Lingfeng Mao

2.5k total citations · 2 hit papers
91 papers, 1.7k citations indexed

About

Lingfeng Mao is a scholar working on Nature and Landscape Conservation, Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics and Ecological Modeling. According to data from OpenAlex, Lingfeng Mao has authored 91 papers receiving a total of 1.7k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 53 papers in Nature and Landscape Conservation, 36 papers in Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics and 33 papers in Ecological Modeling. Recurrent topics in Lingfeng Mao's work include Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies (48 papers), Species Distribution and Climate Change (33 papers) and Plant and animal studies (30 papers). Lingfeng Mao is often cited by papers focused on Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies (48 papers), Species Distribution and Climate Change (33 papers) and Plant and animal studies (30 papers). Lingfeng Mao collaborates with scholars based in China, United States and Canada. Lingfeng Mao's co-authors include Jiangshan Lai, Jens‐Christian Svenning, Yi Zou, Xiaoguang Zhang, Shuang Zhang, Shengbin Chen, Hong Qian, Gang Feng, Nathan G. Swenson and Brody Sandel and has published in prestigious journals such as Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, The Science of The Total Environment and The American Naturalist.

In The Last Decade

Lingfeng Mao

83 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.

glmm.hp: an R package for computing individual effect of predictors in generalized linear mixed models

2022 273 citations Lingfeng Mao et al. profile →
Extension of theglmm.hppackage to zero-inflated generalized linear mixed models and multiple regression

2023 81 citations Lingfeng Mao et al. profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Lingfeng Mao China	21	793	638	479	457	359	91	1.7k
Lauri Laanisto Estonia	22	910 1.1×	661 1.0×	386 0.8×	292 0.6×	671 1.9×	46	1.8k
Ferry Slik Brunei	25	617 0.8×	760 1.2×	453 0.9×	292 0.6×	356 1.0×	63	1.8k
Robert M. Kooyman Australia	24	1.1k 1.3×	824 1.3×	397 0.8×	390 0.9×	474 1.3×	44	2.0k
Sarah Kimball United States	22	788 1.0×	464 0.7×	535 1.1×	181 0.4×	492 1.4×	44	1.4k
Sylvia Haider Germany	24	1.4k 1.8×	867 1.4×	776 1.6×	808 1.8×	684 1.9×	54	2.3k
Lara Souza United States	25	1.0k 1.3×	627 1.0×	649 1.4×	284 0.6×	576 1.6×	51	1.8k
Jan Plue Sweden	25	1.1k 1.4×	633 1.0×	665 1.4×	263 0.6×	632 1.8×	67	1.9k
Meredith Thomsen United States	17	796 1.0×	458 0.7×	757 1.6×	277 0.6×	486 1.4×	24	1.7k
Marko J. Spasojevic United States	26	1.6k 2.0×	970 1.5×	738 1.5×	599 1.3×	613 1.7×	61	2.4k
Ian T. Carroll United States	8	1.1k 1.3×	575 0.9×	574 1.2×	209 0.5×	314 0.9×	11	1.8k

Countries citing papers authored by Lingfeng Mao

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Lingfeng Mao

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20 of 20 papers shown

Mao, Lingfeng, et al.. (2025). Different hydrothermal conditions drive the radial growth pattern of larch (Larix spp.) species on the southeastern Tibetan Plateau. Journal of Forestry Research. 37(1). 1 indexed citations

Zhang, Min, et al.. (2025). Genome and Metagenome Skimming: Future Sequencing Methods for Environmental DNA (eDNA) Studies. Molecular Ecology Resources. 25(6). e14095–e14095.

Zhang, Aiying, et al.. (2025). Fragmentation effects on β-diversity: The role of abundance and intraspecific trait variation in shaping taxonomic, functional, and phylogenetic patterns. Plant Diversity. 47(6). 981–990.

Mao, Lingfeng, et al.. (2024). Impacts of Natural Environmental Factors and Anthropogenic Activities on the Distribution of Threatened Orchid Species in China. Journal of Geophysical Research Biogeosciences. 129(7).

Zhang, Xuetong, Yuying Li, Xiuping Wu, et al.. (2024). The evolutionary adaptation of wood‐decay macrofungi to host gymnosperms differs from that to host angiosperms. Ecology and Evolution. 14(7). e70019–e70019. 4 indexed citations

Mao, Lingfeng, et al.. (2023). Optimized Plant Diversity and Carbon Storage for Priority Protection Areas in China. Forests. 14(3). 621–621. 4 indexed citations

Li, Chuan, et al.. (2023). EFFECTS OF DIFFERENT TYPES OF PLANTS ON RUNOFF REDUCTION AND SUSPENDED SOLIDS REMOVAL IN RAIN GARDENS. Journal of Environmental Engineering and Landscape Management. 31(2). 113–120. 2 indexed citations

Zheng, Fang, et al.. (2023). Transcriptome sequencing reveals the senescence mechanism of ethylene-insensitive cut Rhododendron flowers. Postharvest Biology and Technology. 205. 112502–112502. 2 indexed citations

Li, Yao, Xingwang Zhang, Hongzhang Kang, et al.. (2022). Extensive sharing of chloroplast haplotypes among East Asian Cerris oaks: The imprints of shared ancestral polymorphism and introgression. Ecology and Evolution. 12(8). e9142–e9142. 12 indexed citations

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Feng, Gang, et al.. (2022). Endemic medicinal plant distribution correlated with stable climate, precipitation, and cultural diversity. Plant Diversity. 45(4). 479–484. 7 indexed citations

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Liu, Gangcai, et al.. (2022). Environmental drivers of soil microbial activity and diversity along an elevational gradient. Journal of Mountain Science. 19(5). 1336–1347. 15 indexed citations

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Zhang, Xiaoxia, Jianfei Ye, Shawn W. Laffan, et al.. (2021). Spatial phylogenetics of the Chinese angiosperm flora provides insights into endemism and conservation. Journal of Integrative Plant Biology. 64(1). 105–117. 18 indexed citations

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Yin, Xue, Hong Qian, Xinghua Sui, et al.. (2021). Effects of climate and topography on the diversity anomaly of plants disjunctly distributed in eastern Asia and eastern North America. Global Ecology and Biogeography. 30(10). 2029–2042. 6 indexed citations

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Yu, Xing-Ye, Yun‐Jia Zhu, Bo Wang, et al.. (2021). Effects of nitrogen addition on rhizospheric soil microbial communities of poplar plantations at different ages. Forest Ecology and Management. 494. 119328–119328. 32 indexed citations

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Chen, Sheng, Yong Zhang, Amaël Borzée, et al.. (2021). Landscape Attributes Best Explain the Population Trend of Wintering Greater White-Fronted Goose (Anser albifrons) in the Yangtze River Floodplain. Land. 10(8). 865–865. 5 indexed citations

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Hu, Haihua, Jianfei Ye, Bing Liu, et al.. (2021). Temporal and spatial comparisons of angiosperm diversity between eastern Asia and North America. National Science Review. 9(6). nwab199–nwab199. 15 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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Mao, Lingfeng, et al.. (2019). Species richness is a surrogate for rare plant occurrence, but not conservation value, in boreal plant communities. Biodiversity and Conservation. 29(1). 99–114. 5 indexed citations

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Mao, Lingfeng, Christopher W. Bater, Piotr Tompalski, et al.. (2017). Using airborne laser scanning to predict plant species richness and assess conservation threats in the oil sands region of Alberta’s boreal forest. Forest Ecology and Management. 409. 29–37. 24 indexed citations

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Mao, Lingfeng, et al.. (2012). Vascular plant diversity on the roof of the world: Spatial patterns and environmental determinants. Journal of Systematics and Evolution. 51(4). 371–381. 20 indexed citations

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