Xiaoyang Song
Editors, Plant Diversity
Xishuangbanna Tropical Botanical Garden, CAS, China
Area of expertise: Forest biodiversity, community ecology
Xishuangbanna Tropical Botanical Garden, CAS, China
Area of expertise: Forest biodiversity, community ecology
Title: Dr.
Email: songxiaoyang@xtbg.ac.cn
Web-link of Research Group: https://english.xtbg.cas.cn/en_sourcedb_xtbg/rc/fas/202311/t20231105_571719.html
Selected publications (no more than 15):
Song, X.* & Corlett, R.T. (2022). Do natural enemies mediate conspecific negative distance‐and density‐dependence of trees? A meta‐analysis of exclusion experiments. Oikos, e08509. (doi.org/10.1111/oik.08509)
Song, X., Cao, M.*, Li, J., Kitching, R.L., Nakamura, A., Laidlaw, M.J., Tang, Y., Sun, Z., Zhang, W., Yang, J. (2021). Different environmental factors drive tree species diversity along elevation gradients in three climatic zones in Yunnan, southern China. Plant Diversity, 43, 433-443. (doi.org/10.1016/j.pld.2021.04.006)
Song, X.#, Lim, J.Y., J.Y., Yang, J., Luskin, M.S.#* When do Janzen–Connell effects matter? A phylogenetic meta‐analysis of conspecific negative distance and density dependence experiments. Ecology letters, 24: 608–620. (doi.org/10.1111/ele.13665)
Song, X., Yang, J.*, Cao, M.*, Lin, L., Sun, Z., Wen, H., Swenson, N.G. (2021) Traits mediate a tradeoff in seedling growth response to light and conspecific density in a diverse subtropical forest. Journal of Ecology, 109, 703-713.(doi.org/10.1111/1365-2745.13497)
Yang, J.#, Song, X.#, 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. (doi.org/10.1111/1365-2745.13439)
Song, X.#, Zhang, W.F.#, Johnson, D.J., Yang, J.*, Asefa, M., Deng, X.B., Yang, X.F., Cao, M. (2020) Conspecific negative density dependence in rainy season enhanced seedling diversity across habitats in a tropical forest. Oecologia, 193, 949–957.
Song, X., Cao, M., Kitching R.L., Tang, Y., Sun, Z., Nakamura, A., Laidlaw, M.J., Yang, J.* (2019). Environmental and spatial contributions to seedling and adult tree assembly across tropical, subtropical, and subalpine elevational gradients. Journal of Plant Ecology, 12, 103-112.
Song, X., Hogan, J.A., Lin L.X., Wen, H.D., Cao, M.*, Yang, J.* (2018). Canopy openness and topographic habitat drive tree seedling recruitment after snow damage in an old-growth subtropical forest. Forest Ecology and Management, 429, 493-502.
Song, X., Johnson, D.J. Cao, M., Umaña, M.N., Deng, X., Yang, X., Zhang, W., Yang, J.* (2018). The strength of density-dependent mortality is contingent on climate and seedling size. Journal of Vegetation Science, 29, 662-670.
Song, X., Hogan, J.A., Brown, C., Cao, M.*, Yang, J.* (2017). Snow damage to the canopy facilitates alien weed invasion in a subtropical montane primary forest in southwestern China. Forest Ecology and Management, 391, 275-282.