Yanjie Liu
My research interests lie broadly in plant ecology, in particular on biological invasions and global change biology. Using meta-analysis and short-term greenhouse experiments, I aimed to gain insights into how phenotypic plasticity contributes to plant success under environmental change, specifically focusing on plant invasion under anthropogenic global change and nutrient fluctuations. Additionally, I also tested whether phenotypic plastic responses that are assumed to be adaptive are really adaptive, specifically focusing on the plastic response of specific leaf area induced by changes in light intensity.
For more info, see personal website: www.plantecology.cn
Publication list:
Zeng JJ, Liu YJ & van Kleunen M (2023) Widely naturalized species are not more promiscuous to different nitrogen forms, but benefit more from inorganic nitrogen. Biological Invasions 25:3917-3930 (DOI: 10.1007/s10530-023-03148-7)
Liu YJ & van Kleunen M (2019) Nitrogen acquisition of Central European herbaceous plants that differ in their global naturalization success. Functional Ecology 33:566-575 (DOI: 10.1111/1365-2435.13288)
Liu YJ, Zhang XQ & van Kleunen M (2018) Increases and fluctuations in nutrient availability do not promote dominance of alien plants in synthetic communities of common natives. Functional Ecology 32:2594-2604 (DOI: 10.1111/1365-2435.13199)
Liu YJ, Liu M, Xu XL, Tian YQ, Zhang Z & van Kleunen M (2018) The effects of changes in water and nitrogen availability on alien plant invasion into a stand of a native grassland species. Oecologia 188:441-450 (DOI: 10.1007/s00442-018-4216-1)
Liu YJ, Oduor AMO, Zhang Z, Manea A, Tooth IM, Leishman MR, Xu XL, van Kleunen M (2016) Do invasive alien plants benefit more from global environmental change than native plants? Global Change Biology 23:336-3370 (DOI: 10.1111/gcb.13579)
Liu YJ & van Kleunen M (2017) Responses of common and rare aliens and natives to nutrient availability and fluctuations therein. Journal of Ecology 105:1111-1122 (DOI: 10.1111/1365-2745.12733)
Jia JJ, Dai ZC, Li F & Liu Y (2016) How Will Global Environmental Changes Affect the Growth of Alien Plants? Frontiers in Plant Science 7:1623 (DOI:10.3389/fpls.2016.01623)
Liu YJ, Dawson W, Prati D, Haeuser E, Feng YH & van Kleunen M(2016) Does greater specific-leaf-area plasticity help plants to maintain a high performance when shaded? Annals of Botany 118:1329-1336 (DOI: 10.1093/aob/mcw180)
Liu YJ, Li Y, Zhang LR, Xu XL & Niu HS (2015) Effects of sampling method on foliar δ13C of Leymus chinensis at different scales. Ecology and evolution 5:1068-1075 (DOI:10.1002/ece3.1401)
(Update:27.02.2023)