Research Group of Ecosystem Responses to Atmospheric and Climatic Change

2010
Chen, Q., Q. Wang, X. Han, S. Wan, and L. Li. 2010. Temporal and spatial variability and controls of soil respiration in a temperate steppe in northern China. Global Biogeochemical Cycles (In press). Bai, W., S. Wan, S. Niu, W. Liu, Q. Chen, Q. Wang, W. Zhang, X. Han, and L. Li. 2010. Increased temperature and precipitation interact to affect root production, mortality, and turnover in a temperate steppe: Implications for ecosystem C cycling. Global Change Biology DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2486.2009.02019.x. Xu, Z., S. Wan, G. Zhu, H. Ren, X. Han. 2010. The influence of historical land use and water availability on grassland restoration. Restoration Ecology DOI: 10.1111/j.1526-100X.2009.00595.x. Niu, S., M. Wu, Y. Han, J. Xia, Z. Zhang, H. Yang, and S. Wan. 2010. Nitrogen effects on net ecosystem carbon exchange in a temperate steppe. Global Change Biology 16: 144-155.
2009
Niu, S., H. Yang,Z. Zhang, M. Wu, Q. Lu, L. Li, X. Han, and S. Wan. 2009. Non-additive effects of water and nitrogen addition on ecosystem carbon exchange in a temperate steppe. Ecosystems 12: 915-926. Wan, S., J. Xia, W. Liu, and S. Niu. 2009. Photosynthetic overcompensation under nocturnal warming enhances grassland carbon sequestration. Ecology 90: 2700-2710. Xia, J., Y. Han, Z. Zhang, Z. Zhang, and S. Wan. 2009. Effects of diurnal warming on soil respiration are not equal to the summed effects of day and night warming in a temperate steppe. Biogeosciences 6: 1361-1370 .(Nature Research Hightlights, Nature Blog) Jiang, L., S. Wan, and L. Li. 2009. Species diversity and productivity: why do results of diversity-manipulation experiments differ from natural patterns? Journal of Ecology 97: 603-608. Xia, J., S. Niu, and S. Wan. 2009. Response of ecosystem carbon exchange to warming and nitrogen addition during two hydrologically contrasting growing seasons in a temperate steppe. Global Change Biology 15: 1544-1556. Luo, Y., R. Sherry, X. Zhou, and S. Wan. 2009. Terrestrial carbon-cycle feedback to climate warming: experimental evidence on plant regulation and impacts of biofuel feedstock harvest. Global Change Biology Bioenergy 1: 62-74. Liu, W., Z. Zhang, and S. Wan. 2009. Predominant role of water in regulating soil and microbial respiration and their responses to climate change in a semiarid grassland. Global Change Biology 15: 184-195. Belay-Tedla, A., X. Zhou, B. Su, S. Wan, and Y. Luo. 2009. Labile, recalcitrant, and microbial carbon and nitrogen pools of a tallgrass prairie soil in the US Great Plains subjected to experimental warming and clipping. Soil Biology and Biochemistry 41: 110-116.
2008
Zhang, N., S. Wan, L. Li, J. Bi, M. Zhao, and K. Ma. 2008. Impacts of N addition on soil microbial community in a semi-arid temperate steppe in northern China. Plant and Soil 311: 19-28. Xia, J. and S. Wan. 2008. Global response patterns of terrestrial plant species to nitrogen addition. New Phytologist 179: 428-439. Niu, S., W. Liu, and S. Wan. 2008. Different growth responses of C₃ and C₄ grasses to seasonal water and nitrogen regimes and competition in a pot experiment. Journal of Experimental Botany 59: 1431-1439. Xu, Y., S. Wan, W. Cheng, and L. Li. 2008. Impacts of grazing intensity on denitrification and N₂O production in a semi-arid grassland ecosystem. Biogeochemistry 88: 103–115. Niu, S. and S. Wan. 2008. Warming changes species competitive hierarchy in a temperate steppe of northern China. Journal of Plant Ecology 1: 103-110. Zhang, Y., S. Niu, W. Xu, and Y. Han. 2008. Species-specific response of photosynthesis to burning and nitrogen fertilization. Journal of Integrative Plant Biology 50: 565-574. Niu, S., Z. Li, J. Xia, Y. Han, M. Wu, and S. Wan. 2008. Climatic warming changes plant photosynthesis and its temperature dependence in a temperate steppe of northern China. Environmental and Experimental Botany 63：91-101. Xu, W. and S. Wan. 2008. Water- and plant-mediated responses of soil respiration to topography, fire, and nitrogen fertilization in a semiarid grassland in northern China. Soil Biology and Biochemistry 40: 679-687. Niu, S., M. Wu, Y. Han, J. Xia, L. Li, and S. Wan. 2008. Water-mediated responses of ecosystem C fluxes to climatic change in a temperate steppe. New Phytologist 177: 209-219.
2007
Liu, W., W. Xu, Y. Han, and S. Wan. 2007. Responses of microbial biomass and respiration of soil to topography, burning, and nitrogen fertilization in a temperate steppe. Biology and Fertility of Soils 44: 259-268. Wan, S., R. J. Norby, J. Ledford, and J. F. Weltzin. 2007. Responses of soil respiration to elevated CO₂, air warming, and changing soil water availability in a model old-field grassland. Global Change Biology 13: 2411-2424. Yuan, Z., W. Liu, S. Niu, and S. Wan. 2007. Plant nitrogen dynamics and nitrogen-use strategies under altered nitrogen seasonality and competition. Annals of Botany 100: 821-830. Zhou, X., S. Wan, and Y. Luo. 2007. Partitioning sources of soil CO₂ efflux and their interannual variability under experimental warming in a tallgrass prairie ecosystem. Global Change Biology 13: 761-775.

2006

Niu, S., Y. Zhang, Z. Yuan, W. Liu, J. Huang, and S. Wan. 2006. Effects of interspecific competition and nitrogen seasonality on the photosynthetic characteristics of C₃ and C₄ grasses. Environmental and Experimental Botany 57: 270-277.
Wang, C., S. Wan, X. Xing, L. Zhang, and X. Han. 2006. Temperature and moisture interactively affected soil net N mineralization in temperate grassland in northern China. Soil Biology and Biochemistry 38: 1101-1110.

2005

Wan, S., D. Hui, L. Wallace, and Y. Luo. 2005. Direct and indirect warming effects on ecosystem carbon processes in a tallgrass prairie. Global Biogeochemical Cycles 19: GB2014, doi:10.1029/2004GB002315.
Niu, S., Z. Yuan, W. Liu, Y. Zhang, L. Zhang, J. Huang, and S. Wan. 2005. Photosynthetic responses of C₃ and C₄ species to seasonal water variability and competition. Journal of Experimental Botany 56: 2867-2876.
An, Y., S. Wan, X. Zhou, A. A. Subedar, L. Wallace, and Y. Luo. 2005. Plant nitrogen concentration, use efficiency, and contents in a tallgrass prairie ecosystem under experimental warming. Global Change Biology 11: 1733-1744.
Zhang, W., K. M. Parker, Y. Luo, S. Wan, L. L. Wallace, and S. Hu. 2005. Soil microbial responses to experimental warming and clipping in a tallgrass prairie. Global Change Biology 11: 266-277.