Lidong Mo

3.5k total citations · 4 hit papers
20 papers, 1.7k citations indexed

About

Lidong Mo is a scholar working on Ecology, Nature and Landscape Conservation and Global and Planetary Change. According to data from OpenAlex, Lidong Mo has authored 20 papers receiving a total of 1.7k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 10 papers in Ecology, 8 papers in Nature and Landscape Conservation and 7 papers in Global and Planetary Change. Recurrent topics in Lidong Mo's work include Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies (7 papers), Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics (5 papers) and Species Distribution and Climate Change (5 papers). Lidong Mo is often cited by papers focused on Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies (7 papers), Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics (5 papers) and Species Distribution and Climate Change (5 papers). Lidong Mo collaborates with scholars based in Switzerland, China and United States. Lidong Mo's co-authors include Thomas W. Crowther, Johan van den Hoogen, Constantin M. Zohner, Daniel S. Maynard, Joe Wan, Colin Averill, Ashley D. Keiser, Melanie A. Mayes, Susanne S. Renner and Deborah Zani and has published in prestigious journals such as Science, Nature Communications and PLoS ONE.

In The Last Decade

Lidong Mo

18 papers receiving 1.6k 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.

The global soil community and its influence on biogeochemistry

2019 796 citations Thomas W. Crowther, Johan van den Hoogen et al. Science profile →
Increased growing-season productivity drives earlier autumn leaf senescence in temperate trees

2020 254 citations Deborah Zani, Thomas W. Crowther et al. Science profile →
The global distribution and environmental drivers of aboveground versus belowground plant biomass

2021 190 citations Haozhi Ma, Lidong Mo et al. Nature Ecology & Evolution profile →
Effect of climate warming on the timing of autumn leaf senescence reverses after the summer solstice

2023 83 citations Constantin M. Zohner, Susanne S. Renner et al. Science profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Lidong Mo Switzerland	11	780	576	487	423	301	20	1.7k
Hasbagan Ganjurjav China	21	793 1.0×	483 0.8×	486 1.0×	281 0.7×	342 1.1×	65	1.5k
Zhaorong Mi China	14	549 0.7×	451 0.8×	470 1.0×	316 0.7×	499 1.7×	29	1.6k
Tana E. Wood United States	24	584 0.7×	845 1.5×	708 1.5×	495 1.2×	636 2.1×	46	1.9k
Cameron N. Carlyle Canada	24	696 0.9×	494 0.9×	834 1.7×	396 0.9×	539 1.8×	77	2.0k
Johan van den Hoogen Switzerland	12	719 0.9×	298 0.5×	757 1.6×	423 1.0×	226 0.8×	22	1.7k
Yonghui Wang China	17	640 0.8×	536 0.9×	536 1.1×	253 0.6×	536 1.8×	36	1.7k
Jichuang Duan China	17	843 1.1×	505 0.9×	787 1.6×	278 0.7×	340 1.1×	23	1.7k
Jimin Cheng China	26	1.0k 1.3×	628 1.1×	1.2k 2.6×	569 1.3×	653 2.2×	104	2.5k
Xukun Su China	23	700 0.9×	448 0.8×	477 1.0×	183 0.4×	343 1.1×	62	1.5k
Paul C. Selmants United States	22	509 0.7×	476 0.8×	474 1.0×	217 0.5×	423 1.4×	40	1.3k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Lidong Mo

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

Mo, Lidong, et al.. (2025). Water availability boosts multidimensional plant diversity in a temperate grassland despite anthropogenic disturbances. Ecological Applications. 35(7). e70124–e70124.

Crowther, Thomas W., Gabriel Reuben Smith, Haozhi Ma, et al.. (2025). Fragmentation increased in over half of global forests from 2000 to 2020. Science. 389(6765). 1151–1156. 1 indexed citations

Han, Xingguo, Jonathan Donhauser, Constantin M. Zohner, et al.. (2025). Fungal diversity as a key driver of soil multifunctionality along a European latitudinal gradient. Geoderma. 464. 117600–117600.

Tombeur, Félix de, Susan E. Hartley, Constantin M. Zohner, et al.. (2025). Convergent evidence for the temperature-dependent emergence of silicification in terrestrial plants. Nature Communications. 16(1). 1155–1155. 8 indexed citations

Gou, Ruikun, Jianxiang Feng, Haichao Zhou, et al.. (2024). CO2 fluxes contrast between aquaculture ponds and mangrove forests and its implications for coastal wetland rehabilitation in Leizhou Peninsula, China. Agriculture Ecosystems & Environment. 367. 108968–108968. 8 indexed citations

Smith, Gabriel Reuben, Carolina Bello, Lalasia Bialic‐Murphy, et al.. (2024). Ten simple rules for using large language models in science, version 1.0. PLoS Computational Biology. 20(1). e1011767–e1011767. 5 indexed citations

Gou, Ruikun, Jinshu Chi, Jiangong Liu, et al.. (2024). Atmospheric water demand constrains net ecosystem production in subtropical mangrove forests. Journal of Hydrology. 630. 130651–130651. 10 indexed citations

Ma, Haikun, et al.. (2024). Wild plant species with broader precipitation niches exhibit stronger host selection in rhizosphere microbiome assembly. ISME Communications. 4(1). ycad015–ycad015. 3 indexed citations

Zohner, Constantin M., Susanne S. Renner, Lidong Mo, et al.. (2023). Effect of climate warming on the timing of autumn leaf senescence reverses after the summer solstice. Science. 381(6653). eadf5098–eadf5098. 83 indexed citations breakdown →

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Karger, Dirk Nikolaus, Rafael O. Wüest, Catherine H. Graham, et al.. (2023). Interannual climate variability improves niche estimates for ectothermic but not endothermic species. Scientific Reports. 13(1). 12538–12538. 6 indexed citations

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Gou, Ruikun, Nina Buchmann, Jinshu Chi, et al.. (2023). Temporal variations of carbon and water fluxes in a subtropical mangrove forest: Insights from a decade-long eddy covariance measurement. Agricultural and Forest Meteorology. 343. 109764–109764. 23 indexed citations

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Ma, Haozhi, Lidong Mo, Thomas W. Crowther, et al.. (2021). The global distribution and environmental drivers of aboveground versus belowground plant biomass. Nature Ecology & Evolution. 5(8). 1110–1122. 190 indexed citations breakdown →

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Lin, Xiao‐Long, et al.. (2021). Toward a global DNA barcode reference library of the intolerant nonbiting midge genus Rheocricotopus Brundin, 1956. Ecology and Evolution. 11(17). 12161–12172. 7 indexed citations

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Zohner, Constantin M., Lidong Mo, Thomas A. M. Pugh, Jean‐François Bastin, & Thomas W. Crowther. (2020). Interactive climate factors restrict future increases in spring productivity of temperate and boreal trees. Global Change Biology. 26(7). 4042–4055. 38 indexed citations

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Zani, Deborah, Thomas W. Crowther, Lidong Mo, Susanne S. Renner, & Constantin M. Zohner. (2020). Increased growing-season productivity drives earlier autumn leaf senescence in temperate trees. Science. 370(6520). 1066–1071. 254 indexed citations breakdown →

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Lin, Xiao‐Long, Lidong Mo, Wenjun Bu, & Xinhua Wang. (2020). The first comprehensive DNA barcode reference library of Chinese Tanytarsus (Diptera: Chironomidae) for environmental DNA metabarcoding. Diversity and Distributions. 27(10). 1932–1941. 21 indexed citations

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Zohner, Constantin M., et al.. (2020). Leaf‐out in northern ecotypes of wide‐ranging trees requires less spring warming, enhancing the risk of spring frost damage at cold range limits. Global Ecology and Biogeography. 29(6). 1065–1072. 37 indexed citations

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Bastin, Jean‐François, T.S.J. Elliott, Simon P. Hart, et al.. (2019). Understanding climate change from a global analysis of city analogues. PLoS ONE. 14(7). e0217592–e0217592. 104 indexed citations

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Crowther, Thomas W., Johan van den Hoogen, Joe Wan, et al.. (2019). The global soil community and its influence on biogeochemistry. Science. 365(6455). 796 indexed citations breakdown →

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Zohner, Constantin M., Lidong Mo, & Susanne S. Renner. (2018). Global warming reduces leaf-out and flowering synchrony among individuals. eLife. 7. 61 indexed citations

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