Xiang Liu
Junior Editors, Plant Diversity
Lanzhou University, Lanzhou, China
Area of expertise: community assembly, species coexistence, biodiversity and ecosystem function, community ecology, plant disease
Lanzhou University, Lanzhou, China
Area of expertise: community assembly, species coexistence, biodiversity and ecosystem function, community ecology, plant disease
Title: Dr.
Email: lx@lzu.edu.cn
Web-link of Research Group: https://www.researchgate.net/lab/Xiang-Liu-Lab-4
Selected publications (no more than 15):
Zhang P, Jiang HY, Liu X*. 2024. Diversity inhibits foliar fungal diseases in grasslands: potential mechanisms and temperature-dependence. Ecology Letters 27:e14435.
Liu M, Jiang PX, Chase J, Liu X*. 2024. Global insect herbivory and its response to climate change. Current Biology doi:10.1016/j.cub.2024.04.062.
Zhang P, Huang MJ, Chen CR, Hu K, Ke JS, Liu M, Xiao Y, Liu X*. 2024. Contrasting roles of fungal and oomycete pathogens in mediating nitrogen addition and winter grazing effects on biomass. Ecology 105:e4254.
Liu M, Wang HQ, Lin ZY, Ke JS, Zhang P, Zhang F, Ru, DF, Zhang L, Xiao Y, Liu X*. 2024. Arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi inhibit necrotrophic, but not biotrophic, aboveground plant pathogens: a meta-analysis and experimental study. New Phytologist 241:1308–1320.
Liu X#, Lin ZY#, Hu K, Wang XX, Zhang P, Xiao Y, Zhang L, Liu M*. 2023. Geographical variation in community-wide herbivory matches patterns of intraspecific variation instead of species turnover. Global Ecology and Biogeography 32:1140–1151.
Liu X, Xiao Y*, Lin ZY, Wang XX, Hu K, Liu M, Zhao YM, Qi YW, Zhou SR. 2023. Spatial scale-dependent dilution effects of biodiversity on plant diseases in grasslands. Ecology 104:e3944.
Liu X, Parker IM, Gilbert GS, Lu YW, Xiao Y, Zhang L, Huang MJ, Cheng YK, Zhang ZH, Zhou SR*. 2022. Coexistence is stabilized by conspecific negative density dependence via fungal pathogens more than oomycete pathogens. Ecology 103:e3841.
Liu M#, Mipam T-D#, Wang XX, Zhang P, Lin ZY, Liu X*. 2021. Contrasting effects of mammal grazing on foliar fungal diseases: patterns and potential mechanisms. New Phytologist 232: 345–355. (Research highlight, commented by Cappelli SL & Koricheva J. Interactions between mammalian grazers and plant pathogens: an elephant in the room? 232:8–10)
Liu X, Ma ZY, Cadotte MW, Chen F, He J-S*, Zhou SR*. 2019. Warming affects foliar fungal diseases more than precipitation in a Tibetan alpine meadow. New Phytologist 221:1574–1584.
Liu X, Lyu SM, Sun DX, Bradshaw CJA, Zhou SR*. 2017. Species decline under nitrogen fertilization increases community-level competence of fungal diseases. Proceedings of the Royal Society B 284:20162621.
Liu X, Lyu SM, Zhou SR*, Bradshaw CJA. 2016. Warming and fertilization alter the dilution effect of host diversity on disease severity. Ecology 97:1680–1689.