Yongfei Bai

20.0k total citations · 8 hit papers
228 papers, 12.9k citations indexed

About

Yongfei Bai is a scholar working on Soil Science, Nature and Landscape Conservation and Ecology. According to data from OpenAlex, Yongfei Bai has authored 228 papers receiving a total of 12.9k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 90 papers in Soil Science, 85 papers in Nature and Landscape Conservation and 80 papers in Ecology. Recurrent topics in Yongfei Bai's work include Soil Carbon and Nitrogen Dynamics (86 papers), Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies (85 papers) and Rangeland Management and Livestock Ecology (43 papers). Yongfei Bai is often cited by papers focused on Soil Carbon and Nitrogen Dynamics (86 papers), Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies (85 papers) and Rangeland Management and Livestock Ecology (43 papers). Yongfei Bai collaborates with scholars based in China, United States and Germany. Yongfei Bai's co-authors include Xingguo Han, Jianguo Wu, Dima Chen, M. Francesca Cotrufo, Qingmin Pan, Zhichun Lan, Shuijin Hu, Jianhui Huang, Linghao Li and Zuozhong Chen and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Science and Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

In The Last Decade

Yongfei Bai

214 papers receiving 12.7k citations

Hit Papers

5 papers align trajectories

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.

Ecosystem stability and compensatory effects in the Inner Mongolia grassland

2004 1.0k citations Yongfei Bai, Xingguo Han et al. profile →
Tradeoffs and thresholds in the effects of nitrogen addition on biodiversity and ecosystem functioning: evidence from inner Mongolia Grasslands

2009 760 citations Yongfei Bai, Jianguo Wu et al. profile →
Grassland soil carbon sequestration: Current understanding, challenges, and solutions

2022 726 citations Yongfei Bai et al. profile →
PRIMARY PRODUCTION AND RAIN USE EFFICIENCY ACROSS A PRECIPITATION GRADIENT ON THE MONGOLIA PLATEAU

2008 634 citations Yongfei Bai, Jianguo Wu et al. Ecology profile →
Divergent accumulation of microbial necromass and plant lignin components in grassland soils

2018 354 citations Dima Chen, Yongfei Bai et al. profile →
Patterns of plant carbon, nitrogen, and phosphorus concentration in relation to productivity in China’s terrestrial ecosystems

2018 297 citations Yongfei Bai, Dima Chen et al. profile →
The Future of Complementarity: Disentangling Causes from Consequences

2018 296 citations Yongfei Bai et al. profile →
The global carbon sink potential of terrestrial vegetation can be increased substantially by optimal land management

2022 180 citations Yongfei Bai, Yichun Xie et al. Communications Earth & Environment profile →

Peers

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Citations

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Yongfei Bai

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20 of 20 papers shown

#	Work	Indexed citations
1	Contrasting Trends in Plant Diversity and Soil Carbon Mineralization Under Precipitation‐Driven Vegetation and Soil Carbon Dynamics in the Mongolian Plateau 2025 ·Ecology and Evolution ·(unknown), Fei Wang, Jing Shi, (unknown), (unknown), J. Yu, Dima Chen, Yongfei Bai	0
2	Biodiversity of soil biota and plants stabilises ecosystem multifunctionality with increasing number of global change factors 2025 ·Journal of Ecology ·(unknown), (unknown), (unknown), Xuan Zhou, (unknown), Ying Wu, Liji Wu, Yongfei Bai, Dima Chen	0
3	Plants and soil biota co‐regulate stability of ecosystem multifunctionality under multiple environmental changes 2025 ·Ecology ·Huiling Zhang, (unknown), Ying Wu, Liji Wu, Linyan Yue, Yongfei Bai, Dima Chen	7
4	Assessing relative contributions of climate and socio-environmental factors to ecosystem health through space–time interpretable machine learning 2025 ·Ecological Indicators ·(unknown), (unknown), Yichun Xie, Yongfei Bai, Chenghu Zhou, Yuchen Li	0
5	Arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi increase tolerance of fruit trees to abiotic and biotic stresses: A meta analysis 2025 ·Applied Soil Ecology ·Yuanyuan Xu, Li‐Zhi Dang, Yongfei Bai, Yajun Wang	0
6	Environmental preferences of soil microbial attributes for long-term nitrogen and acid addition: From phylotype to community 2024 ·Soil Biology and Biochemistry ·Liji Wu, Ying Wu, (unknown), Bing Wang, Yongfei Bai, Dima Chen	6
7	Complementarity effects among plant–pollinator interactions can enhance community seed production in semi-arid natural grasslands 2024 ·Journal of Arid Environments ·(unknown), (unknown), Kei Uchida, Xiaoming Lu, (unknown), Yongfei Bai, Takehiro Sasaki	0
8	Current national nature reserves are insufficient to safeguard the long-term survival of birds and mammals in China 2024 ·Communications Earth & Environment ·(unknown), Yujin Zhao, Wenhe Chen, Yongfei Bai	10
9	Independent biodiversity mechanisms regulate ecosystem multifunctionality and its temporal stability under resource enrichment in a mown grassland 2024 ·Journal of Vegetation Science ·Fengwei Xu, Jianjun Li, Liji Wu, Jishuai Su, Biao Zhu, (unknown), Dima Chen, Yongfei Bai	4
10	Microtopography-Guided precision restoration of sandy lands through UAV: A case study in Hunshandake Sandy Land, China 2024 ·CATENA ·(unknown), (unknown), (unknown), Yaobin Wang, Yang Wang, Yongfei Bai, Yujin Zhao	3
11	Inferring scalable productivity-related grassland functional diversity in combination with in-situ leaf spectra and Sentinel-2 data 2024 ·Fundamental Research ·Yujin Zhao, Zhisheng Wu, (unknown), Zhaoju Zheng, Xiaoming Lu, (unknown), Yang Wang, Yongfei Bai	1
12	Plant litter regulates the effect of nitrogen and water enrichment on ecosystem carbon sequestration in a semi-arid grassland 2024 ·Agriculture Ecosystems & Environment ·(unknown), (unknown), Jishuai Su, Xiaoming Lu, Yongfei Bai	5
13	Soil biota associated with soil N cycling under multiple anthropogenic stressors in grasslands 2023 ·Applied Soil Ecology ·(unknown), (unknown), Bing Wang, Ying Wu, Liji Wu, Yongfei Bai, Dima Chen	3
14	Stronger effects of long-term P enrichment on soil biota than plants in grasslands 2023 ·Soil and Tillage Research ·Liji Wu, (unknown), (unknown), Bing Wang, Ying Wu, Yongfei Bai, Dima Chen	6
15	Phosphorus availability and planting patterns regulate soil microbial effects on plant performance in a semiarid steppe 2023 ·Annals of Botany ·Yawen Li, Xiaoming Lu, Jishuai Su, Yongfei Bai	0
16	Asymmetric responses of leaf litter decomposition to precipitation changes in global terrestrial ecosystem 2023 ·Journal of Cleaner Production ·Jishuai Su, Yujin Zhao, Yongfei Bai	24
17	Multiple global changes drive grassland productivity and stability: A meta‐analysis 2022 ·Journal of Ecology ·Jishuai Su, Yujin Zhao, Fengwei Xu, Yongfei Bai	45
18	Biodiversity–productivity relationships in a natural grassland community vary under diversity loss scenarios 2021 ·Journal of Ecology ·Qingmin Pan, Amy J. Symstad, Yongfei Bai, Jianhui Huang, Jianguo Wu, Shahid Naeem, Dima Chen, Dashuan Tian, Qibing Wang, Xingguo Han	20
19	Direct and indirect effects of nitrogen enrichment on soil organisms and carbon and nitrogen mineralization in a semi‐arid grassland 2018 ·Functional Ecology ·Dima Chen, Xing Wen, Zhichun Lan, Muhammad Saleem, (unknown), Shuijin Hu, Yongfei Bai	144
20	Effects of plant functional group loss on soil biota and net ecosystem exchange: a plant removal experiment in the Mongolian grassland 2016 ·Journal of Ecology ·Dima Chen, Qingmin Pan, Yongfei Bai, Shuijin Hu, Jianhui Huang, Qibing Wang, Shahid Naeem, James J. Elser, Jianguo Wu, Xingguo Han	62

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