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Name:
 YIN Xiangbo
Education:
 Ph.D
Positions:
  
Academic title:
 Associate Professor
Postal Code:
 666303
Subject categories:
 Ecology
Mailing Address:
 XTBG, Menglun, Mengla, 666303, Yunnan, China
E-mail:
 yinxiangbo@xtbg.ac.cn

Resume:
 

Education:

2018.06 –2 023.03，Université du Québec，Ph.D in Environmental Science

2015.09 –2 017/.5，East China Normal University，Master of Botany

2010.09 – 2014.07，China Agricultural University，Bachelor of Agriculture

Working Experience

2026.01 – ， Xishuangbanna Tropical Botanical Garden, Chinese Academy of Sciences，Associate Professor

2024.11 – 2025.2， Universiti Malaysia Sabah，Visiting Researcher

2024.02 – 2025.12，Philipps-Universität Marburg，Postdoctoral Researcher

2023.01 – 2024.04， Institut national de la recherche scientifique，Researcher

2022.07 – 2022.12，Canadian Forest Service (PI: C. Martineau)，Research Consultant

Research interest：

My research focuses on plant ecology (with an emphasis on bryophytes), microbial ecology, and biodiversity conservation. The main research areas include:

1) The mechanisms by which host functional traits and external environmental factors influence the assembly of phyllosphere microbial communities;

2) The ecological functions of bryophyte-associated microbiomes in tropical montane ecosystems;

3) The offsite ecological impacts of human activities (particularly mining) and their implications for biodiversity conservation.

Direction:
 

Achievements:
 

Article:
 

1. Yin, X., Liu, Y., Kong, F., Shu, L., Peng, C. and Ang, L.P., 2026. A Global Conservation Blind Spot: Neglect of Bryophytes Undermines Biodiversity Targets. Global Change Biology, 32(3):.e70789.

2. Yin, X., Ang, L.P., Zhu, R.L., Azarbad, H., Ni, H.H., Chai, M.L., Liu, C., Kong, F., Liu, L.J., Liu, S.L., Ma, Y. 2025. Host-specific and environmental core bacteria differentially shape the stability and function of the Sphagnum phyllosphere. ISME communications, 5: ycaf221.

3. Ang, L.P.#, Yin, X.#*. 2025. Offsite ecological impacts in the Anthropocene: definition, mechanisms, and challenges. Global Change Biology, 31: e70242.

4. Ang, L.P#., Kong, F., Hernández-Rodríguez, E., Liu, Q., Cerrejόn, C., Feldman, M.J., Shu, L., Ye, L.X., Gao, L., Ang, L.L., Yin, X.#*, 2024. Rocket launches threaten global biodiversity conservation. Communications Earth & Environment, 5: 799.

5. Yin, X.*, Ang, L.P., Chang, Z.Y., 2024. Rare earth element mining threatens Malaysia’s biodiversity. Science, 384: 1182.

6. Ang, L., Hernández-Rodríguez, E., Cyriaque, V., Yin, X.*, 2023. COVID-19's environmental impacts: Challenges and implications for the future. Science of the Total Environment, 899: 165581.

7. Yin, X.*, Martineau, C., Samad, A., Fenton, N.J., 2023. Out of site, out of mind: Changes in feather moss phyllosphere microbiota in mine offsite boreal landscapes. Frontiers in Microbiology, 14: 1148157.

8. Yin, X.*, Martineau, C. and Fenton, N.J., 2023. How big is the footprint? Quantifying offsite effects of mines on boreal plant communities. Global Ecology and Conservation, 41: e02372.

9. Yin, X.*, Martineau, C., Fenton, N.J., 2022. Synergistic effects in mine offsite landscapes: predicted ecosystem shifts could exacerbate mining effects on bryophyte community structure. Ecological Indicators, 144: 109555.

10. Yin, X.*, Lamara, M., Liyanage, N.S., Zhu, R.L. , Fenton, J.N., 2021. Riccardia vitrea (Aneuraceae), a liverwort species new to China and North America. Herzogia, 34: 279-285.

11. Yin, X.*, Martineaub, C., Demer, I., Basiliko, Nathan, Fenton, N. 2021. The potential environmental risks associated with the development of rare earth element production in Canada. Environmental Reviews (editor’s choice), 29: 354-377.

12. Yin, X., Zhang, L.N., Shu, L., Zhu, R.L. 2016. Two New Records of Riccardia (Aneuraceae, Marchantiophyta) to China Collected from Hainan Island. Herzogia, 29: 79-86.

13. 1. Changqing Liu, Xiangbo Yin, Huub J.M. Op den Camp, Tobias J. Erb, 2025. Perspective: Roles of rare earth elements in Bacteria, Green Carbon, 3: 330-332

14. Webster, Kara; Strack, Maria; Balliston, Nicole; Davies, Marissa; Hettinga, Katie; Hunter, Miranda; Kleinke, Kimberly; Schmidt, Megan; Barreto, Carlos; Bird, Melanie; Blann, Kristen; Bona, Kelly Ann; Cassidy, Alison; Connolly, John; Davidson, Scott; Fedorchuk, Lee; Garneau, Michelle; Harris, Lorna; He, Hongxing; Howie, Sarah; Kirkwood, Adam; Pontone, Nicholas; Richardson, Karen; Sanderson, Nicole; Seutin, Gilles; Xu, Bin; Yin, Xiangbo, 2025. Data and knowledge needs for improving science and policy for peatlands in Canada in a changing world: insights from Global Peatlands Initiative Workshop, June 2023. FACETS, 10:1-19.

15. Gao, L., Paré, D., Martineau, C., Yin, X., Rodríguez-Rodríguez, J.C., Gagné, P. and Bergeron, Y., 2024. Response of the soil microbial communities to forest ground cover manipulation in a boreal forest. Forest Ecology and Management, 553: 121615.

16. Boisvert, R., Yin, X., & Fenton, J. N*. 2021. Offsite effects of mining on the frequency and abundance of five herbaceous species in western Québec (Canada). Botany, 99: 449-455.

17. Peng, J., Wang, K., Yin, X., Du, M., Gao, Y., Antwi, P., Ren, N. & Wang, A. 2019. Trophic mode and organics metabolic characteristic of fungal community in swine manure composting. Frontiers of Environmental Science & Engineering, 13: 1-10.

18. Wang, K., Yin, X., Mao, H., Chu, C., & Tian, Y. 2018. Changes in structure and function of fungal community in cow manure composting. Bioresource technology, 255: 123-130.

19. Shu, L., Xiang, Y.L., Cheng, X.F., Wei, Y.M., Wang, J., Zhang, L.N., Li, W., Yin, X.B., Zhang, W.P., Zhao, C.X. and Peng, T. 2016. New liverwort and hornwort records for Vietnam. Cryptogamie, Bryologie, 38: 411-445.

Book:

Zanin, G., Rheault, K., Desrochers, A., Yin, X., Séguin, A. and Martineau, C., 2024. The Poplar Microbiome (107-123). Cham: Springer International Publishing. (Book Chapter)

Community service:
 

Commitment to research the situation:
 

1. Integrating microbiome research into bryophyte conservation: enhancing biodiversity strategies on Mount Kinabalu, Borneo，Rufford Grant，2025.05– 2026.12, £6,745.

2. From species conservation to ecological integrity: Including associated microbiomes in the conservation of Dawsonia superba on Mount Kinabalu, Borneo, IAB Conservation grant, 2025.10 – 2026.10, $1,000.