Liming Lai

636 total citations
29 papers, 474 citations indexed

About

Liming Lai is a scholar working on Global and Planetary Change, Nature and Landscape Conservation and Plant Science. According to data from OpenAlex, Liming Lai has authored 29 papers receiving a total of 474 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 17 papers in Global and Planetary Change, 15 papers in Nature and Landscape Conservation and 14 papers in Plant Science. Recurrent topics in Liming Lai's work include Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics (14 papers), Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies (14 papers) and Seed Germination and Physiology (4 papers). Liming Lai is often cited by papers focused on Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics (14 papers), Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies (14 papers) and Seed Germination and Physiology (4 papers). Liming Lai collaborates with scholars based in China, United States and Japan. Liming Lai's co-authors include Yuanrun Zheng, Lianhe Jiang, Jihua Zhou, Xiaolong Zhang, Tianyu Guan, Hui Du, Carol C. Baskin, Yongji Wang, Jerry M. Baskin and Hideyuki Shimizu and has published in prestigious journals such as PLoS ONE, The Science of The Total Environment and Journal of Environmental Management.

In The Last Decade

Liming Lai

28 papers receiving 469 citations

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Liming Lai China 12 181 163 145 130 99 29 474
author.xingMing EN 12 148 0.8× 182 1.1× 129 0.9× 130 1.0× 99 1.0× 67 502
Anwar Eziz China 10 242 1.3× 212 1.3× 93 0.6× 186 1.4× 65 0.7× 20 533
Yiming Feng China 14 120 0.7× 129 0.8× 201 1.4× 99 0.8× 83 0.8× 40 467
Changming Zhao China 13 117 0.6× 223 1.4× 135 0.9× 179 1.4× 70 0.7× 32 485
Naiping Song China 13 120 0.7× 172 1.1× 166 1.1× 78 0.6× 110 1.1× 56 475
Sandro Strumia Italy 14 237 1.3× 255 1.6× 133 0.9× 96 0.7× 167 1.7× 42 676
Lianhe Jiang China 15 295 1.6× 226 1.4× 208 1.4× 182 1.4× 140 1.4× 31 704
Sébastien Devidal France 9 131 0.7× 186 1.1× 74 0.5× 126 1.0× 67 0.7× 16 380
Long Yang China 14 130 0.7× 187 1.1× 190 1.3× 135 1.0× 65 0.7× 28 504
Magdalena Szymura Poland 13 306 1.7× 153 0.9× 126 0.9× 257 2.0× 180 1.8× 56 633

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Fields of papers citing papers by Liming Lai

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Liming Lai

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Liming Lai. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Liming Lai 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 Liming Lai. Liming Lai is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

All Works

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Lai, Liming, et al.. (2025). Decoupled response of aboveground and belowground ecosystem multifunctionality to shrub encroachment in a semiarid grassland. Journal of Environmental Management. 379. 124827–124827. 1 indexed citations
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Lai, Liming, et al.. (2024). Fungal necromass carbon contributes more to POC and MAOC under different forest types of Qinling Mountains. Plant and Soil. 512(1-2). 603–618. 6 indexed citations
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Lai, Liming, et al.. (2022). Ecophysiological Leaf Traits of Forty-Seven Woody Species under Long-Term Acclimation in a Botanical Garden. Plants. 11(6). 725–725. 7 indexed citations
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Zhuang, Qianlai, et al.. (2021). Soil water use sources and patterns in shrub encroachment in semiarid grasslands of Inner Mongolia. Agricultural and Forest Meteorology. 308-309. 108579–108579. 21 indexed citations
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Zhou, Jihua, et al.. (2020). Simulating highly disturbed vegetation distribution: the case of China’s Jing-Jin-Ji region. PeerJ. 8. e9839–e9839. 4 indexed citations
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Lai, Liming, Lijun Chen, Lianhe Jiang, et al.. (2019). Seed germination and seedling growth of five desert plants and their relevance to vegetation restoration. Ecology and Evolution. 9(4). 2160–2170. 17 indexed citations
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Lai, Liming, et al.. (2019). Enzyme and osmotic adjustment compounds of key species can help explain shrub encroachment in a semiarid sandy grassland. Ecological Indicators. 101. 541–551. 7 indexed citations
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Guan, Tianyu, Jihua Zhou, Xiaolong Zhang, et al.. (2018). The effect of photosynthetic parameters on species acclimation in an arid mountainous region of China. TURKISH JOURNAL OF BOTANY. 42(4). 423–439. 3 indexed citations
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Guan, Tianyu, Liming Lai, Xiaolong Zhang, et al.. (2018). Vegetation succession of abandoned croplands in Ruanliang and Yingliang in the Ordos Plateau. Acta Ecologica Sinica. 38(1). 21–28. 8 indexed citations
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Zhang, Xiaolong, Tianyu Guan, Jihua Zhou, et al.. (2018). Community Characteristics and Leaf Stoichiometric Traits of Desert Ecosystems Regulated by Precipitation and Soil in an Arid Area of China. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health. 15(1). 109–109. 19 indexed citations
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Wang, Yongji, Liming Lai, Hui Du, et al.. (2018). Phylogeny, habitat together with biological and ecological factors can influence germination of 36 subalpine Rhododendron species from the eastern Tibetan Plateau. Ecology and Evolution. 8(7). 3589–3598. 4 indexed citations
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Zhou, Jihua, Liming Lai, Tianyu Guan, et al.. (2016). Comparison modeling for alpine vegetation distribution in an arid area. Environmental Monitoring and Assessment. 188(7). 408–408. 5 indexed citations
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Zhou, Jihua, Yue Qin, Liming Lai, et al.. (2016). Alpine vegetation phenology dynamic over 16 years and its covariation with climate in a semi-arid region of China. The Science of The Total Environment. 572. 119–128. 82 indexed citations
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Lai, Liming, Yuan Tian, Yongji Wang, et al.. (2015). Distribution of three congeneric shrub species along an aridity gradient is related to seed germination and seedling emergence. AoB Plants. 7. plv071–plv071. 52 indexed citations
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Lai, Liming, Lijun Chen, Lianhe Jiang, et al.. (2015). Seed germination of seven desert plants and implications for vegetationrestoration. AoB Plants. 8. 29 indexed citations
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Zhu, Linhai, Liming Lai, Jianjian Wang, et al.. (2013). Soil TPH Concentration Estimation Using Vegetation Indices in an Oil Polluted Area of Eastern China. PLoS ONE. 8(1). e54028–e54028. 26 indexed citations
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Lai, Liming, Luyao Jiang, Ping An, et al.. (2012). Moderate water supply and partial sand burial increase relative growth rate of two Artemisia species in an inland sandy land. Journal of Arid Environments. 85. 105–113. 18 indexed citations
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Zhang, Chao, Fei Wang, Liming Lai, et al.. (2009). [Responses of spatial distribution pattern of Artemisia ordosica population to the precipitation gradient on Ordos Plateau].. PubMed. 20(9). 2105–10. 3 indexed citations

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