Lin Jiang

13.6k total citations · 8 hit papers
187 papers, 9.2k citations indexed

About

Lin Jiang is a scholar working on Nature and Landscape Conservation, Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics and Ecology. According to data from OpenAlex, Lin Jiang has authored 187 papers receiving a total of 9.2k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 81 papers in Nature and Landscape Conservation, 71 papers in Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics and 53 papers in Ecology. Recurrent topics in Lin Jiang's work include Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies (80 papers), Plant and animal studies (60 papers) and Species Distribution and Climate Change (27 papers). Lin Jiang is often cited by papers focused on Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies (80 papers), Plant and animal studies (60 papers) and Species Distribution and Climate Change (27 papers). Lin Jiang collaborates with scholars based in United States, China and France. Lin Jiang's co-authors include Cyrille Violle, Zhichao Pu, Diana R. Nemergut, Brian J. McGill, Brian J. Enquist, Julie Messier, Vincent Jung, Cécile H. Albert, Catherine M. Hulshof and Peter J. Morin and has published in prestigious journals such as Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Nature Communications and SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología.

In The Last Decade

Lin Jiang

174 papers receiving 9.1k citations

Hit Papers

The return of the variance: intraspecific variability in ... 2011 2026 2016 2021 2012 2017 2015 2011 2013 400 800 1.2k
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.

  1. The return of the variance: intraspecific variability in community ecology
    2012 1.3k citations Lin Jiang et al. profile →
  2. Climate warming reduces the temporal stability of plant community biomass production
    2017 422 citations Lin Jiang, Jin He et al. Nature Communications profile →
  3. Habitat fragmentation and biodiversity conservation: key findings and future challenges
    2015 418 citations Lin Jiang et al. profile →
  4. Phylogenetic limiting similarity and competitive exclusion
    2011 374 citations Lin Jiang et al. Ecology Letters profile →
  5. Changes in assembly processes in soil bacterial communities following a wildfire disturbance
    2013 351 citations Lin Jiang et al. profile →
  6. Nutrient-induced acidification modulates soil biodiversity-function relationships
    2024 108 citations Zhengkun Hu, Manuel Delgado‐Baquerizo et al. Nature Communications profile →
  7. Soil microbial diversity and network complexity drive the ecosystem multifunctionality of temperate grasslands under changing precipitation
    2023 93 citations Lili Han, Chao Xiong et al. The Science of The Total Environment profile →
  8. Tree mycorrhizal association types control biodiversity-productivity relationship in a subtropical forest
    2023 63 citations Meifeng Deng, Shuijin Hu et al. Science Advances profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Lin Jiang United States 53 3.8k 3.8k 2.5k 2.0k 1.9k 187 9.2k
Zhiheng Wang China 46 2.4k 0.6× 3.1k 0.8× 2.3k 0.9× 1.4k 0.7× 2.0k 1.0× 214 8.6k
Elizabeth T. Borer United States 50 4.4k 1.2× 3.5k 0.9× 2.3k 0.9× 3.0k 1.5× 1.8k 0.9× 144 10.5k
Jari Oksanen Finland 39 4.7k 1.2× 3.6k 0.9× 2.6k 1.0× 2.4k 1.2× 1.6k 0.8× 108 10.6k
Tadashi Fukami United States 45 4.0k 1.0× 3.5k 0.9× 3.9k 1.6× 3.6k 1.8× 1.2k 0.6× 109 10.9k
Justin P. Wright United States 37 3.5k 0.9× 3.6k 1.0× 1.8k 0.7× 1.6k 0.8× 1.9k 1.0× 81 8.1k
Forest Isbell United States 51 4.6k 1.2× 6.6k 1.7× 3.2k 1.3× 2.5k 1.2× 4.4k 2.3× 99 13.0k
Marc Dufrêne Belgium 31 6.1k 1.6× 5.4k 1.4× 3.2k 1.3× 2.4k 1.2× 2.7k 1.4× 114 12.5k
Miquel De Cáceres Spain 36 3.6k 1.0× 3.4k 0.9× 1.8k 0.7× 1.9k 0.9× 2.4k 1.2× 105 8.6k
Étienne Laliberté Canada 42 2.9k 0.7× 5.1k 1.4× 3.0k 1.2× 3.9k 2.0× 2.1k 1.1× 96 10.0k
Daniel Prati Switzerland 43 2.4k 0.6× 4.2k 1.1× 4.0k 1.6× 3.8k 1.9× 1.3k 0.7× 116 9.0k

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Fields of papers citing papers by Lin Jiang

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Lin Jiang

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

All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Gao, Xiaoxia, Dianye Zhang, Yunfeng Peng, et al.. (2025). Grassland degradation alters plant and soil biodiversity–multifunctionality relationships. Nature Plants. 11(12). 2487–2497.
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Song, Jian, Jianyang Xia, Lin Jiang, et al.. (2025). Responses of plant community drought resistance and resilience to warming and nitrogen addition vary with recurrent droughts in a semi-arid grassland. Agriculture Ecosystems & Environment. 389. 109712–109712.
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Song, Jian, Mengmei Zheng, Lin Jiang, et al.. (2025). Effects of decade‐long grazing exclusion and wind erosion reduction on community temporal stability in a semi‐arid grassland. Journal of Applied Ecology. 62(3). 555–565. 1 indexed citations
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Feng, Jiayin, Linlin Wang, Lin Jiang, et al.. (2024). Root carbon inputs outweigh litter in shaping grassland soil microbiomes and ecosystem multifunctionality. npj Biofilms and Microbiomes. 10(1). 150–150. 12 indexed citations
5.
Hu, Zhengkun, Manuel Delgado‐Baquerizo, Nicolas Fanin, et al.. (2024). Nutrient-induced acidification modulates soil biodiversity-function relationships. Nature Communications. 15(1). 2858–2858. 108 indexed citations breakdown →
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Wu, Xinwei, Karl J. Niklas, Lin Jiang, et al.. (2024). Warming causes contrasting spider behavioural responses by changing their prey size spectra. Nature Climate Change. 14(2). 190–197. 8 indexed citations
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Xu, Zhuwen, Heyong Liu, Haiyan Ren, et al.. (2023). Nitrogen addition and mowing alter drought resistance and recovery of grassland communities. Science China Life Sciences. 66(7). 1682–1692. 12 indexed citations
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Han, Lili, Chao Xiong, An‐Hui Ge, et al.. (2023). Soil microbial diversity and network complexity drive the ecosystem multifunctionality of temperate grasslands under changing precipitation. The Science of The Total Environment. 906. 167217–167217. 93 indexed citations breakdown →
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Zhu, Juntao, Ning Zong, Peili Shi, et al.. (2023). Resource co‐limitation of community biomass but not structure of an alpine grassland. Ecology. 104(11). e4167–e4167. 3 indexed citations
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Tu, Tieyao, Shaopeng Li, Xian Yang, et al.. (2023). Different mechanisms underlie similar species-area relationships in two tropical archipelagoes. Plant Diversity. 46(2). 238–246. 5 indexed citations
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Li, Shaopeng, et al.. (2023). Scale-dependent changes in ecosystem temporal stability over six decades of succession. Science Advances. 9(40). eadi1279–eadi1279. 18 indexed citations
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Zhao, Ming, Hongxiang Zhang, Carol C. Baskin, et al.. (2022). Intra‐annual species gain overrides species loss in determining species richness in a typical steppe ecosystem after a decade of nitrogen enrichment. Journal of Ecology. 110(8). 1942–1956. 14 indexed citations
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Ma, Qin, Yanjun Su, Tianyu Hu, et al.. (2022). The coordinated impact of forest internal structural complexity and tree species diversity on forest productivity across forest biomes. Fundamental Research. 4(5). 1185–1195. 15 indexed citations
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Li, Shaopeng, Pu Jia, Xiang Liu, et al.. (2021). Functional traits explain the consistent resistance of biodiversity to plant invasion under nitrogen enrichment. Ecology Letters. 25(4). 778–789. 63 indexed citations
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Yang, Xian, et al.. (2021). Consistently positive effect of species diversity on ecosystem, but not population, temporal stability. Ecology Letters. 24(10). 2256–2266. 104 indexed citations
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Connolly, John, et al.. (2021). Mechanistic links between biodiversity effects on ecosystem functioning and stability in a multi‐site grassland experiment. Journal of Ecology. 109(9). 3370–3378. 37 indexed citations
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Liu, Weixing, Lingli Liu, Xian Yang, et al.. (2021). Long‐term nitrogen input alters plant and soil bacterial, but not fungal beta diversity in a semiarid grassland. Global Change Biology. 27(16). 3939–3950. 133 indexed citations
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Xu, Xinyu, Yunpeng Qiu, Kangcheng Zhang, et al.. (2021). Climate warming promotes deterministic assembly of arbuscular mycorrhizal fungal communities. Global Change Biology. 28(3). 1147–1161. 69 indexed citations
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Chen, Litong, Lin Jiang, Xin Jing, et al.. (2021). Above‐ and belowground biodiversity jointly drive ecosystem stability in natural alpine grasslands on the Tibetan Plateau. Global Ecology and Biogeography. 30(7). 1418–1429. 67 indexed citations
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Tao, Yumeng, et al.. (2017). Non‐stationary bias correction of monthlyCMIP5temperature projections over China using a residual‐based bagging tree model. International Journal of Climatology. 38(1). 467–482. 21 indexed citations

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