Pu Yan

Towards an element-based functional ecology: come learn more about elemental diversity 👇👇👇!

Check out our new paper published @RSocPublishing. We found N enrichment weakens each phase of the process of post-dispersal seeds, seed dispersal and recruitment limitation explain the alpine meadow species diversity loss due to nitrogen enrichment royalsocietypublishing.org/rspb/article/2…

Excited to share our new paper published @JEcology . We found warming advanced leaf senescence in alpine meadow plants on the Tibetan Plateau through advancing leaf emergence and increasing soil drought. besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/13…

🍃In a 5-year grassland experiment with >2,000 leaf trait measurements, authors show that fast-growing species destabilize productivity and that trait differences drive species asynchrony in ways that change with species richness 👉️ buff.ly/TTcrmjw

Global Change Biology | Environmental Change Journal | Wiley Online Library onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/gc… Huge congratulations to Dr. Zixin Chen for this exciting work on terrestrial phosphorus cycling. Many thanks to all of the coauthors for their strong supports.

Excited to share our new paper now out @NatureComms: nature.com/articles/s4146… #potassium #cereal #yield #soil #carbon

Finally! Here is our perspective on why cooperation maximizes diversity and how it promotes additional coexistence mechanisms that do not occur under competition.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/abs/10.108… This is a hard topic with strong opinions....Thanks to @ASNAmNat for publishing it!

Thermophilisation of plant communities in response to #CC is 5× faster on alpine summits than in forests or grasslands across 🇪🇺 This corroborates former findings on the greater likelihood for upslope than poleward range shifts of plants 🌳🌲☘️🌾🪻🌼 shorturl.at/gc0TJ

I am hiring two Postdoctoral Research Associates, supported by NASA and USDA, respectively. Position 1 (ecosystem functioning/biodiversity): usnh.wd5.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/Careers/… Position 2 (DGVM modeling): usnh.wd5.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/Careers/… Application review will start on March 20.

Excited to share that I will be joining @HKUSBS as an Assistant Professor in July 2026! I am launching the Soil Ecology and Environmental Dynamics (SEED) Lab (guopeng-liang.github.io/seed-lab/), focusing on #soil carbon cycling. Looking forward to new collaborations! 🌱

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Check out our new paper published @ESAEcology. This study provides evidence and a mechanism for showing that spatial pattern formation drives resilience in real-world ecosystems - in the alpine marshes on the Tibetan Plateau. esajournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/ec…

I am honored to be involved in this work, which is a beautiful piece of research from the lab on biodiversity and ecosystem function in the context of global change!

📖Published! Different drivers shape multiple dimensions of forest ecosystem stability Protecting old-growth forests and enhancing alpha and beta diversity are crucial for maintaining forest functions and buffering climate and human disturbances🌳🌍 🔎 buff.ly/Qj98aBM

New article in the @BioFunLab @IRNAS_CSIC @SoilBiolBiochem We showed that shoot litter outweighs root inputs in building soil organic carbon during Spartina alterniflora invasion sciencedirect.com/science/articl… Led by Yamin Chen/@KaiyanZhai, Peter M. Homyak and more

Our new paper is out in @Nature Pesticide residues alter taxonomic and functional biodiversity in soils Largest in field assessmnt of the effects of pesticides on soil life🧬🇪🇺🦠🍄 nature.com/articles/s4158…

🌳Check our new review paper about “what the worldwide forest biodiversity experiments tell us” in the last three decades!

Interested in working on the theory of and concepts behind multiple factor impacts on ecological systems and beyond? Please send expressions of interest. Starting Jan 2026, I would be interested in awarding up to three postdoctoral fellowships on this topic (12 months; 2,5K €)

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New species discoveries redefine global biodiversity patterns DOI: doi.org/10.32942/X21H1G