1.Yu XC, Mo YX, Hu YH, Wu ZQ, Luo Q, Song L, Tan ZH, Lu H: Contrasting Patterns of Phyllosphere Fungal Diversity Between Angiosperms and Gymnosperms Along a Subalpine-Elevation Gradient. Integr Conserv 2025, 4(3):476-490.
2.Yu GC, Chen J, Li AD, Wang SH, Song L, Shi XM, Yan JH, Xu MC, Xue YW, Lu XK et al: Plant morphological and physiological traits are stable in a nitrogen-saturated tropical forest after 18-year nitrogen additions. Plant and Soil 2025, 514(2):1703-1716.
3.Song L, Balami S, Dossa GGO, Liu WG, Thaler P, Wanger TC, Edwards DP, Wang MMH, Yang YP, Harrison RD: Ecological Restoration of Rubber Monocultures: Strategies for Biodiversity and Ecosystem Recovery in Tropical Regions. Integr Conserv 2025, 4(3):345-353.
4.Shi XM, Liu AX, Mo YX, Balami S, Qi JH, Liu Y, Chen ZY, Song L: Coordinated yet allometric leaf-root biogeochemical niche dynamics underlies divergent growth predictability under N addition. Plant and Soil 2025.
5.Mo YX, Zou H, Hu HX, Li S, Lu HZ, Pu XY, Zhang YX, Balami S, Li Y, Hu T et al: Strangler fig-host tree associations: Insights into the ecology and management of tropical urban green spaces. Plants People Planet 2025, 7(1):159-175.
6.Manzoor, Dai Q, Mo YX, Balami S, Wang CJ, Shi XM, Zheng YJ, Song L: Habitat and density effects on tea quality: A microclimate and nutrients perspective. Agriculture Ecosystems & Environment 2025, 394.
7.Balami S, Mo YX, Hu HX, Shi XM, Song L: Soil Enzyme Stoichiometry Indicates the Alleviation of Microbial Carbon and Nutrient Limitations After Forest Restoration in Rubber Monocultures, Southwest China. Biotropica 2025, 57(5).
8.Hu HX, Mo YX, Balami S, Mendieta-Leiva G, Shen T, Haq SM, Song L: Combining critical transition indicator to compare the stable structure of epiphyte-host networks. Ecological Indicators 2024, 166.
9.Haq SM, Waheed M, Darwish M, Siddiqui MH, Goursi UH, Kumar M, Song L, Bussmann RW: Biodiversity and carbon stocks of the understory vegetation as indicators for forest health in the Zabarwan Mountain Range, Indian Western Himalaya. Ecological Indicators 2024, 159.
10.Haq SM, Calixto ES, Song L, Rashid I, Khuroo AA: Pervasive impacts of railway edge effects on edaphic parameters and vegetation distribution patterns. Environ Dev 2024, 52.
11.Du YY, Wen RH, Jia QY, Liu LL, Hu YH, Li JY, Pan J, Yuan X, Peng J, Zakari S et al: Ocean air masses from the East Asian monsoon dominate the land-surface atmospheric water cycles in the coastal areas of Liaodong Bay, Northeast China. Hydrological Processes 2024, 38(1).
12.Dossa GGO, Li HL, Pan B, Ling TC, Schaefer DA, Roeder M, Njoroge DM, Zuo J, Song L, Ofosu-Bamfo B et al: Effects of lianas on forest biogeochemistry during their lives and afterlives. Global Change Biology 2024, 30(4).
13.Yang LY, Yu R, Wu J, Zhang YJ, Kosugi Y, Restrepo-Coupe N, Huete A, Zhang J, Liu YH, Zhang X et al: Asian tropical forests assimilating carbon under dry conditions: water stress or light benefits? Journal of Plant Ecology 2023, 16(3).
14.Yang B, Dossa GGO, Hu YH, Liu LL, Meng XJ, Du YY, Li JY, Zhu XA, Zhang YJ, Singh AK et al: Uncorrected soil water isotopes through cryogenic vacuum distillation may lead to a false estimation on plant water sources. Methods in Ecology and Evolution 2023, 14(6):1443-1456.
15.Shi XM, Qi JH, Liu AX, Zakari S, Song L: Leaf phenotypic plasticity coupled with integration facilitates the adaptation of plants to enhanced N deposition. Environmental Pollution 2023, 327.
16.Liu WG, Zhang JQ, Yan Y, Beckschäfer P, Kleinn C, Dossa GGO, Huai JJ, Zhai DL, Song L: Encouraging the reconversion of rubber plantations by developing a combined payment system. Global Ecology and Conservation 2023, 43.
17.Liu Q, Wu XF, Xing HT, Chi KB, Wang WH, Song L, Xing XK: Orchid diversity and distribution pattern in karst forests in eastern Yunnan Province, China. For Ecosyst 2023, 10.
18.Dai Q, Mo YX, Chen Q, Song L, Zhang LM, Dossa GGO, Lu HZ: Clonal fragmentation drives performance deterioration of epiphytic and lithophytic ferns in a karst forest. Flora 2023, 302.
19.Ai YY, Liu Q, Hu HX, Shen T, Mo YX, Wu XF, Li JL, Dossa GGO, Song L: Terrestrial and epiphytic orchids exhibit different diversity and distribution patterns along an elevation gradient of Mt. Victoria, Myanmar. Global Ecology and Conservation 2023, 42.
20.Song L, Yang B, Liu LL, Mo YX, Liu WJ, Meng XJ, Lu HZ, Li Y, Zakari S, Tan ZH et al: Spatial-temporal differentiations in water use of coexisting trees from a subtropical evergreen broadleaved forest in Southwest China. Agricultural and Forest Meteorology 2022, 316.
21.Shi XM, Liu S, Song L, Wu CS, Yang B, Lu HZ, Wang X, Zakari S: Contamination and source-specific risk analysis of soil heavy metals in a typical coal industrial city, central China. Science of the Total Environment 2022, 836.
22.Shen T, Song L, Collart F, Guisan A, Su Y, Hu HX, Wu Y, Dong JL, Vanderpoorten A: What makes a good phorophyte? Predicting occupancy, species richness and abundance of vascular epiphytes in a lowland seasonal tropical forest. Front For Glob Change 2022, 5.
23.Shen T, Corlett RT, Collart F, Kasprzyk T, Guo XL, Patiño J, Su Y, Hardy OJ, Ma WZ, Wang J et al: Microclimatic variation in tropical canopies: A glimpse into the processes of community assembly in epiphytic bryophyte communities. Journal of Ecology 2022, 110(12):3023-3038.
24.Mo YX, Corlett RT, Wang G, Song L, Lu HZ, Wu Y, Hao GY, Ma RY, Men SZ, Li Y et al: Hemiepiphytic figs kill their host trees: acquiring phosphorus is a driving factor. New Phytologist 2022, 236(2):714-728.
25.Hu HX, Mo YX, Shen T, Wu Y, Shi XM, Ai YY, Lu HZ, Zakari S, Li S, Song L: Simulated high-intensity phorophyte removal mitigates the robustness of epiphyte community and destroys commensal network structure. Forest Ecology and Management 2022, 526.
26.Chaithaisong P, Alcantara MJM, Song L, Hu YH: Generalists and Specialists Determine the Trend and Rate of Soil Fungal Distance Decay of Similarity in a 20-ha Subtropical Forest. Forests 2022, 13(8).
27.Yang B, Meng XJ, Zhu XA, Zakari S, Singh AK, Bibi F, Mei N, Song L, Liu WJ: Coffee performs better than amomum as a candidate in the rubber agroforestry system: Insights from water relations. Agricultural Water Management 2021, 244.
28.Liu LL, Yang B, Lu HZ, Wu Y, Meng XJ, Zhang YJ, Song L: Dry-Season Fog Water Utilization by Epiphytes in a Subtropical Montane Cloud Forest of Southwest China. Water 2021, 13(22).
29.Hu HX, Shen T, Quan DL, Nakamura A, Song L: Structuring Interaction Networks Between Epiphytic Bryophytes and Their Hosts in Yunnan, SW China. Front For Glob Change 2021, 4.
30.Zheng MH, Zhou ZH, Zhao P, Luo YQ, Ye Q, Zhang KR, Song L, Mo JM: Effects of human disturbance activities and environmental change factors on terrestrial nitrogen fixation. Global Change Biology 2020, 26(11):6203-6217.
31.Yang B, Zhang WJ, Meng XJ, Singh AK, Zakari S, Song L, Liu WJ: Effects of a funnel-shaped canopy on rainfall redistribution and plant water acquisition in a banana (<i>Musa</i> spp.) plantation. Soil & Tillage Research 2020, 203.
32.Yang B, Meng XJ, Singh AK, Wang PY, Song L, Zakari S, Liu WJ: Intercrops improve surface water availability in rubber-based agroforestry systems. Agriculture Ecosystems & Environment 2020, 298.
33.Wu Y, Liu WY, Lu HZ, Li S, Shen YX, Liu WG, Song L: Stoichiometric and isotopic flexibility: facultative epiphytes exploit rock and bark interchangeably. Environmental and Experimental Botany 2020, 179.
34.Lu HZ, Brooker R, Song L, Liu WY, Sack L, Zhang JL, Yu FH: When facilitation meets clonal integration in forest canopies. New Phytologist 2020, 225(1):135-142.
35.Fan XY, Liu WY, Song L, Liu S, Shi XM, Yuan GD: A combination of morphological and photosynthetic functional traits maintains the vertical distribution of bryophytes in a subtropical cloud forest. American Journal of Botany 2020, 107(5):761-772.
36.Cao YL, Li R, Zhou SS, Song L, Quan RC, Hu HB: 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 2020, 16(1).
37.Zhang LM, Lu HZ, Alpert P, Song L, Liu WY, Yu FH: Higher benefits of clonal integration in rhizome-derived than in frond-derived ramets of the tropical fern <i>Bolbitis heteroclita</i>. Flora 2019, 257.
38.Tan ZH, Zhao JF, Wang GZ, Chen MP, Yang LY, He CS, Restrepo-Coupe N, Peng SS, Liu XY, da Rocha HR et al: Surface conductance for evapotranspiration of tropical forests: Calculations, variations, and controls. Agricultural and Forest Meteorology 2019, 275:317-328.
39.Li S, Liu WY, Shi XM, Liu S, Hu T, Song L, Lu HZ, Chen X, Wu CS: Non-dominant trees significantly enhance species richness of epiphytic lichens in subtropical forests of southwest China. Fungal Ecology 2019, 37:10-18.
40.Huang JB, Liu WY, Li S, Song L, Lu HZ, Shi XM, Chen X, Hu T, Liu S, Liu T: Ecological stoichiometry of the epiphyte community in a subtropical forest canopy. Ecology and Evolution 2019, 9(24):14394-14406.
41.Chen Q, Sun JQ, Song L, Liu WY, Yu FH, Li S, Gong HD, Lu HZ: Trait acclimation of the clonal fern <i>Selliguea griffithiana</i> to forest epiphytic and terrestrial habitats. Ecological Research 2019, 34(3):406-414.
42.Chen Q, Lu HZ, Liu WY, Wu Y, Song L, Li S: Obligate to facultative shift of two epiphytic <i>Lepisorus</i> species during subtropical forest degradation: Insights from functional traits. Forest Ecology and Management 2019, 435:66-76.
43.Chen MP, Wang GZ, Zhou SX, Zhao JF, Zhang X, He CS, Zhang YJ, Song L, Tan ZH: Studies on forest ecosystem physiology: marginal water-use efficiency of a tropical, seasonal, evergreen forest in Thailand. Journal of Forestry Research 2019, 30(6):2163-2173.
44.Wu Y, Song L, Liu WY, Liu WJ, Li S, Fu PL, Shen YX, Wu JE, Wang PY, Chen Q et al: Fog Water Is Important in Maintaining the Water Budgets of Vascular Epiphytes in an Asian Tropical Karst Forests during the Dry Season. Forests 2018, 9(5).
45.Shen T, Corlett RT, Song L, Ma WZ, Guo XL, Song Y, Wu Y: Vertical gradient in bryophyte diversity and species composition in tropical and subtropical forests in Yunnan, SW China. Journal of Vegetation Science 2018, 29(6):1075-1087.
46.Liu S, Liu WY, Shi XM, Li S, Hu T, Song L, Wu CS: Dry-hot stress significantly reduced the nitrogenase activity of epiphytic cyanolichen. Science of the Total Environment 2018, 619:630-637.
47.Tan ZH, Wu ZX, Hughes AC, Schaefer D, Zeng JY, Lan GY, Yang C, Tao ZL, Chen BQ, Tian YH et al: On the ratio of intercellular to ambient CO<sub>2</sub> (<i>c</i><sub>i</sub>/<i>c</i><sub>a</sub>) derived from ecosystem flux. International Journal of Biometeorology 2017, 61(12):2059-2071.
48.Shi XM, Song L, Liu WY, Lu HZ, Qi JH, Li S, Chen X, Wu JF, Liu S, Wu CS: Epiphytic bryophytes as bio-indicators of atmospheric nitrogen deposition in a subtropical montane cloud forest: Response patterns, mechanism, and critical load. Environmental Pollution 2017, 229:932-941.
49.Nakamura A, Kitching RL, Cao M, Creedy TJ, Fayle TM, Freiberg M, Hewitt CN, Itioka T, Koh LP, Ma K et al: Forests and Their Canopies: Achievements and Horizons in Canopy Science. Trends in Ecology & Evolution 2017, 32(6):438-451.
50.Li S, Liu S, Shi XM, Liu WY, Song L, Lu HZ, Chen X, Wu CS: Forest Type and Tree Characteristics Determine the Vertical Distribution of Epiphytic Lichen Biomass in Subtropical Forests. Forests 2017, 8(11).
51.Wu CS, Liang NS, Sha LQ, Xu XL, Zhang YP, Lu HZ, Song L, Song QH, Xie YN: Heterotrophic respiration does not acclimate to continuous warming in a subtropical forest. Scientific Reports 2016, 6.
52.Song L, Lu HZ, Xu XL, Li S, Shi XM, Chen X, Wu Y, Huang JB, Chen Q, Liu S et al: Organic nitrogen uptake is a significant contributor to nitrogen economy of subtropical epiphytic bryophytes. Scientific Reports 2016, 6.
53.Pan BZ, Luo Y, Song L, Chen MS, Li JL, Xu ZF: Thidiazuron increases fruit number in the biofuel plant <i>Jatropha curcas</i> by promoting pistil development. Industrial Crops and Products 2016, 81:202-210.
54.Lu HZ, Song L, Liu WY, Xu XL, Hu YH, Shi XM, Li S, Ma WZ, Chang YF, Fan ZX et al: Survival and Growth of Epiphytic Ferns Depend on Resource Sharing. Frontiers in Plant Science 2016, 7.
55.Chen X, Liu WY, Song L, Li S, Wu Y, Shi XM, Huang JB, Wu CS: Physiological Responses of Two Epiphytic Bryophytes to Nitrogen, Phosphorus and Sulfur Addition in a Subtropical Montane Cloud Forest. Plos One 2016, 11(8).
56.Chen X, Liu WY, Song L, Li S, Wu CS, Lu HZ: Adaptation of epiphytic bryophytes in the understorey attributing to the correlations and trade-offs between functional traits. Journal of Bryology 2016, 38(2):110-117.
57.Tan ZH, Zhang YP, Deng XB, Song QH, Liu WJ, Deng Y, Tang JW, Liao ZY, Zhao JF, Song L et al: Interannual and seasonal variability of water use efficiency in a tropical rainforest: Results from a 9 year eddy flux time series. Journal of Geophysical Research-Atmospheres 2015, 120(2):464-479.
58.Tan ZH, Deng XB, Hughes A, Tang Y, Cao M, Zhang WF, Yang XF, Sha LQ, Song L, Zhao JF: Partial net primary production of a mixed dipterocarp forest: Spatial patterns and temporal dynamics. Journal of Geophysical Research-Biogeosciences 2015, 120(3):570-583.
59.Song L, Zhang YJ, Chen X, Li S, Lu HZ, Wu CS, Tan ZH, Liu WY, Shi XM: Water relations and gas exchange of fan bryophytes and their adaptations to microhabitats in an Asian subtropical montane cloud forest. Journal of Plant Research 2015, 128(4):573-584.
60.Song L, Ma WZ, Yao YL, Liu WY, Li S, Chen K, Lu HZ, Cao M, Sun ZH, Tan ZH et al: Bole bryophyte diversity and distribution patterns along three altitudinal gradients in Yunnan, China. Journal of Vegetation Science 2015, 26(3):576-587.
61.Lu HZ, Liu WY, Yu FH, Song L, Xu XL, Wu CS, Zheng YL, Li YP, Gong HD, Chen K et al: Higher clonal integration in the facultative epiphytic fern <i>Selliguea griffithiana</i> growing in the forest canopy compared with the forest understorey. Annals of Botany 2015, 116(1):113-122.
62.Li S, Liu WY, Li DW, Song L, Shi XM, Lu HZ: Species richness and vertical stratification of epiphytic lichens in subtropical primary and secondary forests in southwest China. Fungal Ecology 2015, 17:30-40.
63.Li S, Liu WY, Li DW, Li ZX, Song L, Chen K, Fu Y: Slower rates of litter decomposition of dominant epiphytes in the canopy than on the forest floor in a subtropical montane forest, southwest China. Soil Biology & Biochemistry 2014, 70:211-220.
64.Tan ZH, Zhang YP, Liang NS, Song QH, Liu YH, You GY, Li LH, Yu L, Wu CS, Lu ZY et al: Soil respiration in an old-growth subtropical forest: Patterns, components, and controls. Journal of Geophysical Research-Atmospheres 2013, 118(7):2981-2990.
65.Song L, Liu WY, Nadkarni NM: Response of non-vascular epiphytes to simulated climate change in a montane moist evergreen broad-leaved forest in southwest China. Biological Conservation 2012, 152:127-135.
66.Song L, Liu WY, Ma WZ, Qi JH: Response of epiphytic bryophytes to simulated N deposition in a subtropical montane cloud forest in southwestern China. Oecologia 2012, 170(3):847-856.
67.Song LA, Liu WY, Ma WZ, Tan ZH: Bole epiphytic bryophytes on Lithocarpus xylocarpus (Kurz) Markgr. in the Ailao Mountains, SW China. Ecological Research 2011, 26(2):351-363.
68.Li S, Liu WY, Wang LS, Ma WZ, Song L: Biomass, diversity and composition of epiphytic macrolichens in primary and secondary forests in the subtropical Ailao Mountains, SW China. Forest Ecology and Management 2011, 261(11):1760-1770.
