BAO Xuelian, female, born in March 1985, is a native of Boli County, Heilongjiang Province. She holds a doctoral degree and is a researcher. Currently, she serves as the vice president of the Soil Science Society of Liaoning Province and the deputy director of Changtu Modern Agricultural Experimental Station. Her research focuses on the agricultural field, with a specialization in soil ecology. She acts as Executive Associate Editor for the journal Climate Smart Agriculture, and is a member of the editorial boards of Chinese Journal of Applied Ecology and Soils and Crops. Professor BAO has made significant innovations in efficient driving strategies of black soil resources, soil microbial carbon sequestration mechanisms and carbon increment principles, as well as the development of black soil health conservation technologies. She has clarified the microbial response strategies and functional coupling synergy mechanisms for black soil biological health, and developed cover crop-based biological tillage technologies. These achievements have laid a theoretical foundation for optimizing black soil health, improving soil fertility and productivity, and provided technical support for carbon sequestration and sustainable utilization of black soil resources. She is a recipient of Top Young Talent of the "Xingliao Talent Plan”in Liaoning Provinceand a member of the Youth Innovation Promotion Association, Chinese Academy of Sciences. She has published 69 papers in renowned journals such as Science Bulletin, Soil Biology and Biochemistry. She is the lead or co-editor of 3 monographs and holds 1 software copyright. Her honors include the First Prize for Natural Sciences Academic Achievement of Liaoning Province, the First Prize for Agricultural Science and Technology Contribution of Liaoning Province, and the Second Prize for Science and Technology of the Soil Science Society of China.

2011.09-2014.06 Ph.D. degree in Soil Science from the Institute of Applied Ecology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shenyang, Liaoning Province, China. 2008.09-2011.06 M.S. degree in Soil Science from the Institute of Applied Ecology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shenyang, Liaoning Province, China. 2004.09-2008.06 B.S. degree in Agricultural Resources and Environment from Shandong Agricultural University.

2025.11-present Professor, Institute of Applied Ecology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shenyang, China 2024.11-2025.11 Project Professor, Institute of Applied Ecology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shenyang, China 2024.01-present Specially-appointed research backbone, Institute of Applied Ecology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shenyang, China 2020.11-2024.10 Associate Professor, Institute of Applied Ecology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shenyang, China 2019.11-2020.10 Project Associate Professor, Institute of Applied Ecology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shenyang, China 2014.07-2019.10 Assistant Professor, Institute of Applied Ecology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shenyang, China

Soil Ecology; Soil Microbial Ecology; Carbon Cycling and Transformation; Soil Conservation Technology; Cover Crop Bio-Tillage

1、2024 Top Young Talent of the "Xingliao Talent Plan”in Liaoning Province. Liaoning Provincial Committee Talent Work Leadership Group (1/1) 2、2024 The 16th Shenyang Outstanding Science and Technology Worker. Shenyang Association for Science and Technology (1/1) 3、2023 First Prize for Agricultural Science and Technology Contribution of Liaoning Province, “Integration and Application of Key Mechanization Technologies for Black Soil Conservation”. Liaoning Association of Agricultural Science Societies (4/15) 4、2022 Second Prize for Agricultural Science and Technology Contribution of Liaoning Province, “Demonstration and Promotion of Supporting Technologies for Maize Conservation Tillage Integrating Agricultural Machinery and Agronomic Practices”. Liaoning Association of Agricultural Science Societies (13/24) 5、2022 First Prize for Academic Achievement in Natural Sciences of Liaoning Province, “Development and Application of the Soil Microbial Carbon Pump Conceptual Framework”. Liaoning Association for Science and Technology and Liaoning Department of Human Resources and Social Security (3/5) 6、2021 Second Prize for Science and Technology of the Soil Science Society of China, “Development of the Soil Microbial Carbon Pump Conceptual Framework, Carbon Sequestration Assessment, and Application Prospects”. Soil Science Society of China (5/9) 7、2019 Fourth Batch of Shenyang High-Level Talents (Top-notch Talent). Shenyang Department of Human Resources and Social Security (1/1) 8、2017 Second Prize for Science and Technology of the Soil Science Society of China, “Microbial Transformation Processes of Soil Carbon and Nitrogen: Dynamic Indicator Functions and Functional Assessment of Microbial Residues”. Soil Science Society of China (6/6)

2025-2027: Project Leader, Development of Cover Crop Bio-Tillage Technology and Construction of Soil Biological Health Models, the project of the Top Young Talent of the "Xingliao Talent Plan”in Liaoning Province. 2023-2028: Project Leader, Effects of Cover Crop Bio-Tillage Technology on Soil Modification, Quality Enhancement and Bio-Engine Driven Mechanism, the Youth Scientist Project of the National Key Research and Development Program. 2023-2025: Project Leader, Research, Innovation and Application of Covered Crops Conservation Tillage Technology Integrating Planting and Fallow, Key Research and Development Project of the Joint Program of Science and Technology Plan of Liaoning Province. 2022-2026: Sub-Project Leader, Microbial Functional Reconstruction and Soil Fertility Enhancement Technologies in Thin-Layer Black Soil, National Major Agricultural Science and Technology Project. 2021-2026: Sub-Project Leader, Technology System for Resource Ecological Acquisition of Cover Crops with Integrated Planting and Fallow, Strategic Priority Research Program (Category A) of the Chinese Academy of Sciences. 2023-2026: Sub-Project Leader, Research on the Synergistic Regulation Mechanism of Corn Belt Black Soil Acidification and Organic Carbon Stability, Key Support Program of the Regional Innovation and Development Joint Fund of the National Natural Science Foundation of China. 2020-2023: Project Leader, Regulatory Mechanisms of Soil Nematode-Microbial Carbon Channel on Microbial Residue Accumulation Under Stover Mulching, National Natural Science Foundation of China. 2020-2024: Sub-Project Leader, Soil Organic Carbon Dynamics and Microbial Involvement Mechanisms in Agroecosystems, Sub-Project of the Key Program of the National Natural Science Foundation of China. 2016-2019: Project Leader, Project of the Youth Innovation Promotion Association, Chinese Academy of Sciences. 2016-2018: Project Leader, Structure and Function of Soil Microbial Food Web in Clear-Cut Regeneration Sites of the Xiao Xing'an Mountain, Young Scientist Program of the National Natural Science Foundation of China.

1、Sui Xin, Bao Xuelian*, Xie Hongtu, Ba Xiaobo, Yu Yang, Yang Yali, He Hongbo, Liang Chao, Zhang Xudong. 2025. Contrasting seasonal effects of legume and grass cover crops as living mulch on the soil microbial community and nutrient metabolic limitations. Agriculture, Ecosystems and Environment. 380:109374. 2、Xu Xin#, Yang Yaili#, Bao Xuelian*, Huo Hainan, He Hongbo, Liang Chao, Xie Hongtu*. 2025. Subsoil tillage with straw mulching enhances top-down control of deep soil carbon accumulation via fungal pathways. Land Degradation and Development. 36:5353-5364. 3、Li Yuzhu, Bao Xuelian*, Zhu Xuefeng, Deng Fangbo, Yang Yali, Zhao Yue, Xie Hongtu, Tang Shixin, Ge Chengjun, Liang Chao. 2024. Parent material influences soil properties to shape bacterial community assembly processes, diversity, and enzyme-related functions. Science of the Total Environment. 927:172064. 4、Li Yuzhu, Bao Xuelian*, Tang Shixin, Xiao Keqing, Ge Chengjun, Xie Hiongtu, He Hongbo, Mueller CW, Liang C*. 2024. Toward soil carbon storage: The influence of parent material and vegetation on profile-scale microbial community structure and necromass accumulation. Soil Biology and Biochemistry. 193:109399. 5、Li Yuzhu, Zhao Yue, Bao Xuelian*, Xie Hongtu, Lü Xiaotao, Fu Yangang, Tang Shixin*, Ge Chengjun, Liang Chao. 2024. Soil total and available C:N:P stoichiometry among different parent material soil profiles in rubber plantations of Hainan Island, China. Geoderma Regional, e00765. 6、Yang Yali, Bao Xuelian*, Xie Hongtu, He Hongbo, Zhang Xudong, Shao Pengshuai, Zhu Xuefeng, Jiang Yuji, Liang Chao*. 2022. Frequent stover mulching builds healthy soil and sustainable agriculture in Mollisols. Agriculture, Ecosystems & Environment, 326:107815. 7、Wang Shuang #, Bao Xuelian #, Feng Kai#, Deng Ye*, Zhou Wenjun, Shao Pengshuai, Zheng Tiantian, Yao Fei, Yang Shan, Liu Shengen, Shi Rongjiu, Bai Zhen, Xie Hongtu, Yu Jinghua, Zhang Ying, Zhang YiPing, Sha Liqing, Song Qinghai, Liu Yuntong, Zhou Jizhou, Zhang Yuguang, Li Hui, Wang Qingkui, Han Xingguo, Zhu Yongguan, Liang Chao*. 2021. Warming-driven migration of core microbiota indicates soil property changes at continental scale. Science Bulletin, 66:2025-2035. 8、Bao Xuelian, Yu Jun, Liang Wenju, Lu Caiyan, Zhu Jiangguo, Li Qi*. 2015. The interactive effects of elevated ozone and wheat cultivars on soil microbial community composition and metabolic diversity. Applied Soil Ecology, 87:11-18. 9、Bao Xuelian, Li Qi*, Hua Jianfeng, Zhao Tianhong, Liang Wenju. 2014. Interactive effects of elevated ozone and UV-B radiation on soil nematode diversity. Ecotoxicology, 23:11-20. 10、Li Qi#, Bao Xuelian#, Lu Caiyan, Zhang Xiaoke, Zhu Jiangguo, Jiang Yong, Liang Wenju*. 2012. Soil microbial food web responses to free-air ozone enrichment depended on the ozone-tolerance of wheat cultivars. Soil Biology and Biochemistry, 47:27-35. 11、Yu Yang, Zhang Changren, Yang Yali, Xu Xin, Lyu Fuze, Zheng Tiantian, Xie Hongtu, Bao Xuelian*. 2024. Effects of long-term no-tillage and different stover mulching amounts on soil carbon and nitrogen contents and enzyme activities of carbon and nitrogen cycle in Mollisols. Chinese Journal of Applied Ecology, 35(3): 695-704. 12、Ba Xiaobo, Sui Xin, Liu Mingda, Xie Hongtu, Liang Chao, Bao Xuelian*. 2023. Ecosystem service value of conservation tillage with cover crop-maize intercropping in the black soil region of Northeast China. Chinese Journal of Applied Ecology, 34(7): 1883-1891. 13、Lu Yue, Bao Xuelian*, Huo Hainan, Yang Yali, Zhao Yue, Xie Hongtu, Liang Chao, He Hongbo. 2023. Effects of different amounts of stover mulching on improving photosynthetic characteristics and yield of maize in Mollisol of Northeast China under long-term no-tillage. Journal of Plant Nutrition and Fertilizers, 29(5): 840-847. 14、Ba Xiaobo, Sui Xin, Bao Xuelian*, An Hui, Xie Hongtu, Liu Mingda*. 2022. Impacts of Intercropping with Cover Crops and Maize on Soil Carbon and Nitrogen Contents and Related Enzyme Activities. Chinese Journal of Soil Science, 53(3): 577-587. 15、Zhao Yue, Li Yuzhu, Su Lei, Ge Chengjun, Yang Anfu, Tang Shixin*, Bao Xuelian*, Xie Hongtu. 2021. The nutrient and ecological stoichiometric characteristics of soils developed from different parent rocks in areca plantation,Hainan Province. Chinese Journal of Ecology, 40(3): 680-691. 16、Zhang Changren, Yang Yali, Cheng Quanguo, Liu Yajun, Zhang Chunyu, He Hongbo, Bao Xuelian*, Xie Hongtu. 2020.Effects of different tillages on soil microbial community structure and enzyme activity in Mollisols of China. Soils and Crops, 9(4): 335-347. 17、Yang Xinfang, Bao Xuelian*, Hu Guoqing, Shao Shuai, Zhou Feng, Ye Jiashu, Xie Hongtu, Liang Chao. 2016. C: N: P stoichiometry characteristics of litter and soil of forests in Great Xing'an Mountains with different fire years. Chinese Journal of Applied Ecology, 27(5): 1359-1367. 18、Bao Xuelian, Li Qi*, Liang Wenju, Zhu Jianguo. 2011. Effect of Elevated Atmospheric CO2 and N Fertilization on Soil Nematode Community in a Rice-Wheat Rotation System. Scientia Agricultura Sinica, 44: 4627-4635. 19、Bao Xuelian (Editor-in-Chief). Fifteen Years of the "Lishu Model" in Black Soil Conservation Tillage. China Agriculture Press. 20、Bao Xuelian (Associate Editor). Research on Conservation Tillage Technologies in Northeast China. China Agriculture Press. 21、Bao Xuelian (Associate Editor). Technical Manual for Maize Conservation Tillage. China Agriculture Press.

1、Bao Xuelian, et al. Maize Conservation Tillage Coupled with Diversified Cover Cropping Systems and Supporting Equipment. Authorization Date: February 24,2026. Application No. 202511861256.6 (Invention Patent) 2、Bao Xuelian, et al. Conservation Tillage Cropping Patterns with Mixed Cover Crops and Supporting Equipment. Authorization Date: September 5,2025. Application No. 2025 1 0926154.1 (Invention Patent) 3、Bao Xuelian, et al. Technical Specification for Maize-Cover Crop Planting in Wide-Narrow Row Spacing. Authorization Date: October 13,2025. Standard No. Q/210103 IAE 024-2025 (Enterprise Standard)