Maowei Liang

709 total citations
26 papers, 436 citations indexed

About

Maowei Liang is a scholar working on Nature and Landscape Conservation, Ecology and Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law. According to data from OpenAlex, Maowei Liang has authored 26 papers receiving a total of 436 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 17 papers in Nature and Landscape Conservation, 13 papers in Ecology and 8 papers in Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law. Recurrent topics in Maowei Liang's work include Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies (16 papers), Rangeland Management and Livestock Ecology (8 papers) and Soil Carbon and Nitrogen Dynamics (5 papers). Maowei Liang is often cited by papers focused on Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies (16 papers), Rangeland Management and Livestock Ecology (8 papers) and Soil Carbon and Nitrogen Dynamics (5 papers). Maowei Liang collaborates with scholars based in China, United States and Netherlands. Maowei Liang's co-authors include Shaopeng Wang, Cunzhu Liang, Yann Hautier, Elise S. Gornish, Kevin R. Wilcox, Lin Jiang, Jiquan Chen, Michel Loreau, John Connolly and Zhiyong Li and has published in prestigious journals such as Science, Ecology and The Science of The Total Environment.

In The Last Decade

Maowei Liang

25 papers receiving 435 citations

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Maowei Liang China 12 236 181 140 100 99 26 436
Justin du Toit South Africa 11 224 0.9× 154 0.9× 156 1.1× 89 0.9× 109 1.1× 32 431
Carly Golodets Israel 9 255 1.1× 161 0.9× 110 0.8× 72 0.7× 90 0.9× 13 426
Jan C. Ruppert Germany 8 206 0.9× 206 1.1× 194 1.4× 55 0.6× 163 1.6× 10 457
Jianming Niu China 12 237 1.0× 181 1.0× 114 0.8× 83 0.8× 58 0.6× 29 479
Gastón R. Oñatibia Argentina 11 213 0.9× 176 1.0× 138 1.0× 68 0.7× 125 1.3× 23 376
Virginia Massara Argentina 7 159 0.7× 189 1.0× 136 1.0× 65 0.7× 100 1.0× 7 371
Anvar Sanaei China 15 397 1.7× 170 0.9× 262 1.9× 106 1.1× 61 0.6× 26 618
Eduardo Pucheta Argentina 14 336 1.4× 198 1.1× 130 0.9× 119 1.2× 69 0.7× 27 539
Gustavo Buono Argentina 6 160 0.7× 196 1.1× 144 1.0× 64 0.6× 93 0.9× 9 378
Fengwei Xu China 10 170 0.7× 144 0.8× 76 0.5× 146 1.5× 104 1.1× 17 385

Countries citing papers authored by Maowei Liang

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Fields of papers citing papers by Maowei Liang

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Maowei Liang

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Maowei Liang. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Maowei Liang 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 Maowei Liang. Maowei Liang 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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Meng, Bo, Michel Loreau, Pubin Hong, et al.. (2025). Stabilizing effects of biodiversity arise from species-specific dynamics rather than interspecific interactions in grasslands. Nature Ecology & Evolution. 9(10). 1837–1847. 3 indexed citations
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Lefcheck, Jonathan S., Maowei Liang, Y. Stacy Zhang, et al.. (2025). Seasonal asynchrony and harvest diversification contribute to demersal finfish fisheries stability in Chesapeake Bay. Ecological Applications. 35(6). e70097–e70097. 1 indexed citations
3.
Wisnoski, Nathan I., Chhaya M. Werner, Maowei Liang, et al.. (2025). Effects of Disturbance and Fertilisation on Plant Community Synchrony, Biodiversity and Stability Through Succession. Ecology Letters. 28(4). e70052–e70052. 2 indexed citations
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Liu, Huihui, Guozheng Hu, Fen Zhao, et al.. (2025). Diminished positive effects of warming on stability of plant productivity over time in an alpine meadow. Communications Earth & Environment. 6(1).
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Liang, Maowei, Qi Yang, Jonathan M. Chase, et al.. (2025). Unifying spatial scaling laws of biodiversity and ecosystem stability. Science. 387(6740). eadl2373–eadl2373. 5 indexed citations
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Liang, Maowei, Thomas Lamy, Daniel C. Reuman, et al.. (2024). A marine heatwave changes the stabilizing effects of biodiversity in kelp forests. Ecology. 105(5). e4288–e4288. 8 indexed citations
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He, Miao, Kathryn E. Barry, Merel B. Soons, et al.. (2024). Cumulative nitrogen enrichment alters the drivers of grassland overyielding. Communications Biology. 7(1). 309–309. 4 indexed citations
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Gao, Wenqiang, Maowei Liang, Wenhua Xiang, et al.. (2024). Development stage‐dependent effects of biodiversity on aboveground biomass of temperate forests. Ecography. 2025(4). 2 indexed citations
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Zhao, Shenglong, Xinping Liu, Peng Lv, et al.. (2023). Grazing impairs ecosystem stability through changes in species asynchrony and stability rather than diversity across spatial scales in desert steppe, Northern China. Agriculture Ecosystems & Environment. 346. 108343–108343. 8 indexed citations
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Zuo, Xiaoan, Elise S. Gornish, Sally E. Koerner, et al.. (2023). Dominant species determine grazing effects on the stability of herbaceous community production at multiple scales in drylands. Journal of Applied Ecology. 60(9). 1917–1928. 20 indexed citations
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Liang, Maowei, Benjamin Baiser, Lauren M. Hallett, et al.. (2022). Consistent stabilizing effects of plant diversity across spatial scales and climatic gradients. Nature Ecology & Evolution. 6(11). 1669–1675. 61 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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Liang, Maowei, Cunzhu Liang, Yann Hautier, Kevin R. Wilcox, & Shaopeng Wang. (2021). Grazing‐induced biodiversity loss impairs grassland ecosystem stability at multiple scales. Ecology Letters. 24(10). 2054–2064. 85 indexed citations
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Gao, Wenqiang, Xiangdong Lei, Maowei Liang, et al.. (2021). Biodiversity increased both productivity and its spatial stability in temperate forests in northeastern China. The Science of The Total Environment. 780. 146674–146674. 26 indexed citations
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Liang, Maowei, Zhiyong Li, Pierre Mariotte, et al.. (2021). Plant functional groups mediate effects of climate and soil factors on species richness and community biomass in grasslands of Mongolian Plateau. Journal of Plant Ecology. 14(4). 679–691. 19 indexed citations
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Liang, Maowei, Xiao Feng, & Elise S. Gornish. (2020). Rainfall pulses mediate long‐term plant community compositional dynamics in a semi‐arid rangeland. Journal of Applied Ecology. 58(4). 708–717. 16 indexed citations
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Liang, Maowei, Nicholas G. Smith, Jiquan Chen, et al.. (2020). Shifts in plant composition mediate grazing effects on carbon cycling in grasslands. Journal of Applied Ecology. 58(3). 518–527. 24 indexed citations
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Liang, Cunzhu, et al.. (2019). Temporal changes in precipitation altered aboveground biomass in a typical steppe in Nei Mongol, China. Chinese Journal of Plant Ecology. 43(7). 557–565. 2 indexed citations
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Liang, Maowei, Jiquan Chen, Nicholas G. Smith, et al.. (2019). Changes and regulations of net ecosystem CO2 exchange across temporal scales in the Alxa Desert. Journal of Arid Environments. 164. 78–84. 3 indexed citations
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Liang, Maowei, et al.. (2016). Responses of phenology to climate change over the major grassland types. Acta Ecologica Sinica. 36(23). 10 indexed citations

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