Luxiang Lin
Editors, Plant Diversity
Xishuangbanna Tropical Botanical Garden, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Kunming, China
Area of expertise: Community assembly, species coexistence, species interaction, forest dynamic, plant ecology, community ecology, forest ecology
Xishuangbanna Tropical Botanical Garden, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Kunming, China
Area of expertise: Community assembly, species coexistence, species interaction, forest dynamic, plant ecology, community ecology, forest ecology
Title: Prof.
Email: linluxa@xtbg.ac.cn
Selected publications:
Shao, X., Lin, L.*, Yao, Z., Chatterjee, M., Ge, X., Jin, L., Deng, Y., Yang, X., Xia, S., Liu, F., Cao, G., and Swenson, NG. 2025. Integrated effects of neighbourhood composition and resource levels on growth of a dominant tree species in a tropical forest. Proceedings of the Royal Society B, 292(2041): 20242373.
He, X.*, Campos‐Arceiz A, and Lin, L.* 2025. Stronger phylogenetic effects on birds than on plants, and on seed dispersal than on pollination mutualistic networks, in a subtropical evergreen broadleaf forest. Journal of Animal Ecology, 94(12): 2558-2571.
Ma, X., Gu, R., Shi, G., Liu, F., Cao, G., Deng, Y., Xia, S, Yang, X, Zhang, Z.*, and Lin, L.* 2025. Species traits mediate environmental responses but not conspecific density dependence in tropical tree saplings. The American Naturalist.
Sun, Z., Prachanun, N., Sonsuthi, A., Nathalang, A., Chanthorn, W., Brockelman, W.Y., Gu, R., Swenson, N.G. and Lin, L.* 2025. Lianas exhibit stronger conspecific negative density dependence than trees on tropical seedling survival. Ecology, 106 (9): e70210.
Simmavong, T., Su, Y.*, Deng, Y. Wang, B., Yao, Z., Wu, J., Sha, L., Cao, M. and Lin, L.* 2025. Forest structure predicts aboveground biomass better than community-weighted mean of traits, functional diversity, topography, and soil in a tropical forest across spatial scales. Forest Ecology and Management, 578: 122457.
Yao, Z., Pan, X., Yang, X. Shao, X., Wang, B., Deng, Y., Zhang, Z., Li, Q.* and Lin, L.* 2025. Canopy structural heterogeneity drives α and β species–genetic diversity correlations in a Chinese subtropical forest. Plant Diversity, 47: 106-114.
Zhang, C., Gu, R., Lin, L.*, and Russo, S.E. 2024. Functional traits and ecological niches as correlates of the interspecific growth–mortality trade‐off among seedlings of 14 tropical tree species. Functional Ecology, 38(9): 1888-1901.
Wang, B., Proctor C., Yao Z., Li N., Chen Q., Liu W., Ma S., Jing C., Zhou Z., Liu W., Ma,Y., Wang Z., Zhang, Z., and Lin, L. 2024. FLApy: A Python package for evaluating the 3D light availability heterogeneity within forest communities. Methods in Ecology and Evolution, 15:1540-1552.
Li, S., Chatterjee, M., Yao, Z., Wen, H., Cao, M., Chen, Y., Lin, L.*, 2023. Soil water availability strongly drives the differentiation of acquisitive and conservative strategies for coexisting woody species in a Chinese subtropical evergreen forest. Journal of Vegetation Science, 34: e13219.
Wang, W., Sun, Z., Mishra, S., Xia, S., Lin, L.*, Yang, X.* 2023. Body size determines multitrophic soil microbiota community assembly associated with soil and plant attributes in a tropical seasonal rainforest. Molecular Ecology, 32: 6294-6303.
Shao, X., Brown, C., Worthy, S.J., Liu, L., Cao, M., Li, Q.*, Lin, L.* and Swenson, N.G. 2018. Intra-specific relatedness, spatial clustering and reduced demographic performance in tropical rainforest trees. Ecology Letters, 21: 1174-1181.
Wu, J., Swenson, N.G., Brown, C., Zhang, C., Yang, J., Ci, X., Li, J., Sha, L., Cao, M. and Lin, L.* 2016. How does habitat filtering affect the detection of conspecific and phylogenetic density dependence? Ecology, 97: 1182-1193.
Yang, J., Zhang, G., Ci, X., Swenson, N.G., Cao, M., Sha, L., Li, J., Baskin, C.C., Ferry Slik, J.W. and Lin, L.* 2014. Functional and phylogenetic assembly in a Chinese tropical tree community across size classes, spatial scales and habitats. Functional Ecology, 28: 520-529.
Lin, L.*, Comita, L.S., Zheng, Z., and Cao, M. 2012. Seasonal differentiation in density-dependent seedling survival in a tropical rainforest. Journal of Ecology, 100: 905-914.
Lin, L. and Cao, M.*, 2009. Edge effects on soil seed banks and understory vegetation in subtropical and tropical forests in Yunnan, SW China, Forest Ecology and Management, 257: 1344-1352.