highly acidified forest. The Science of The Total Environment. 725. 138504–138504. 13 indexed citations

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Zhang, Zhaojing, Ye Deng, Kai Feng, et al.. (2019). Deterministic Assembly and Diversity Gradient Altered the Biofilm Community Performances of Bioreactors. Environmental Science & Technology. 53(3). 1315–1324. 154 indexed citations

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Hou, Liyuan, Sikandar I. Mulla, Juan Pablo Niño‐García, et al.. (2019). Deterministic and stochastic processes driving the shift in the prokaryotic community composition in wastewater treatment plants of a coastal Chinese city. Applied Microbiology and Biotechnology. 103(21-22). 9155–9168. 18 indexed citations

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Parker, Albert E., Kathryn L. Bailey, Ping Zhang, et al.. (2019). High spatiotemporal variability of bacterial diversity over short time scales with unique hydrochemical associations within a shallow aquifer. Water Research. 164. 114917–114917. 27 indexed citations

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Guo, Xue, Xishu Zhou, Lauren Hale, et al.. (2018). Taxonomic and Functional Responses of Soil Microbial Communities to Annual Removal of Aboveground Plant Biomass. Frontiers in Microbiology. 9. 954–954. 12 indexed citations

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Yan, Qingyun, James Stegen, Yuhe Yu, et al.. (2017). Nearly a decade‐long repeatable seasonal diversity patterns of bacterioplankton communities in the eutrophic Lake Donghu (Wuhan, China). Molecular Ecology. 26(14). 3839–3850. 81 indexed citations

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Brandon, Anja Malawi, James C. A. Flanagan, Jun Yang, et al.. (2017). Biodegradation of polystyrene wastes in yellow mealworms (larvae of Tenebrio molitor Linnaeus): Factors affecting biodegradation rates and the ability of polystyrene-fed larvae to complete their life cycle. Chemosphere. 191. 979–989. 224 indexed citations

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Ning, Daliang, et al.. (2016). Removal Effects of Multiple Ecological Restoration Plants and Artificial Carriers on Water Purification in Urban River. 42(9). 104. 1 indexed citations

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Ning, Daliang, et al.. (2009). Induction and function of cytochrome-P450 in degradation of refractory organic chemicals by Phanerochaete chrysosporium.. China Environmental Science. 29(4). 407–412. 1 indexed citations

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