Kailiang Yu

1.7k total citations · 1 hit paper
48 papers, 967 citations indexed

About

Kailiang Yu is a scholar working on Global and Planetary Change, Nature and Landscape Conservation and Ecology. According to data from OpenAlex, Kailiang Yu has authored 48 papers receiving a total of 967 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 27 papers in Global and Planetary Change, 23 papers in Nature and Landscape Conservation and 11 papers in Ecology. Recurrent topics in Kailiang Yu's work include Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics (22 papers), Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies (20 papers) and Soil Carbon and Nitrogen Dynamics (9 papers). Kailiang Yu is often cited by papers focused on Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics (22 papers), Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies (20 papers) and Soil Carbon and Nitrogen Dynamics (9 papers). Kailiang Yu collaborates with scholars based in China, United States and France. Kailiang Yu's co-authors include Frank Hagedorn, Chunhong Zhao, Decai Gao, Mai‐He Li, Edith Bai, Yuanyuan Huang, Josep Peñuelas, Enqing Hou, Dazhi Wen and Hongzhi Zhang and has published in prestigious journals such as Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Nature Communications and The Journal of Chemical Physics.

In The Last Decade

Kailiang Yu

44 papers receiving 950 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.

A global meta-analysis on the effects of organic and inorganic fertilization on grasslands and croplands

2024 70 citations Scott L. Collins, Kailiang Yu et al. Nature Communications profile →

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Qingpeng Yang China

Xingquan Rao China

Jinyan Yang China

Sarah A. Batterman United Kingdom

Sara Marañón‐Jiménez Spain

Guanhua Dai China

Longchi Chen China

Eric B. Searle Canada

Nam Jin Noh South Korea

Marcus Giese Germany

Qingpeng Yang China

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Kailiang Yu

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Peñuelas, Josep, Jordi Sardans, Scott L. Collins, et al.. (2025). Plant use of water across soil depths regulates species dominance under nitrogen addition. Plant Diversity. 47(3). 479–488. 1 indexed citations

He, Pengcheng, Qing Ye, Kailiang Yu, et al.. (2025). Relationship between wind speed and plant hydraulics at the global scale. Nature Ecology & Evolution. 9(2). 273–281. 2 indexed citations

Yu, Kailiang, Max Rietkerk, Ning Chen, et al.. (2025). Spatial and temporal scale–dependent feedbacks govern dynamics of biocrusts in drylands. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 122(30). e2424836122–e2424836122.

Wu, Haohao, Congsheng Fu, Lingling Zhang, et al.. (2025). Significant sensitivity of global vegetation productivity to terrestrial surface wind speed changes. Nature Communications. 16(1). 9315–9315. 1 indexed citations

Yu, Kailiang, Lei He, Shuli Niu, et al.. (2025). Nonlinear microbial thermal response and its implications for abrupt soil organic carbon responses to warming. Nature Communications. 16(1). 2763–2763. 6 indexed citations

Yu, Kailiang, Qidi Wang, Hong Liu, et al.. (2025). Interfacial system optimization and dynamic self-healing for solid-state lithium metal batteries with high critical current density and long-term cycling stability. Chemical Engineering Journal. 514. 163231–163231. 2 indexed citations

Jiao, Kewei, et al.. (2024). Carbon cycle responses to climate change across China's terrestrial ecosystem: Sensitivity and driving process. The Science of The Total Environment. 915. 170053–170053. 25 indexed citations

Li, Hailing, Juan Chen, Josep Peñuelas, et al.. (2024). Water limitation drives species loss in grassland communities after nitrogen addition and warming. Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences. 291(2031). 20240642–20240642. 6 indexed citations

Yu, Kailiang, Han Y. H. Chen, Arthur Geßler, et al.. (2024). Forest demography and biomass accumulation rates are associated with transient mean tree size vs. density scaling relations. PNAS Nexus. 3(2). pgae008–pgae008. 5 indexed citations

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Wang, Guohua, Seth M. Munson, Elly Morriën, et al.. (2024). Changes in microbial community and network structure precede shrub degradation in a desert ecosystem. CATENA. 242. 108106–108106. 4 indexed citations

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He, Pengcheng, Qing Ye, Kailiang Yu, et al.. (2024). Growing‐Season Precipitation Is a Key Driver of Plant Leaf Area to Sapwood Area Ratio at the Global Scale. Plant Cell & Environment. 48(1). 746–755. 2 indexed citations

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Liu, Congcong, Lawren Sack, Ying Li, et al.. (2023). Relationships of stomatal morphology to the environment across plant communities. Nature Communications. 14(1). 6629–6629. 44 indexed citations

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Liu, Zhihua, Wen J. Wang, Ashley P. Ballantyne, et al.. (2023). Forest disturbance decreased in China from 1986 to 2020 despite regional variations. Communications Earth & Environment. 4(1). 37 indexed citations

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Liang, Xingyun, Defu Wang, Qing Ye, et al.. (2023). Stomatal responses of terrestrial plants to global change. Nature Communications. 14(1). 2188–2188. 56 indexed citations

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He, Pengcheng, Juyu Lian, Qing Ye, et al.. (2022). How do functional traits influence tree demographic properties in a subtropical monsoon forest?. Functional Ecology. 36(12). 3200–3210. 18 indexed citations

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Hartmann, Henrik, Hongyan Liu, Fangzhong Shi, et al.. (2021). Precipitation Gradient Drives Divergent Relationship between Non-Structural Carbohydrates and Water Availability in Pinus tabulaeformis of Northern China. Forests. 12(2). 133–133. 13 indexed citations

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He, Xianjin, Laurent Augusto, Daniel S. Goll, et al.. (2021). Global patterns and drivers of soil total phosphorus concentration. Earth system science data. 13(12). 5831–5846. 121 indexed citations

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Wang, Zhiqiang, Mingcheng Wang, Kailiang Yu, et al.. (2021). Global synthesis for the scaling of soil microbial nitrogen to phosphorus in terrestrial ecosystems. Environmental Research Letters. 16(4). 44034–44034. 15 indexed citations

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Li, Wei, Jimin Cheng, Kailiang Yu, Howard E. Epstein, & Guozhen Du. (2015). Short-term responses of an alpine meadow community to removal of a dominant species along a fertilization gradient. Journal of Plant Ecology. 8(5). 513–522. 17 indexed citations

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Sun, Xiaomei, Kailiang Yu, Herman H. Shugart, & Gang Wang. (2015). Species richness loss after nutrient addition as affected by N:C ratios and phytohormone GA₃contents in an alpine meadow community. Journal of Plant Ecology. 9(2). 201–211. 33 indexed citations

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