Keping Ma

25.9k total citations · 7 hit papers
383 papers, 12.5k citations indexed

About

Keping Ma is a scholar working on Nature and Landscape Conservation, Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics and Plant Science. According to data from OpenAlex, Keping Ma has authored 383 papers receiving a total of 12.5k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 212 papers in Nature and Landscape Conservation, 136 papers in Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics and 94 papers in Plant Science. Recurrent topics in Keping Ma's work include Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies (201 papers), Plant and animal studies (116 papers) and Species Distribution and Climate Change (87 papers). Keping Ma is often cited by papers focused on Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies (201 papers), Plant and animal studies (116 papers) and Species Distribution and Climate Change (87 papers). Keping Ma collaborates with scholars based in China, Germany and United States. Keping Ma's co-authors include Xiangcheng Mi, Haibao Ren, Xiaojuan Liu, Bernhard Schmid, Helge Bruelheide, Jihong Huang, I‐Fang Sun, Jinlong Zhang, Mingjian Yu and Jiangshan Lai and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Science and Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

In The Last Decade

Keping Ma

366 papers receiving 12.0k 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.

Partitioning beta diversity in a subtropical broad‐leaved forest of China

2009 542 citations Xiangcheng Mi, Haibao Ren et al. profile →
Sampling biases shape our view of the natural world

2021 292 citations Keping Ma, Chao‐Dong Zhu et al. profile →
Tree species richness increases ecosystem carbon storage in subtropical forests

2018 242 citations Xiaojuan Liu, Stefan Trogisch et al. profile →
Functional diversity effects on productivity increase with age in a forest biodiversity experiment

2021 151 citations Franca J. Bongers, Bernhard Schmid et al. Nature Ecology & Evolution profile →
Species richness stabilizes productivity via asynchrony and drought-tolerance diversity in a large-scale tree biodiversity experiment

2021 151 citations Florian Schnabel, Xiaojuan Liu et al. profile →
Tree mycorrhizal association types control biodiversity-productivity relationship in a subtropical forest

2023 63 citations Yuanyuan Huang, Bernhard Schmid et al. profile →
Carbon storage through China’s planted forest expansion

2024 63 citations Haitao Yang, Shengli Tao et al. Nature Communications profile →

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Keping Ma

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#	Work	Indexed citations
1	Non‐random tree species loss shifts soil fungal communities 2025 ·Journal of Ecology ·(unknown), G. F. Veen, Wim H. van der Putten, Xiaojuan Liu, Helge Bruelheide, Keping Ma, Naili Zhang	1
2	Identifying seed families with high mixture performance in a subtropical forest biodiversity experiment 2025 ·New Phytologist ·Ting Tang, Bernhard Schmid, Meredith C. Schuman, Franca J. Bongers, Shan Li, Yu Liang, Sofia J. van Moorsel, Goddert von Oheimb, Walter Durka, Helge Bruelheide, Keping Ma, Xiaojuan Liu	0
3	Microbial necromass accrual from newly added labile and native soil carbon in the rhizosphere vs. non-rhizosphere of broadleaved and coniferous trees 2024 ·Geoderma ·Juan Jia, (unknown), Yufu Jia, Xiaojuan Liu, Keping Ma, Xiaojuan Feng	6
4	Blue Vane and Pan Traps Are More Effective for Profiling Multiple Facets of Bee Diversity in Subtropical Forests 2024 ·Insects ·(unknown), Mingqiang Wang, Yi Li, (unknown), Dan Zhang, Qingsong Zhou, Ze‐Qing Niu, Feng Yuan, Xiuwei Liu, Keping Ma, (unknown), (unknown), Douglas Chesters	0
5	Functional diversity of neighbours mediates sap flow density and radial growth of focal trees, but in different ways between evergreen and deciduous broadleaved species 2024 ·Functional Ecology ·(unknown), (unknown), Xia Chen, Yanpei Guo, Hong‐Tu Zhang, Xuejiao Zhang, Shan Li, Bernhard Schmid, Helge Bruelheide, Keping Ma, Zhiyao Tang	3
6	Carbon storage through China’s planted forest expansion breakdown → 2024 ·Nature Communications ·(unknown), Haitao Yang, Shengli Tao, Yanjun Su, Hongcan Guan, Yu Ren, Tianyu Hu, Wenkai Li, Guangcai Xu, Mengxi Chen, Xiancheng Lu, (unknown), Yanhong Tang, Keping Ma, Jingyun Fang, Qinghua Guo	63
7	Strong nestedness and turnover effects on stand productivity in a long‐term forest biodiversity experiment 2024 ·New Phytologist ·Lan Zhang, Bernhard Schmid, Franca J. Bongers, Shan Li, Goddert von Oheimb, Keping Ma, Xiaojuan Liu	2
8	Subtropical forest tree genetic richness causes contrasting effects on soil fungal guilds in monocultures and mixed-species stands 2023 ·Forest Ecology and Management ·Hong Lin, (unknown), Xiaojuan Liu, Keping Ma, Naili Zhang	2
9	The interactive effects of soil fertility and tree mycorrhizal association explain spatial variation of diversity–biomass relationships in a subtropical forest 2023 ·Journal of Ecology ·(unknown), Lei Chen, Xiangcheng Mi, Haibao Ren, Xiaojuan Liu, (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), Yue Zhang, Keping Ma	15
10	Limited co-benefits of protected areas in southwest China under current climate change and human modification 2023 ·Journal of Environmental Management ·Hui Wu, Shiming Fang, Le Yu, Shougeng Hu, Xin Chen, Yue Cao, Zhenrong Du, Xiaoli Shen, Xuehua Liu, Keping Ma	15
11	Spatial patterns and predictors of seed plants' extinction risks in Asian countries 2023 ·Biological Conservation ·Lijing Zhou, Keping Ma, (unknown), Guoke Chen, (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown)	1
12	Flora of Northeast Asia 2023 ·Plants ·(unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), Keping Ma	4
13	Priorities for progress towards Sustainable Development Goal 15 ‘Life on land’ 2023 ·Nature Ecology & Evolution ·David Cooper, Musonda Mumba, Shalini Dhyani, Xiaoli Shen, Keping Ma, Rachel Wynberg, Sarah A Laird, Jon Paul Rodrı́guez	9
14	Differential impacts on herbivore diversity and scale dependence of tree diversity in subtropical forests 2022 ·Journal of Ecology ·Yi Li, Ming‐Qiang Wang, Douglas Chesters, (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), Keping Ma, Helge Bruelheide, Andreas Schuldt, Chao‐Dong Zhu	3
15	Effects of enemy exclusion on biodiversity–productivity relationships in a subtropical forest experiment 2022 ·Journal of Ecology ·Yuanyuan Huang, Andreas Schuldt, Lydia Hönig, Bo Yang, Xiaojuan Liu, Helge Bruelheide, Keping Ma, Bernhard Schmid, Pascal A. Niklaus	12
16	Species richness, functional traits and climate interactively affect tree survival in a large forest biodiversity experiment 2022 ·Journal of Ecology ·Xiaojuan Liu, Yuanyuan Huang, Lei Chen, Shan Li, Franca J. Bongers, Nadia Castro‐Izaguirre, Yu Liang, Bo Yang, Yuxin Chen, Florian Schnabel, Ting Tang, Yujie Xue, Stefan Trogisch, Michael Staab, Helge Bruelheide, Bernhard Schmid, Keping Ma	16
17	Scale‐dependent species–area relationship: Niche‐based versus stochastic processes in a typical subtropical forest 2022 ·Journal of Ecology ·Haibao Ren, Jens‐Christian Svenning, Xiangcheng Mi, James A. Lutz, Jinxing Zhou, Keping Ma	6
18	Functional diversity effects on productivity increase with age in a forest biodiversity experiment breakdown → 2021 ·Nature Ecology & Evolution ·Franca J. Bongers, Bernhard Schmid, Helge Bruelheide, Frans Bongers, Shan Li, Goddert von Oheimb, Yin Li, (unknown), Keping Ma, Xiaojuan Liu	151
19	Macro‐scale variation and environmental predictors of flowering and fruiting phenology in the Chinese angiosperm flora 2020 ·Journal of Biogeography ·Yanjun Du, Lingfeng Mao, Simon A. Queenborough, Richard B. Primack, Liza S. Comita, Arndt Hampe, Keping Ma	23
20	Different spatial patterns of nitrogen and phosphorus resorption efficiencies in China’s forests 2017 ·Scientific Reports ·Shan Xu, Guoyi Zhou, Xuli Tang, Wantong Wang, Genxu Wang, Keping Ma, Shijie Han, Sheng Du, Shenggong Li, Junhua Yan, Youxin Ma	13

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