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 Guoke Chen 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

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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.

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 Alice C. Hughes, Keping Ma 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 Yanjun Su, Keping Ma et al. profile →

Author Peers

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Author						Papers	Cites
Keping Ma	6.5k	3.7k	3.6k	3.4k	3.0k	383	12.5k
Jeannine Cavender‐Bares	7.9k 1.2×	5.1k 1.4×	4.9k 1.4×	4.7k 1.4×	3.9k 1.3×	194	15.6k
Cyrille Violle	9.0k 1.4×	6.1k 1.7×	3.5k 1.0×	4.5k 1.3×	4.2k 1.4×	191	15.4k
Daniel Borcard	7.5k 1.1×	3.6k 1.0×	3.0k 0.8×	8.2k 2.4×	2.1k 0.7×	50	16.1k
Forest Isbell	6.6k 1.0×	3.2k 0.9×	4.4k 1.2×	4.6k 1.3×	2.5k 0.8×	99	13.0k
Helge Bruelheide	5.5k 0.8×	3.1k 0.8×	2.7k 0.8×	2.4k 0.7×	3.8k 1.3×	323	10.1k
Richard Condit	11.6k 1.8×	5.3k 1.4×	5.1k 1.4×	4.2k 1.2×	2.1k 0.7×	148	15.6k
Olivier Honnay	6.7k 1.0×	5.3k 1.4×	2.8k 0.8×	3.7k 1.1×	5.6k 1.9×	319	14.0k
Meelis Pärtel	7.3k 1.1×	4.7k 1.3×	2.3k 0.7×	4.0k 1.2×	3.4k 1.1×	187	11.4k
Peter J. Edwards	4.2k 0.7×	3.0k 0.8×	2.0k 0.5×	3.8k 1.1×	2.8k 0.9×	224	10.4k
Elsa E. Cleland	7.1k 1.1×	4.4k 1.2×	4.8k 1.3×	7.2k 2.1×	4.0k 1.3×	79	17.4k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Keping Ma

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20 of 20 papers shown

Veen, G. F., Wim H. van der Putten, Xiaojuan Liu, et al.. (2025). Non‐random tree species loss shifts soil fungal communities. Journal of Ecology. 113(5). 1239–1255. 1 indexed citations

Zhou, Guoyi, Shaopeng Wang, Yanjun Su, et al.. (2025). Spatial patterns and future potential of tree species richness and structural diversity in China’s forests. Nature Ecology & Evolution. 10(1). 70–82.

Wang, Mingqiang, Yi Li, Dan Zhang, et al.. (2024). Blue Vane and Pan Traps Are More Effective for Profiling Multiple Facets of Bee Diversity in Subtropical Forests. Insects. 15(11). 909–909.

Chen, Xia, Yanpei Guo, Hong‐Tu Zhang, et al.. (2024). Functional diversity of neighbours mediates sap flow density and radial growth of focal trees, but in different ways between evergreen and deciduous broadleaved species. Functional Ecology. 38(9). 1931–1943. 3 indexed citations

Jia, Juan, et al.. (2024). Microbial necromass accrual from newly added labile and native soil carbon in the rhizosphere vs. non-rhizosphere of broadleaved and coniferous trees. Geoderma. 452. 117107–117107. 6 indexed citations

Bai, Yang, Zhou Fang, Alice C. Hughes, et al.. (2024). How to go forward and beyond: Future tasks of China's protected areas system. Journal of Cleaner Production. 443. 141132–141132. 2 indexed citations

Zhang, Lan, Bernhard Schmid, Franca J. Bongers, et al.. (2024). Strong nestedness and turnover effects on stand productivity in a long‐term forest biodiversity experiment. New Phytologist. 245(1). 130–140. 2 indexed citations

Chen, Lei, Xiangcheng Mi, Haibao Ren, et al.. (2023). The interactive effects of soil fertility and tree mycorrhizal association explain spatial variation of diversity–biomass relationships in a subtropical forest. Journal of Ecology. 111(5). 1037–1049. 15 indexed citations

Wu, Hui, Shiming Fang, Le Yu, et al.. (2023). Limited co-benefits of protected areas in southwest China under current climate change and human modification. Journal of Environmental Management. 330. 117190–117190. 15 indexed citations

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Zhou, Lijing, et al.. (2023). Spatial patterns and predictors of seed plants' extinction risks in Asian countries. Biological Conservation. 289. 110424–110424. 1 indexed citations

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Lin, Hong, et al.. (2023). Subtropical forest tree genetic richness causes contrasting effects on soil fungal guilds in monocultures and mixed-species stands. Forest Ecology and Management. 545. 121285–121285. 2 indexed citations

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Cooper, David, Musonda Mumba, Shalini Dhyani, et al.. (2023). Priorities for progress towards Sustainable Development Goal 15 ‘Life on land’. Nature Ecology & Evolution. 7(10). 1570–1575. 9 indexed citations

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Ma, Keping, et al.. (2023). Flora of Northeast Asia. Plants. 12(12). 2240–2240. 4 indexed citations

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Schuldt, Andreas, Xiaojuan Liu, François Buscot, et al.. (2023). Carbon–biodiversity relationships in a highly diverse subtropical forest. Global Change Biology. 29(18). 5321–5333. 27 indexed citations

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Liu, Xiaojuan, Yuanyuan Huang, Lei Chen, et al.. (2022). Species richness, functional traits and climate interactively affect tree survival in a large forest biodiversity experiment. Journal of Ecology. 110(10). 2522–2531. 16 indexed citations

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Li, Yi, Ming‐Qiang Wang, Douglas Chesters, et al.. (2022). Differential impacts on herbivore diversity and scale dependence of tree diversity in subtropical forests. Journal of Ecology. 111(3). 666–675. 3 indexed citations

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Huang, Yuanyuan, Andreas Schuldt, Lydia Hönig, et al.. (2022). Effects of enemy exclusion on biodiversity–productivity relationships in a subtropical forest experiment. Journal of Ecology. 110(9). 2167–2178. 12 indexed citations

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Lin, Hong, Yinong Li, Helge Bruelheide, et al.. (2021). What drives leaf litter decomposition and the decomposer community in subtropical forests – The richness of the above-ground tree community or that of the leaf litter?. Soil Biology and Biochemistry. 160. 108314–108314. 28 indexed citations

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Du, Yanjun, Lingfeng Mao, Simon A. Queenborough, et al.. (2020). Macro‐scale variation and environmental predictors of flowering and fruiting phenology in the Chinese angiosperm flora. Journal of Biogeography. 47(11). 2303–2314. 23 indexed citations

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Xu, Shan, Guoyi Zhou, Xuli Tang, et al.. (2017). Different spatial patterns of nitrogen and phosphorus resorption efficiencies in China’s forests. Scientific Reports. 7(1). 10584–10584. 13 indexed citations

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