Guoke Chen, Keping Ma (2026). Ecosystem collapse risk in arid landscapes: Insights from China for global dryland conservation. Biological Conservation, Vol. 313.DOI
Huiyun Xiao, Sheng Li, Aili Kang, Richard T. Corlett, Keping Ma, Xiaoli Shen (2025). Biodiversity risk assessment and management for infrastructure projects under the Belt and Road Initiative. Conservation Biology, Vol. 390, No. 50.DOI
Hui Wu, Le Yu, Xiaoli Shen, Fangyuan Hua, Zhicong Zhao, Yixuan Li, Keping Ma (2025). [Review] A systematic review of assessing climate change risks on species and ecosystems: bibliometric overview, concepts, approaches, and trends. Global Sustainability, Vol. 8.DOI
Ming-Qiang Wang, Shi-Kun Guo, Pengfei Guo, Juanjuan Yang, Guo-Ai Chen, D. Chesters, Michael C. Orr, Ze-Qing Niu, Michael Staab, Jing-Ting Chen, Yi Li, Qing-Song Zhou, Felix Fornoff, Xiaoyu Shi, Shan Li, Massimo Martini, Alexandra-Maria Klein, Andreas Schuldt, Xiao-Juan Liu, Keping Ma, H. Bruelheide, A. Luo, Chao-Dong Zhu (2025). Multidimensionality of tree communities structure host-parasitoid networks and their phylogenetic composition. bioRxiv.DOI
Yi Li, Bernhard Schmid, Andreas Schuldt, Shan Li, Ming-Qiang Wang, Felix Fornoff, Michael Staab, Pengfei Guo, P. Anttonen, D. Chesters, H. Bruelheide, Chao-Dong Zhu, Keping Ma, Xiaojuan Liu (2024). Author Correction: Multitrophic arthropod diversity mediates tree diversity effects on primary productivity. Nature Ecology & Evolution.DOI
Yun‐Hao Bai, Gheyur Gheyret, Hong‐Tu Zhang, Shan Li, Bernhard Schmid, H. Bruelheide, Keping Ma, Zhiyao Tang (2024). Trait-based neighbourhood effects modulate the growth-weather relationships of subtropical trees. The Innovation Life.DOI
J. Meng, Yu Cui, Luo Ao, Yong Yang, Haining Qin, Keping Ma, Jing-Yun Fang, Zhi-Heng Wang (2024). Threat assessment of future climate change to China’s seed plants. Scientia Sinica Vitae.DOI
Hong Lin, Sirong Zhang, Xiaojuan Liu, Keping Ma, Naili Zhang (2023). Subtropical forest tree genetic richness causes contrasting effects on soil fungal guilds in monocultures and mixed-species stands. Forest Ecology And Management, Vol. 545.DOI
Hui Wu, Le Yu, Xiaoli Shen, Fangyuan Hua, Keping Ma (2023). Maximizing the potential of protected areas for biodiversity conservation, climate refuge and carbon storage in the face of climate change: A case study of Southwest China. Biological Conservation, Vol. 284.DOI
Hong‐Tu Zhang, Gheyur Gheyret, Yun‐Hao Bai, Yanpei Guo, Shan Li, Bernhard Schmid, H. Bruelheide, Keping Ma, Zhiyao Tang (2023). Functional dissimilarity in mixed forests promotes stem radial growth by mitigating tree water deficit. National Science Review.DOI
Hui Shang, Yunquan Wang, Baocai Han, Xiangcheng Mi, Lei Chen, Yu Liang, Keping Ma (2023). Effects of functional phylogeny of light-response-related orthologous genes on seedling survival in a subtropical forest. Forest Ecosystems, Vol. 10.DOI
P. Anttonen, Maria D. Perles‐Garcia, M. Kunz, G. von Oheimb, Yi Li, H. Bruelheide, Keping Ma, Chao-Dong Zhu, Andreas Schuldt (2023). Predation pressure by arthropods, birds, and rodents is interactively shaped by tree species richness, vegetation structure, and season. Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution.DOI
Jian Zhang, Zhiheng Wang, Jing Che, Yanping Wang, Keping Ma (2023). The neglected giant: Alfred Russel Wallace. Biodiversity Science.DOI
Haibao Ren, Jens-Christian Svenning, Xiangcheng Mi, James A. Lutz, Jinxing Zhou, Keping Ma (2022). Scale-dependent species-area relationship: Niche-based versus stochastic processes in a typical subtropical forest. Journal Of Ecology, Vol. 110, No. 8.DOI
Yinbo Zhang, Guangyu Wang, Hongfei Zhuang, Lanhui Wang, John L. Innes, Keping Ma (2021). Integrating hotspots for endemic, threatened and rare species supports the identification of priority areas for vascular plants in SW China. Forest Ecology And Management, Vol. 484.DOI
Ke Cao, Jens-Christian Svenning, Chuan Yan, Jintun Zhang, Xiangcheng Mi, Keping Ma (2021). Undersampling correction methods to control γ-dependence for comparing β-diversity between regions. Ecology.DOI
Naili Zhang, Helge Bruelheide, Yinong Li, Yu Liang, Tesfaye Wubet, Stefan Trogisch, Keping Ma (2020). Community and neighbourhood tree species richness effects on fungal species in leaf litter. Fungal Ecology, Vol. 47.DOI
Guoke Chen, Xuan Wang, Keping Ma (2020). Red list of China's forest ecosystems: A conservation assessment and protected area gap analysis. Biological Conservation, Vol. 248.DOI
Lan Zhang, Yajun Chen, Guangyou Hao, Keping Ma, Frans Bongers, Frank Sterck (2020). Conifer and broadleaved trees differ in branch allometry but maintain similar functional balances. Tree Physiology, Vol. 400, No. 4.DOI
Ditte Arp Jensen, Keping Ma, Jens-Christian Svenning (2020). Steep topography buffers threatened gymnosperm species against anthropogenic pressures in China. Ecology And Evolution, Vol. 10, No. 4.DOI
M. Orr, R. Ferrari, Alice C Hughes, Jun Chen, J. Ascher, Yue-Hong Yan, Paul H. Williams, Xin Zhou, Ming Bai, A. Rudoy, Feng-Feng Zhang, Keping Ma, Chao-Dong Zhu (2020). Taxonomy must engage with new technologies and evolve to face future challenges. Nature Ecology & Evolution.DOI
Lei Chen, Yunquan Wang, Xiangcheng Mi, Xiaojuan Liu, Haibao Ren, Jianhua Chen, Keping Ma, Nathan J. B. Kraft (2019). Neighborhood effects explain increasing asynchronous seedling survival in a subtropical forest. Ecology, Vol. 1000, No. 11.DOI
Yanjun Du, Yuanqi Pan, Keping Ma (2019). Moderate chilling requirement controls budburst for subtropical species in China. Agricultural And Forest Meteorology, Vol. 278.DOI
Yanjun Du, Bo Yang, Si-Chong Chen, Keping Ma (2019). Diverging shifts in spring phenology in response to biodiversity loss in a subtropical forest. Journal Of Vegetation Science, Vol. 30, No. 6.DOI
Lan Zhang, Yajun Chen, Keping Ma, Frans Bongers, Frank J. Sterck (2019). Fully exposed canopy tree and liana branches in a tropical forest differ in mechanical traits but are similar in hydraulic traits. Tree Physiology, Vol. 390, No. 10.DOI
Abdul Shakoor, Shan Li, Fang Wang, Tian Tian, Yu Liang, Keping Ma (2019). Spatial patterns and determinants of common root-associated fungi in a subtropical forest of China. Journal Of Plant Ecology, Vol. 12, No. 2.DOI
Jiangshan Lai, Christopher J. Lortie, Robert A. Muenchen, Jian Yang, Keping Ma (2019). Evaluating the popularity of R in ecology. Ecosphere, Vol. 10, No. 1.DOI
Hong Qian, Tao Deng, Jan Beck, Hang Sun, Cui Xiao, Yi Jin, Keping Ma (2018). Incomplete species lists derived from global and regional specimen-record databases affect macroecological analyses: A case study on the vascular plants of China. Journal Of Biogeography, Vol. 450, No. 12.DOI
Yuanyuan Huang, Keping Ma, Pascal A. Niklaus, Bernhard Schmid (2018). Leaf-litter overyielding in a forest biodiversity experiment in subtropical China. Forest Ecosystems, Vol. 5.DOI
Yann Salmon, Xuefei Li, Bo Yang, Keping Ma, Rolf T. W. Siegwolf, Bernhard Schmid (2018). Surrounding species diversity improves subtropical seedlings' carbon dynamics. Ecology And Evolution, Vol. 8, No. 14.DOI
Wubing Xu, Jens-Christian Svenning, Guoke Chen, Bin Chen, Jihong Huang, Keping Ma (2018). Plant geographical range size and climate stability in China: Growth form matters. Global Ecology And Biogeography, Vol. 270, No. 5.DOI
马克平(2018). 中国生物多样性保护与研究进展 Ⅻ 第十二届全国生物多样性科学与保护研讨会论文集 XII Proceedings of the twelfth national conference on biodiversity science and conservation in China.
Jianbo Tan, Ainong Li, Guangbin Lei, Jinhu Bian, Guoke Chen, Keping Ma (2017). Preliminary assessment of ecosystem risk based on IUCN criteria in a hierarchy of spatial domains: A case study in Southwestern China. Biological Conservation, Vol. 215.DOI
Abraham J. Miller-Rushing, Richard B. Primack, Keping Ma, Zhi-Qiang Zhou (2017). A Chinese approach to protected areas: A case study comparison with the United States. Biological Conservation, Vol. 210.DOI
Pascal A. Niklaus, Martin Baruffol, Jin-Sheng He, Keping Ma, Bernhard Schmid (2017). Can niche plasticity promote biodiversity-productivity relationships through increased complementarity? Ecology, Vol. 98, No. 4.
Zhenkai Sun, Xiaojuan Liu, Bernhard Schmid, Helge Bruelheide, Wensheng Bu, Keping Ma (2017). Positive effects of tree species richness on fine-root production in a subtropical forest in SE-China. Journal Of Plant Ecology, Vol. 10, No. 1.DOI
Fangyuan Yu, Thomas A. Groen, Tiejun Wang, Andrew K. Skidmore, Jihong Huang, Keping Ma (2017). Climatic niche breadth can explain variation in geographical range size of alpine and subalpine plants. International Journal Of Geographical Information Science, Vol. 310, No. 1.DOI
Xiaojuan Liu, Nathan G. Swenson, Dunmei Lin, Xiangcheng Mi, Mara Natalia Umana, Bernhard Schmid, Keping Ma (2016). Linking individual-level functional traits to tree growth in a subtropical forest. Ecology, Vol. 97, No. 9.DOI
Jihong Huang, Jianhua Huang, Canran Liu, Jinlong Zhang, Xinghui Lu, Keping Ma (2016). Diversity hotspots and conservation gaps for the Chinese endemic seed flora. Biological Conservation, Vol. 198.DOI
Xugao Wang, Thorsten Wiegand, Nathan J. B. Kraft, Nathan G. Swenson, Stuart J. Davies, Zhanqing Hao, Robert Howe, Yiching Lin, Keping Ma, Xiangcheng Mi, Sheng-Hsin Su, I-Fang Sun, Amy Wolf (2016). Stochastic dilution effects weaken deterministic effects of niche-based processes in species rich forests. Ecology, Vol. 97, No. 2.DOI
Jihong Huang, Xinghui Lu, Jianhua Huang, Keping Ma (2016). Conservation priority of endemic Chinese flora at family and genus levels. Biodiversity And Conservation, Vol. 250, No. 1.DOI
马克平(2016). 中国生物多样性保护与研究进展. Ⅺ, 第十一届全国生物多样性科学与保护研讨会论文集 = Advances in biodiversity conservation and research in China. XI, Proceedings of the eleventh national conference on biodiversity science and conservation in China. 《气象出版社》.
Wubing Xu, Guoke Chen, Canran Liu, Keping Ma (2015). Latitudinal differences in species abundance distributions, rather than spatial aggregation, explain beta-diversity along latitudinal gradients. Global Ecology And Biogeography, Vol. 240, No. 10.DOI
Yan Zhu, Liza S. Comita, Stephen P. Hubbell, Keping Ma (2015). Conspecific and phylogenetic density-dependent survival differs across life stages in a tropical forest. Journal Of Ecology, Vol. 1030, No. 4.DOI
Wenjing Yang, Keping Ma, Holger Kreft (2014). Environmental and socio-economic factors shaping the geography of floristic collections in China. Global Ecology And Biogeography, Vol. 230, No. 11.DOI
Xiangcheng Mi, Lei Bao, Jianhua Chen, Keping Ma (2014). Point process models, the dimensions of biodiversity and the importance of small-scale biotic interactions. Journal Of Plant Ecology, Vol. 7, No. 2.DOI
Dongmei Jin, Xuecui Cao, Keping Ma (2014). Leaf functional traits vary with the adult height of plant species in forest communities. Journal Of Plant Ecology, Vol. 7, No. 1.DOI
马克平(2014). 中国生物多样性保护与研究进展 Ⅹ 第十届全国生物多样性保护与持续利用研讨会论文集 X Proceedings of the tenth national conference on the conservation and sustainable use of biodiversity in China.
Wenjing Yang, Keping Ma, Holger Kreft (2013). Geographical sampling bias in a large distributional database and its effects on species richness-environment models. Journal Of Biogeography, Vol. 400, No. 8.DOI
Xiaojuan Liu, Nathan G. Swenson, Jinlong Zhang, Keping Ma (2013). The environment and space, not phylogeny, determine trait dispersion in a subtropical forest. Functional Ecology, Vol. 270, No. 10.DOI
Guoke Chen, Marc Kery, Matthias Plattner, Keping Ma, Beth Gardner (2013). Imperfect detection is the rule rather than the exception in plant distribution studies. Journal Of Ecology, Vol. 1010, No. 1.DOI
Nathan G. Swenson, David L. Erickson, Xiangcheng Mi, Norman A. Bourg, Jimena Forero-Montana, Xuejun Ge, Robert Howe, Jeffrey K. Lake, Xiaojuan Liu, Keping Ma, Nancai Pei, Jill Thompson, Maria Uriarte, Amy Wolf, S. Joseph Wright, Wanhui Ye, Jinlong Zhang, Jess K. Zimmerman, W. John Kress (2012). Phylogenetic and functional alpha and beta diversity in temperate and tropical tree communities. Ecology, Vol. 93, No. 8.DOI
Jie Bi, Naili Zhang, Yu Liang, Haijun Yang, Keping Ma (2012). Interactive effects of water and nitrogen addition on soil microbial communities in a semiarid steppe. Journal Of Plant Ecology, Vol. 5, No. 3.DOI
Jihong Huang, Bin Chen, Canran Liu, Jiangshan Lai, Jinlong Zhang, Keping Ma (2012). Identifying hotspots of endemic woody seed plant diversity in China. Diversity And Distributions, Vol. 18, No. 7.DOI
Jiajia Cheng, Xiangcheng Mi, Karin Nadrowski, Haibao Ren, Jintun Zhang, Keping Ma (2012). Separating the effect of mechanisms shaping species-abundance distributions at multiple scales in a subtropical forest. Oikos, Vol. 121, No. 2.DOI
Lanke Fu, Shichang Wang, Zhenguo Liu, Ivan Nijs, Keping Ma, Zhenqing Li (2010). Effects of resource availability on the trade-off between seed and vegetative reproduction. Journal Of Plant Ecology, Vol. 3, No. 4.DOI
Qian Li, Yu Liang, Bo Tong, Xiaojun Du, Keping Ma (2010). Compensatory effects between Pinus massoniana and broadleaved tree species. Journal Of Plant Ecology, Vol. 3, No. 3.DOI
Lei Chen, Xiangcheng Mi, Liza S. Comita, Liwen Zhang, Haibao Ren, Keping Ma (2010). Community-level consequences of density dependence and habitat association in a subtropical broad-leaved forest. Ecology Letters, Vol. 130, No. 60.DOI
Yan Zhu, Xiangcheng Mi, Haibao Ren, Keping Ma (2010). Density dependence is prevalent in a heterogeneous subtropical forest. Oikos, Vol. 119, No. 1.DOI
Guoke Chen, Marc Kery, Jinlong Zhang, Keping Ma (2009). Factors affecting detection probability in plant distribution studies. Journal Of Ecology, Vol. 97, No. 6.DOI
Yanjun Du, Xiangcheng Mi, Xiaojuan Liu, Lei Chen, Keping Ma (2009). Seed dispersal phenology and dispersal syndromes in a subtropical broad-leaved forest of China. Forest Ecology And Management, Vol. 258, No. 7.DOI
Lai Jiangshan, Mi Xiangcheng, Ren Haibao, Ma Keping (2009). Species-habitat associations change in a subtropical forest of China. Journal Of Vegetation Science, Vol. 20, No. 3.DOI
Pierre Legendre, Xiangcheng Mi, Haibao Ren, Keping Ma, Mingjian Yu, I-Fang Sun, Fangliang He (2009). Partitioning beta diversity in a subtropical broad-leaved forest of China. Ecology, Vol. 900, No. 3.DOI
Li Zhu, Osbert J. Sun, Weiguo Sang, Zhenyu Li, Keping Ma (2007). Predicting the spatial distribution of an invasive plant species (Eupatorium adenophorum) in China. Landscape Ecology, Vol. 220, No. 8.DOI
Xiaojun Du, Qinfeng Guo, Xianming Gao, Keping Ma (2007). Seed rain, soil seed bank, seed loss and regeneration of Castanopsis fargesii (Fagaceae) in a subtropical evergreen broad-leaved forest. Forest Ecology And Management, Vol. 238, No. 13.DOI
Ting Wang, Qi-Bin Zhang, Keping Ma (2006). Treeline dynamics in relation to climatic variability in the central Tianshan Mountains, northwestern China. Global Ecology And Biogeography, Vol. 150, No. 4.DOI