Jianming Deng
Editors, Plant Diversity
Lanzhou University, Lanzhou, China
Area of expertise: Plant ecology, microbial ecology and theoretical ecology
Lanzhou University, Lanzhou, China
Area of expertise: Plant ecology, microbial ecology and theoretical ecology
Title: Professor
Selected publications:
Sun, Y., Deng, Y., Yao, S., Sun, Y., Degen, A. A., Dong, L., ... & Deng, J. (2025). Distribution Range and Richness of Plant Species Are Predicted to Increase by 2100 due to a Warmer and Wetter Climate in Northern China. Global Change Biology, 31(7), e70334.
Tang, D., Xie, S., Peng, J., Sun, Y., Degen, A. A., Sun, Y., ... & Deng, J. (2025). The Increased Effect of Spring Leaf Unfolding on Autumn Senescence in the Northern and Southern Hemispheres. Global Ecology and Biogeography, 34(12), e70180.
Hou, Q., Hu, W., Sun, Y., Morriën, E., Yang, Q., Aqeel, M., ... & Deng, J. (2025). Active restoration efforts drive community succession and assembly in a desert during the past 53 years. Ecological Applications, 35(1), e3068.
Renfei Chen, Suping Xiao, Chuancong Dong, Shubin Xie, Liang Zhang, Fan Wu, Chengyi Tu, ..., Jianming Deng*. Ontogenetic shifts in leaf biomass allocation in crop plants. National Science Review, 2024, 11(10): nwae349.
Longwei Dong, Jinzhi Ran, Jiali Luo, Lin Bai, Ying Sun, Muhammad Aqeel, Yahui Zhang, Xiaoting Wang, Qiajun Du, Junlan Xiong, ..., Jianming Deng*. Inorganic Carbon Pools and Their Drivers in Grassland and Desert Soils. Global Change Biology, 2024, 30(10): e17536.
Junlan Xiong, Longwei Dong, Jingli Lu, Weigang Hu, Haiyang Gong, Shubin Xie, Dongmin Zhao, Yahui Zhang, Xiaoting Wang, Yan Deng, Jinzhi Ran, Karl J. Niklas, Jianming Deng*. Variation in plant carbon, nitrogen, and phosphorus contents across the drylands of China. Functional Ecology, 2022 (36): 174-186
Weigang Hu, Qingqing Hou, Manuel Delgado-Baquerizo, James C. Stegen, Qiajun Du, Longwei Dong, Mingfei Ji, Yuan Sun, Shuran Yao, Haiyang Gong, …, Jianming Deng*. Continental‐scale niche differentiation of dominant topsoil archaea in drylands. Environmental Microbiology, 2022, 24(11): 5483–5497.
Hailing Li, Maohong Wei, Longwei Dong, Weigang Hu, Junlan Xiong, Ying Sun, Yuan Sun, Shuran Yao, Haiyang Gong, Yahui Zhang, …, Jianming Deng*. Leaf and ecosystem water use efficiencies differ in their global-scale patterns and drivers. Agricultural and Forest Meteorology, 2022 (319): 108919.
Renfei Chen, Jinzhi Ran, Weigang Hu, Longwei Dong, Mingfei Ji, Xin Jia, Jingli Lu, Haiyang Gong, Muhammad Aqeel, Shuran Yao, Lizhe An, Jin-sheng He, Karl J. Niklas, Jianming Deng*. Effects of biotic and abiotic factors on forest biomass fractions. National Science Review, 2021, 8: nwab025.
Weigang Hu, Jinzhi Ran, Longwei Dong, Qiajun Du, Mingfei Ji, Shuran Yao, Yuan Sun, Chunmei Gong, Qingqing Hou, Haiyang Gong, Renfei Chen, …, Jianming Deng*. Aridity-driven shift in biodiversity-soil multifunctionality relationships. Nature Communications, 2021, 12(1): 0-5350
Heng Huang, Jinzhi Ran, Mingfei Ji, Zhiqiang Wang, Longwei Dong, Weigang Hu, Yan Deng, Chen Hou, Karl J. Niklas, Jianming Deng*. Water content quantitatively affects metabolic rates over the course of plant ontogeny. New Phytologist, 2020, 228(5): 1524–1534.
Heng Huang, Jinzhi Ran, Xiaowei Li, Zhiqiang Wang, Renfei Chen, Fan Wu, Miao Ye, Fei Jia, Karl J. Niklas, Jianming Deng*. A General Model for Seed and Seedling Respiratory Metabolism. The American Naturalist, 2020, 195(3): 534-546.
Jianming Deng*, Wenyun Zuo, Zhiqiang Wang, Zhexuan Fan, Mingfei Ji, Genxuan Wang, Jinzhi Ran, Changming Zhao, Jianquan Liu, Karl J. Niklas, Sean T. Hammond, James H. Brown. Insights into plant size-density relationships from models and agricultural crops. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 2012, 109(22): 8600-8605.
Jianming Deng*, Jinzhi Ran, Zhiqiang Wang, Zhexuan Fan, Genxuan Wang, Mingfei Ji, Jing Liu, Yun Wang, Jianquan Liu, James H. Brown. Models and tests of optimal density and maximal yield for crop plants. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 2012, 109(39): 15823-15828.
Jianming Deng*, Genxuan Wang, Charles E. Morris, Xiaoping Wei, Dongxiu Li, Baoming Chen, Changming Zhao, Jing Liu, Yun Wang. Plant mass-density relationship along a moisture gradient in northwest China. Journal of Ecology, 2006, 94(5): 953-958.