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  1. Compensatory dynamics among dominant species stabilize plant communities in Tibetan alpine steppes

    Article • Communications Earth & Environment, May 2026, Springer Science + Business Media

    Kai Xue

  2. Methane production from lignin in anoxic peatland

    Article • Nature Geoscience, August 2025, Springer Science + Business Media

    Kai Xue

  3. Extracellular electron transfer based methylotrophic methanogenesis in paddy soil and the prevalent Methanomassiliicoccus

    Article • Communications Earth & Environment, April 2025, Springer Science + Business Media

    Kai Xue

  4. Generalized mechanism model for ecosystem hysteresis

    Article • February 2025, Springer Science + Business Media

    Kai Xue

  5. Lower spatial turnover of rare fungal taxa dominantly shaped by stochastic processes in grassland soils

    Article • January 2025, openRxiv

    Kai Xue

  6. Warming decouples associations between microbial network complexity and ecosystem multifunctionality in alpine grasslands

    Article • Agriculture Ecosystems & Environment, October 2024, Elsevier

    Kai Xue

  7. Influence of tree mycorrhizal type, tree species identity, and diversity on forest root‐associated mycobiomes

    Article • New Phytologist, April 2024, Wiley

    Kai Xue

  8. Power law in species–area relationship overestimates bacterial diversity in grassland soils at larger scales

    Article • Global Ecology and Biogeography, March 2024, Wiley

    Kai Xue

  9. Can Digital Intelligence and Cyber-Physical-Social Systems Achieve Global Food Security and Sustainability?

    Article • IEEE/CAA Journal of Automatica Sinica, November 2023, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Kai Xue

  10. Patterns and drivers of prokaryotic communities in thermokarst lake water across Northern Hemisphere

    Article • Global Ecology and Biogeography, September 2023, Wiley

    Professor Jianjun Wang, Kai Xue

  11. Functional Potential of Soil Microbial Communities and Their Subcommunities Varies with Tree Mycorrhizal Type and Tree Diversity

    Article • Microbiology Spectrum, April 2023, ASM Journals

    Kai Xue

  12. Microbial density-dependent viral dynamics and low activity of temperate phages in the activated sludge process

    Article • Water Research, April 2023, Elsevier

    Kai Xue

  13. Plant community and soil available nutrients drive arbuscular mycorrhizal fungal community shifts during alpine meadow degradation

    Article • Fungal Ecology, April 2023, Elsevier

    Kai Xue

  14. Plant Community Associates with Rare Rather than Abundant Fungal Taxa in Alpine Grassland Soils

    Article • Applied and Environmental Microbiology, January 2023, ASM Journals

    Kai Xue

  15. The Status and Influencing Factors of Surface Water Dynamics on the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau During 2000–2020

    Article • IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing, January 2023, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Kai Xue

  16. Grassland changes and adaptive management on the Qinghai–Tibetan Plateau

    Article • Nature Reviews Earth & Environment, September 2022, Springer Science + Business Media

    Kai Xue

  17. Climatic resources mediate the shape and strength of grassland productivity-richness relationships from local to regional scales

    Article • Agriculture Ecosystems & Environment, June 2022, Elsevier

    Kai Xue

  18. Machine learning-based prediction for grassland degradation using geographic, meteorological, plant and microbial data

    Article • Ecological Indicators, April 2022, Elsevier

    Kai Xue

  19. Polar soils exhibit distinct patterns in microbial diversity and dominant phylotypes

    Article • Soil Biology and Biochemistry, March 2022, Elsevier

    Kai Xue

  20. Environmental selection overturns the decay relationship of soil prokaryotic community over geographic distance across grassland biotas

    Article • eLife, January 2022, eLife

    Kai Xue

  21. Long-Term Effects of Soil Remediation with Willow Short Rotation Coppice on Biogeographic Pattern of Microbial Functional Genes

    Article • Microorganisms, January 2022, MDPI AG

    Kai Xue

  22. Anaerobic methane oxidation linked to Fe(III) reduction in a Candidatus Methanoperedens ‐ enriched consortium from the cold Zoige wetland at Tibetan Plateau

    Article • Environmental Microbiology, December 2021, Wiley

    Kai Xue

  23. Spatial patterns of microbial nitrogen-cycling gene abundances along a precipitation gradient in various temperate grasslands at a regional scale

    Article • Geoderma, December 2021, Elsevier

    Kai Xue

  24. Responses of soil extracellular enzyme activities and bacterial community composition to seasonal stages of drought in a semiarid grassland

    Article • Geoderma, November 2021, Elsevier

    Kai Xue

  25. The significance of tree-tree interactions for forest ecosystem functioning

    Article • Basic and Applied Ecology, September 2021, Elsevier

    Kai Xue

  26. Tree diversity and soil chemical properties drive the linkages between soil microbial community and ecosystem functioning

    Article • ISME Communications, August 2021, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Kai Xue

  27. Tree mycorrhizal type and tree diversity shape the forest soil microbiota

    Article • Environmental Microbiology, August 2021, Wiley

    Kai Xue

  28. Reduced microbial stability in the active layer is associated with carbon loss under alpine permafrost degradation

    Article • Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, June 2021, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

    Kai Xue

  29. Homogeneous environmental selection overturns distance-decay relationship of soil prokaryotic community

    Article • May 2021, openRxiv

    Kai Xue

  30. Linkage between microbial shift and ecosystem functionality

    Article • Global Change Biology, May 2021, Wiley

    Kai Xue

  31. The composition of antibiotic resistance genes is not affected by grazing but is determined by microorganisms in grassland soils

    Article • The Science of The Total Environment, March 2021, Elsevier

    Kai Xue

  32. Trends and spatial variation in rain-on-snow events over the Arctic Ocean during the early melt season

    Article • The Cryosphere, February 2021, Copernicus GmbH

    Kai Xue

  33. Stimulation of soil respiration by elevated CO 2 is enhanced under nitrogen limitation in a decade-long grassland study

    Article • Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, December 2020, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

    Kai Xue

  34. Altered microbial structure and function after thermokarst formation

    Article • Global Change Biology, November 2020, Wiley

    Kai Xue

  35. Microbial functional genes commonly respond to elevated carbon dioxide

    Article • Environment International, November 2020, Elsevier

    Kai Xue

  36. Evenness is important in assessing progress towards sustainable development goals

    Article • National Science Review, September 2020, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Kai Xue

  37. Promoting resilience of large international collaborative research programs in times of global crisis

    Article • Ecology and Evolution, September 2020, Wiley

    Kai Xue

  38. Relationship between fluorescence excitation-emission matrix properties and the relative degree of DOM hydrophobicity in wastewater treatment effluents

    Article • Chemosphere, September 2020, Elsevier

    Kai Xue

  39. Phytomanagement Reduces Metal Availability and Microbial Metal Resistance in a Metal Contaminated Soil

    Article • Frontiers in Microbiology, August 2020, Frontiers

    Kai Xue

  40. Soil thermal regime alteration under experimental warming in permafrost regions of the central Tibetan Plateau

    Article • Geoderma, August 2020, Elsevier

    Kai Xue

  41. Functional structures of soil microbial community relate to contrasting N2O emission patterns from a highly acidified forest

    Article • The Science of The Total Environment, July 2020, Elsevier

    Kai Xue

  42. Spatial patterns of microbial nitrogen genes along precipitation gradient in different temperate grasslands of Inner Mongolia, China

    Article • April 2020, Research Square

    Kai Xue

  43. Differentiation strategies of soil rare and abundant microbial taxa in response to changing climatic regimes

    Article • Environmental Microbiology, February 2020, Wiley

    Kai Xue

  44. Habitat filtering shapes the differential structure of microbial communities in the Xilingol grassland

    Article • Scientific Reports, December 2019, Springer Science + Business Media

    Kai Xue

  45. Quantifying the dynamic evolution of organic, inorganic and biological synergistic fouling during nanofiltration using statistical approaches

    Article • Environment International, December 2019, Elsevier

    Kai Xue

  46. Soil microbial communities in alpine grasslands on the Tibet Plateau and their influencing factors

    Article • Chinese Science Bulletin (Chinese Version), September 2019, Science China Press., Co. Ltd.

    Kai Xue

  47. Microbial community responses reduce soil carbon loss in Tibetan alpine grasslands under short‐term warming

    Article • Global Change Biology, August 2019, Wiley

    Kai Xue

  48. Warming counteracts grazing effects on the functional structure of the soil microbial community in a Tibetan grassland

    Article • Soil Biology and Biochemistry, July 2019, Elsevier

    Kai Xue

  49. Phosphorus mediates soil prokaryote distribution pattern along a small-scale elevation gradient in Noijin Kangsang Peak, Tibetan Plateau

    Article • FEMS Microbiology Ecology, May 2019, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Kai Xue

  50. Quantitative Assessment of the Impact of Physical and Anthropogenic Factors on Vegetation Spatial-Temporal Variation in Northern Tibet

    Article • Remote Sensing, May 2019, MDPI AG

    Kai Xue

  51. Trait complementarity between fine roots of Stipa purpurea and their associated arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi along a precipitation gradient in Tibetan alpine steppe

    Article • Journal of Mountain Science, March 2019, Springer Science + Business Media

    Kai Xue

  52. Functional activity and functional gene diversity of a Cu-contaminated soil remediated by aided phytostabilization using compost, dolomitic limestone and a mixed tree stand

    Article • Environmental Pollution, November 2018, Elsevier

    Kai Xue

  53. Seasonal timing regulates extreme drought impacts on CO2 and H2O exchanges over semiarid steppes in Inner Mongolia, China

    Article • Agriculture Ecosystems & Environment, November 2018, Elsevier

    Kai Xue

  54. Autotrophic and symbiotic diazotrophs dominate nitrogen-fixing communities in Tibetan grassland soils

    Article • The Science of The Total Environment, October 2018, Elsevier

    Kai Xue

  55. Spatial scaling of forest soil microbial communities across a temperature gradient

    Article • Environmental Microbiology, September 2018, Wiley

    Zhili He, Kai Xue

  56. Microbial functional diversity covaries with permafrost thaw-induced environmental heterogeneity in tundra soil

    Article • Global Change Biology, September 2017, Wiley

    Dr Zhili He, Kai Xue

  57. Correspondence: Reply to ‘Analytical flaws in a continental-scale forest soil microbial diversity study’

    Article • Nature Communications, June 2017, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Michael D. Weiser, Kai Xue

  58. Evaluation of the reproducibility of amplicon sequencing with Illumina MiSeq platform

    Article • PLOS One, April 2017, PLOS

    Kai Xue

  59. Warming enhances old organic carbon decomposition through altering functional microbial communities

    Article • The ISME Journal, April 2017, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Kai Xue

  60. Metagenomic reconstruction of nitrogen cycling pathways in a CO2-enriched grassland ecosystem

    Article • Soil Biology and Biochemistry, March 2017, Elsevier

    Kai Xue

  61. Annual Removal of Aboveground Plant Biomass Alters Soil Microbial Responses to Warming

    Article • mBio, September 2016, ASM Journals

    Kai Xue

  62. Temperature mediates continental-scale diversity of microbes in forest soils

    Article • Nature Communications, July 2016, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Michael D. Weiser, Kai Xue

  63. A buried Neolithic paddy soil reveals loss of microbial functional diversity after modern rice cultivation

    Article • Science Bulletin, July 2016, Elsevier

    Kai Xue

  64. Warming Alters Expressions of Microbial Functional Genes Important to Ecosystem Functioning

    Article • Frontiers in Microbiology, May 2016, Frontiers

    Kai Xue

  65. Tundra soil carbon is vulnerable to rapid microbial decomposition under climate warming

    Article • Nature Climate Change, February 2016, Springer Science + Business Media

    Kai Xue

  66. Management with willow short rotation coppice increase the functional gene diversity and functional activity of a heavy metal polluted soil

    Article • Chemosphere, November 2015, Elsevier

    Kai Xue

  67. Planting increases the abundance and structure complexity of soil core functional genes relevant to carbon and nitrogen cycling

    Article • Scientific Reports, September 2015, Springer Science + Business Media

    Kai Xue

  68. The Diversity and Co-occurrence Patterns of N2-Fixing Communities in a CO2-Enriched Grassland Ecosystem

    Article • Microbial Ecology, August 2015, Springer Science + Business Media

    Kai Xue

  69. Long-term soil transplant simulating climate change with latitude significantly alters microbial temporal turnover

    Article • The ISME Journal, May 2015, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Kai Xue

  70. Over 150 Years of Long-Term Fertilization Alters Spatial Scaling of Microbial Biodiversity

    Article • mBio, April 2015, ASM Journals

    Kai Xue

  71. Fungal Communities Respond to Long-Term CO2Elevation by Community Reassembly

    Article • Applied and Environmental Microbiology, January 2015, ASM Journals

    Kai Xue

  72. Long-term balanced fertilization increases the soil microbial functional diversity in a phosphorus-limited paddy soil

    Article • Molecular Ecology, December 2014, Wiley

    Kai Xue

  73. Shifts of tundra bacterial and archaeal communities along a permafrost thaw gradient in Alaska

    Article • Molecular Ecology, December 2014, Wiley

    Xun Qian, Kai Xue

  74. Effects of Substrate Addition on Soil Respiratory Carbon Release Under Long-Term Warming and Clipping in a Tallgrass Prairie

    Article • PLOS One, December 2014, PLOS

    Kai Xue

  75. GeoChip profiling of microbial community in response to global changes simulated by soil transplant and cropping

    Article • Genomics Data, December 2014, Elsevier

    Kai Xue

  76. Stability of Cry3Bb1 protein in soils and its degradation in transgenic corn residues

    Article • Soil Biology and Biochemistry, September 2014, Elsevier

    Kai Xue

  77. Microbial mediation of biogeochemical cycles revealed by simulation of global changes with soil transplant and cropping

    Article • The ISME Journal, April 2014, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Kai Xue

  78. GeoChip 4: a functional gene-array-based high-throughput environmental technology for microbial community analysis

    Article • Molecular Ecology Resources, March 2014, Wiley

    Kai Xue

  79. Stochasticity, succession, and environmental perturbations in a fluidic ecosystem

    Article • Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, February 2014, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

    Professor Terry C Hazen, Professor Adam P Arkin, Kai Xue

  80. The interactive effects of soil transplant into colder regions and cropping on soil microbiology and biogeochemistry

    Article • Environmental Microbiology, February 2014, Wiley

    Kai Xue

  81. Soil Microbial Community Responses to a Decade of Warming as Revealed by Comparative Metagenomics

    Article • Applied and Environmental Microbiology, December 2013, ASM Journals

    Konstantinos Konstantinidis, Luis M Rodriguez-R, Kai Xue

  82. Towards a molecular understanding of N cycling in northern hardwood forests under future rates of N deposition

    Article • Soil Biology and Biochemistry, November 2013, Elsevier

    Dr Zachary Freedman, Kai Xue

  83. Distinct responses of soil microbial communities to elevated CO2 and O3 in a soybean agro-ecosystem

    Article • The ISME Journal, October 2013, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Kai Xue

  84. Random Sampling Process Leads to Overestimation of β-Diversity of Microbial Communities

    Article • mBio, June 2013, ASM Journals

    Kai Xue

  85. Microbial Mechanisms Mediating Increased Soil C Storage under Elevated Atmospheric N Deposition

    Article • Applied and Environmental Microbiology, April 2013, ASM Journals

    Kai Xue

  86. Stochastic Assembly Leads to Alternative Communities with Distinct Functions in a Bioreactor Microbial Community

    Article • mBio, March 2013, ASM Journals

    Kai Xue

  87. Functional Gene Differences in Soil Microbial Communities from Conventional, Low-Input, and Organic Farmlands

    Article • Applied and Environmental Microbiology, December 2012, ASM Journals

    Kai Xue, Professor Thomas M Schmidt

  88. Microbial Mechanisms Mediating Increased Soil C Storage under Elevated Atmospheric N Deposition

    Article • Applied and Environmental Microbiology, December 2012, ASM Journals

    Kai Xue

  89. Responses of the functional structure of soil microbial community to livestock grazing in the Tibetan alpine grassland

    Article • Global Change Biology, November 2012, Wiley

    Kai Xue

  90. Functional Metagenomics of Escherichia coli O157:H7 Interactions with Spinach Indigenous Microorganisms during Biofilm Formation

    Article • PLOS One, September 2012, PLOS

    Kai Xue

  91. Short-term carbon allocation and root lignin of Cry3Bb Bt and NonBt corn in the presence of corn rootworm

    Article • Applied Soil Ecology, June 2012, Elsevier

    Kai Xue

  92. Microbial mediation of carbon-cycle feedbacks to climate warming

    Article • Nature Climate Change, December 2011, Springer Science + Business Media

    Kai Xue

  93. Methylated arsenic species in plants originate from soil microorganisms

    Article • New Phytologist, November 2011, Wiley

    Kai Xue

  94. Decomposition Rates and Residue-Colonizing Microbial Communities ofBacillus thuringiensisInsecticidal Protein Cry3Bb-Expressing (Bt) and Non-Bt Corn Hybrids in the Field

    Article • Applied and Environmental Microbiology, December 2010, ASM Journals

    Kai Xue

  95. Approaches for analyzing local carbon mitigation strategies: Tompkins County, New York, USA

    Article • International Journal of Greenhouse Gas Control, July 2007, Elsevier

    Kai Xue