Edith Bai

8.2k total citations · 4 hit papers
125 papers, 6.1k citations indexed

About

Edith Bai is a scholar working on Soil Science, Ecology and Global and Planetary Change. According to data from OpenAlex, Edith Bai has authored 125 papers receiving a total of 6.1k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 85 papers in Soil Science, 64 papers in Ecology and 33 papers in Global and Planetary Change. Recurrent topics in Edith Bai's work include Soil Carbon and Nitrogen Dynamics (84 papers), Peatlands and Wetlands Ecology (38 papers) and Soil and Water Nutrient Dynamics (30 papers). Edith Bai is often cited by papers focused on Soil Carbon and Nitrogen Dynamics (84 papers), Peatlands and Wetlands Ecology (38 papers) and Soil and Water Nutrient Dynamics (30 papers). Edith Bai collaborates with scholars based in China, United States and Switzerland. Edith Bai's co-authors include Chao Wang, Benjamin Z. Houlton, Dongwei Liu, Weiwei Dai, Ping Jiang, Decai Gao, Wenhua Xu, Thomas W. Boutton, Shanlong Li and Hui Wang and has published in prestigious journals such as Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Nature Communications and Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres.

In The Last Decade

Edith Bai

120 papers receiving 6.0k citations

Hit Papers

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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.

Decreasing soil microbial diversity is associated with decreasing microbial biomass under nitrogen addition

2018 515 citations Chao Wang, Dongwei Liu et al. Soil Biology and Biochemistry profile →
A meta‐analysis of experimental warming effects on terrestrial nitrogen pools and dynamics

2013 485 citations Edith Bai, Shanlong Li et al. New Phytologist profile →
Large‐scale importance of microbial carbon use efficiency and necromass to soil organic carbon

2021 263 citations Chao Wang, Lingrui Qu et al. Global Change Biology profile →
China's vegetation restoration programs accelerated vegetation greening on the Loess Plateau

2024 49 citations Xianlei Fan, Ying Qu et al. profile →

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Edith Bai

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Edith Bai. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Edith Bai 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 Edith Bai. Edith Bai 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

#	Work	Indexed citations
1	Effects of vegetation restoration on soil organic carbon on the Loess Plateau, China using a combined remote sensing and process-based modeling approach 2025 ·Geoderma ·Xianlei Fan, Yunqiang Wang, Ying Qu, Edith Bai	2
2	Volcanic ash drives contrasting redox shifts and biogeochemical feedbacks in ancient marine and lacustrine systems 2025 ·Communications Earth & Environment ·Kun Zhang, (unknown), Christophe Thomazo, (unknown), P. S. Minyuk, (unknown), (unknown), Qing Chang, Ziping Liu, Edith Bai	0
3	Climate Change Accelerates Microbial Biomass Accumulation in Soils 2025 ·Global Biogeochemical Cycles ·(unknown), X. Zhang, Edith Bai, (unknown), Xiaobing Zhou, Bo Zhu, (unknown), Yakov Kuzyakov	0
4	Fabrication of black phosphorus/CdS heterostructure with enhancement photocatalytic degradation activity for tetrabromobisphenol A and toxicity prediction of intermediates 2024 ·Environmental Research ·Zhaocheng Zhang, Dongyang He, Yangjian Zhou, Edith Bai, Jiao Qu, Yanan Zhang	6
5	Global prediction of soil microbial growth rates and carbon use efficiency based on the metabolic theory of ecology 2024 ·Soil Biology and Biochemistry ·Decai Gao, Edith Bai, (unknown), Frank Hagedorn	20
6	Mineral composition controls the stabilization of microbially derived carbon and nitrogen in soils: Insights from an isotope tracing model 2024 ·Global Change Biology ·Xu Wang, Chao Wang, Xianlei Fan, Lifei Sun, Changpeng Sang, Xugao Wang, Ping Jiang, Yunting Fang, Edith Bai	25
7	Drought resistance and resilience of rhizosphere communities in forest soils from the cellular to ecosystem scale – insights from ¹³C pulse labeling 2024 ·New Phytologist ·Decai Gao, Jörg Luster, (unknown), Matthias Arend, Edith Bai, Arthur Geßler, Andreas Rigling, Marcus Schaub, Martin Hartmann, Roland A. Werner, Jobin Joseph, Christian Poll, Frank Hagedorn	3
8	Ectomycorrhizal trees rely on nitrogen resorption less than arbuscular mycorrhizal trees globally 2023 ·Ecology Letters ·(unknown), Xianlei Fan, Di Meng, Ziping Liu, Decai Gao, Qing Chang, Edith Bai	11
9	The Carbon Transfer From Plant to Soil Is More Efficient in Less Productive Ecosystems 2023 ·Global Biogeochemical Cycles ·Xianlei Fan, Edith Bai, (unknown), Xuhui Wang, Wenping Yuan, Shilong Piao	15
10	Leaf enzyme plays a more important role in leaf nitrogen resorption efficiency than soil properties along an elevation gradient 2022 ·Journal of Ecology ·(unknown), Decai Gao, Qing Chang, Ziping Liu, Xianlei Fan, Di Meng, Edith Bai	12
11	Isotopic evidence for increased carbon and nitrogen exchanges between peatland plants and their symbiotic microbes with rising atmospheric CO₂ concentrations since 15,000 cal. year BP 2022 ·Global Change Biology ·(unknown), Ziping Liu, Benjamin Z. Houlton, Decai Gao, Qing Chang, Hongkai Li, Xianlei Fan, (unknown), Edith Bai	9
12	Large‐scale importance of microbial carbon use efficiency and necromass to soil organic carbon breakdown → 2021 ·Global Change Biology ·Chao Wang, Lingrui Qu, Liuming Yang, Dongwei Liu, Ember M. Morrissey, Renhui Miao, Ziping Liu, Qingkui Wang, Yunting Fang, Edith Bai	263
13	Drought alters the carbon footprint of trees in soils—tracking the spatio‐temporal fate of ¹³C‐labelled assimilates in the soil of an old‐growth pine forest 2021 ·Global Change Biology ·Decai Gao, Jobin Joseph, Roland A. Werner, Ivano Brunner, (unknown), Christian Hug, Ao Wang, Chunhong Zhao, Edith Bai, Katrin Meusburger, Arthur Geßler, Frank Hagedorn	38
14	Biotic and Abiotic Controls on Dinitrogen Production in Coastal Sediments 2021 ·Global Biogeochemical Cycles ·Lifei Sun, Chao Wang, (unknown), Dongwei Liu, Benjamin Z. Houlton, Shaofeng Wang, Xiangfeng Zeng, Edith Bai, Yunting Fang, (unknown)	14
15	A World of Cobenefits: Solving the Global Nitrogen Challenge 2019 ·Earth s Future ·Benjamin Z. Houlton, Maya Almaraz, Viney P. Aneja, Amy T. Austin, Edith Bai, Kenneth G. Cassman, Jana E. Compton, Eric A. Davidson, Jan Willem Erisman, James N. Galloway, Baojing Gu, Guolin Yao, Luiz Antônio Martinelli, Kate M. Scow, William H. Schlesinger, Thomas P. Tomich, Chao Wang, Xin Zhang	148
16	Extrapolation of point measurements and fertilizer-only emission factors cannot capture statewide soil NO _x emissions 2018 ·Science Advances ·Maya Almaraz, Edith Bai, Chao Wang, (unknown), Stephen Conley, I. C. Faloona, Benjamin Z. Houlton	5
17	Abiotic versus biotic controls on soil nitrogen cycling in drylands along a 3200 km transect 2017 ·Biogeosciences ·Dongwei Liu, Weixing Zhu, Xiaobo Wang, Yuepeng Pan, Chao Wang, Dan Xi, Edith Bai, Yuesi Wang, Xingguo Han, Yunting Fang	31
18	Characteristics of soil water movement in a grass slope in a karst peak-cluster region, China 2016 ·Hydrological Processes ·(unknown), Shijie Wang, Weijun Luo, Weiwei Dai, Edith Bai	9
19	Effects of nitrogen addition and precipitation change on soil methane and carbon dioxide fluxes 2013 ·Shengtaixue zazhi ·Li Wei, Edith Bai, Shanlong Li, (unknown), (unknown), Ping Jiang	4
20	Imprint of denitrifying bacteria on the global terrestrial biosphere 2009 ·Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences ·Benjamin Z. Houlton, Edith Bai	176

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