1.  Liang X., McDowell N. G., Wang D., Cui B., Chen J., Qiu K., Luan J., Fan Z., Tan X.P., Zhou X., Song Q., Chen Z., Jin Y., Liu C., Wang Y., Li Z., Liu H., Liu Q., He P., Yang C., Liu B., Deng M., Miu Y., Tan X., Lu X., Yan J., Li W., Liu S. and Ye Q.* (2026). Declining hydraulic safety in a drier world. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 123(35): e2622754123.

2.  Liang X., Cui B., Wang X., Liu H., He P., Yin D., Tang W., Wang Y., Liao L., Xia Q., Wu G. and Ye Q.* (2026). The coordination of dehydration tolerance and avoidance in oaks is mediated by leaf habit across a precipitation gradient. Functional Ecology, 40(3): 750-763.

3.  Zhang D., Wang Z., Zheng Y., Yin J., Feng Y., Bin Y., Ye Q., Cao H., Lei Y., Zhang B., Zhou J., Ye W. and Lian J. (2026). Topographic decoupling of tree-mortality disturbances drives contrasting soil carbon fates via divergent microbial strategies. Nature Communications, DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-026-77237-1.

4.  Xu H., Wang H., Prentice I., Harrison S., Rowland L., Mencuccini M., Sanchez-Martinez P., He P., Wright I., Sitch S., Li M. and Ye Q. (2026). Global variation in the ratio of sapwood to leaf area explained by optimality principles. New Phytologist, 250: 181-193.

5.  Wang Y., Zhang J., Chen Y., Posch B. C., Yang D., He P., Zhu S., Ning Q., Lu L., Zhang H., Wang Z., Liu M., Chen H., Ye Q. and Liu H. (2026). Leaf economic traits link drought and heat tolerance of woody species in two contrasting hydrothermal habitats. New Phytologist, 249(6): 2808-2820.

6.  Liu M., Wang W., Ye Q., Liu H., Li R., Zhu S., Oyanoghafo O. and He P. (2026). Trade-offs between water use efficiency and hydraulic conductivity across 52 woody species distributed in three forests along a precipitation gradient. Journal of Plant Ecology, 19(3): rtaf186.

7.  Li X., Zhang C., Zhang B., Jiang L., Tang S., Sun C., Bai Y., Wang Y., Shi Y., Ma L., Zhang W., Ye Q., Yan J., Wang K., Fu J., Du W., Ha D., Ju Y., Wan S. and Fu S. (2025). Underappreciated role of canopy nitrogen deposition for forest productivity. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 122: e2508925122.

8.  Liao L., Liu X., Liang X., Li Q., Tang W., He P., Liu H. and Ye Q.* (2025). Minimum leaf conductance varied across 39 sub-tropical woody species with contrasting light requirement strategies. Journal of Experimental Botany, 76(20): 6114–6125.

9.  He P., Ye Q.*, Yu K., Liu X., Liu H., Liang X., Zhu S., Wang H., Yan J., Wang Y. P., and Wright I. J. (2025). Relationship between wind speed and plant hydraulics at the global scale. Nature Ecology & Evolution, 9, 273-281.

10. Wu G., Ye Q.*, Liu H., Schneider H., Sundue M., Song J., Wang H., and Qiu Z. (2025). Shaded habitats drive higher rates of fern diversification. Journal of Ecology, 113(5): 1200-1208.

11. He P., Ye Q.*, Yu K., Wang H., Xu H., Yin Q., Yue M., Liang X., Wang W., You Z., Zhong Y., and Liu H. (2025). Growing-season precipitation is a key driver of plant leaf area to sapwood area ratio at the global scale. Plant, Cell & Environment, 48 (1), 746-755.

12. Gu C., Yin D., Cadotte M.W., Liu H. and Ye Q.*. (2025). Taxonomic diversity predicts aboveground biomass mainly through functional dominance across subtropical forest succession. Journal of Plant Ecology, 18(3): rtaf038.

13. Jin Y., Ye Q.*, Liu X., Liu H., Gleason S. M., He P., Liang X., and Wu G. (2024). Precipitation, solar radiation, and their interaction modify leaf hydraulic efficiency–safety trade-off across angiosperms at the global scale. New Phytologist, 244(6), 2267-2277.

14. Liu X., Yu K., Liu H., Phillips R. P., He P., Liang X., Tang W., Terrer C., Novick K. A., Bakpa E. P., Zhao M., Gao X., Jin Y., Wen Y., and Ye Q.* (2024). Contrasting drought tolerance traits of woody plants is associated with mycorrhizal types at the global scale. New Phytologist, 244(5), 2024-2035.

15. Liu H., Ye Q.*, Lundgren M., Young S., Liu X., Luo Q., Lin Y., Ye N., and Hao G.-Y. (2024). Phylogeny and climate explain contrasting hydraulic traits in different life forms of 150 woody Fabaceae species. Journal of Ecology, 112(4), 741-754. 

16. He P., Ye Q.*, Hua L., Zhu S., Liu H., Ning Q.-R., Li Q., and Qin X. (2024). Vein hierarchy mediates the 2D relationship between leaf size and drought tolerance across subtropical forest tree species. Tree Physiology, 44(1), tpad141.

17. Tang W., Liu X., Liang X., Liu H., Yu K., He P., McAdam S., Zhao H., and Ye Q.* (2024). Hydraulic vulnerability difference between branches and roots increases with environmental aridity. Oecologia, 205, 177-190.

18. Liang X., and Ye Q.* (2024). Integrating dehydration tolerance and avoidance in drought adaptation. Journal of Plant Ecology, 17(6), rtae073.

19. Liu H., Yin D., He P., Cadotte M. W., and Ye Q.* (2024). Linking plant functional traits to biodiversity under environmental change. Biological Diversity, 1(1), 22-28.

20. Jiang D., Nie T., He Q., Yan J., Feng E., and Ye Q.* (2024). A trade‐off between leaf carbon economics and plant size among mangrove species in Dongzhaigang, China. Ecology and Evolution, 14(11), e70559.

21. Luo X., Elrys A. S., Zhang L., Ibrahim M. M., Liu Y., Fu S., Yan J., Ye Q., Wen D., and Hou E. (2024). The global fate of inorganic phosphorus fertilizers added to terrestrial ecosystems. One Earth, 7(8), 1402-1413.

22. Song C., Fu Y., Zhu S., Xu W., Ye Q., and Yuan W. (2024). Linkages between stem vulnerability curves and tree demography and their implications for plant physiological modeling. Tree Physiology, 44(7), tpae078.

23. Ibrahim M., Lin Y., Guo Z., Guo C., Rao X., Liu S., Fu S., Ye Q., and Hou E. (2024). Increasing tree diversity reduces spatial heterogeneity of soil organic carbon and promotes carbon storage in subtropical forests. Agriculture Ecosystems & Environment, 271, 109077.

24. He J., Nie Y., Tan X., Hu A., Li Z., Dai S., Ye Q., Zhang G., and Shen W. (2024). Latitudinal patterns and drivers of plant lignin and microbial necromass accumulation in forest soils: Disentangling microbial and abiotic controls. Soil Biology and Biochemistry, 194, 109438.

25. Xu M., Fan L., Li A., Liu Q., Guangcan Y., Wang S., Zhang B., Ye Q., Mo J., and Zheng M. (2024). Plant and microbial carbon are important drivers of free-living nitrogen fixation in tropical forest soils: A new discovery of carbon-driven nitrogen input. Geophysical Research Letters, 51, e2024GL111238.

26. Liang X., Wang D., Ye Q.*, Zhang J., Liu M., Liu H., Yu K., Wang Y., Hou E., Zhong B., Xu L., Lv T., Peng S., Lu H., Sicard P., Anav A., and Ellsworth D. S. (2023). Stomatal responses of terrestrial plants to global change. Nature Communications, 14(1), 2188.

27. Wen Y., Ye Q.*, Román-Palacios C., Liu H., and Guilin W. (2023). Physiological cold tolerance evolves faster than climatic niches in plants. Frontiers in Plant Science, 14, 1257499.

28. Wu G., Chen D., Zhou Z., Ye Q.*, Baselga A., Liu H., Wen Y., and Nong S. (2023). Climatic niche divergence explains angiosperm diversification across clades in China. Journal of Systematics and Evolution, 61(4), 698-708.

29. Wu G., Ye Q.*, Liu H., Chen D., Zhou Z., Kang M., Kong H., Qiu Z., and Wang H. (2023). The evolutionary rate of leaf osmotic strength drives diversification of Primulina species in karst regions. Journal of Systematics and Evolution, 61(5), 843-851.

30. Jin Y., Hao G., Hammond W. M., Yu K., Liu X., Ye Q., Zhou Z., and Wang C. (2023). Aridity-dependent sequence of water potentials for stomatal closure and hydraulic dysfunctions in woody plants. Global Change Biology, 29(7), 2030-2040.

31. Huang J., Lei L., Liu J., Zhang W., Wang S., Ye Q., Mo J., and Zheng M. (2023). Seven years phosphorus addition has no effect on soil acidity in two tropical plantations. Forest Ecology and Management, 532, 120822.

32. He J., Tan X., Nie Y., Ma L., Liu J., Lu X., Mo J., Leloup J., Nunan N., Ye Q., and Shen W. (2023). Distinct responses of abundant and rare soil bacteria to nitrogen addition in tropical forest soils. Microbiology spectrum, 11, e0300322.

33. Zheng M., Zhang T., Luo Y., Liu J., Lu X., Ye Q., Wang S., Huang J., Mao Q., Mo J., and Zhang W. (2022). Temporal patterns of soil carbon emission in tropical forests under long-term nitrogen deposition. Nature Geoscience, 15, 1-9.

34. Liu H., Ye Q.*, Simpson KJ., Cui EQ. and Xia JY. (2022). Can evolutionary history predict plant plastic responses to climate change? New Phytologist, 235, 1260-1271.

35. He P., Lian J., Ye Q.*, Liu H., Zheng Y., Yu K., Zhu S., Li R. and Yin D. (2022). How do functional traits influence tree demographic properties in a subtropical monsoon forest? Functional Ecology, 36, 3200-3210.

36. Yin DY., Meiners SJ., Ni M., Ye Q., He FL. and Cadotte MW. (2022). Positive interactions of native species melt invasional meltdown over long-term plant succession. Ecology Letters, 25, 2584-2596.

37. Liu H., Ye Q.*, Gleason MS., He PC. and Yin DY. (2021). Weak tradeoff between xylem hydraulic efficiency and safety: climatic seasonality matters. New Phytologist, 229, 1440-1452.

38. Liang XY., Ye Q.*, Liu H. and Brodribb TJ. (2021). Wood density predicts mortality threshold for diverse trees. New Phytologist, 229, 3053-3057.

39. Zhang T., Liang XY. Ye Q.*, BassiriRad H., Liu H., He PC., Wu GL., Lu XK., Mo JM., Cai XA., Rao XQ., Yan JH. and Fu SL. (2021). Leaf hydraulic acclimation to nitrogen addition of two dominant tree species in a subtropical forest. Science of the Total Environment, 771, 145415.

40. Liang XY., Zhang T., Lu XK., Ellsworth DS., BassiriRad H., You CM., Wang D., He PC., Deng Q., Liu H., Mo JM. and Ye Q.* (2020). Global response patterns of plant photosynthesis to nitrogen addition: A meta-analysis. Global Change Biology, 26, 3585-3600.

41. He, PC., Gleason MS., Wright IJ., Weng ES., Liu H., Zhu SD., Lu MZ., Luo Q., Li RH., Wu GL., Yan ER., Song YJ., Mi XC., Hao GY., Reich PB., Wang YP., Ellsworth DS. and Ye Q.* (2020). Growing-season temperature and precipitation are independent drivers of global variation in xylem hydraulic conductivity. Global Change Biology, 26, 1833-1841.

42. Liu H., Ye Q. and Wiens JJ. (2020). Climatic-niche evolution follows similar rules in plants and animals. Nature Ecology & Evolution, 4, 753-763.

43. Hua L., He P., Goldstein G., Liu H., Yin D., Zhu SD. and Ye Q.* (2020). Linking vein properties to leaf biomechanics across 58 woody species from a subtropical forest. Plant Biology, 22, 212-220.

44. Liu H., Gleason MS., Hao GY., Hua L., He PC., Goldstein G. and Ye Q.* (2019). Hydraulic traits are coordinated with maximum plant height at the global scale. Science Advances, 5, eaav1332.

45. He P., Wright I. J., Zhu S., Onoda Y., Liu H., Li R., Liu X., Hua L., Oyanoghafo OO. and Ye Q.* (2019). Leaf mechanical strength and photosynthetic capacity vary independently across 57 subtropical forest species with contrasting light requirements. New Phytologist, 223, 607-618.

46. Liu H., Taylor H. S., Xu Q., Lin Y., Hou H., Wu G. and Ye Q.* (2019) Life history is a key factor explaining functional trait diversity among subtropical grasses, and its influence differs between C-3 and C-4 species. Journal of Experimental Botany, 70, 1567-1580.

47. Liang X., He P., Liu H., Zhu S., Uyeharad K. I., Hou H., Wu G., Zhang H., You Z., Xiao Y. and Ye Q.* (2019). Precipitation has dominant influences on the variation of plant hydraulics of the native Castanopsis fargesii (Fagaceae) in subtropical China. Agricultural and Forest Meteorology, 271, 83-91.

48. Liu, XR, Liu H., Gleason MS., Goldstein G., Zhu SD., He PC., Hou H., Li RH. and Ye Q.* (2019). Water transport from stem to stomata: the coordination of hydraulic and gas exchange traits across 33 subtropical woody species. Tree Physiology, 39, 1665-1674.

49. Zhang H., Chen HYH., Lian JY., John R., Li RH., Liu H., Ye WH., Berninger F. and Ye Q.* (2018). Using functional trait diversity patterns to disentangle the scale-dependent ecological processes in a subtropical forest. Functional Ecology, 32, 1379-1389.

50. Zhang H., John R., Zhu SD., Liu H., Xu QY., Wei Q., Liu K., Chen H. and Ye Q.* (2018). Shifts in functional trait-species abundance relationships over secondary subalpine meadow succession in the Qinghai-Tibetan Plateau. Oecologia, 88, 547-557.

51. Zhu S., He P., Li R., Fu S. Lin Y., Zhou L., Cao K. and Ye Q.* (2018). Drought tolerance traits predict survival ratio of native tree species planted in a subtropical degraded hilly area in South China. Forest Ecology and Management, 418, 41-46.

52. Wu G., Liu H., Hua L., Luo Q., Lin Y., He P., Feng S., Liu J. and Ye Q.* (2018). Differential responses of stomata and photosynthesis to elevated temperature in two co-occurring subtropical forest tree species. Frontiers in Plant Science, 9, 467.

53. Liu H., Zhu L., Xu Q., Lundgren M., Yang K., Zhao P. and Ye Q.* (2018). Ecophysiological responses of two closely related Magnoliaceae genera to seasonal changes in subtropical China. Journal of Plant Ecology, 11,434-444.

54. Liu H., Xu Q., Lundgren M. R. and Ye Q.* (2017). Different water relations between flowering and leaf periods: a case study in flower-before-leaf-emergence Magnolia species. Functional Plant Biology, 44, 1098-1110.

55. Xu Q., Liu H. and Ye Q.* (2017). Intraspecific variability of ecophysiological traits of four Magnoliaceae species growing in two climatic regions in China. Plant Ecology, 218, 407-415.

56. Zhang H., Zhu S., John R., Li RH., Liu H. and Ye Q.* (2017). Habitat filtering and exclusion of weak competitors jointly explain fern species assemblage along a light and water gradient. Scientific Reports, 7, 298.

57. Zhu S., Liu H., Xu Q., Cao K. and Ye Q.* (2016). Are leaves more vulnerable to cavitation than branches? Functional Ecology, 30, 1740-1744.

58. Liu H., Lundgren M., Freckleton R., Xu QY. and Ye Q.* (2016). Uncovering the spatio-temporal drivers of species trait variances: a case study of Magnoliaceae in China. Journal of Biogeography, 43, 1179-1191.

59. Zhu S., Li R., Song J., He P., Liu H., Berninger F. and Ye Q.* (2016). Different leaf cost-benefit strategies of ferns distributed in contrasting light habitats of subtropical forests. Annals of Botany, 117, 497-506.

60. Li R., Zhu S., Chen H., John R., Zhou G., Zhang D., Zhang Q. and Ye Q.* (2015). Are functional traits a good predictor of global change impacts on tree species abundance dynamics in a subtropical forest? Ecology Letters, 18, 1181-1189.

61. Liu H., Xu Q., He P., Santiago L. S., Yang K. and Ye Q.* (2015). Strong phylogenetic signals and phylogenetic niche conservatism in ecophysiological traits across divergent lineages of Magnoliaceae. Scientific Reports, 5, 12246.

62. Qian Z., Song J., Chaumont F. and Ye Q.* (2015). Differential responses of plasma membrane aquaporins in mediating water transport of cucumber seedlings under osmotic and salt stresses. Plant, Cell & Environment, 38, 461-473.

63. Zhu S., Chen Y., Cao K. and Ye Q.* (2015). Interspecific variation in branch and leaf traits among three Syzygium tree species from different successional tropical forests. Functional Plant Biology, 42,423-432.

64. Zhang W., Shen W., Zhu S., Wan S., Luo Y., Yan J., Wang K., Liu L., Dai H., Li P., Dai K., Zhang W., Liu Z., Wang F., Kuang Y., Li Z., Lin Y., Rao X., Li J., Zou B., Cai X., Mo J., Zhao P., Ye Q., Huang J. and Fu S. (2015). Can canopy addition of nitrogen better illustrate the effect of atmospheric nitrogen deposition on forest ecosystem? Scientific Reports, 5, 11245.

65. Zhu S., Song J., Li R. and Ye Q.* (2013). Plant hydraulics and photosynthesis of 34 woody species from different successional stages of subtropical forests. Plant, Cell & Environment, 36, 879-891.

66. Yan J., Li J., Ye Q. and Li K. (2012). Concentrations and exports of solutes from surface runoff in Houzhai Karst Basin, southwest China. Chemical Geology, 304, 1-9.

67. Hachez C., Veselov D., Ye Q., Reinhardt H., Knipfer T., Fricke W. and Chaumont F. (2012). Short-term control of maize cell and root water permeability through plasma membrane aquaporin isoforms. Plant Cell & Environment, 35, 185-198.

68. Heinen R.#, Ye Q.# and Chaumont F. (2009). Role of aquaporins in leaf physiology. Journal of Experimental Botany, 60, 2971-2985 (#共同第一作者).

69. Moshelion M., Hachez C., Ye Q., Cavez D., Bajji M., Jung R. and Chaumont F. (2009). Membrane water permeability and aquaporin expression increase during growth of maize suspension cultured cells. Plant Cell & Environment, 32, 1334-1345.

70. Gorska A., Ye Q., Holbrook NM. and Zwieniecki MA. (2008). Nitrate control of root hydraulic properties in plants: translating local information to whole plant response. Plant Physiology, 148, 1159-1167.

71.  Ye Q.*, Holbrook NM. and Zwieniecki MA. (2008). Cell-to-cell pathway dominates the xylem-epidermis hydraulic connection in Tradescantia fluminensis (Vell. Conc.) leaves. Planta, 227, 1311-1319.

72. Kim YM., Ye Q., Reinhardt H. and Steudle E. (2006). Further quantification of the role of internal unstirred layers during the measurement of transport coefficients in giant internodes of Chara by a new stop-flow technique. Journal of Experimental Botany, 57, 4133-4144.

73. Ye Q., Kim YM. and Steudle E. (2006). A re-examination of the role of unstirred layers (USLs) during the measurement of transport coefficients in Chara with the cell pressure probe: minor role of USLs. Plant Cell & Environment, 29, 964-980.

74. Ye Q. and Steudle E. (2006). Oxidative gating of water channels (aquaporins) in corn roots. Plant Cell & Environment, 29, 459-470.

75. Ye Q., Muhr J. and Steudle E. (2005). A cohesion/tension model for gating of aquaporins allows estimation of water channel pore volumes in Chara. Plant Cell & Environment, 28, 525-535.

76. Ye Q., Wiera B. and Steudle E. (2004). A cohesion/tension mechanism explains the gating of water channels (aquaporins) in Chara internodes by high concentration. Journal of Experimental Botany, 55, 449-461.

77. Henzler T., Ye Q. and Steudle E. (2004). Oxidative gating of water channels (aquaporins) in Chara by hydroxyl radicals. Plant Cell & Environment, 27, 1184-1195.