Jie Yang
Editors, Plant Diversity
Xishuangbanna Tropical Botanical Garden, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Kunming, China
Area of expertise: Plant Community Ecology, Trait-based Ecology, Plant Biodiversity
Xishuangbanna Tropical Botanical Garden, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Kunming, China
Area of expertise: Plant Community Ecology, Trait-based Ecology, Plant Biodiversity
Title: Professor
Email: yangjie@xtbg.org.cn
Web-link of Research Group: https://xtbg.cas.cn/2022/kywzq/feg/stomw/
Selected publications:
Sun, L., He, Y.Y., Cao,M., Wang, X.Z., Zhou, X., Yang, J.*, N.G. Swenson. 2024. Tree phytochemical diversity and herbivory are higher in the tropics. Nature Ecology & Evolution, 8: 1426-1436.
Yang, J., Cao, M., Swenson, G.N*. (2018) Why functional traits do not predict tree demographic rates? Trends in Ecology & Evolution, 33: 326-336.
Ilyas, M., Duarte, C.M., Xu, G.E., Xu, G. *, Yang, J.* 2025. Ecological effects of micro/nanoplastics on plant-associated food webs. Trends in Plant Science, 30: 526-538.
Wang, X.Z., He, Y.Y., Sedio, B.E., Jin, L., Ge, X.J., Glomglieng, S., Cao, M., Yang, J.H., Swenson, N.G., Yang, J.* (2023) Phytochemical diversity impacts herbivory in a tropical rainforest tree community. Ecology Letters, 26: 1898-1910.
He, Y.Y., Junker, R.R., Xiao, J.H., Lasky, J.R., Cao, M., Asefa, M., Swenson, N.G., Xu, G.R., Yang, J.*, Sedio, B.E. 2025. Genetic and environmental drivers of intraspecific variation in foliar metabolites in a tropical tree community, New Phytologist, 246: 2551-2564.
Song, X., Corlett, R.T., Yang, J.*, Luskin, M.S. 2025. Fungicide effects on wild plants: insights from a global meta-analysis. New Phytologist, 248: 1491-1500.
Zhang, Y.Z., Liu, Y., Sun, L., Baskin, C.C., Baskin, J.M., Cao, M., Yang, J*. (2022) Seed dormancy in space and time: global distribution, paleoclimatic and present climatic drivers, and evolutionary adaptations, New Phytologist, 234: 1770-1781.
Yang, J., Fan, H., He, Y.Y., Wang, G., Cao, M., Swenson, N. G. (2024). Functional genomics and co-occurrence in a diverse tropical tree genus: the roles of drought- and defence-related genes. Journal of Ecology, 112, 575-589.
Yang, J., Song, X.Y., 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.
Wang, X.Z., Sun, S.W, Sedio, B.E., Glomglieng, S., Cao, M., Cao, K.F., Yang, J.H., Zhang, J.L., Yang, J.* (2022) Niche differentiation along multiple functional-trait dimensions contributes to high local diversity of Euphorbiaceae in a tropical tree assemblage. Journal of Ecology, 110: 2731-2744.
Song, X.Y., Yang, J*., Cao, M*., Lin, L., Sun, Z., Wen, H., Swenson, NG. (2020) Traits mediate a tradeoff in seedling growth response to light and conspecific density in a diverse subtropical forest. Journal of Ecology, 109: 703-713.
Zhang, Y.Z., Hogan, J.A., Crowther, T.W., Xu, S.J., Zhao, R.S., Song, P.F., Cui, M.F., Song, X.Y., Cao, M., Yang, J.* (2023) Drivers and mechanisms that contribute to microbial β-diversity patterns and range sizes in mountains across a climatic variability gradient. Ecography, e07049.
Song, X., Katabuchi, M., Chase, J.M., Johnson, D.J., Zhang, W.F., Deng, X.B., Cao, M., Yang, J.* 2024. Drought tolerance and species abundance mediate dry season negative density dependence in a tropical forest. Ecology, 0: e4382.
Yang, J., Zhang, G., Ci, X., Swenson, N.G., Sha, L., Baskin, C.C., Li, J., Cao, M., Slik, J.W.F., Lin, L. (2014) Functional and phylogenetic assembly in a Chinese tropical tree community across size class, spatial scales and habitats, Functional Ecology, 28: 520-529.
Chen, S., Wu, M., Zhang, S., Yang, J.* 2025. Unraveling the impacts of temperature and vapor pressure deficit on gross primary productivity from current to future scenarios. Journal of Hydrology, 664: 134432.