Shengli Tao

4.5k total citations · 3 hit papers
59 papers, 2.9k citations indexed

About

Shengli Tao is a scholar working on Global and Planetary Change, Environmental Engineering and Nature and Landscape Conservation. According to data from OpenAlex, Shengli Tao has authored 59 papers receiving a total of 2.9k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 32 papers in Global and Planetary Change, 27 papers in Environmental Engineering and 22 papers in Nature and Landscape Conservation. Recurrent topics in Shengli Tao's work include Remote Sensing and LiDAR Applications (22 papers), Forest ecology and management (17 papers) and Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics (15 papers). Shengli Tao is often cited by papers focused on Remote Sensing and LiDAR Applications (22 papers), Forest ecology and management (17 papers) and Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics (15 papers). Shengli Tao collaborates with scholars based in China, United States and France. Shengli Tao's co-authors include Qinghua Guo, Yanjun Su, Baolin Xue, Jingyun Fang, Zhiheng Wang, Shuqing Zhao, Zhiyao Tang, Huifeng Hu, Jun Xu and Sébastien Brosse and has published in prestigious journals such as Science, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and Nature Communications.

In The Last Decade

Shengli Tao

56 papers receiving 2.9k 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.

Rapid loss of lakes on the Mongolian Plateau

2015 475 citations Shengli Tao, Jingyun Fang et al. profile →
Human impacts on global freshwater fish biodiversity

2021 352 citations Shengli Tao et al. profile →
Carbon storage through China’s planted forest expansion

2024 63 citations Haitao Yang, Shengli Tao et al. Nature Communications profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Shengli Tao China	27	1.3k	1.2k	1.1k	1.0k	508	59	2.9k
Matthew E. Baker United States	28	1.2k 1.0×	1.6k 1.4×	721 0.6×	897 0.9×	977 1.9×	78	3.4k
Marcos Longo United States	30	2.5k 1.9×	1.1k 0.9×	585 0.5×	987 1.0×	308 0.6×	75	3.3k
Jonathan A. Greenberg United States	26	1.3k 1.0×	1.6k 1.4×	627 0.6×	884 0.9×	161 0.3×	66	3.2k
Bangqian Chen China	28	1.6k 1.2×	1.9k 1.6×	1.0k 0.9×	322 0.3×	226 0.4×	76	3.1k
Mark Cutler United Kingdom	21	869 0.7×	1.4k 1.2×	995 0.9×	657 0.7×	273 0.5×	54	2.6k
Ted R. Feldpausch United Kingdom	29	2.2k 1.7×	1.1k 1.0×	700 0.6×	1.6k 1.6×	199 0.4×	77	3.9k
Mirela G. Tulbure United States	29	1.2k 1.0×	1.2k 1.1×	448 0.4×	333 0.3×	562 1.1×	58	2.2k
Eduardo Eiji Maeda Finland	30	1.7k 1.3×	874 0.7×	564 0.5×	323 0.3×	294 0.6×	110	2.6k
Miquel Ninyerola Spain	24	2.2k 1.7×	795 0.7×	886 0.8×	1.3k 1.3×	220 0.4×	53	3.8k
Shouzhang Peng China	22	2.1k 1.7×	1.1k 0.9×	473 0.4×	429 0.4×	610 1.2×	77	3.3k

Countries citing papers authored by Shengli Tao

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Fields of papers citing papers by Shengli Tao

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Shengli Tao

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

All Works

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20 of 20 papers shown

Ishtiaq, Muhammad, et al.. (2025). Two years monitoring and optimization of a large-scale constructed wetland in the Red Sea designed for 80,000 inhabitants. Journal of Cleaner Production. 501. 145307–145307.

Bi, Jian, Shengli Tao, Hao Wang, et al.. (2025). An annual 30 m cultivated-pasture dataset of the Tibetan Plateau from 1988 to 2021. Earth system science data. 17(6). 2933–2952.

Zhu, Jiangling, Chengjun Ji, Qinwei Ran, et al.. (2025). Possible refugia for Fagaceae species in China under climate change. Journal of Plant Ecology. 18(3). 3 indexed citations

Zhang, Yixuan, Haitao Yang, Yu Ren, et al.. (2025). China’s naturally regenerated forests currently have greater aboveground carbon accumulation rates than newly planted forests. Communications Earth & Environment. 6(1). 4 indexed citations

Wang, Guoqiang, Baolin Xue, Jürgen Knauer, et al.. (2025). No widespread decline in canopy conductance under elevated atmospheric CO2. Agricultural and Forest Meteorology. 371. 110649–110649. 1 indexed citations

Qi, Wenhua, Xiaomei Hu, Hao Bai, et al.. (2024). Decreased river runoff on the Mongolian Plateau since around 2000. Landscape Ecology. 39(4). 1 indexed citations

Yang, Haitao, Shengli Tao, Yanjun Su, et al.. (2024). Carbon storage through China’s planted forest expansion. Nature Communications. 15(1). 4106–4106. 63 indexed citations breakdown →

Li, Wenkai, Xiaomei Hu, Yanjun Su, et al.. (2024). A new method for voxel‐based modelling of three‐dimensional forest scenes with integration of terrestrial and airborne LiDAR data. Methods in Ecology and Evolution. 15(3). 569–582. 11 indexed citations

Yan, Tao, Wentao Luo, Shengli Tao, et al.. (2024). Aridity-dependent resistance but strong resilience of grassland ANPP to naturally occurring precipitation extremes. Journal of Plant Ecology. 17(6). 2 indexed citations

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Ren, Yu, Hongcan Guan, Haitao Yang, et al.. (2024). Discovering and measuring giant trees through the integration of multi‐platform lidar data. Methods in Ecology and Evolution. 15(10). 1889–1905. 2 indexed citations

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Fan, Lei, Frédéric Frappart, Jean‐Pierre Wigneron, et al.. (2024). Satellite-Observed Increase in Aboveground Carbon over Southwest China during 2013-2021. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 4. 10 indexed citations

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Li, Xiaojun, Jean‐Pierre Wigneron, Frédéric Frappart, et al.. (2022). The first global soil moisture and vegetation optical depth product retrieved from fused SMOS and SMAP L-band observations. Remote Sensing of Environment. 282. 113272–113272. 52 indexed citations

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Tao, Shengli, Jingyun Fang, Suhui Ma, et al.. (2019). Changes in China’s lakes: climate and human impacts. National Science Review. 7(1). 132–140. 163 indexed citations

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Wang, Zhiheng, Yaoqi Li, Xiangyan Su, et al.. (2019). Patterns and ecological determinants of woody plant height in eastern Eurasia and its relation to primary productivity. Journal of Plant Ecology. 12(5). 791–803. 19 indexed citations

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Ma, Qin, Yanjun Su, Shengli Tao, & Qinghua Guo. (2017). Quantifying individual tree growth and tree competition using bi-temporal airborne laser scanning data: a case study in the Sierra Nevada Mountains, California. International Journal of Digital Earth. 11(5). 485–503. 43 indexed citations

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Xue, Baolin, Qinghua Guo, Tianyu Hu, et al.. (2017). Global patterns of woody residence time and its influence on model simulation of aboveground biomass. Global Biogeochemical Cycles. 31(5). 821–835. 21 indexed citations

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Wang, Shaopeng, Michel Loreau, Jean‐François Arnoldi, et al.. (2017). An invariability-area relationship sheds new light on the spatial scaling of ecological stability. Nature Communications. 8(1). 15211–15211. 61 indexed citations

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Xue, Baolin, Qinghua Guo, Tianyu Hu, et al.. (2016). Evaluation of modeled global carbon dynamics: analysis based on global carbon flux and above-ground biomass data. 1 indexed citations

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Tao, Shengli, Qinghua Guo, Fangfang Wu, et al.. (2016). Spatial scale and pattern dependences of aboveground biomass estimation from satellite images: a case study of the Sierra National Forest, California. Landscape Ecology. 31(8). 1711–1723. 5 indexed citations

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Su, Yanjun, Qinghua Guo, Baolin Xue, et al.. (2015). Spatial distribution of forest aboveground biomass in China: Estimation through combination of spaceborne lidar, optical imagery, and forest inventory data. Remote Sensing of Environment. 173. 187–199. 208 indexed citations

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