SONG Lining, Male, born in 1982, native of Dengzhou, Henan Province. Doctoral supervisor, Researcher. His main research interests include mechanisms of decline and restoration of Protective forests, as well as optimal configuration of Protective forests structure. He has published more than 60 papers in journals such as Agricultural and Forest Meteorology, Agricultural Water Management, and Forest Ecology and Management. He has won the First Prize for Scientific and Technological Progress in Liaoning Province (ranked third).

2008.09–2011.07 Ph.D. degree in Forest Ecology from Institute of Applied Ecology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shenyang, Liaoning Province, China 2005.09–2008.07 M.S. degree in Silviculture from College of Forestry, Henan Agricultural University, Zhengzhou, Henan Province, China 2001.09–2005.07: B.S. degree in Forestry from College of Forestry, Henan Agricultural University, Zhengzhou, Henan Province, China

2019.12 – present, Professor, Institute of Applied Ecology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shenyang, China 2015.01 – 2019.11, Associate Professor, Institute of Applied Ecology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shenyang, China 2011.07 – 2014.12, Assistant Professor, Institute of Applied Ecology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shenyang, China

Protective forests, Plantation, Decline,Water resource, Forest management

2026–2029: Project leader, Mechanisms of degradation and ecological restoration of typical plantations in the Three-North region, the National Natural Science Foundation of China 2025–2028: Project leader, Study on the mechanisms underlying the effect of stand density of Pinus sylvestris var. mongolica sand-fixation forests in in semi-arid regions, the National Natural Science Foundation of China 2022–2025: Project leader, Research and demonstration of technologies of construction and management for accurately improving ecological quality and preventing and controlling desertification of protective forest systems in typical regions, Research Project of the National Key Research and Development Program of China 2021–2024: Project leader, Water mechanisms underlying maintenance stability of natural Picea mongolica forests in semiarid sandy regions, the National Natural Science Foundation of China

Song Lining, Zhang Mingxi, Zhu Jiaojun, Sun Yirong, Zheng Xiao, Zhang Xiaolin. 2026. Anthropogenic fire suppression and climate change-driven winter warming inducing the dieback of natural Pinus sylvestris var. mongolica forests on sandy land. Forest Ecology and Management, 599: 123271 Song Lining, Zhu Jiaojun, Liu Xin, Zhang Jinxin, Zheng Xiao, Sun Yirong, Wang Guochen, Lü Linyou. 2024. Transpiration and water use sources of poplar (Populus × xiaozhuanica) plantations with 7-years vs. 20-years old in a semiarid sandy region of Northeast China. Agricultural and Forest Meteorology, 356: 110171 Song Lining, Zhu Jiaojun, Zheng Xiao, Li Xinjunyan, Wang Kai, Zhang Jinxin, Wang Guochen, Sun Haihong. 2023. Water use dynamics of trees in a Pinus tabuliformis plantation in semiarid sandy regions, Northeast China. Agricultural Water Management, 275: 107995 Song Lining, Zhu Jiaojun, Zheng Xiao, Wang Kai, Zhang Jinxin, Hao Guangyou, Wang Guochen, Liu Jianhua. 2022. Comparison of canopy transpiration between Pinus sylvestris var. mongolica and Pinus tabuliformis plantations in a semiarid sandy region of Northeast China. Agricultural and Forest Meteorology, 314: 108784 Song Lining, Zhu Jiaojun, Li Xinjunyan, Wang Kai, Wang Guochen, Sun Haihong. 2022. Transpiration of Pinus sylvestris var. mongolica trees at different positions of sand dunes in a semiarid sandy region of Northeast China. Trees, 36：749–762 Zhang Ting1, Song Lining1, Zhu Jiaojun*, Wang Guochen, Li Mingcai, Zheng Xiao, Zhang Jinxin. 2021. Spatial distribution of root systems of Pinus sylvestris var. mongolica trees with different ages in a semi-arid sandy region of Northeast China. Forest Ecology and Management, 483:118776 Song LN, Zhu JJ*, Zhang T, Wang K, Wang GC, Liu JH. 2021. Higher canopy transpiration rates induced dieback in poplar (Populus × xiaozhuanica) plantations in a semiarid sandy region of Northeast China. Agricultural Water Management 243: 106414 Song Lining, Zhu Jiaojun, Zheng Xiao, Wang Kai, Lü Linyou, Zhang Xiaolin, Hao Guangyou. 2020. Transpiration and canopy conductance dynamics of Pinus sylvestris var. mongolica in its natural range and in an introduced region in the sandy plains of Northern China. Agricultural and Forest Meteorology, 218:107830 Song Lining, Zhu Jiaojun, Li Mingcai, Zhang Jinxin, Wang Kai, Lü Linyou 2020. Comparison of water-use patterns for non-native and native woody species in a semiarid sandy region of Northeast China based on stable isotopes. Environmental and Experimental Botany, 174: 103923 Song Lining, Zhu Jiaojun, Li Mingcai, Zhang Jinxin, Zheng Xiao, Wang Kai. 2018. Canopy transpiration of Pinus sylvestris var. mongolica in a sparse wood grassland in the semiarid sandy region of Northeast China. Agricultural and Forest Meteorology, 250-251: 192-201