
Rui YinNorthwest A&F University · College of Natural Resources and Environment
Rui Yin
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招收博士后(土壤生态/全球变化生态/土壤动物生态方向等相关方向)Positions for PhD students and postdocs.
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Introduction
My research interests: global change ecology, soil ecology, ecosystem functioning.
As soil communities and soil biota-mediated ecological processes are being altered by global environmental changes, such as climate change, land-use intensification, N deposition, etc. I would like to know how do these environmental changes affect the abundance, diversity and trophic structure of soil communities? And how theses shifts in community structure will translate to ecosystem functioning and services?
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Publications (71)
Global change drivers, such as climate change and land use, may profoundly influence body size, density, and biomass of soil organisms. However, it is still unclear how these concurrent drivers interact in affecting ecological communities. Here, we present the results of an experimental field study assessing the interactive effects of climate chang...
Long-term observations have shown that many plants and aboveground animals have changed their phenology patterns due to warmer temperatures over the past decades. However, empirical evidence for phenological shifts in alpine organisms, particularly belowground organisms, is scarce. Here, we investigate how the activities and phenology of plants, so...
Purpose
Soil mesofauna-associated biogeochemical cycles could be mediated by nitrogen (N) deposition and plant functional types. However, N addition effects on the contribution of soil mesofauna to litter element release under different plant functional types remain unclear.
Methods
A litterbag experiment with two mesh sizes (2 and 0.1 mm) examine...
Liu Jingru Aomiao Wu Rui Yin- [...]
Bo Tan
Soil fauna plays a crucial role in the soil biogeochemical cycles of forest ecosystems, with tree species composition regulating their diversity and functionality through alterations in habitat conditions and nutrient availability. However, identifying the impacts of tree species on soil faunal communities remains challenging due to the difficulty...
The currently dominant types of land management are threatening the multifunctionality of ecosystems, which is vital for human well-being. Here, we present a novel ecological-economic assessment of how multifunctionality of agroecosystems in Central Germany depends on land-use type and climate. Our analysis includes 14 ecosystem variables in a larg...
Springtails (Collembola) inhabit soils from the Arctic to the Antarctic and comprise an estimated ~32% of all terrestrial arthropods on Earth. Here, we present a global, spatially-explicit database on springtail communities that includes 249,912 occurrences from 44,999 samples and 2,990 sites. These data are mainly raw sample-level records at the s...
Li Zhang Liu Jingru Rui Yin- [...]
Bo Tan
Background
Soil fauna is an important driver of carbon (C) and nitrogen (N) release from decomposing litter in forest ecosystems. However, its role in C and N cycling concerning climate and litter traits remains less known. In a 4-year field experiment, we evaluated the effects of soil fauna on litter C and N release across an elevation gradient (4...
Litter humification plays a crucial role in organic matter formation and soil carbon sequestration in forest ecosystems. However, how forest gap formation and gap size variation affect the litter humification process remains poorly understood. An eight-year in situ decomposition experiment was conducted to evaluate humus accumulation (humic substan...
Despite the vital role in carbon (C) sequestration and nutrient retention, variations and patterns in root C and nitrogen (N) stoichiometry of the first five root orders across woody plant species remains unclear.
We compiled a dataset to explore variations and patterns of root C and N stoichiometry in the first five orders of 218 woody plant speci...
BACKGROUND
Plant invasions are a global concern. In eastern China, bamboo is rapidly expanding, negatively influencing neighbouring forest communities. However, studies on how bamboo invasion affects belowground communities, especially for soil invertebrates, are still lacking. In the present study, we focused on a highly abundant and diverse fauna...
Soil life supports the functioning and biodiversity of terrestrial ecosystems. Springtails (Collembola) are among the most abundant soil arthropods regulating soil fertility and flow of energy through above- and belowground food webs. However, the global distribution of springtail diversity and density, and how these relate to energy fluxes remains...
Anthropogenic activity is threatening ecosystem multifunctionality, i.e. the ability of ecosystems to provide multiple functions and services which are vital for human well-being. Here we assess how multifunctionality of agroecosystems in Central Germany depends on land-use type and climate change. Our analysis included 13 ecosystem functions in a...
The biomass of invertebrate detritivores is an important driver of multiple ecosystem functions, yet little is known about how it changes in the context of global change. Taking Collembola communities as our focal groups, we conducted a study at the Global Change Experimental Facility (GCEF) in central Germany to assess how climate change (i.e., in...
Anthropogenic activity is threatening ecosystem multifunctionality, i.e. the ability of ecosystems to provide multiple functions and services which are vital for human well-being. Here we assess how multifunctionality of agroecosystems in Central Germany depends on land-use type and climate change. Our analysis included 13 ecosystem functions in a...
Forest gaps are an essential driver of litter decomposition in alpine forest ecosystems, but how gap size influences lignin and cellulose degradation in twig litter remains poorly understood. Here, we conducted an 8-year decomposition experiment to assess twig litter decomposition (i.e., mass loss, cellulose and lignin degradation) in four gap size...
Land-use intensification and climate change are main threats to the abundance and diversity of soil macrofauna. However, little is known about their biomass in response to these concurrent drivers. Here, we investigated the biomass responses of soil macrofauna along a land-use intensity gradient of five land-use regimes (i.e., from extensively-used...
We investigated the effects of warming on litter decomposition and the contribution of soil organisms (microbes vs. fauna) to it across the cold and warm seasons in an alpine meadow of the Qinghai-Tibetan Plateau. Our results showed that (1) warming profoundly increased litter decomposition by ~ 35%, but this warming effect only occurred in coarse-...
Soil life supports the functioning and biodiversity of terrestrial ecosystems. Springtails (Collembola) are among the most abundant soil animals regulating soil fertility and flow of energy through above- and belowground food webs. However, the global distribution of springtail diversity and density, and how these relate to energy fluxes remains un...
Background
Changes in foliar nitrogen (N) and phosphorus (P) stoichiometry play important roles in predicting the effects of global change on ecosystem structure and function. However, there is substantial debate on the effects of P addition on foliar N and P stoichiometry, particularly under different levels of N addition. Thus, we conducted a glo...
Soil aggregates are the key functional units of soil ecosystems which are essential to biogeochemical cycling and plant growth. However, it remains unclear how fertilization regimes influence soil aggregation, associated resources, and microbial distribution among aggregates, as well as the potential subsequent impacts for other abiotic and biotic...
Nitrogen (N) deposition poses a threat to terrestrial biodiversity and ecosystem functioning globally. However, little is known concerning how the structure and function of litter fauna communities will respond in this context. Here, a gradient of N deposition (0, 20, and 40 kg N ha−1 yr−1) was simulated in a subtropical forest of southwestern Chin...
Winter climate change has great potential to affect the functioning of terrestrial ecosystems. In particular, increased soil frost associated with reduced insulating snow cover may impact the soil nitrogen (N) dynamics in cold ecosystems, but little is known about the variability of these effects among the soil aggregates. A snow manipulation exper...
Bo Tan Rui Yin Jian Zhang- [...]
Wang
Soil fauna are crucial decomposers in terrestrial ecosystems, but how the role of soil fauna varies among climatic conditions and litter substrates remains poorly understood. Here, we conducted a four-year litter decomposition experiment along an elevational gradient (453 m, 945 m, 3058 m and 3582 m) in southwestern China. Two dominant tree species...
Soil fauna plays a crucial role in plant litter decomposition. However, if and how increasing nitrogen (N) deposition and plant functional type jointly affect the contribution of soil mesofauna to litter decomposition remains poorly understood. A litterbag experiment with two meshed sizes (0.1 and 2 mm) was conducted to examine the effects of soil...
Land-use and climate change are two of the key forces driving soil organisms’ activity and thus the ecosystem functions they provide. However, potential interactive effects of climate change and different land-use types on soil biological activity still remain unclear. Here, we studied soil biological activity in a large-scale field experiment init...
Plant invasions often act as ecosystem ‘simplifiers’ to simplify diversity and community structure of soil biota. However, inconsistent relationships between plant invasion and soil fauna have been found and few studies have addressed how soil fauna communities change upon plant invasions across taxa and feeding guilds. Here, we investigated the ef...
Desertification has become an important issue for the sustainable development of human society at global scale and has led to the changes in soil properties and vegetation cover. Biocrusts and litter crusts play roles in improving the soil microhabitat of sandy ecosystems. Soil microbial communities mediate ecosystem functions in various ecosystems...
Background
Soil fungi play crucial roles in ecosystem functions. However, how snow cover change associated with winter warming affects soil fungal communities remains unclear in the Tibetan forest.
Methods
We conducted a snow manipulation experiment to explore immediate and legacy effects of snow exclusion on soil fungal community diversity and co...
Background
Snow cover change has a great potential to impact soil nitrogen (N) pools and enzyme activities in boreal forests. Yet, the nature of this biochemical processes within soil aggregates is still limited. We conducted a snow manipulation experiment to investigate the effects of snow absence on N pools and enzyme activities within soil aggre...
Background: Soil fungi play crucial roles in ecosystem functions. However, how snow cover change associated with winter warming affects soil fungal communities remains unclear in the Tibetan forest.
Methods: We conducted a snow manipulation experiment to explore immediate and legacy effects of snow exclusion on soil fungal community diversity and c...
Background: Soil fungi play crucial roles in ecosystem functions. However, how snow cover change associated with winter warming affects soil fungal communities remains unclear in the Tibetan forest.
Methods: We conducted a snow manipulation experiment to explore immediate and legacy effects of snow exclusion on soil fungal community diversity and c...
Background: Soil fungi play crucial roles in ecosystem functions. However, how snow cover change associated with winter warming affects soil fungal communities remains unclear in the Tibetan forest.
Methods: We conducted a snow manipulation experiment to explore immediate and legacy effects of snow exclusion on soil fungal community diversity and c...
Global change drivers, such as climate change and land use, may profoundly influence body size, density, and biomass of soil organisms. However, it is still unclear how these concurrent drivers interact in affecting ecological communities. Here, we present the results of an experimental field study assessing the interactive effects of climate chang...
Global change drivers, such as climate change and land use, may profoundly influence body size, density, and biomass of soil organisms. However, it is still unclear how these concurrent drivers interact in affecting ecological communities. Here, we present the results of an experimental field study assessing the interactive effects of climate chang...
The degradations of Cellulose and lignin from litter are crucial processes for carbon and nutrient cycling in forest ecosystems. However, the effects of soil fauna on these degradation processes are unclear despite their functional roles in litter fragmentation and microorganism regulation. Here we conducted a four-year field experiment using litte...
Litter decomposition plays a critical role in regulating biogeochemical cycles in terrestrial ecosystems and is profoundly impacted by increasing atmospheric nitrogen (N) deposition. Here, a N manipulation experiment was conducted to explore the effects of N additions (0 kg N ha−1 yr−1, 20 kg N ha−1 yr−1 and 40 kg N ha−1 yr−1) on decay rates and nu...
Soil erosion control and water resource protection can closely interact during restoration of terrestrial ecosystems. In semi‐arid ecosystems, an urgent issue is how vegetation restoration can achieve the goal of soil erosion mitigation and water conservation, which in turn, feeds back to ecosystem functioning.
We reviewed 78 articles from 22 count...
1. Soil erosion control and water resource protection can closely interact during restoration of terrestrial ecosystems. In semi-arid ecosystems, an urgent issue is how vegetation restoration can achieve the goal of soil erosion mitigation and water conservation, which in turn, feeds back to ecosystem functioning.
2. We reviewed 78 articles from c...
Changes in soil microclimate driven by forest gaps have accelerated mass loss and carbon (C), nitrogen (N) and phosphorus (P) release from foliar litter in alpine forests ecosystems. Yet, it is unclear whether the same gap effect occurs in twig litter decomposition. A 4-year decomposition experiment was conducted in an alpine forest to explore the...
Global change drivers, such as climate and land use, may profoundly influence body size, density, and biomass of organisms. It is still poorly understood how these concurrent drivers interact in affecting ecological communities. We present results of an experimental field study assessing the interactive effects of climate change and land-use intens...
The humification of plant litter is a crucial step for the buildup of soil organic matter in terrestrial ecosystems. Yet, how environmental change and substrate quality affect root humification still remains poorly understood. A two-year litterbag experiment was conducted to assess the root mass remaining and accumulation of humic substances in roo...
Increased soil frost associated with winter climate change could have immediate and carry-over effects on biological processes in high-altitude forest soils, but the nature of these processes remain poorly understood. We conducted a snow-exclusion experiment to investigate the immediate and cross-seasonal effects of increased soil frost on soil CO2...
Soil organisms are important drivers of the functioning of terrestrial ecosystems and co-determine how these ecosystems respond to human-induced changes in climate and land use. In the present study, we assessed the interacting effects of these two global change drivers on soil faunal communities. We carried out an experimental field study within t...
Climate change and intensified land use simultaneously affect the magnitude and resilience of soil-derived ecosystem functions, such as nutrient cycling and decomposition. Thus far, the responses of soil organisms to interacting global change drivers remain poorly explored and our knowledge of below-ground phenology is particularly limited. Previou...
Climate change and intensified land use simultaneously affect the magnitude and resilience of soil-derived ecosystem functions, such as nutrient cycling and decomposition. Thus far, the responses of soil organisms to interacting global change drivers remain poorly explored and our knowledge of below-ground phenology is particularly limited. Previou...
The activity of earthworms in an agricultural field and botanical garden was substantiated. Samples of vermicast produced by earthworms along with the soil were collected from an agricultural field (conventional farm) and a botanical garden and their genotoxic assessment were observed on the root tips cells of Allium cepa. The mitotic index (MI) wa...
In order to understand the effects of climate warming on the process of soil carbon and nitrogen in the alpine forest, intact soil columns were collected in the alpine fir forest, and dissolved organic carbon (DOC) and dissolved organic nitrogen (DON) concentrations in both soil organic layer (OL) and mineral soil layer (ML) placed at different alt...
Total soil respiration is the sum of all carbon dioxide effluxes originating from litter, soil organic matter and roots, controlled by soil biological activity and environmental drivers such as soil temperature, air temperature, water content and photosynthetically active radiation. Aboveground litter is a key factor controlling soil carbon sequest...
As an important small scale disturbance, forest gaps are often considered to be major drivers in the natural forest regeneration. Moreover, forest gaps can play essential roles in soil processes including the dynamics of soil enzyme activity, since the snow, precipitation and sunshine duration could be redistributed in different gap location due to...
Fine root order was classified according to Pregitzer's method. This study measured carbon (C), nitrogen (N) and phosphorus (P) concentrations of the 1-5 root orders (diameter < 2 mm) in three dominant subalpine tree species (Betula albosinensis, Abies faxoniana and Picea asperata) of western Sichuan. Their stoichiometric ratios of different root o...
In order to understand how forest gaps affect soil nitrogen dynamics, we estimated the dynamics of several soil nitrogen forms (ammonium nitrogen, nitrate nitrogen, microbial biomass nitrogen and dissolved organic nitrogen) over the four crucial periods (early-freezing period, deep-freezing period, early-thawing period and late-thawing period) thro...
This study characterized the dynamics of the activities of urease, nitrate reductase and nitrite reductase in both soil organic layer and mineral soil layer under three depths of snow pack (deep snowpack, moderate snowpack and shallow snowpack) over the three critical periods (snow formed period, snow stable period, and snow melt period) in the sub...
Understanding of wintertime soil respiration dynamics in urban lawn provides not only important scientific basis for city administration, but also basic data for evaluating urban ecosystem carbon budget. As yet, little information is available on it. This study measured the dynamics of soil respiration rate in winter in the Zoysia matrella lawn and...
In this study, we estimated winter soil labile nitrogen pools, nitrification and mineralization potentials under three depths of snow pack (deep, middle and shallow snowpacks) during the three critical periods (snow forming period, snow stable period and snow melting period) in a subalpine Abies faxoniana forest of west Sichuan in the winter of 201...
A consensus in global ecology is that climate change is profoundly altering the process of terrestrial ecosystem. In particular, more and more attentions have been focused on the effects of snow pack on soil process in cold biomes recently, since climate change characterized by winter warming and extreme is changing the pattern of seasonal snow cov...
The seasonal dynamics of soil labile nitrogen pools and net nitrogen mineralization of three subalpine forests along an elevation gradient (3600, 3300 and 3000 m), western Sichuan, China were examined. Obvious seasonal dynamics were found in soil labile nitrogen pools (ammonium, nitrate, microbial biomass nitrogen and dissolved organic nitrogen) an...