Guangmin Cao

5.2k total citations · 1 hit paper
102 papers, 3.8k citations indexed

About

Guangmin Cao is a scholar working on Soil Science, Global and Planetary Change and Ecology. According to data from OpenAlex, Guangmin Cao has authored 102 papers receiving a total of 3.8k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 49 papers in Soil Science, 40 papers in Global and Planetary Change and 38 papers in Ecology. Recurrent topics in Guangmin Cao's work include Soil Carbon and Nitrogen Dynamics (44 papers), Peatlands and Wetlands Ecology (26 papers) and Climate change and permafrost (24 papers). Guangmin Cao is often cited by papers focused on Soil Carbon and Nitrogen Dynamics (44 papers), Peatlands and Wetlands Ecology (26 papers) and Climate change and permafrost (24 papers). Guangmin Cao collaborates with scholars based in China, Japan and Germany. Guangmin Cao's co-authors include Fawei Zhang, Yangong Du, Yingnian Li, Xiaowei Guo, Yanhong Tang, Wenhong Mo, Yikang Li, Xingliang Xu, Xinquan Zhao and Jin He and has published in prestigious journals such as Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología and PLoS ONE.

In The Last Decade

Guangmin Cao

100 papers receiving 3.7k citations

Hit Papers

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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.

Shifting plant species composition in response to climate change stabilizes grassland primary production

2018 522 citations Huiying Liu, Zhaorong Mi et al. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences profile →

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Guangmin Cao China	35	1.7k	1.7k	1.3k	1.1k	689	102	3.8k
Caiyun Luo China	29	1.4k 0.8×	1.4k 0.9×	971 0.8×	789 0.8×	579 0.8×	105	3.1k
Chengjun Ji China	38	2.0k 1.2×	2.6k 1.6×	1.3k 1.0×	1.1k 1.0×	1.1k 1.6×	95	5.5k
Wenhong Ma China	31	1.4k 0.8×	1.5k 0.9×	1.3k 1.0×	505 0.5×	1.2k 1.7×	66	3.6k
Xiaofeng Chang China	28	1.2k 0.7×	1.8k 1.1×	693 0.6×	511 0.5×	445 0.6×	53	2.8k
Yingnian Li China	41	2.2k 1.3×	1.5k 0.9×	3.8k 3.0×	1.6k 1.5×	770 1.1×	160	6.0k
Anwar Mohammat China	18	1.2k 0.7×	1.1k 0.6×	1.1k 0.9×	537 0.5×	644 0.9×	32	2.7k
Adam F. A. Pellegrini United States	23	1.2k 0.7×	1.6k 1.0×	1.9k 1.5×	622 0.6×	1.1k 1.6×	36	3.8k
Janet P. Hardy United States	31	1.2k 0.7×	1.3k 0.8×	1.5k 1.2×	2.6k 2.4×	573 0.8×	53	4.3k
Iain P. Hartley United Kingdom	32	2.0k 1.2×	2.2k 1.3×	1.1k 0.8×	1.4k 1.3×	468 0.7×	94	4.5k
Daniel Markewitz United States	34	1.1k 0.7×	2.0k 1.2×	1.6k 1.3×	511 0.5×	1.3k 1.9×	104	4.3k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Guangmin Cao

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Li, Lin, et al.. (2023). Self‐stabilizing maintenance process in plant communities of alpine meadows under different grazing intensities. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 2(2). 140–152. 6 indexed citations

Zhang, Fawei, et al.. (2023). Seasonal variations and sources of the dew from stable isotopes in alpine meadows. Hydrological Processes. 37(9). 1 indexed citations

Li, Lin, Guangmin Cao, Xingliang Xu, et al.. (2023). Kobresia pygmaea meadows as disclimax communities in the same geographic and climatic environments in Qinghai–Tibet Plateau, China. Journal of Plant Ecology. 16(5). 1 indexed citations

Li, Lin, Xingliang Xu, Guangmin Cao, et al.. (2023). Synergies between microsites of plant communities and steady‐stage alpine meadows on the Qinghai–Tibetan Plateau. 2(4). 289–298. 4 indexed citations

Qian, Dawen, Yangong Du, Qian Li, Xiaowei Guo, & Guangmin Cao. (2021). Alpine grassland management based on ecosystem service relationships on the southern slopes of the Qilian Mountains, China. Journal of Environmental Management. 288. 112447–112447. 38 indexed citations

Li, Hongqin, Fawei Zhang, Xiaowei Guo, et al.. (2021). Precipitation rather than evapotranspiration determines the warm-season water supply in an alpine shrub and an alpine meadow. Agricultural and Forest Meteorology. 300. 108318–108318. 27 indexed citations

Li, Qian, Xingjia Xiang, Yangong Du, et al.. (2020). Arbuscular mycorrhizal fungal community structure following different grazing intensities in an alpine grassland. Soil Science Society of America Journal. 85(5). 1620–1633. 11 indexed citations

Dai, Licong, Xiaowei Guo, Xun Ke, et al.. (2020). The variation in soil water retention of alpine shrub meadow under different degrees of degradation on northeastern Qinghai-Tibetan plateau. Plant and Soil. 458(1-2). 231–244. 49 indexed citations

Liu, Huiying, Zhaorong Mi, Li Lin, et al.. (2018). Shifting plant species composition in response to climate change stabilizes grassland primary production. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 115(16). 4051–4056. 522 indexed citations breakdown →

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Zhang, Fawei & Guangmin Cao. (2017). Resilience of Energy and CO2 Exchangeto a Summer Heatwave in an Alpine HumidGrassland on the Qinghai-Tibetan Plateau. Polish Journal of Environmental Studies. 26(1). 385–394. 9 indexed citations

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Du, Yangong, Xiaowei Guo, Guangmin Cao, & Yikang Li. (2016). Increased Nitrous Oxide Emissions Resulting from Nitrogen Addition and Increased Precipitation in an Alpine Meadow Ecosystem. Polish Journal of Environmental Studies. 25(1). 447–451. 15 indexed citations

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Liu, Shuli, Fawei Zhang, Yangong Du, et al.. (2016). Ecosystem Carbon Storage in Alpine Grassland on the Qinghai Plateau. PLoS ONE. 11(8). e0160420–e0160420. 25 indexed citations

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Ren, Fei, Xiaoxia Yang, Huakun Zhou, et al.. (2016). Contrasting effects of nitrogen and phosphorus addition on soil respiration in an alpine grassland on the Qinghai-Tibetan Plateau. Scientific Reports. 6(1). 34786–34786. 46 indexed citations

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Li, Dong, et al.. (2015). [Effect of degradation succession process on the temperature sensitivity of ecosystem respiration in alpine Potentilla fruticosa scrub meadow].. PubMed. 36(3). 1075–83. 1 indexed citations

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Guo, Xiaowei, Daorui Han, Yangong Du, et al.. (2015). Effects of Landuse Change on CH4 Soil-Atmospheric Exchange in Alpine Meadow on the Tibetan Plateau. Polish Journal of Environmental Studies. 24. 1593–1602. 7 indexed citations

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Xu, Xingliang, Wolfgang Wanek, Caiping Zhou, et al.. (2014). Nutrient limitation of alpine plants: Implications from leaf N : P stoichiometry and leaf δ¹⁵N. Journal of Plant Nutrition and Soil Science. 177(3). 378–387. 42 indexed citations

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Du, Yangong, Xiaoyong Cui, Guangmin Cao, Xudong Zhao, & Guixia Yang. (2011). Simulating N2O emission from Kobresia humilis Serg. alpine meadow on Tibetan Plateau with the DNDC model. Polish Journal of Ecology. 59(3). 443–453. 5 indexed citations

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Du, Yangong, et al.. (2010). CONTRIBUTION OF THE VEGETATION LAYERS IN THE NITROUS OXIDE EMISSION FROM ALPINE KOBRESIA HUMILIS SERG. MEADOW ECOSYSTEM ON THE TIBETAN PLATEAU. Polish Journal of Ecology. 58(1). 115–124. 6 indexed citations

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Hu, Qiwu, et al.. (2008). Growing Season Ecosystem Respirations and Associated Component Fluxes in Two Alpine Meadows on the Tibetan Plateau. Journal of Integrative Plant Biology. 50(3). 271–279. 32 indexed citations

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Wang, Changting, et al.. (2008). Changes in plant biomass and species composition of alpine Kobresia meadows along altitudinal gradient on the Qinghai-Tibetan Plateau. Science in China Series C Life Sciences. 51(1). 86–94. 53 indexed citations

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