Multiple ecological mechanisms drive effects of fertilization and herbivore exclusion on species richness in an alpine grassland community - Wei Zhao; Shaohao Bang; Zhenzhen Pan; Ruibing Wang; Huan Chen; Xiaolong Zhou; Defei Liang; Honglin Li; Ning Chen; Shiting Zhang; Zhengwei Ren (Agriculture, Ecosystems & Environment, 2026)

Divergent effects of fertilization and grazing exclusion on species diversity in alpine grasslands - Zhengwei Ren; Wei Zhao; Zhenzhen Pan; Shaohao Bang; Ruibing Wang; Huan Chen; Defei Liang; Honglin Li; Dexiecuo Ai; Renyi Zhang; Ning Chen; Xiaolong Zhou (Ecological Engineering, 2026)

Plants, soil microbes and physical structure jointly regulate natural grassland ecosystem stability across slope scales on the Qinghai-Tibetan Plateau - Yunqiao Ma; Shuzhen Nan; Yu Chai; Wenyin Xu; Yicheng Ba; Qiang Li; Tao Ma; Defei Liang; Chunli Li; Xilai Li; Yang Yu; Gernot Bodner (CATENA, 2026)

Leaf litter decomposition in mixture depends on its own abundance and neighbor richness in an alpine meadow - Defei Liang; Gbadamassi G. O. Dossa; Zhen Ma; Chunhui Zhang (Plant and Soil, 2025)

Ecohydrological processes can predict biocrust cover at regional scale but not global scale - Ning Chen; Siqing Wang; Liping Yang; Defei Liang; Zhengwei Ren; Xudong Liu; Longwei Dong; Jingyao Sun; Emilio Rodriguez-Caballero; Bettina Weber; Caroline A. Havrilla; Emilio Guirado; et al. (Plant and Soil, 2025)

Coexistence Patterns of Biocrust-Vascular Plant in the Loess Plateau - Yali Ma; Li Ma; Liping Yang; Hongyu Jiang; Siqing Wang; Yuhan Qi; Qianhai Ye; Weiqi Yao; Yafeng Zhang; Defei Liang; Changming Zhao; Ning Chen (Ecosystems, 2025)

The role of nutrients, light, and litter in species loss in an alpine meadow community - Zhengwei Ren; Wei Zhao; Shaohao Bang; Xiaolong Zhou; Defei Liang; Wanwan Yao (Acta Oecologica, 2024)

Shifts in plant and soil C, N, and P concentrations and C:N:P stoichiometry associated with environmental factors in alpine marshy wetlands in West China - Guiling Wu; Jay Gao; Honglin Li; Fei Ren; Defei Liang; Xilai Li (CATENA, 2023)