J Plant Ecol Editorial Board

Editorial Board

Editors-in-Chief

	Wen-Hao Zhang Professor, Institute of Botany, CAS, China whzhang@ibcas.ac.cn	Bernhard Schmid Professor, University of Zürich, Switzerland bernhard.schmid@ieu.uzh.ch

Editors

	Lonnie Aarssen Professor, Queen's University, Canada Research interests: competition; competitive exclusion; plant size; physical space niche; random assembly; reproductive economy	Edith Bai Professor, Northeast Normal University, China Research interests: soil; biogeochemistry; forest ecology

	Jingyun Fang Professor, Peking University, China Research interests: climate change; vegetation ecology; plant biodiversity	Xiaojuan Feng Professor, Institute of Botany, CAS, China Research interests: soil biogeochemistry; global changes

	Jin-Sheng He Professor, Peking University, China Research interests: global change and grassland ecosystems; biodiversity and ecosystem function; plant functional traits	Shuijin Hu Professor, North Carolina State University, USA Research interests: carbon & nitrogen cycling and global change; microbial community & ecosystem functions

	Dafeng Hui Professor, Tennessee State University, USA Research interests: plant ecophysiology; global change ecology; ecosystem ecology; agro-ecology; biogeochemical cycling; ecological modeling; eco-informatics	Lin Jiang Professor, The Georgia Institute of Technology, USA Research interests: community ecology

	Lingli Liu Professor, Institute of Botany, CAS, China Research interests: carbon and nitrogen cycling under global changes	Keping Ma Professor, Institute of Botany, CAS, China Research interests: plant ecology; biodiversity; vegetation ecology

	Christa Mulder Professor, University of Alaska Fairbanks, USA Research interests: plant-animal interactions; seabird islands; arctic biology	Michael O’Brien Independent Researcher, University Rey Juan Carlos, Spain Research interests: plant-climate interactions; tropical forests; ecophysiology; global change biology; community ecology

	Bruce Osborne Professor, University College Dublin, Ireland Research interests: plant and environmentally-related research; global climate change and mitigation options in croplands; biology and ecology of invasive plant species	Christiane Roscher Senior Scientist, German Center of Integrative Biodiversity Research (iDiv), Germany Research interests: plant functional and community ecology; mechanisms that determine the diversity of ecological communities and the consequences of biodiversity for ecosystem functioning in the context of multiple drivers of global change

	Christian Schöb Assistant Professor, ETH Zürich, Switzerland Research interests: plant community; biodiversity; competition; ecosystem functioning; community assembly processes; species coexistence; agroecology; plant-plant interactions in crop systems	Andreas Schuldt Professor, Georg-August-University Göttingen, Germany Research interests: biodiversity research; plant-insect interactions

	Shucun Sun Professor, Nanjing University, China Research interests: functional trait; food web; trophic interaction; ecosystem functioning	Cameron Wagg Research Scientist, Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada Research interests: soil ecology; mycorrhiza; plant soil interactions; agroecology

	Shaopeng Wang Professor, Peking University, China Research interests: theoretical ecology; biodiversity and ecosystem functioning; stability; food webs; metacommunities; scaling; species coexistence	Kai Xue Associate Professor, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, China Research interests: soil microbial ecology; soil biochemistry processes

	Yuanhe Yang Professor, Institute of Botany, CAS, China Research interests: soils and global change biology; terrestrial carbon-nitrogen-phosphorus interactions	Qing Ye Professor, South China Botanical Garden, CAS, China Research interests: response and adaptation of forest plants to global climate change; plant functional traits and forest community assemblage

	Dayong Zhang Professor, Beijing Normal University, China Research interests: plant reproductive ecology; population genetics; theoretical ecology

Editorial Board Members

	Peter Alpert Professor, University of Massachusetts Amherst, USA Research interests: plant community ecology; desiccation tolerance; clonal plants; introduced, invasive species	Helge Bruelheide Professor, Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg, Germany Research interests: vegetation ecology, biodiversity, biogeography

	Leiyi Chen Professor, Institute of Botany, CAS, China Research interests: effects of global change on soil carbon dynamics; soil carbon storage and the carbon-climate feedback; the stabilization mechanisms of soil organic carbon; roles of microbial communities in stabilizing and destabilizing the soil carbon	Xiaoyong Chen Professor, East China Normal University, China Research interests: plant-animal interactions; conservation of threatened plants; consequences of habitat fragmentation; co-evolution; molecular ecology

	Xiaoli Cheng Professor, Yunnan University, China Research interests: ecosystem ecology; isotope ecology; spatial pattern analysis	Chengjin Chu Professor, Sun Yat-sen University, China Research interests: biodiversity maintenance and conservation in the context of "anthropocene"; individual-based model; translational ecology

	Jianming Deng Professor, Lanzhou University, China Research interests: theoretical ecology, biodiversity and ecosystem stability, restoration ecology	Ye Deng Professor, Research Center for Eco-Environmental Sciences, CAS, China Research interests: microbial ecology; molecular biotechnology; bioinformatics and biostatistics

	Jianqing Ding Professor, Henan University, China Research interests: invasive species; plant-insect interactions; above-belowground interactions	Zhaozhong Feng Professor, Nanjing University of Information Science & Technology, China Research interests: response and adaptation of plants (crops and trees) to air pollution and climate change; plant ecophysiology, including gas exchange, water use, BVOCs and biomass allocation

	Markus Fischer Professor of Plant Ecology, University of Bern, Switzerland Research interests: population biology , biodiversity research , conservation biology, science-policy work	Shenglei Fu Professor, Henan University, China Research interests: interactions between above- and belowground processes during ecosystem restoration; responses of soil biodiversity to environmental changes; soil biota as indicators of ecosystem health; mechanisms of invasive soil fauna

	Frank S. Gilliam Professor, University of West Florida, USA Research interests: herbaceous layer dynamics; plant-soil nutrient interactions; factors that influence plant communities of longleaf pine savannas, especially fire	Hui Guo Professor, Nanjing Agricultural University, China Research interests: plant functional traits; plant-soil feedback; biological invasions

	Wenxuan Han Professor, China Agricultural University, China Research interests: plant functional traits and the ecological stoichiometry of essential nutrient elements at various scales	Nianpeng He Professor, Institute of Geographical Sciences and Natural Resources Research, CAS, China Research interests: plant functional traits; ecological stoichiometry; linking between plant trait with productivity from organ to ecosystem; carbon storage and sequestration in terrestrial ecoysystems

	Marcel van der Heijden Professor, Swiss Federal Research Institute Agroscope & University of Zürich, Switzerland Research interests: mycorrhizal ecology; ecosystem sustainability; soil biodiversity, plant-soil feedback	Zhongmin Hu Professor, South China Normal University, China Research interests: global change ecology; ecosystem ecology; ecological modeling; remote sensing

	Zhiqun Huang Professor, Fujian Normal University, China Research interests: features governing nitrogen and carbon fluxes in forest ecosystems, and how these dynamics are influenced by environmental changes, plant diversity and tree species; global scale perturbations (e.g., elevated carbon dioxide, altered nitrogen availability)	Chunyang Li Professor, Hangzhou Normal University, China Research interests: to elucidate the acclimation and adaptation mechanisms to stressful environments in woody species

	Dejun Li Professor, Institute of Subtropical Agriculture, CAS, China Research interests: soil fertility; biogeochemistry; nutrient cycling	Mai-He Li Professor, Swiss Federal Research Institute WSL, Switzerland Research interests: plant ecophysiology

	Shaopeng Li Professor, East China Normal University, China Research interests: phylogenetic community ecology; biodiversity; invasion; succession; functional traits	Eryuan Liang Professor, Institute of Tibetan Plateau Research, CAS, China Research interests: dendroecology with a focus on ecological processes of alpine treeline/shrublines from cambial cell division, long-term tree growth dynamics to ecosystem

	Xiaojuan Liu Associate Professor, Institute of Botany, Chinese Academy of Science, China Research interests: tree demographic rates; biodiversity and ecosystem functioning; functional traits distribution at large scale	Gianalberto Losapio Postdoctoral Researcher, Stanford University, USA Research interests: biodiversity drivers-and-effects; plant interactions and ecological networks; human impact on the environment

	Xiaotao Lü Professor, Institute of Applied Ecology, CAS, China Research interests: ecosystem ecology; interactions between plants and ecosystem processes, and how these are affected by environmental changes and human activities	Jorge A. Meave Professor, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Mexico Research interests: vegetation ecology; forest succession; plant diversity

	Alicia Montesinos Navarro Postdoctoral Researcher, Centro de Investigaciones sobre Desertificación (CIDE-CSIC), Spain Research interests: ecological and evolutionary implications of biotic interactions on plant communities; how plant-mycorrhizal fungi interactions affect plant facilitation and shape the phylogenetic structure of plant communities; the influence of multiple biotic interactions on the phylogenetic structure of plant communities	Ming Nie Professor, Fudan University, China Research interests: plant-soil linkages under the global environmental change and terrestrial carbon-climate feedbacks across spatial and temporal scales

	Jana Petermann Associate Professor, University of Salzburg, Austria Research interests: species coexistence; multitrophic interactions (for example between plants and insects); ecosystem functions at various trophic levels; terrestrial ecosystems such as grasslands and forests but also small freshwater systems such as phytotelmata, ponds and lakes	Shilong Piao Cheung Kong Professor, Peking University, China Research interests: terrestrial carbon cycle; interactions between vegetation and climate; remote sensing of vegetation; land surface model

	Weijun Shen Professor, South China Botanical Garden, CAS, China Research interests: ecosystem ecology; soil ecology	Melinda D. Smith Professor, Colorado State University, USA Research interests: diversity-productivity; grassland; invasion; genomics; plant ecology

	Yanjun Su Professor, Institute of Botany, Chinese Academy of Science, China Research interests: lidar; canopy structure quantification; remote sensing of vegetation; ecosystem modeling	Yan Sun Professor, Huazhong Agricultural University, China Research interests: global change ecology; biology invasion

	Yanhong Tang Professor, Peking University, China Research interests: plant eco-physiology including photosynthetic response, acclimation and adaptation to natural environments, in particular, to the spatial and temporal variations of light environments in grasslands on the Qinghai-Tibetan Plateau and tropical forests in Malaysia	Zhiyao Tang Associate Professor, Peking University, China Research interests: the regional and local processes control the forest community assembly; effects of species interaction on ecosystem functioning at different scales; patterns and controls of stoichiometry of terrestrial plants in relation to primary productivity

	Qiuying Tian Professor, Institute of Botany, Chinese Academy of Science, China Research interests: how environmental change impacts on plant communities; soil ecology; soil biogeochemistry and plant-soil interactions	Faming Wang Associate Professor, South China Botanical Garden, CAS, China Research interests: how human perturbations of forests and wetlands affect ecosystem biogeochemistry cycling and the response of plants and soil microbes

	G. Geoff Wang Professor, Clemson University, USA Research interests: how disturbances, especially fire, weather extremes, biological invasion, and management activity, affect forests and the implication to forest resilience and productivity	Xiangping Wang Professor, Beijing Forestry University, China Research interests: forest ecology; biodiversity; carbon sink; climate change

	Xianzhong Wang Associate Professor, Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis, USA Research interests: elevated atmospheric carbon dioxide (CO2) on plant respiration; carbon sequestration at the individual and ecosystem levels; physiological adaptation of plants to their changing environments; meta-analysis	Zhiheng Wang Tenured Assistant Professor, Peking University, China Research interests: macroecology; climate change; phylogeography; species diversity; conservation biology

	Jianyang Xia Professor, East China Normal University, China Research interests: ecosystem ecology; earth system modeling; carbon-nitrogen interactions; data-model integration; warming responses of terrestrial biogeochemical process	Yichun Xie Professor, Eastern Michigan University, USA Research interests: GeoScience theory and method research, including spatiotemporal modeling of urban growth, grassland ecosystem, coupled impacts of human dynamics and environmental changes on resource management, and land-use and land-cover changes; development of urban dynamic evolution theory based on cellular automata

	Ming Xu Professor, Institute of Geographical Sciences and Natural Resources Research, CAS, China Research interests: climate change impacts and adaptation; ecosystem modeling; biodiversity conservation	Yangjian Zhang Professor, Institute of Geographical Sciences and Natural Resources Research, CAS, China Research interests: remote sensing; spatial pattern; ecological modeling; ecological process

	Quanguo Zhang Professor, Beijing Normal University, China Research interests: biodiversity maintenance mechanisms; eco-evolutionary dynamics	Yongguang Zhang Professor, Nanjing University, China Research interests: global change ecology; carbon cycle; biosphere-atmosphere interactions; remote sensing of chlorophyll fluorescence

	Yunhai Zhang Professor, Institute of Botany, Chinese Academy of Science, China Research interests: community assembly and ecosystem functioning and its stability in natural grasslands; biodiversity and ecosystem functioning responding to enriched-materials/resources in grasslands	Xuhui Zhou Professor, East China Normal University, China Research interests: ecosystem ecology; global change ecology

	Bin Zhu Associate Professor, University of Hartford, USA Research interests: allelopathy; biological invasion; plant interactions; invasive plant management; submerged macrophytes

2022-04-27 Visited: 4441

IF: 1.780
5-year IF: 2.674

Editors-in-Chief
Wen-Hao Zhang
Bernhard Schmid

CN 10-1172/Q
ISSN 1752-9921(print)
ISSN 1752-993X(online)

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