Head of the Group: Dr. SONG Liang   

E-mail: songliang@xtbg.ac.cn  

Website: https://www.xtbg.cas.cn/2022/rcdw/yjy/202210/t20221020_6535946.html 

MAJOR FIELD OF RESEARCH  

Situated within the Greater Mekong Subregion, the Restoration Ecology Group (REG) of XTBG employs multiple approaches including theoretical research, field investigation and manipulated experiments in three main research directions. These directions include: 

(1) understanding the coexistence mechanism of complex plant communities in tropical and subtropical regions, (2) assessing responses of structural organisms to global changes, and (3) developing cutting-edge technologies to accelerate restoration of degraded ecosystems for achieving biodiversity conservation and recovery of ecosystem functions. 

Our research group aims to:  

(1) provide the scientific basis for the establishment of an ecological security barrier in Southwest China, and (2) contribute technological and innovative eco-friendly support in maintaining good practices for sustainable development of Southwest China and neighboring regions. 

MEMBERS： 

Staff： 

1.Prof. SONG Liang   Ph.D. 

2. Prof. LIU Wenyao   Ph.D.  

3. Prof. SHEN Youxin Ph.D 

4. Assoc. Prof. LI Su  Ph.D. 

5. MO Yuxuan  Postdoctoral Fellow, Ph.D. 

6. SHI Xianmeng, Postdoctoral Fellow, Ph.D. 

7. Sujan Balami, Postdoctoral Fellow, Ph.D. 

8. Manzoor, Postdoctoral Fellow, Ph.D. 

Students  

Since 2017, a total of 35 students have been enrolled in REG ,incuding 7 Ph.D. candidates (3 have graduated) and 28 master students (10 have graduated). 

PROJECTS:   

Since 2019, the RERG has been granted a total of 36 research projects from the National Natural Science Foundation of China, Ministry of Sciences and Technology of China, and other organizations. Including 8 projects of the National Natural Science Foundation of China, 2 sub-projects of the National Key R&D Project, and 1 special task of the Strategic Leading Science and Technology Project (Class A) of the Chinese Academy of Sciences. The total funding for research project is 16.78 million Yuan (RMB), and 3.36 million Yuan (RMB) per capita in the group. These research projects are as follows:  

(1) 2022-2025: "Multi-Dimensional Analysis of the coexistence mechanism of epiphytes in Yunnan typical forest based on canopy tower crane", supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Chaired by SONG Liang, ￥590,000) 

(2) 2022-2025: "Nitrogen contribution and nitrogen transfer pattern of cyanobacterial lichens in epiphyte communities of subtropical forests: Based on stable isotope technology of nitrogen", supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Chaired by LI Su, ￥590,000) 

(3) 2021-2024: "Spatiotemporal dynamics and interaction mechanism of nutrients between tropical strangling fig, host and substrate", supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Chaired by LIU Wenyao, ￥655,000) 

(4) 2019-2022: "Interaction of epiphyte species and its physiological and biochemical basis: Based on Ailao Mountains moist evergreen broad-leaved forest", supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Chaired by LU Huazheng, ￥720,000) 

(5) 2018-2021: "Ecological stoichiometry of epiphytes and its response to environment change in montane moist evergreen broad-leaved forest", supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Chaired by LIU Wenyao, ￥700,000) 

(6) 2018-2021: "The eco-physiological mechanism of light in determining the spatial distribution of epiphytes in snow-damaged evergreen broad-leaved forests", supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Chaired by LI Su, ￥737,000) 

(7) 2017-2020: "Water relations of epiphytes and their responses to drought stress in the montane moist evergreen broad-leaved forest in Ailao Mountains", supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Chaired by SONG Liang, ￥741,000) 

(8) 2017-2020: "Water receiving and runoff of rock outcrops and their eco-hydrology effects at karst ecosystems", supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Chaired by SHEN Youxin, ￥670,000) 

(9) 2016-2020: "Process and driving mechanism of soil and water erosion on karst fault basin", supported by the National Key R&D Program of China (Project collaborator SHEN Youxin, ￥920,000) 

(10) 2016-2020: "Close-to-nature forest reconstruction on desertification karst fault basin", supported by the National Key R&D Program of China (Project collaborator SHEN Youxin, ￥880,000) 

(11) 2020-2025: "Research and development of species reseeding, nutrient replenishment, soil quality improvement and soil layer protection technology in Zhaotong grassland", supported by the Strategic Leading Science and Technology Project (Class A) of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (Chaired by SHEN Youxin, ￥3,000,000) 

(12) 2022-2023: "Scientific disposal methods and technologies of rubber plantations in Hainan Tropical Rainforest National Park", supported by Hainan Provincial Forestry Department (Chaired by Xiao-Bo Yang and SONG Liang, ￥2,600,000) 

(13) 2022-2026: "Ecological restoration of tropical rainforest in Menglun middle school", commissioned by Shanghai Zishan Cultural Development Co., LTD. (Chaired by SONG Liang, ￥300,000) 

(14) 2021-2025: "Diversity patterns and its maintenance mechanisms of epiphytes in typical forest ecosystems in Yunnan", supported by Yunnan Province Youth Top Talent Special Program (Chaired by SONG Liang, ￥500,000) 

(15) 2021-2025: "Response and adaptation mechanism of subtropical forest epiphytic lichens to environmental changes", supported by Yunnan Province Youth Top Talent Special Program (Chaired by LI Su, ￥500,000) 

(16) 2021-2025: "The effect of plant clonality on the expected outcome of stress gradient hypothesis: based on epiphyte communities along a latitude gradient", supported by Yunnan Province Youth Top Talent Special Program (Chaired by LU Huazheng, ￥500,000) 

(17)  2021-2023: "Change of plant diversity and ecosystem services along a successional gradient in Hailuogou glacier retreat area", commissioned by Gongga Mountain National Nature Reserve (Chaired by SONG Liang, ￥227,000) 

(18) 2021-2024: "Patterns and mechanisms of epiphyte community diversity: A case study of mid-montane moist evergreen broad-leave forest in Ailao Mountains", supported by Yunnan Applied Basic Research Foundation (Chaired by SONG Liang, ￥100,000) 

(19) 2021-2024: “Water dynamics characteristics and utilization strategies of lichen, an important biological group in a subtropical forest”, supported by Yunnan Applied Basic Research Foundation (Chaired by LI Su, ￥100,000) 

(20) 2019-2021: "Response of epiphytes to warming in a subtropical forest based on open warming system in situ", supported by West Light Foundation of Chinese Academy of Sciences (Chaired by LI Su, ￥500,000)  

(21) 2019-2021: "Ecological restoration of special habitat and quality improvement of low - efficiency plantations", supported by Core Botanical Garden of Chinese Academy of Sciences (Chaired by SONG Liang, ￥200,000)  

(22) 2019-2022: "Interaction of epiphytes and its material basis: A case study from the subtropical evergreen broadleaved forest in Ailao Mountains", supported by Yunnan Applied Basic Research Foundation (Chaired by LU Huazheng, ￥100,000)  

(23) 2019-2023: “Candidates of the Young and Middle-Aged Academic Leaders of Yunnan Province”, supported by Science and Technology Department of Yunnan Province (Chaired by Liang Song, ￥60,000)  

(24) 2018-2020: "Using canopy cranes to study spatial patterns and the maintenance mechanisms of epiphyte diversity in typical forests in Yunnan", supported by West Light Foundation of Chinese Academy of Sciences (Chaired by SONG Liang, ￥500,000)  

(25) 2018-2021: "Study on symbiosis mechanism and biological nitrogen fixation between epiphytes and cyanobacteria", supported by the Biodiversity Conservation Strategy Program, Chinese Academy of Sciences (Chaired by LIU Wenyao, ￥500,000)  

(26) 2017-2020: "Biodiversity conservation in the China-Laos transboundary region", supported by the “135 Program” of Chinese Academy of Sciences (Chaired by SONG Liang, ￥2,400,000)  

(27) 2017-2020: "Ecological stoichiometric characteristics of dominant trees and epiphytes in typical forests and their responses to environmental changes along an altitudinal gradient", supported by the “135 Program” of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (Chaired by LIU Wenyao, ￥200,000)  

(28) 2017-2020: "Diversity patterns and the formation mechanisms of epiphytes along a subtropical-tropical latitudinal gradient in Indo-China Peninsula", supported by the “135 Program” of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (Chaired by LI Su, ￥200,000)  

(29) 2017-2020: "Biological nitrogen fixation of epiphytes in montane moist evergreen broad-leaved forest and its response to environment change", supported by the “135 Program” of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (Chaired by LIU Wenyao, ￥100,000)  

(30) 2017-2020: "Effects of light and water on forest species reassembly from soil propagule banks", supported by the “135 Program” of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (Chaired by SHEN Youxin, ￥100,000) 

(31) 2017-2020: "Epiphyte diversity and its response to climate change in typical forests in Yunnan ", supported by the “135 Program” of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (Chaired by SONG Liang, ￥100,000)  

(32) 2017-2020: Research Foundation for members of Youth Innovation Promotion Association of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (Chaired by LI Su, ￥800,000) 

(33) 2016-2019: "Diversity and spatial distribution patterns of epiphytes in the dipterocarp forest in Xishuangbanna: based on the first canopy crane in a tropical forest in China", supported by Yunnan Applied Basic Research Foundation (Chaired by SONG Liang, ￥100,000) 

(34) 2016-2019: "The impacts of forest edge effects on the species distribution, growth and eco-physiological traits of epiphytic lichens in subtropical forests in Yunnan Province", supported by Yunnan Applied Basic Research Foundation (Chaired by LI Su, ￥100,000) 

(35) 2018-2020: "Biodiversity Monitoring and Network Construction in Lancang-Mekong river basin", supported by the Special Fund for Lancang-Mekong Cooperation, Ministry of Science and Technology (Chaired by Rui-Chang Quan, ￥2,700,000) 

(36) 2017-2020: "Response of species composition and distribution of native lichen to habitat change in Helan mountain, Ningxia", supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Chaired by Dong-Ling Niu, ￥400,000)  

PUBLICATIONS AND PATENT (Authors in boldface show the members of our group, *corresponding author):  

The research group has published a total of 71 papers in renowned international and Chinese ecological journals, including New Phytologist, Journal of Ecology, Methods in Ecology and Evolution, Environmental Pollution, and Agricultural and Forest Meteorology. Among these publications, the group members, as the first author or corresponding author, have published 41 SCI papers. Additionally, the group has applied 4 patents. 

 Representive SCI papers： 

(1) Yu-Xuan Mo, Richard T. Corlett, Gang Wang, Liang Song, Hua-Zheng Lu, Yi Wu, Guang-You Hao, Ren-Yi Ma, Shi-Zheng Men, Yuan Li, Wen-Yao Liu*. 2022. Hemiepiphytic figs kill their host trees: acquiring phosphorus is a driving factor. New Phytologist, 236(2): 714-728. 

(2) Hua-Zheng Lu, Rob Brooker, Liang Song, Wen-Yao Liu*, Lawren Sack, Jiao-Lin Zhang, Fei-Hai Yu*. 2020. When facilitation meets clonal integration in forest canopies. New Phytologist, 225: 135-142. 

(3) Xian-Meng Shi^#, Shuai Liu^#, Liang Song*, Chuan-Sheng Wu, Bin Yang, Hua-Zheng Lu, Xun Wang, Sissou Zakari. 2022. Contamination and source-specific risk analysis of soil heavy metals in a typical coal industrial city, central China. Science of The Total Environment, 836:155694. 

(4) Xian-Meng Shi^#, Jin-Hua Qi^#, An-Xin Liu, Sissou Zakari, Liang Song*. 2023. Leaf phenotypic plasticity coupled with integration facilitates the adaptation of plants to enhanced N deposition. Environmental Pollution, 327: 121570. 

(5) Bin Yang, Gbadamassi G. O. Dossa, Yue-Hua Hu, Lu-Lu Liu, Xian-Jing Meng, Yi-Yuan Du, Jia-Yuan Li, Xi-Ai Zhu, Yong-Jiang Zhang, Ashutosh K. Singh, Xia Yuan, Jun-En Wu, Sissou Zakari, Wen-Jie Liu*, Liang Song*. 2023. Uncorrected soil water isotopes through cryogenic vacuum distillation may lead to a false estimation on plant water sources. Methods in Ecology and Evolution, 14(6): 1443-1456. 

(6) Ting Shen*, Richard T. Corlett, Flavien Collart, Thibault Kasprzyk, Xin-Lei Guo, Jairo Patio, Yang Su, Olivier J. Hardy, Wen-Zhang Ma, Jian Wang, Yu-Mei Wei, Léa Mouton, Yuan Li, Liang Song*, Alain Vanderpoorten. 2022. Microclimatic variation in tropical canopies: a glimpse into the processes of community assembly in epiphytic bryophyte communities. Journal of Ecology, 110: 3023-3028 

(7) Liang Song^#, Bin Yang^#*, Lu-Lu Liu, Yu-Xuan Mo, Wen-Jie Liu, Xian-Jing Meng, Hua-Zheng Lu, Yuan Li, Sissou Zakari, Zheng-Hong Tan, Ze-Xin Fan, Yong-Jiang Zhang. 2022. Spatial-temporal differentiations in water use of coexisting trees from a subtropical evergreen broadleaved forest in Southwest China. Agricultural and Forest Meteorology, 316:108862. 

(8) Zheng-Hong Tan*, Jun-Fu Zhao, Guan-Ze Wang, Meng-Ping Chen, Lian-Yan Yang, Chun-Sheng He, Natalia Restrepo-Coupe, Shu-Shi Peng, Xue-Yan Liu, Humberto R.da Rocha, Yoshiko Kosugi, Takashi Hirano, Scott R.Saleska, Michael L.Goulden, Ji-Ye Zeng, Fang-Jun Ding, Fu Gao, Liang Song*. 2019. Surface conductance for evapotranspiration of tropical forests: Calculations, variations, and controls. Agricultural and Forest Meteorology, 275: 317-328. 

(9) Bin Yang, Xian-Jing Meng, Xi-Ai Zhu, Sissou Zakari, Ashutosh K.Singh, Farkhanda Bibi, Nan Mei, Liang Song*, Wen-Jie Liu*. 2021. Coffee performs better than amomum as a candidate in the rubber agroforestry system: Insights from water relations. Agricultural Water Management, 244:106593. 

(10) Yuan Li^#, Yu-Xuan Mo^#, Hong-Li Cui, Yong-Jiang Zhang, Gbadamassi G O Dossa, Zheng-Hong Tan, Liang Song*. 2024. Intraspecific plasticity and co-variation of leaf traits facilitate Ficus tinctoria to acclimate hemiepiphytic and terrestrial habitats. Tree Physiology, 44(2): tpae007. 

(11) You-Xin Shen*, Qing-He Wang, Zhi-Meng Zhao, Chuang Yuan. 2022. Fine-scale effect of karst rock outcrops on adjacent soil and plant communities in Southwest China. Catena, 219: 106592. 

(12) You-Xin Shen*, Yang Yu, Manuel Esteban Lucas-Borja, Fa-Jun Chen, Qiao-Qiao Chen, Ying-Yin Tang. 2020. Change of soil K, N and P following forest restoration in rock outcrop rich karst area. Catena, 186: 104395. 

(13) Zhi-Meng Zhao, You-Xin Shen*, Qing-He Wang, Ruo-Han Jiang. 2020. The temporal stability of soil moisture spatial pattern and its influencing factors in rocky environments. Catena, 187: 104418. 

(14) You-Xin Shen*, Dian-Jie Wang, Qiao-Qiao Chen, Ying-Yin Tang, Fa-Jun Chen. 2019. Large heterogeneity of water and nutrient supply derived from runoff of nearby rock outcrops in karst ecosystems in SW China. Catena, 172: 125-131. 

(15) Yi Wu, Wen-Yao Liu*, Hua-Zheng Lu, Su Li, You-Xin Shen, Wei-Guo Liu, Liang Song*. 2020. Stoichiometric and isotopic flexibility: facultative epiphytes exploit rock and bark interchangeably. Environmental and Experimental Botany, 179: 104208. 

(16) Gao-Juan Zhao, Fa-Jun Chen, Chuang Yuan, Jing-Ya Yang, You-Xin Shen*, Shi-Yu Zhang, Jian-Bo Yang, Aurele Gnetegha Ayemele, Xiong Li, Jian-Chu Xu*. 2022. Response strategies of woody seedlings to shading and watering over time after topsoil translocation in dry-hot karst region of China. Forest Ecology and Management, 519:120319. 

(17) Hai-Xia Hu, Yu-Xuan Mo, Ting Shen, Yi Wu, Xian-Meng Shi, Yan-Yu Ai, Hua-Zheng Lu, Sissou Zakari, Su Li*, Liang Song*. 2022. Simulated high-intensity phorophyte removal mitigates the robustness of epiphyte community and destroys commensal network structure. Forest Ecology and Management, 526:120586. 

(18) Gao-Juan Zhao, You-Xin Shen*, Wen-Yao Liu*, Bei-Lin Tan, Zhen-Jiang Li, Qing-He Wang. 2020. Quantifying the effect of shading and watering on seed germination in translocated forest topsoil at a subtropical karst of China. Forest Ecology and Management, 459: 117811. 

(19) Quan Chen, Hua-Zheng Lu, Wen-Yao Liu*, Yi-Wu, Liang Song, Su Li. 2019. Obligate to facultative shift of two epiphytic Lepisorus species during subtropical forest degradation: Insights from functional traits. Forest Ecology and Management, 435: 66-76. 

(20) Hai-Xia Hu^#, Ting Shen^#, Dong-Li Quan^#, Akihiro Nakamura, Liang Song*. 2021. Structuring interaction networks between epiphytic bryophytes and their hosts in Yunnan, SW China. Frontiers in Forests and Global Change, 4: 716278. 

(21) Ting Shen, Liang Song*, Flavien Collart, Antoine Guisan, Yang Su, Hai-Xia Hu, Yi Wu, Jin-Long Dong, Alain Vanderpoorten*. 2022. What makes a good phorophyte? Predicting occupancy, species richness and abundance of vascular epiphytes in a lowland seasonal tropical forest. Frontiers in Forests and Global Change, 5: 1007473. 

(22) Xiao-Yang Fan, Guo-Di Yuan, Wen-Yao Liu*. 2022. Response strategies of N-fixation by epiphytic bryophytes to water change in a subtropical montane cloud forest. Ecological Indicators, 135:108527. 

(23) Qiang Liu^#, Xun-Feng Wu^#, Hai-Tao Xing, Kuan-Bo Chi, Wen-Hua Wang, Liang Song*, Xiao-Ke Xing*^. 2023. Orchid diversity and distribution pattern in karst forests in eastern Yunnan Province, China. Forest Ecosystems:100117. 

(24) Yan-Yu Ai^#, Qiang Liu^#, Hai-Xia Hu, Ting Shen, Yu-Xuan Mo, Xun-Feng Wu, Jin-Long Li, Gbadamassi G. O. Dossa, Liang Song*. 2023. Terrestrial and epiphytic orchids exhibit different diversity and distribution patterns along an elevation gradient of Mt. Victoria, Myanmar. Global Ecology and Conservation, 42: e02408. 

(25) Wei-Guo Liu, Jia-Qi Zhang, Yan Yan, Philip Beckschfer, Christoph Kleinn, Gbadamassi G.O. Dossa, Jian-Jun Huai, De-Li Zhai, Liang Song*. 2023. Encouraging the reconversion of rubber plantations by developing a combined payment system. Global Ecology and Conservation, 43: e02415. 

(26) Tao Hu, Wen-Yao Liu*, Han-Dong Wen, Liang Song, Ting-Ting Zhang, Quan Chen, Shuai Liu. 2023. Vascular epiphyte populations with higher leaf nutrient concentrations showed weaker resilience to an extreme drought in a montane cloud forest. Plant Biology, 25:215-225. 

(27) Ting-ting Zhang, Wen-Yao Liu*, Tao Hu, Dan-Dan Tang, Yu-Xuan Mo, Yi Wu. 2021. Divergent adaptation strategies of vascular facultative epiphytes to bark and soil habitats: Insights from stoichiometry. Forests, 12(1):16 

(28) Tian-Hao Su, Chun-Yan Zhou, Wei Sun, Tao Hu, Zhong-Fa Li, Xiao-Yan Pu, Zhi-Yun Lu, Su Li*. 2023. Greater differentiation in nitrogen sources is essential for co-occurring epiphytes under low-nitrogen canopy conditions. Environmental and Experimental Botany, 125: 105509. 

(29) Juan Liu, You-Xin Shen*, Xi-Ai Zhu, Gao-Juan Zhao, Zhi-Meng Zhao, Zhen-Jiang Li. 2019. Spatial distribution patterns of rock fragments and their underlying mechanism of migration on steep hillslopes in a karst region of Yunnan Province, China. Environmental Science and Pollution Research, 26: 24840–24849. 

(30) Gao-Juan Zhao, You-Xin Shen*, Wen-Yao Liu*, Zhen-Jiang Li, Bei-Lin Tan, Zhi-Meng Zhao, Juan Liu. 2020. Effects of shading and herb/liana eradication on the assembly and growth of woody species during soil translocation in Southwest China. Ecological Engineering, 144: 105704. 

(31) Su Li*, Wen-Yao Liu*, Xian-Meng Shi, Shuai Liu, Tao Hu, Liang Song, Hua-Zheng Lu, Xi Chen, Chuan-Sheng Wu. 2019. Non-dominant trees significantly enhance species richness of epiphytic lichens in subtropical forests of southwest China. Fungal Ecology, 37: 10-18. 

(32) Lu-Lu Liu^#, Bin Yang^#, Hua-Zheng Lu, Yi Wu, Xian-Jing Meng, Yong-Jiang Zhang, Liang Song*. 2021. Dry-season fog water utilization by epiphytes in a subtropical montane cloud forest of Southwest China. Water, 13: 3237. 

(33) Shuai Liu, Su Li*, Xiao-Yang Fan, Guo-Di Yuan, Tao Hu, Xian-Meng Shi, Jun-Biao Huang, Xiao-Yan Pu, Chuan-Sheng Wu. 2019. Comparison of two noninvasive methods for measuring the pigment content in foliose macrolichens. Photosynthesis Research, 141: 245-257. 

(34) Xiao-Yang Fan, Wen-Yao Liu*, Liang Song, Shuai Liu, Xian-Meng Shi, Guo-Di Yuan. 2020. A combination of morphological and photosynthetic functional traits maintains the vertical distribution of bryophytes in a subtropical cloud forest. American Journal of Botany, 107: 761-772. 

(35) Jun-Biao Huang, Wen-Yao Liu*, Su Li, Liang Song, Hua-Zheng Lu, Xian-Meng Shi, Xi Chen, Tao Hu, Shuai Liu, Tao Liu. 2019. Ecological stoichiometry of the epiphyte community in a subtropical forest canopy. Ecology and Evolution, 9(24):14394-14406. 

(36) Fa-Jun Chen, Gao-Juan Zhao, You-Xin Shen*, Zhen-Jiang Li, Bei-Lin Tan, Hong Zhu, Qing-He Wan，Xun Fu. 2022. Shading gradients drive differential responses of leaf traits in an early community germinated by forest topsoil. Diversity, 14: 600. 

(37) Qian Dai, Yu-Xuan Mo, Quan Chen, Liang Song^*, Li-Min Zhang, Gbadamassi G. O. Dossa, Hua-Zheng Lu*. 2023. Clonal fragmentation drives performance deterioration of epiphytic and lithophytic ferns in a karst forest. Flora, 302: 152258. 

(38) Li-Min Zhang^#, Hua-Zheng Lu^#, Peter Alpert, Liang Song, Wen-Yao Liu, Fei-Hai Yu*. 2019. Higher benefits of clonal integration in rhizome-derived than in frond-derived ramets of the tropical fern Bolbitis heteroclite. Flora, 257: 151415. 

(39) Zhi-Meng Zhao, You-Xin Shen*, Ruo-Han Jiang, Qing-He Wang. 2020. Rock outcrops change infiltrability and water flow behavior in a karst soil. Vadose Zone Journal, 19: e20002. 

(40) Xiao-Yan Pu, Su Li*, Tao Hu, Yi Wu, Zhi-Yun Lu, Jian-Bo Yang. 2021. Fast restore of the structure and composition of hemiepiphytes after a heavy-snowfall event in a subtropical forest. Acta Oecologica, 113: 103770. 

(41) Quan Chen, Jing-Qi Sun, Liang Song, Wen-Yao Liu*, Fei-Hai Yu, Su Li, He-De Gong, Hua-Zheng Lu*. 2019. Trait acclimation of the clonal fern Selliguea griffithiana to forest epiphytic and terrestrial habitats. Ecological Research, 34: 406-414. 

SCI papers（Co-author）： 

(42) Mian-Hai Zheng, Zheng-Hu Zhou, Ping Zhao, Yi-Qi Luo, Qing Ye, Ke-Rong Zhang, Liang Song, Jiang-Ming Mo*. 2020. Effects of human disturbance activities and environmental change factors on terrestrial nitrogen fixation. Global Change Biology, 00:1-15. 

(43) M.E. Lucas-Borja, J. Hedo de Santiago, Y. Yang, Y., You-Xin Shen, D. Candel-Pérez. 2019. Nutrient, metal contents and microbiological properties of litter and soil along a tree age gradient in Mediterranean forest ecosystems, Science of the Total Environment, 650: 749–758. 

(44) Bin Yang, Xian-Jing Meng, Ashutosh Kumar Singh, Ping-yuan Wang, Liang Song, Sissou Zakari, Wen-Jie Liu*. 2020. Intercrops improve surface water availability in rubber-based agroforestry systems. Agriculture, Ecosystems, and Environment, 298:106937. 

(45) Bin Yang, Wan-Jun Zhang, Xian-Jing Meng, Ashutosh Kumar Singh, Sissou Zakari, Liang Song, Wen-Jie Liu*. 2020. Effects of a funnel-shaped canopy on rainfall redistribution and plant water acquisition in a banana (Musa spp.) plantation. Soil & Tillage Research, 203:104686. 

(46) Hua Zhu, Shisun Zhou, Lichun Yan, Jipu Shi, You-Xin Shen. 2019. Studies on the Evergreen Broad-leaved Forests of Yunnan, Southwestern China. Botanical Review, 85: 131-148. 

(47) Yi-Lin Cao, Ren Li*, Shi-Shun Zhou, Liang Song, Rui-Chang Quan, Hua-Bin Hu*. 2020. Ethnobotanical study on wild edible plants used by three trans-boundary ethnic groups in Jiangcheng County, Pu’er, Southwest China. Journal of Ethnobiology and Ethnomedicine, 16: 66. 

(48) Lian-Yan Yang, Rui Yu, Jin Wu, Yong-Jiang Zhang, Yoshiko Kosugi, Natalia Restrepo-Coupe, Afredo Huete, Jie Zhang, Yu-Hai Liu, Chun-Sheng He, Wei Mao, Xiang Zhang, Wen-Jie Liu, Jun-Fu Zhao, Ji-Ye Zeng, Qing-Hai Song, Ya-Jun Chen, Liang Song, Zheng-Hong Tan*. 2023. Asian tropical forests assimilating carbon under dry conditions: water stress or light benefits? Journal of Plant Ecology, 16: rtac106. 

 Patents：  

(1) Liang Song，Qian Dai，Yan-Chang L，Xian-Meng Shi，Yu-Xuan Mo，Huang Zou，Hao Yuan，Hai-Xia Hu. 2023. A fusion cutting propagation technique of Ficus and its application in ecological restoration of tropical forests.  Application number: 202310721730X 

(2) You-Xin Shen, Xue Xia, Hong Zhu, Xiao-Ying Xu, Xun Fu. 2022. A soil washing device for soil seed bank sample treatment. Authorized patent number: ZL202221058220.6 

(3) Liang Song, Huang Zou, Hua-Zheng Lu, Yu-Xuan Mo. 2022. A tropical forest restoration method based on the "strangulation" phenomenon. Application number: 202210518585.0 

(4) Gao-Juan Zhao, You-Xin Shen, Zhen-Jiang Li, Zhi-Meng Zhao, Juan Liu. 2020. An ecological restoration method for rocky desertification based on natural plant community construction. Authorized patent number: ZL201811328717.3