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2、Jiang Pengcheng, He Han, Mao Zikun, Su Yanjun, Zhang Mengxu, Zhu Meihui, Xu Zhichao, Yin Jin, Jiang Hongyi, Fang Shuai and Wang Xugao*. Canopy properties predominately explain above-ground biomass stock in temperate forests. Journal of Plant Ecology, 2025,18(2): rtaf026.

3、Zhang Mengxu, Sayer Emma J.,Ye Ji, Yuan Zuoqiang, Lin Fei, Hao Zhanqing, Fang Shuai, Mao Zikun, Jiang Pengcheng, Zhu Meihui and Wang Xugao*. Tree mycorrhizal associations regulate relationships between plant and microbial communities and soil organic carbon stocks at local scales in a temperate forest. Functional Ecology, 2025, 2025, 39(6): 1550-1566.

4、Chen Yue, Mao Zikun, Myers Jonathan A., Yu Jinghua and Wang Xugao*. Tree mycorrhizal associations determine how biodiversity, large trees, and environmental factors drive aboveground carbon stock in temperate forests. Forest Ecosystems, 2024, 11: 100205.

5、Chen Yue, Myers Jonathan A., Ordonez Alejandro, Yu Jinghua, Ye Ji, Lin Fei, Fang Shuai, Mao Zikun and Wang Xugao*. Multiple processes jointly determine ecological uniqueness across forest plant life-forms in Northeast China. Journal of Biogeography, 2024, 51(7): 1133-1147.

6、Mao Zikun, Wiegand Thorsten, Corrales Adriana, Fang Shuai, Hao Zhanqing, Lin Fei, Ye Ji, Yuan Zuoqiang and Wang Xugao*. Mycorrhizal Types Regulate Tree Spatial Associations in Temperate Forests: Ectomycorrhizal Trees Might Favour Species Coexistence. Ecology Letters, 2024, 27(10): e70005.

7、Zhu Meihui, Fanin Nicolas, Wang Qingkui, Xu Zhichao, Liang Shuang, Ye Ji, Lin Fei, Yuan Zuoqiang, Mao Zikun, Wang Xugao* and Hao Zhanqing*. High functional breadth of microbial communities decreases home-field advantage of litter decomposition. Soil Biology and Biochemistry, 2024, 109232: 188.

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11、Xu Zhichao, Johnson Daniel J., Zhu Kai, Lin Fei, Ye Ji, Yuan Zuoqiang, Mao Zikun, Fang Shuai, Hao Zhanqing and Wang Xugao*. Interannual climate variability has predominant effects on seedling survival in a temperate forest. Ecology, 2022, e3643.

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