Yongzhi Yan

885 total citations
25 papers, 627 citations indexed

About

Yongzhi Yan is a scholar working on Ecology, Nature and Landscape Conservation and Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law. According to data from OpenAlex, Yongzhi Yan has authored 25 papers receiving a total of 627 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 14 papers in Ecology, 13 papers in Nature and Landscape Conservation and 9 papers in Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law. Recurrent topics in Yongzhi Yan's work include Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies (13 papers), Rangeland Management and Livestock Ecology (8 papers) and Wildlife Ecology and Conservation (6 papers). Yongzhi Yan is often cited by papers focused on Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies (13 papers), Rangeland Management and Livestock Ecology (8 papers) and Wildlife Ecology and Conservation (6 papers). Yongzhi Yan collaborates with scholars based in China, Denmark and New Zealand. Yongzhi Yan's co-authors include Qing Zhang, Qingfu Liu, Scott Jarvie, Peng Han, Jianming Niu, Jens‐Christian Svenning, Jianming Niu, Xuefeng Zhang, Alexander Buyantuev and Qing Zhang and has published in prestigious journals such as The Science of The Total Environment, Journal of Cleaner Production and Journal of Ecology.

In The Last Decade

Yongzhi Yan

25 papers receiving 620 citations

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Yongzhi Yan China 14 258 222 174 129 108 25 627
Santiago Baeza Uruguay 12 294 1.1× 324 1.5× 239 1.4× 87 0.7× 128 1.2× 28 685
Yudan Xu China 17 332 1.3× 193 0.9× 237 1.4× 265 2.1× 180 1.7× 35 787
Xiaotao Huang China 15 178 0.7× 236 1.1× 90 0.5× 122 0.9× 196 1.8× 42 584
Gabrielle Ferreira Pires Brazil 14 218 0.8× 501 2.3× 101 0.6× 139 1.1× 81 0.8× 29 828
Veronika Fontana Italy 13 186 0.7× 389 1.8× 204 1.2× 61 0.5× 110 1.0× 18 687
Owen Mountford United Kingdom 8 317 1.2× 240 1.1× 206 1.2× 122 0.9× 45 0.4× 26 633
Ala Musa China 15 143 0.6× 165 0.7× 158 0.9× 170 1.3× 108 1.0× 24 578
Hossein Bashari Iran 14 263 1.0× 237 1.1× 134 0.8× 138 1.1× 114 1.1× 54 683
Anthony M. Swemmer South Africa 14 223 0.9× 344 1.5× 315 1.8× 54 0.4× 89 0.8× 35 676
Zhengguo Sun China 11 325 1.3× 409 1.8× 124 0.7× 138 1.1× 230 2.1× 30 764

Countries citing papers authored by Yongzhi Yan

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Fields of papers citing papers by Yongzhi Yan

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Yongzhi Yan

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Yongzhi Yan. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Yongzhi Yan 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 Yongzhi Yan. Yongzhi Yan 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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Yan, Yongzhi, et al.. (2025). Cross‐scale effects of habitat fragmentation on local biodiversity and ecosystem multifunctionality in a fragmented grassland landscape. Journal of Ecology. 113(6). 1573–1584. 2 indexed citations
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Yuan, Yuan, et al.. (2025). Wind farms reduce grassland plant community diversity and lead to plant community convergence. BMC Ecology and Evolution. 25(1). 10–10. 1 indexed citations
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Yan, Yongzhi, et al.. (2024). Comprehensive degradation index for monitoring desert grassland using UAV multispectral imagery. Ecological Indicators. 165. 112194–112194. 5 indexed citations
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Gong, Xiaoqian, et al.. (2024). Compared with soil fungal diversity and microbial network complexity, soil bacterial diversity drives soil multifunctionality during the restoration process. Journal of Environmental Management. 354. 120379–120379. 26 indexed citations
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Yan, Yongzhi, et al.. (2024). Habitat fragmentation reduced plant functional diversity in the agro-pastoral ecotone of Inner Mongolia. Ecological Indicators. 169. 112975–112975. 5 indexed citations
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Yan, Yongzhi, Scott Jarvie, & Qing Zhang. (2023). Habitat loss weakens the positive relationship between grassland plant richness and above-ground biomass. eLife. 12. 1 indexed citations
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Yan, Yongzhi, Scott Jarvie, Qing Zhang, et al.. (2023). Habitat heterogeneity determines species richness on small habitat islands in a fragmented landscape. Journal of Biogeography. 50(5). 976–986. 20 indexed citations
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Li, Fengshi, Scott Jarvie, Yonghui Wang, et al.. (2023). Mowing mitigates the adverse effects of fertilization on plant diversity and changes soil bacterial and fungal community structure in the Inner Mongolia grassland. Agriculture Ecosystems & Environment. 346. 108358–108358. 8 indexed citations
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Han, Peng, et al.. (2022). A new approach for the classification of grassland utilization in Inner Mongolia -- based on ecological sites and state-and-transition models. Ecological Indicators. 137. 108733–108733. 6 indexed citations
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Gong, Xiaoqian, Scott Jarvie, Qing Zhang, et al.. (2022). Community assembly of plant, soil bacteria, and fungi vary during the restoration of an ecosystem threatened by desertification. Journal of Soils and Sediments. 23(1). 459–472. 9 indexed citations
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Jarvie, Scott, et al.. (2022). Landscape context determines soil fungal diversity in a fragmented habitat. CATENA. 213. 106163–106163. 50 indexed citations
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Yan, Yongzhi, Scott Jarvie, Qingfu Liu, & Qing Zhang. (2022). Effects of fragmentation on grassland plant diversity depend on the habitat specialization of species. Biological Conservation. 275. 109773–109773. 62 indexed citations
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Zhang, Shuangshuang, Qing Zhang, Yongzhi Yan, Peng Han, & Qingfu Liu. (2021). Island biogeography theory predicts plant species richness of remnant grassland patches in the agro-pastoral ecotone of northern China. Basic and Applied Ecology. 54. 14–22. 18 indexed citations
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Yan, Yongzhi, et al.. (2021). Taxonomic, functional, and phylogenetic beta diversity in the Inner Mongolia grassland. Global Ecology and Conservation. 28. e01634–e01634. 30 indexed citations
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Yan, Yongzhi, Qing Zhang, Alexander Buyantuev, Qingfu Liu, & Jianming Niu. (2020). Plant functional β diversity is an important mediator of effects of aridity on soil multifunctionality. The Science of The Total Environment. 726. 138529–138529. 64 indexed citations
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Liu, Qingfu, Qing Zhang, Yongzhi Yan, et al.. (2020). Ecological restoration is the dominant driver of the recent reversal of desertification in the Mu Us Desert (China). Journal of Cleaner Production. 268. 122241–122241. 124 indexed citations
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Zhang, Qing, et al.. (2020). Different Household Livelihood Strategies and Influencing Factors in the Inner Mongolian Grassland. Sustainability. 12(3). 839–839. 19 indexed citations
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Yan, Yongzhi, Qingfu Liu, Qing Zhang, Yong Ding, & Yuanheng Li. (2019). Adaptation of Dominant Species to Drought in the Inner Mongolia Grassland – Species Level and Functional Type Level Analysis. Frontiers in Plant Science. 10. 231–231. 24 indexed citations
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Zhao, Yanyun, Yongzhi Yan, Qingfu Liu, & Frank Yonghong Li. (2018). How Willing Are Herders to Participate in Carbon Sequestration and Mitigation? An Inner Mongolian Grassland Case. Sustainability. 10(8). 2808–2808. 6 indexed citations

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