Enqing Hou (he/his/him) is trained as an ecologist and soil scientist, who is interested in terrestrial phosphorus (P) biogeochemistry and carbon cycle under global change (e.g., climate change and atmospheric nitrogen deposition).
Specifically, he is interested in questions such as how soil P dynamics determine soil P supply (or availability)? how climate or climate change would affect soil P dynamics and availability? how soil P supply regulates key terrestrial carbon cycle processes, e.g., plant growth, primary prodution, and soil respiration? how climate change and atmospheric nitrogen deposition would affect terrestrial carbon cycle?
To answer these questions, he has used approaches such as field investigations and sampling, laboratory incubation, data synthesis and mining, processes-based modeling, and data assimilation, to do research at local to global scales. The ultimate goal of his research is to improve our understanding of global change effects on terrestrial carbon balance mediated by P biogeochemistry, and to constrain our prediction of terrestrial carbon balance in the future.
Research Areas
Soil phosphorus dynamics;
Phosphorus limitation on terrestrial primary production;
Effects of climate change and atmospheric nitrogen deposition on terrestrial phosphorus and carbon biogeochemistry.
Education
2003.9-2007.7 Northeast Forestry University, Bachelor；
2007.9-2012.7 South China Botanical Garden, Chinese Academy of Sciences, PhD;
2011.1-2012.1 Griffith University, Australia, Joint training PhD student.
Experience
Work Experience
2012.8-2013.3 Research Fellow, Griffith University, Australia;
2013.5-2018.6 Assistant Researcher, South China Botanical Garden of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, China;
2015.8-2015.9 Visiting Scholar, Griffith University, Australia;
2017.4-2018.6 Visiting Scholar, Oklahoma University/Northern Arizona University, USA;
2018.7-2021.7 Postdoc, Northern Arizona University, USA;
2021.7 to present Researcher (Principal Investigator), South China Botanical Garden of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, China.
Publications
代表著作：(*通讯作者, #共同第一作者)
2022—
1. Ruzhen Wang, Bahareh Bicharanloo, Enqing Hou*, Yong Jiang*, and Feike A. Dijkstra. Phosphorus supply increases nitrogen transformation rates and retention in soil: a global meta‐analysis. Earth's Future, 2022, 10(3): e2021EF002479.
2. Xingzhao Huang, Can Cui*, Enqing Hou*, Fangbing Li, Wenjie Liu, Lifen Jiang, Yiqi Luo, Xiaoniu Xu. Acidification of soil due to forestation at the global scale. Forest Ecology and Management. 2022, 505: 119951.
3. Chang Gyo Jung*, Xia Xu, Zheng Shi, Shuli Niu, Jianyang Xia, Rebecca Sherry, Lifen Jiang, Kai Zhu, Enqing Hou, Yiqi Luo. Warmer and wetter climate promotes net primary production in C4 grassland with additional enhancement by hay harvesting. Ecosphere, 2022, 13(1): e3899.
4. Xiaofei Lu, Frank S. Gilliam, Jieyun Guo, Enqing Hou, Yuanwen Kuang*. Decrease in soil pH has greater effects than increase in above-ground carbon inputs on soil organic carbon in terrestrial ecosystems of China under nitrogen enrichment. Journal of Applied Ecology. 2022, https://doi.org/10.1111/1365-2664.14091.
5. Huimin Xiang, Xianzhen Luo, Lingling Zhang, Enqing Hou, Jiong Li, Qiandong Zhu, Dazhi Wen (2022). Forest succession accelerates soil carbon accumulation by increasing recalcitrant carbon stock in subtropical forest topsoils. Catena, 2022, 106030.
6. Ying-Ping Wang*, Yuanyuan Huang, Laurent Augusto, Daniel S. Goll, Julian Helfenstein, Enqing Hou. Toward a global model for soil inorganic phosphorus dynamics: dependence of exchange kinetics and soil bioavailability on soil physicochemical properties. Global Biogeochemical Cycles, 2022, 36(3): e2021GB007061.
7. Xianzhen Luo, Dazhi Wen*, Enqing Hou, Lingling Zhang, Yue Li, Xianjin He. Changes in the composition of soil microbial communities and their carbon‐cycle genes following the conversion of primary broadleaf forests to plantations and secondary forests. Land Degradation & Development, 2022, 10.1002/ldr.4183.
8. Mengjiao Sun, Enqing Hou, Jiasen Wu, Jianqin Huang, Xingzhao Huang*, Xiaoniu Xu. Spatial patterns and drivers of soil chemical properties in typical hickory plantations. Forests, 2022, 13(3): 457.
2021
9. Enqing Hou*, Dazhi Wen, Lifen Jiang, Xianzhen Luo, Yuanwen Kuang, Xiankai Lu, Chengrong Chen, Keanan T. Allen, Xianjin He, Xingzhao Huang, Yiqi Luo*. Latitudinal patterns of terrestrial phosphorus limitation over the globe. Ecology Letters, 2021, 24: 1420-1431.
10. Enqing Hou*, Marcy E. Litvak, Jennifer A. Rudgers, Lifen Jiang, Scott L. Collins, William T. Pockman, Dafeng Hui, Shuli Niu, Yiqi Luo*. Divergent response of primary production to increasing precipitation variability in global drylands. Global Change Biology, 2021, 10.1111/GCB.15801.
11. Xiaofei Lu#, Enqing Hou#, Jieyun Guo, Jianlong Li*, Songbo Tang, Yuanwen Kuang*. Nitrogen addition stimulates soil aggregation and enhances carbon storage in terrestrial ecosystems of China: A meta-analysis. Global Change Biology, 2021, 27: 2780-2792.
12. Xianjin He, Laurent Augusto, Daniel S. Goll, Bruno Ringeval, Yingping Wang, Julian Helfenstein, Yuanyuan Huang, Kailiang Yu, Zhiqiang Wang, Yongchuan Yang*, Enqing Hou*. (2021). Global patterns and drivers of soil total phosphorus concentration. Earth System Science Data, 2021, 10.1007/s10533-020-00713-3.
13. Enqing Hou* Jennifer A. Rudgers, Scott L. Collins, Marcy E. Litvak, Carleton S. White, Douglas I. Moore, Yiqi Luo. Sensitivity of soil organic matter to climate and fire in a desert grassland. Biogeochemistry, 2021, 10.1007/s10533-020-00713-3.
14. Fuqiang Wang, Jiwang Tang, Zhaolei Li, Jie Xiang, Liwei Wang, Li Tian, Lifen Jiang, Yiqi Luo, Enqing Hou*, Xiaoming Shao*. Warming reduces the production of a major forage on the Tibetan Plateau. Science of total Environment, 2021, 10.1016/j.scitotenv. 2021.149211.
15. Xianjin He, Chengjin Chu, Yongchuan Yang*, Zufei Shu, Z., Buhang Li, Enqing Hou*. Bedrock and climate jointly control the phosphorus status of subtropical forests along two elevational gradients. 2021, Catena, 206, 105525.
16. Xiaowei Zang#, Xianzhen Luo#, Enqing Hou, Guihua Zhang, Xiaofeng Zhang, Meijuan Xiao, Dazhi Wen*, Lingling Zhang*. Effects of elevated CO2 concentration and nitrogen addition on the chemical compositions, construction cost, and payback time of subtropical trees in Cd-contaminated mesocosm soil. Tree Physiology. 2022, tpab163.
17. Xiaofei Lu, Zhangfen Qin, Hans Lambers, Songbo Tang, Joeri Kaal, Enqing Hou, Yuanwen Kuang. Nitrogen addition increases aboveground silicon and phytolith concentrations in understory plants of a tropical forest. Plant and Soil, 2021, https://doi.org/10.1007/s11104-021-05236-w.
18. Xiang Tan*, Enqing Hou, Quanfa Zhang, Stuart E Bunn. Benthic metabolism responses to environmental attributes at multiple scales and its linkage to algal community structure in streams. Hydrobiologia. 2021, 848(21): 5067-5085.
19. Jinsong Wang#, Dashuan Tian#, Alan K. Knapp, Han Y. H. Chen, Yiqi Luo, Zhaolei Li, Enqing Hou, Xingzhao Huang, Lifen Jiang, Shuli Niu*. Precipitation manipulation and terrestrial carbon cycling: The roles of treatment magnitude, experimental duration and local climate. Global Ecology and Biogeography, 2021, https://doi.org/10.1111/geb.13356.
20. Jinsong Wang*, Camille Defrenne, M. Luke McCormack, Lu Yang, Dashuan Tian, Yiqi Luo, Enqing Hou, Tao Yan, Zhaolei Li, Wensheng Bu, Ye Chen, Shuli Niu*. Fine-root functional trait responses to experimental warming: a global meta‐analysis. New Phytologist, 2021, 230: 1856-1867.
21. Yang Liu, Guihua Zhang, Xianzhen Luo, Enqing Hou, Mianhai Zheng, Lingling Zhang, Xianjin He, Weijun Shen, Dazhi Wen*. Mycorrhizal fungi and phosphatase involvement in rhizosphere phosphorus transformations improves plant nutrition during subtropical forest succession. Soil Biology and Biochemistry, 2021, 153, 108099.
22. Lifen Jiang*, Junyi Liang, Xingjie Lu, Enqing Hou, Forrest M Hoffman, Yiqi Luo. Country-level land carbon sink and its causing components by the middle of the twenty-first century. Ecological Processes. 2021, 10(1): 61.
23. Xiaofei Lu, Yuanwen Kuang*, Linyun Mou, Enqing Hou, Shenglei Fu, Jianlong Li*. Canopy mitigates the effects of nitrogen deposition on soil carbon-related processes in a subtropical forest. Science of the Total Environment, 2021, 757, 143847.
24. Xin Huang, Dan Lu, Daniel M Ricciuto, Paul J Hanson, Andrew D Richardson, Xuehe Lu, Ensheng Weng, Sheng Nie, Lifen Jiang, Enqing Hou, Igor F Steinmacher, Yiqi Luo. A model-independent data assimilation (MIDA) module and its applications in ecology. Geoscientific Model Development, 2021, 14(8): 5217-5238.
25. Songbo Tang#, Lingling Zhang#, Hans Lambers, Wendan Ren, Xiaofei Lu, Enqing Hou, Shenglei Fu, Yuanwen Kuang*. Addition of nitrogen to canopy versus understory has different effects on leaf traits of understory plants in a subtropical evergreen broad–leaved forest. Journal of Ecology, 2021, 109(2), 692-702.
26. Xiaofei Lu, Wendan Ren, Enqing Hou, Songbo Tang, Lingling Zhang, Zhanfeng Liu, Yongbiao Lin, Shenglei Fu, Dazhi Wen, Yuanwen Kuang*. Different effects of canopy and understory nitrogen addition on soil organic carbon and its related processes in a subtropical forest. Journal of Soils and Sediments, 2021, 21(1), 235-244.
2016—2020
27. Enqing Hou*, Yiqi Luo, Yuanwen Kuang, Chengrong Chen, Xiankai Lu, Lifen Jiang, Xianzhen Luo, Dazhi Wen*. Global meta-analysis shows pervasive phosphorus limitation of aboveground plant production in natural terrestrial ecosystems. Nature Communications, 2020, 11, 637, 10.1038/s41467-020-14492-w. (ESI高被引论文，Nature Communications生态与进化领域亮点论文，Faculty Opinions(原F1000)推荐)
28. Xianjin He#, Enqing Hou#, Veen, G.F., Farnon Ellwood M.D., Paul Dijkstra, Xinghua Sui, Shuang Zhang, Dazhi Wen, Chengjin Chu*. Soil microbial biomass increases along elevational gradients in the tropics and subtropics but not elsewhere. Global Ecology and Biogeography, 2020, 29, 345-354.
29. Xianzhen Luo, Enqing Hou, Lingling Zhang, Dazhi Wen*. Soil carbon dynamics in different types of subtropical forests as determined by density fractionation and stable isotope analysis. Forest Ecology and Management, 2020, 475, 11841.
30. Xianzhen Luo, Enqing Hou, Jiaqian Chen, Jiong Li, Lingling Zhang, Xiaowei Zang, Dazhi Wen*. Dynamics of carbon, nitrogen, and phosphorus stocks and stoichiometry resulting from conversion of primary broadleaf forest to plantation and secondary forest in subtropical China. Catena, 2020, 193, 104606.
31. Jens Kattge*, Gerhard Bonisch, …, Enqing Hou, …, Christian Wirth. TRY plant trait database–enhanced coverage and open access. Global Change Biology, 2020, 26, 119-188.
32. Paschalis, A.*, Fatichi, S., ..., Hou, E., …, Zhu, Q. Rainfall-manipulation experiments as simulated by terrestrial biosphere models: where do we stand? Global Change Biology, 2020, 26: 3336– 3355.
33. Andong Cai, Naijie Chang, Wenju Zhang, Guopeng Liang, Xubo Zhang, Enqing Hou, Lifen Jiang, Xianni Chen, Minggang Xu*, Yiqi Luo. The spatial patterns of litter turnover time in Chinese terrestrial ecosystems. European Journal of Soil Science, 2020, 71(5), 856-867.
34. Enqing Hou*,#, Xingjie Lu#, Lifen Jiang, Dazhi Wen, Yiqi Luo*. Quantifying soil phosphorus dynamics: a data assimilation approach. Journal of Geophysical Research: Biogeosciences, 2019, 124, 2159-2173.
35. Xianzhen Luo#, Enqing Hou#, Xiaowei Zang, Lingling Zhang, Yafeng Yi, Dazhi Wen. Effects of elevated atmospheric CO2 and nitrogen deposition on leaf litter and soil carbon degrading enzyme activities in a Cd-contaminated environment: A mesocosm study. Science of the Total Environment, 2019, 671, 157-164.
36. Xianzhen Luo, Enqing Hou, Lingling Zhang, Xiaowei Zang, Yafeng Yi, Guihua Zhang, Dazhi Wen*. Effects of forest conversion on carbon-degrading enzyme activities in subtropical China. Science of the Total Environment, 2019, 696, 133968.
37. Andong Cai, Mingang Xu*, Boren Wang, Wenju Zhang, Guopeng Liang, Enqing Hou, Yiqi Luo. Manure acts as a better fertilizer for increasing crop yields than synthetic fertilizer does by improving soil fertility. Soil and Tillage Research, 2019, 189, 168-175.
38. Xiaofei Lu, Wendan Ren, Enqing Hou, Lingling Zhang, Dazhi Wen, Zhanfeng Liu, Yongbiao, Jun Wang, Yuanwen Kuang*. Negative effects of canopy N addition on soil organic carbon in wet season are primarily detected in uppermost soils of a subtropical forest. Global Ecology and Conservation, 2019, 17, e00543.
39. Xiankai Lu, Peter M. Vitousek*, Qinggong Mao, Frank S. Gilliam, Yiqi Luo, Guoyi Zhou, Xiaoming Zou, Edith Bai, Todd M. Scanlon, Enqing Hou, Jiangming Mo*. Plant acclimation to long-term high nitrogen deposition in an N-rich tropical forest. 2018, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 115, 5187-5192.
40. Kaijun Zhou, Xiankai Lu*, Taiki Mori, Qinggong Mao, Cong Wang, Mianhai Zheng, Hui Mo, Enqing Hou, Jiangming Mo. Effects of long-term nitrogen deposition on phosphorus leaching dynamics in a mature tropical forest. Biogeochemistry, 2018, 138, 215-224.
41. Songbo Tang, Yimin Xu, Yongbiao Lin, Enqing Hou, Weijun Shen, Jun Wang, Yuanwen Kuang*. Seasonal drought may alter N availability but not water use efficiency of dominant trees in a subtropical forest. Global Ecology and Conservation, 2018, 16, e00475.
42. George TS*, Giles CD, Menezes-Blackburn D, Condron LM, Gama-Rodrigues AC, Jaisi D, Lang F, …, Hou EQ, …, Wang L, Wasaki J, Haygarth PM. Organic phosphorus in the terrestrial environment: a perspective on the state of the art and future priorities. Plant and Soil, 2018, 191-208.
43. Enqing Hou*, Dazhi Wen, Yuanwen Kuang, Jing Cong, Chengrong Chen, Xianjin He, Marijke Heenan, Hui Lu, Yuguang Zhang*. Soil pH predominantly controls the composition of organic phosphorus in topsoils under natural broadleaved forests along a 2500 km latitudinal gradient. Geoderma, 2018, 315, 65-74.
44. Enqing Hou*, Chengrong Chen, Yiqi Luo, Guoyi Zhou, Yuanwen Kuang, Yuguang Zhang, Marijke Heenan, Xiankai Lu, Dazhi Wen*. Effects of climate on soil phosphorus cycle and availability in natural terrestrial ecosystems. Global Change Biology, 2018, 24, 3344-3356.
45. Enqing Hou*, Songbo Tang, Chengrong Chen, Yuanwen Kuang, Xiankai Lu, Marijke Heenan, Dazhi Wen*. Solubility of phosphorus in subtropical forest soils as influenced by low-molecular organic acids and key edaphic properties, 2018, Geoderma, 313, 172-180.
46. Enqing Hou*,#, Xiang Tan#, Marijke Heenan, Dazhi Wen.* A global dataset of plant available and unavailable phosphorus in natural soils derived by Hedley method, 2018, Scientific Data, 5, 180166.
47. 柳杨, 何先进, 侯恩庆*. 鼎湖山森林演替和海拔梯度上的土壤微生物生物量碳氮含量变化研究. 生态学杂志, 2017, 36(2): 287-294.
48. Yuanwen Kuang, Yimin Xu, Lingling Zhang, Enqing Hou, Weijun Shen*. Dominant trees in a subtropical forest respond to drought mainly via adjusting tissue soluble sugar and proline content. Frontiers in Plant Science, 2017, 8, 802. doi: 10.3389/fpls.2017.00802.
49. 陈剑锋, 侯恩庆, 张玲玲, 陈嘉茜, 李炯, 温达志*. 福建省马尾松和杉木针叶七种营养元素含量特征. 热带亚热带植物学报, 2016, 24(6): 595-602.
50. Enqing Hou, Chengrong Chen, Yuanwen Kuang, Yuguang Zhang, Marijke, Heenan, Dazhi Wen*. A structural equation model analysis of phosphorus transformations in global unfertilized and uncultivated soils. Global Biogeochemical Cycles, 2016, 1300-1309.
51. Xianjin He#, Enqing Hou#, Yang Liu, Dazhi Wen*. Altitudinal patterns and controls of plant and soil nutrient concentrations and stoichiometry in subtropical China. Scientific Reports, 2016, 6:24261, doi: 10.1038/srep24261.
2015年以前
52. Enqing Hou, Chengrong Chen*, Dazhi Wen*, Xian Liu. Phosphatase activity in relation to key litter and soil properties in mature subtropical forests in China. Science of the Total Environment, 2015, 515–516: 83–91.
53. Enqing Hou, Chengrong Chen*, Dazhi Wen*, Yuanwen Kuang, Fangfang Sun. Plant and soil δ13C and δ15N are linked to community biomass, litter production and litter turnover rate in mature subtropical forests, Plant Ecology, 2015, 216:859-872.
54. Enqing Hou, Huimin Xiang, Jianli Li, Jiong Li, Dazhi Wen*. Soil acidification and heavy metals in urban parks as affected by reconstruction intensity in a humid subtropical environment. Pedosphere, 2015, 25: 82-92.
55. Chengrong Chen*, Enqing Hou, Leo M. Condron, Gary Bacon, Maryam Esfandbod, J. Olley, Benjamin L. Turner. Soil phosphorus fractionation and nutrient dynamics along the Cooloola coastal dune chronosequence, southern Queensland, Australia. Geoderma, 2015, 257-258: 4-13.
56. Yuanwen Kuang, Jiong Li, Enqing Hou. Lipid-content-normalized polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) in the xylem of conifers can indicate historical changes in regional airbone PAHs. Environmental Pollution, 2015, 196: 53-59.
57. Xian Liu, Chengrong Chen*, Weijin Wang, Jane M. Hughes, Tome Lewis, Enqing Hou, Jupei Shen. Vertical distribution of soil denitrifying communities in a wet sclerophyll forest under long-term repeated burning. Microbial Ecology, 2015, 70: 993-1003.
58. Enqing Hou#, Huimin Xiang#, Jianli Li, Jiong Li, Dazhi Wen*. Heavy metal contamination in soils of remnant natural and plantation forests in an urbanized region of the Pearl River Delta, China. Forests, 2014, 5: 885-900.
59. Enqing Hou, Chengrong Chen*, Dazhi Wen*, Xian Liu. Relationships of phosphorus fractions to organic carbon content in surface soils in mature subtropical forests in Dinghushan, China. Soil Research, 2014, 52: 55-63.
60. Xian Liu, Chengrong Chen*, Weijin Wang, Jane M. Hughes, Tom Lewis, Enqing Hou, Jupei Shen. Soil environmental factors rather than denitrification gene abundance control N2O fluxes in a wet sclerrophyll forest with different burning frequency. Soil Biology and Biochemistry, 2013, 57: 292-300.
61. Enqing Hou, Chengrong Chen*, Megan E McGroddy, Dazhi Wen*. Nutrient limitation on ecosystem productivity and processes of mature and old-growth forests in subtropical China. PLOS One, 2012, 7: e52071.
62. Enqing Hou, Dazhi Wen*, Jianli Li, Weidong Zuo, Lingling Zhang, Yuanwen Kuang and Jiong Li. Soil acidity and exchangeable base cations in contrasting remnant native and plantation forests in the urbanized Pearl River Delta, China. Soil Research, 2012, 50, 207-215.
63. 侯恩庆, Chen C R, 黎键力, 左伟东, 王瑜, 汪学金, 温达志*. 佛山地区存留自然林和存留人工林的土壤无机磷组分. 热带亚热带植物学报, 2012, 20: 546-554.
64. 侯恩庆, 谭家得, 黎建力, 张玲玲, 陆耀东, 温达志*. 陶瓷工业污染区污染元素在8种树种中的积累与分布. 热带亚热带植物学报, 2011, 19(5): 438-445.
65. 侯恩庆, 吴敏, 孙芳芳, 旷远文, 温达志*. 广州夏浦围工业区42种园林植物的元素浓度特征. 广东林业科技, 2011, 27: 47-53.
66. 黎建力, 侯恩庆*, 左伟东. 陶瓷工业污染区41种植物的硫含量特征. 生态科学, 2011, 30: 512-517.
67. Yuanwen Kuang*, Dazhi Wen, Jiong Li, Fangfang Sun, Enqing Hou, Guoyi Zhou, Deqiang Zhang, Long-bin Huang. Homogeneity of δ15N in needles of Masson pine (Pinus massoniana L.) was altered by air pollution. Environmental Pollution, 2010, 158: 1963-1967.
68. Fangfang Sun, Yuanwen Kuang, Dazhi Wen*, Zhihong Xu, Jianli Li, Weidong Zuo, Enqing Hou. Long-term tree growth rate, water use efficiency, and tree ring nitrogen isotope composition of Pinus massoniana L. in response to global climate change and local nitrogen deposition in Southern China. Journal of Soils and Sediments, 2010, 10: 1453-1465.
Students
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