QU Lingrui, Female, born in January 1995, native of Daqing, Heilongjiang Province. Master's supervisor, Associate Professor. Her research primarily explores the microbial mechanisms driving soil carbon and nitrogen cycling, with a particular emphasis on the functional responses and adaptation of microbial communities to climate change. To date, she has published 12 SCI-indexed papers in high-impact journals, including The ISME Journal, Global Change Biology, and Soil Biology and Biochemistry. Her research has garnered 713 citations, with a top-cited paper reaching 324 citations. Her academic excellence has been recognized by the National Scholarship for Doctoral Students and the CAS Zhu Li Yuehua Outstanding Doctoral Student Award. She is currently the Principal Investigator for several high-level research initiatives, including a sub-project of the National Key R&D Program, the NSFC Young Scientists Fund, and the "Lvye" Outstanding Young Scientist Program at her institute. She serves on the Young Editorial Board of the Journal of Subtropical Resources and Environment and is an active peer reviewer for the journal Biogeochemistry.

2016.09 – 2023.01 Ph.D. in Soil Science, Institute of Applied Ecology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shenyang, Liaoning Province, China 2021.12 – 2022.12 Visiting Ph.D. Student in Soil Science, Stockholm University, Stockholm, Sweden 2012.09 – 2016.06 B.S. in Environmental Engineering, North China Electric Power University, Baoding, Hebei Province, China

2025 – present: Associate Professor, Institute of Applied Ecology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shenyang, China 2023 – 2025: Postdoctoral Researcher, Institute of Applied Ecology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shenyang, China

Forest Carbon Dynamics; Microbial Physiological Traits; Microbial Carbon And Nitrogen Use Efficiency; Microbial Thermal Response and Adaptation; Stable Isotope Labeling Techniques

1. 2021: Zhu Li Yuehua Outstanding Doctoral Students. Chinese Academy of Sciences 2. 2020: National Scholarship for Doctoral Students. Ministry of Education of China

1. 2024 – 2027: National Key R&D Program of China (Sub-project), Key Microbial Regulation Technologies for Enhancing Productivity in Degraded Black Soils of the Liaohe Plain, Sub-project PI 2. 2024 – 2026: National Natural Science Foundation of China Young Scientists Fund (Category C), Relationship between Microbial Diversity and Forest Soil Carbon Emissions, PI 3. 2025 – 2028: "Lvye" Outstanding Young Scientist Program, Institute of Applied Ecology, Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), Dynamic Patterns of Soil Microbial Carbon Turnover under long-term Warming, PI 4. 2023 – 2024: CAS Special Research Assistant Funding Project, Response Mechanisms of Forest Soil Microbial Carbon Use Efficiency to warming, PI 5. 2024 – 2026: National Key R&D Program of China (International Cooperation), Impacts and Mechanisms of Global Warming on Forest Soil Carbon Sequestration, Key Participant 6. 2024 – 2027: National Natural Science Foundation of China General Program, Analyze Mechanisms of Soil Organic Carbon Turnover under Warming from A Microbial Lifecycle perspective, Key Participant

1. Zhang Y#, Qu LR#, Wang J, Liu Y, Gao MX, Wang X, Qu FY, Bai E, Wang C*. 2026. Coupled temperature sensitivity of microbial carbon and nitrogen use efficiencies in forest soils on a continental scale. Global Change Biology 32: e70759. 2. Yang YX#, Qu LR#, Yu J, Huang XY, Liu Y, Qu FY, Wang J, Yang TT, Bai E, Wang C*. 2026. Microbial turnover mediates nonlinear response of soil N2O and CH4 fluxes to diversity loss. Soli Ecology Letters 8 (2): 260398. 3. Wang J, Qu LR, Osterholz H, Qi YL, Zeng XF, Bai E, Wang C*. 2025. Effects of DOM chemodiversity on microbial diversity in forest soils on a continental scale. Global Change Biology 31: e70131. 4. Yu J#, Yang JY#, Qu LR, Huang XY, Liu Y, Jiang P, Wang C*. 2025. Soil microbial carbon use efficiency differs between mycorrhizal trees: insights from substrate stoichiometry and micorbial networks. ISME Communications 5 (1): ycae173. 5. Huang K#, Wu D#, Liu DW, Duan YH, Dörsch P, Butterbach-Bahl K, Fang XM, Liu YQ, Wang C, Yu HM, Qu LR, Xu JW, Gurmesa GA, Kang RH, Peng SS, Hobbie EA, Ju XT, Hu SJ, Phillips OL, Gundersen P, Zhu WX, Homyak PM*, Fang YT*. 2025. Climate warming reduces soil gaseous nitrogen losses in a temperate forest. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 122: e2513401122. 6. Qu LR, Wang C*, Manzoni S, Dacal M, Maestre FT, Bai E. 2024. Stronger compensatory thermal adaptation of soil microbial respiration with higher substrate availability. The ISME Journal 18 (1): wrae025. 7. Sun LF#, Qu LR#, Moorhead DL, Cui YX, Wanek W, Li SL, Sang CP, Wang C*. 2024. Interpreting the differences in microbial carbon and nitrogen use efficiencies estimated by 18O labeling and ecoenzyme stoichiometry. Geoderma 444: 116856. 8. Wang C*, Wang X, Zhang Y, Morrissey E, Liu Y, Sun LF, Qu LR, Sang CP, Zhang H, Li GC*, Zhang LL, Fang YT. 2023. Integrating microbial community properties, biomass and necromass to predict cropland soil organic carbon. ISME Communications 3 (1): 86. 9. Sun LF, Li J, Qu LR, Wang X, Sang CP, Wang J, Sun MZ, Wanek W, Moorhead DL, Bai E, Wang C*. 2023. Phosphorus limitation reduces microbial nitrogen use efficiency by increasing extracellular enzyme investments. Geoderma 432: 116416. 10. Wang C#, Qu, LR#, Yang, LM, Morrissey, E, Miao RH, Liu ZP, Wang QK, Fang YT, Bai E*. 2021. Large-scale importance of microbial carbon use efficiency and necromass to soil organic carbon. Global Change Biology 27: 2039-2048. 11. Li J, Sang CP, Yang JY, Qu LR, Xia ZW, Sun H, Jiang P, Wang X, He HB, Wang C*. 2021. Stoichiometric imbalance and microbial community regulate microbial elements use efficiencies under nitrogen addition. Soil Biology and Biochemistry 156: 108207. 12. Qu LR, Wang C*, Bai E*. 2020. Evaluation of the 18O-H2O incubation method for measurement of soil microbial carbon use efficiency. Soil Biology and Biochemistry 145: 107802.

Wang C, Qu LR, Bai E. Method for quantifying microbial carbon use efficiency. China National Invention Patent, Patent No. ZL202510907613.1; Grant No. CN120741819B; Authorized: Dec. 23, 2025.