Song, X. & Corlett, R.T. (2021). Do natural enemies mediate conspecific negative distance‐and density‐dependence of trees? A meta‐analysis of exclusion experiments. Oikos. (doi.org/10.1111/oik.08509)
Asefa, M.#, Song, X.#, Cao, M., Lasky, J.R., Yang, J. * (2021). Temporal trait plasticity predicts thegrowth of tropical trees. Journal of Vegetation Science, (doi.org/10.1111/jvs.13056)
Song, X., Cao, M.*, Li, J., Kitching, R.L., Nakamura, A., Laidlaw, M.J., Tang, Y., Sun, Z., Zhang, W., Yang, J. (2021). Different environmental factors drive tree species diversity along elevation gradients in three climatic zones in Yunnan, southern China. Plant Diversity, (doi.org/10.1016/j.pld.2021.04.006)
Song, X.#, Lim, J.Y., J.Y., Yang, J., Luskin, M.S.#* When do Janzen–Connell effects matter? A phylogenetic meta‐analysis of conspecific negative distance and density dependence experiments.Ecology letters, 24: 608–620.
Song, X., Yang, J.*, Cao, M.*, Lin, L., Sun, Z., Wen, H., Swenson, N.G. (2021) Traits mediate a tradeoff in seedling growth response to light and conspecific density in a diverse subtropical forest. Journal of Ecology, 109, 703-713.
Yang, J.#, Song, X.#, Zambrano, J., Chen, Y., Cao, M.*, Deng, X., Zhang, W., Yang, X., Zhang, G., Tang, Y., Swenson, N.G. (2021) Intra-specific variation in tree growth responses to neighborhood composition and seasonal drought in a tropical forest. Journal of Ecology, 109, 26–37.
Yang, J., Song, X., Cao, M., Deng, X., Zhang, W., Yang, X., & Swenson, N. G. (2021). On the modeling of tropical tree growth: the importance of intra-specific trait variation, non-linear functions and phenotypic integration. Annals of Botany, 127(4), 533–542.
Song, X.#, Zhang, W.F.#, Johnson, D.J., Yang, J.*, Asefa, M., Deng, X.B., Yang, X.F., Cao, M. (2020) Conspecific negative density dependence in rainy season enhanced seedling diversity across habitats in a tropical forest. Oecologia, 193, 949–957.
Zhang, Y. B., Wu, H. D., Yang, J., Song, X., Yang, D., He, F., & Zhang, J. L. (2020). Environmental filtering and spatial processes shape the beta diversity of liana communities in a valley savanna in southwest China. Applied Vegetation Science, 23:482–494
Deng, Y., Deng, X., Dong, J., Zhang, W., Hu, T., Nakamura, A., Song, X., Fu, P., & Cao, M. (2020) Detecting Growth Phase Shifts Based on Leaf Trait Variation of a Canopy Dipterocarp Tree Species (Parashorea chinensis). Forests, 11(11), 1145.
Song, X., Cao, M., Kitching R.L., Tang, Y., Sun, Z., Nakamura, A., Laidlaw, M.J., Yang, J.* (2019). Environmental and spatial contributions to seedling and adult tree assembly across tropical, subtropical, and subalpine elevational gradients. Journal of Plant Ecology, 12, 103-112.
Song, X., Hogan, J.A., Lin L.X., Wen, H.D., Cao, M.*, Yang, J.* (2018). Canopy openness and topographic habitat drive tree seedling recruitment after snow damage in an old-growth subtropical forest. Forest Ecology and Management, 429, 493-502.
Song, X., Johnson, D.J. Cao, M., Uma？a, M.N., Deng, X., Yang, X., Zhang, W., Yang, J.* (2018). The strength of density-dependent mortality is contingent on climate and seedling size. Journal of Vegetation Science, 29, 662-670.
Song, X., Hogan, J.A., Brown, C., Cao, M.*, Yang, J.* (2017). Snow damage to the canopy facilitates alien weed invasion in a subtropical montane primary forest in southwestern China. Forest Ecology and Management, 391, 275-282.
Luo, X., Cao, M., Zhang, M., Song, X., Li, J., Nakamura, A., Kitching, R. (2017). Soil seed banks along elevational gradients in tropical, subtropical and subalpine forests in Yunnan Province, southwest China. Plant Diversity, 39, 273-286.
Song, X., Li, J., Zhang, W., Sun, Z., Tang, Y., Cao, M.* (2016). Variant responses of tree seedling to seasonal drought stress along an elevational transect in tropical montane forests.Scientific Reports,6, 36438.
Song, X., Nakamura, A., Sun, Z., Tang, Y., Cao, M.* (2016). Elevational distribution of adult trees and seedlings in a tropical montane transect, southwest China. Mountain Research and Development, 36, 342-354.
Li, J., Song, X., Cao, M. (2016). Response of tree seedlings to altitudinal gradient and its seasonal variation in Ailao Mountain and Yulong Mountain, Yunnan Province, China.. Chinese Journal of Applied Ecology. 27, 3403-3412.
Zhang, M.*, Song, X. (2015) Responses of soil seed banks in tropical forests to an elevational. Chinese Journal of Ecology, 34,, 2390
