EXCELLENT TALENTS
Lv Xiaotao / 男
Professional Title：Professor
Education：Ph.D.
Email：lvxiaotao@iae.ac.cn
Resume
Lü Xiao-Tao, Male, Born in August 1982, native of Shanghe, Shandong Province. He is a professor, and the director of Research Center for Soil Ecology and Agricultural Eco-engineering. His lab investigates how global environmental changes are driving changes in biodiversity and ecosystems. Most of his studies consider plant diversity and ecosystem functioning in grasslands, and sometimes in forests. He has published more than 200 peer-review papers in SCI-indexed journals, including New Phytologist, Global Change Biology, Ecology, Journal of Ecology. He is served as section editor or associate editior in several international journals, such as Journal of Ecology, Plant and Soil, Ecological Processes, Plant Diversity, Journal of Plant Ecology.
Educational Experience
2006-2010 Ph.D degree from Institute of Botany Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China
2003-2006 Master degree from Xishuangbanna Tropical Botanical Garden Chinese Academy of Sciences, Yunnan, China
1999-2003 Bachelor's degree from Liaocheng University, Shandong, China
Work Experience
2015.12-present Professor in Institute of Applied Ecology (IAE)
2012.10-2015.11 Associate Professor in IAE
2010.07-2012.09 Assistant Professor in IAE
Research Interests
Ecosystem ecology; Community composition; Ecological stoichiometry; Functional Ecology; Plant-Soil interation
Research Projects
1. 2022-2025: Principle Investigator, The Mechanisms underlying the multi-level impacts of nitrogen inputs on
the forage quality of meadow steppe in Hulunbuir. NSFC (32171543)
2. 2019-2021: Principle Investigator, Ecosystem Ecology. NSFC (31822006)
Selected Publications
Selected papers published in 2025-2026
1. Xiao-Ru Zhang, Guo-Jiao Yang, Liangchao Jiang, Xiao-Jing Zhang, Xiao-Sa Liang, Cong Ding, Yu Ning, Alemayehu Adugna, Emma Ladouceur, Xing-Guo Han, Xiao-Tao Lü*. 2026. Decadal increases in grassland biomass production from chronic N additions are eliminated by annual hay cutting. New Phytologist, 250: 895-904.
2. Xiao-Sa Liang, Yu Ning, Hongyi Wang, Zhengwen Wang, Cong Ding, Xiaoru Zhang, Yuan-Xiu Wu, Zhiwei Zhang, Jordi Sardans, Josep Peñuelas, Xiao-Tao Lü*. 2026. Why leaf N:P is not reliable for diagnosing nutrient limitation of productivity: answer from leaf phosphorus fractions. New Phytologist, 249: 2800–2807.
3. Xiao-Jing Zhang, Guo-Jiao Yang, Yu Ning, Liang-Chao Jiang, Xiao-Sa Liang, Xiao-Ru Zhang, Xiao-Tao Lü*, Xing-Guo Han. 2025. Nitrogen enrichment threatens non-N mineral nutrition and nutritional stability of forage due to biodiversity loss. Journal of Ecology, 113: 2668-2681.
4. Zhi-Wei Zhang, Qi Li, Yanyu Hu, Cong Ding, Guojiao Yang, Yu Ning, Xiao-Sa Liang, Yanru Yang, Xing-Guo Han, Xiao-Tao Lü*. 2025. Intra-annual variations of plant and soil biota community in a grassland under nitrogen addition and mowing. Geoderma, 463: 117582.
5. Yu Ning, Feike A. Dijkstra, Xiao-Sa Liang, Xiao-Jing Zhang, Guo-Jiao Yang, Liang-Chao Jiang, Xing-Guo Han, Xiao-Tao Lü*. 2025. Stronger response of plant N:P to nitrogen enrichment when considering roots. Global Change Biology, 31: e70091.
Patents and Standards
Luo Wentao, Shi Yuan, Te niwu, Lu Xiaotao, Wang Zhengwen. Method for predicting productivity of grassland: 2035665 Issued Date: March 06, 2025
