Community Ecology

2012/09 – 2017/07,   University of Chinese Academic of Sciences; Xishuangbanna Tropical Botanical Garden;   Doctor Degree of Ecology.

2008/09 – 2012/07,   College of Forestry,   Guangxi University,   Bachelor Degree of Ecology;

   

2017/07 – 2020/12,   Xishuangbanna Tropical Botanical Garden,   Assistant Professor.

2019/08-now  Core Botanical Gardens, Chinese Academy of Sciences, bone talent

2021/01 – now,   Xishuangbanna Tropical Botanical Garden,   Associate Professor.

Online

Asefa, M.#, Song, X.#, Cao, M., Lasky, J.R., Yang, J. * (2021). Temporal trait plasticity predicts thegrowth of tropical trees. Journal of Vegetation Science, (doi.org/10.1111/jvs.13056)

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, (doi.org/10.1016/j.pld.2021.04.006)

2021

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)

Yang, J., Song, X., Cao, M., Deng, X., Zhang, W., Yang, X., & Swenson, N. G. (2021). On the modeling of tropical tree growth: the importance of intra-specific trait variation, non-linear functions and phenotypic integration. Annals of Botany, 127(4), 533–542. (doi.org/10.1093/aob/mcaa085)

2020

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.

Zhang, Y. B., Wu, H. D., Yang, J., Song, X., Yang, D., He, F., & Zhang, J. L. (2020). Environmental filtering and spatial processes shape the beta diversity of liana communities in a valley savanna in southwest China. Applied Vegetation Science, 23:482–494.

Deng, Y., Deng, X., Dong, J., Zhang, W., Hu, T., Nakamura, A., Song, X., Fu, P., & Cao, M. (2020) Detecting Growth Phase Shifts Based on Leaf Trait Variation of a Canopy Dipterocarp Tree Species (Parashorea chinensis). Forests, 11(11), 1145.

2019

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.

2018

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.

2017

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.

Luo, X., Cao, M., Zhang, M., Song, X., Li, J., Nakamura, A., Kitching, R. (2017). Soil seed banks along elevational gradients in tropical, subtropical and subalpine forests in Yunnan Province, southwest China. Plant Diversity, 39, 273-286.

2016

Song, X., Li, J., Zhang, W., Sun, Z., Tang, Y., Cao, M.* (2016). Variant responses of tree seedling to seasonal drought stress along an elevational transect in tropical montane forests. Scientific Reports, 6, 36438.

Song, X., Nakamura, A., Sun, Z., Tang, Y., Cao, M.* (2016). Elevational distribution of adult trees and seedlings in a tropical montane transect, southwest China. Mountain Research and Development, 36, 342-354.