1. Qu LR,Wang C*,Manzoni S,Dacal M,Maestre FT,Bai E. Stronger compensatory thermal adaptation of soil microbial respiration with higher substrate availability. The ISME Journal. 2024,18 (1),wrae025.

2. Qu LR,Wang C*,Bai E*. Evaluation of the¹⁸O-H₂O incubation method for measurement of soil microbial carbon use efficiency. Soil Biology and Biochemistry. 2020,145: 107802.

3. Wang C^#,Qu LR^#,Yang LM,Liu DW,Morrissey E,Miao RH,Liu ZP,Wang QK,Fang YT,Bai E*. Large-scale importance of microbial carbon use efficiency and necromass to soil organic carbon. Global Change Biology. 2021,27 (10):2039-2048.

4. Sun LF^#,Qu LR^#, Moorhead DL,Cui YX,Wanek W,Li SL,Sang CP,Wang C*. Interpreting the differences in microbial carbon and nitrogen use efficiencies estimated by ¹⁸O labeling and ecoenzyme stoichiometry. Geoderma. 2024,444: 116856.

5. Wang J,Qu LR,Osterholz H,Qi YL,Zeng XF,Bai E,Wang C*. Effects of DOM chemodiversity on microbial diversity in forest soils on a continental scale. Global Change Biology. 2025,31: e70131.

6. Yu J^#,Yang JY^#,Qu LR,Huang XY,Liu Y,Jiang P,Wang C*. Soil microbial carbon use efficiency differs between mycorrhizal trees: insights from substrate stoichiometry and microbial networks. ISME Communications. 2025,5 (1):ycae173.

7. Li J,Sang CP,Yang JY,Qu LR,Xia ZW,Sun H,Jiang P,Wang XG,He HB,Wang C*. Stoichiometric imbalance and microbial community regulate microbial elements use efficiencies under nitrogen addition. Soil Biology and Biochemistry. 2021,156: 108207.

8. Sun LF,Li J,Qu LR,Wang X,Sang CP,Wang J,Sun MZ,Wanek W,Moorhead DL,Bai E,Wang C*. Phosphorus limitation reduces microbial nitrogen use efficiency by increasing extracellular enzyme investments. Geoderma. 2023,432: 116416.

9. Wang C*,Wang X,Zhang Y,Morrissey E,Liu Y,Sun LF,Qu LR,Sang CP,Zhang H,Li GC*,Zhang LL,Fang YT. Integrating microbial community properties,biomass and necromass to predict cropland soil organic carbon. ISME Communications. 2023,3 (1):86.