College of Grassland Science and Technology
Junyi Liang, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor (L4 Professor)
Department of Grassland Resources and Ecology, College of Grassland Science and Technology, China Agricultural University, Beijing, 100193
E-mail: liangjunyi@cau.edu.cn, jliangyixian@gmail.com
Research Interests
Dr. Junyi Liang is interested in terrestrial ecology and biogeochemical cycles. The research in his laboratory aims to improve the understanding of terrestrial ecosystems in response to climate change and human activities. The lab employs a wide range of techniques such as manipulative experiments, modeling, data-model integration and remote sensing images. Research programs include ecosystem carbon and nutrient cycles, microbe-plant-animal-environment interactions, grass-livestock management, data-driven dynamic modeling, extreme events, and environmental impacts of managed system.
Education
2013-2016: Ph.D., University of Oklahoma, USA
2009-2012: M.S., Institute of Botany, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China
2005-2009: B.S., China Agricultural University, Beijing, China
Professional Experience
2019- : Assistant Professor (L4 Professor), China Agricultural University, China
2017-2019: Postdoctoral Research Associate, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, USA
2013-2016: Research Assistant, University of Oklahoma, USA
Publications
(A) Journal Articles
2020
Liu, X, J. Liang, L. Gu. 2020. Photosynthetic and environmental regulations of the dynamics of soil respiration in a forest ecosystem revealed by analyses of decadal time series. Agricultural and Forest Meteorology 282, 107863.
2019
Jung, C. G., X. Xu, S. Niu, J. Liang, X. Chen, Z. Shi, Y. Luo. 2019. Experimental warming amplified opposite impacts of drought vs. wet extremes on ecosystem carbon cycle in a tallgrass prairie. Agricultrual and Forest Meteorology, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.agrformet.2019.107635.
Stuble, K. L., S. Ma, J. Liang, Y. Luo, A. T. Classen, L. Souza. 2019. Long-term impacts of warming drive decomposition and accelerate the turnover of labile, not recalcitrant, carbon. Ecosphere 10, e02715.
Liang, J., G. Wang, D.M. Ricciuto, L. Gu, P.J. Hanson, J.D. Wood, M.A. Mayes. 2019. Evaluating the E3SM Land Model at a temperate forest site using flux and soil water measurements. Geoscientific Model Development 12, 1601-1612.
Wang, J., J. Xia, X. Zhou, K. Huang, J. Zhou, Y. Huang, L. Jiang, X. Xu, J. Liang, Y. P. Wang, X. Cheng, Y. Luo. 2019. Evaluating the simulated mean soil carbon transit times by Earth system models using observations. Biogeosciences 16, 917-926.
2018
Li, Z., J. Xia, A. Ahlstroem, A. Rinke, C. Koven, D. Hayes, D. Ji, G. Zhang, G. Krinner, G. Chen, W. Cheng, J. Dong, J. Liang, J, Moore, L. Jiang, L. Yan, P. Ciais, S. Peng, Y. P. Wang, X. Xiao, Z. Shi, A. D. McGuire, Y. Luo. 2018. Non-uniform seasonal warming regulates vegetation greening and atmospheric CO2 amplification over northern lands. Environmental Research Letters 13, 124008.
Liang, J., Z. Zhou, C. Huo, Z. Shi, J. R. Cole, L. Huang, K. T. Konstantinidis, X. Li, B. Liu, Z. Luo, C. R. Penton, E. A. G. Schuur, J. M. Tiedje, Y. P. Wang, L. Wu, J. Xia, J. Zhou, Y. Luo. 2018. More replenishment than priming loss of soil organic carbon with additional carbon input. Nature Communications 9, 3175.
Liang, J., J. Xia, Z. Shi, L. Jiang, S. Ma, X. Lu, M. Mauritz, S. M. Natali, E. Pegoraro, C. R. Penton, C. Plaza, V. G. Salmon, G. Celis, J. R. Cole, K. T. Konstantinidis, J. M. Tiedje, J. Zhou, E. A. G. Schuur, Y. Luo. 2018. Biotic responses buffer warming-induced soil organic carbon loss in arctic tundra. Global Change Biology 24: 4946-4959.
Liu, W., S. Chen, J. Liang, X. Qin, S. Kang, J. Ren, D. Qin. 2018. The effect of decreasing permafrost stability on ecosystem carbon in the northeastern margin of the Qinghai–Tibet Plateau. Scientific Reports 8, 4172.
Du, L., N. Mikle, Z. Zou, Y. Huang, Z. Shi, L. Jiang, H. R. McCarthy, J. Liang, Y. Luo. 2018. Global patterns of extreme drought-induced loss in land primary production: Identify ecological extremes from rain-use efficiency. Science of the Total Environment 628: 611-620.
Zhou, S., J. Liang, X. Lu, Q. Li, L. Jiang, Y. Zhang, C. R. Schwalm, J. B. Fisher, J. Tjiputra, S. Sitch, A. Ahlström, D. N. Huntzinger, Y. Huang, G. Wang, and Y. Luo. 2018. Sources of uncertainty in modeled land carbon storage within and across three MIPs: Diagnosis with three new techniques. Journal of Climate 31: 2833-2851.
2017
Jiang, L., Z. Shi, J. Xia, J. Liang, X. Lu, Y. Wang, and Y. Luo. 2017. Transient Traceability Analysis of Land Carbon Storage Dynamics: Procedures and Its Application to Two Forest Ecosystems. Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems 9: 2822-2835.
Feng, W., J. Liang, L. E. Hale, C. G. Jung, J. Chen, J. Zhou, M. Xu, M. Yuan, L. Wu, R. Bracho, E. Pegoraro, E. A. G. Schuur, and Y. Luo. 2017. Enhanced decomposition of stable soil organic carbon and microbial catabolic potentials by long-term field warming. Global Change Biology 23:4765-4776.
Wilcox, K. R., Z. Shi, L. A. Gherardi, N. P. Lemoine, S. E. Koerner, D. L. Hoover, E. Bork, K. M. Byrne, J. Cahill, S. L. Collins, S. Evans, A. K. Gilgen, P. Holub, L. Jiang, A. K. Knapp, D. LeCain, J. Liang, P. Garcia-Palacios, J. Penuelas, W. T. Pockman, M. D. Smith, S. Sun, S. R. White, L. Yahdjian, K. Zhu, and Y. Q. Luo. 2017. Asymmetric responses of primary productivity to precipitation extremes: A synthesis of grassland precipitation manipulation experiments. Global Change Biology 23:4376-4385.
Xia, J., A. D. McGuire, D. Lawrence, E. Burke, G. Chen, X. Chen, C. Delire, C. Koven, A. MacDougall, S. Peng, A. Rinke, K. Saito, W. Zhang, R. Alkama, T. J. Bohn, P. Ciais, B. Decharme, I. Gouttevin, T. Hajima, D. J. Hayes, K. Huang, D. Ji, G. Krinner, D. P. Lettenmaier, P. A. Miller, J. C. Moore, B. Smith, T. Sueyoshi, Z. Shi, L. Yan, J. Liang, L. Jiang, Q. Zhang, and Y. Luo. 2017. Terrestrial ecosystem model performance in simulating productivity and its vulnerability to climate change in the northern permafrost region. Journal of Geophysical Research: Biogeosciences 122:430-446.
Luo, Y., Z. Shi, X. Lu, J. Xia, J. Liang, J. Jiang, Y. Wang, M. J. Smith, L. Jiang, A. Ahlström, B. Chen, O. Hararuk, A. Hastings, F. Hoffman, B. Medlyn, S. Niu, M. Rasmussen, K. Todd-Brown, and Y. P. Wang. 2017. Transient dynamics of terrestrial carbon storage: mathematical foundation and its applications. Biogeosciences 14:145-161.
Chen, J., Y. Luo, J. Xia, K. R. Wilcox, J. Cao, X. Zhou, L. Jiang, S. Niu, K. Y. Estera, R. Huang, F. Wu, T. Hu, J. Liang, Z. Shi, J. Guo, and R.-W. Wang. 2017. Warming Effects on Ecosystem Carbon Fluxes Are Modulated by Plant Functional Types. Ecosystems 20: 515-526.
2016
Xu, X., Z. Shi, D. Li, A. Rey, H. H. Ruan, J. M. Craine, J. Liang, J. Zhou, and Y. Luo. 2016. Soil properties control decomposition of soil organic carbon: Results from data-assimilation analysis. Geoderma 262:235-242.
Shi, Z., X. Xu, L. Souza, K. Wilcox, L. F. Jiang, J. Liang, J. Y. Xia, P. Garcia-Palacios, and Y. Q. Luo. 2016. Dual mechanisms regulate ecosystem stability under decade-long warming and hay harvest. Nature Communications 7:11973.
Luo, Y., A. Ahlström, S. D. Allison, N. H. Batjes, V. Brovkin, N. Carvalhais, A. Chappell, P. Ciais, E. A. Davidson, A. Finzi, K. Georgiou, B. Guenet, O. Hararuk, J. W. Harden, Y. He, F. Hopkins, L. Jiang, C. Koven, R. B. Jackson, C. D. Jones, M. J. Lara, J. Liang, A. D. McGuire, W. Parton, C. Peng, J. T. Randerson, A. Salazar, C. A. Sierra, M. J. Smith, H. Tian, K. E. O. Todd-Brown, M. Torn, K. J. van Groenigen, Y. P. Wang, T. O. West, Y. Wei, W. R. Wieder, J. Xia, X. Xu, X. Xu, and T. Zhou. 2016. Toward more realistic projections of soil carbon dynamics by Earth system models. Global Biogeochemical Cycles 30:40-56.
Liang, J., X. Qi, L. Souza, and Y. Luo. 2016. Processes regulating progressive nitrogen limitation under elevated carbon dioxide: a meta-analysis. Biogeosciences 13: 2689-2699.
Hu, J., J. Zhou, G. Zhou, Y. Luo, X. Xu, P. Li, and J. Liang. 2016. Improving Estimations of Spatial Distribution of Soil Respiration Using the Bayesian Maximum Entropy Algorithm and Soil Temperature as Auxiliary Data. Plos One 11:e0146589.
Feng, W., Z. Shi, J. Jiang, J. Xia, J. Liang, J. Zhou, and Y. Luo. 2016. Methodological uncertainty in estimating carbon turnover times of soil fractions. Soil Biology and Biochemistry 100:118-124.
Chen, L. Y., J. Liang, S. Q. Qin, L. Liu, K. Fang, Y. P. Xu, J. Z. Ding, F. Li, Y. Q. Luo, and Y. H. Yang. 2016. Determinants of carbon release from the active layer and permafrost deposits on the Tibetan Plateau. Nature Communications 7:13046.
2015 and before
Xu, Y., J. Zhang, S. B. Franklin, J. Liang, P. Ding, Y. Luo, Z. Lu, D. Bao, and M. Jiang. 2015. Improving allometry models to estimate the above-and belowground biomass of subtropical forest, China. Ecosphere 6:art289.
Shi, Z., X. Xu, O. Hararuk, L. Jiang, J. Xia, J. Liang, D. Li, and Y. Luo. 2015. Experimental warming altered rates of carbon processes, allocation, and carbon storage in a tallgrass prairie. Ecosphere 6:art210.
Shi, Z., R. Sherry, X. Xu, O. Hararuk, L. Souza, L. Jiang, J. Xia, J. Liang, and Y. Luo. 2015. Evidence for long-term shift in plant community composition under decadal experimental warming. Journal of Ecology 103:1131-1140.
Liang, J., J. Xia, L. Liu, and S. Wan. 2015. Testing for temperature acclimation of plant carbon exchange: a comment on 'Global patterns of the responses of leaf-level photosynthesis and respiration in terrestrial plants to experimental warming' by Liang et al. Response. Journal of Plant Ecology 8:335-335.
Liang, J., D. Li, Z. Shi, J. M. Tiedje, J. Zhou, E. A. G. Schuur, K. T. Konstantinidis, and Y. Luo. 2015. Methods for estimating temperature sensitivity of soil organic matter based on incubation data: A comparative evaluation. Soil Biology & Biochemistry 80:127-135.
Chen, J., Y. Luo, J. Xia, L. Jiang, X. Zhou, M. Lu, J. Liang, Z. Shi, S. Shelton, and J. Cao. 2015. Stronger warming effects on microbial abundances in colder regions. Scientific Reports 5:18032.
Liang, J., J. Xia, L. Liu, and S. Wan. 2013. Global patterns of the responses of leaf-level photosynthesis and respiration in terrestrial plants to experimental warming. Journal of Plant Ecology 6:437-447.
(B) Book Chapters
Jiang, L., J. Jiang, J. Liang, K. R. Wilcox, S. L. Collins, A. K. Knapp, W. T. Pockman, M. D. Smith, Y. Luo. 2016. Frontiers of Ecosystem Modeling and Large-scale Experiments. In A. Chabbi & H. W. Loescher (Eds). Terrestrial Ecosystem Research Infrastructures. CRC Press.
Teaching Experience
2015：Ecological Modeling @ University of Oklahoma