Yongjun LiuDegree:PHD / Title:Professor

Bio

2002.7-2012.3: Northwest University for Nationalities, China

2012.7-2013.4: School of Life Sciences, Lanzhou University, China; Lecturer

2013.5-2016.4: School of Life Sciences, Lanzhou University, China; Associate Professor

2016.5-Present: School of Life Sciences, Lanzhou University, China; ProfessorAcademic Appointments

1997.9-2002.6: School of Life Sciences, Lanzhou University, China; B.S. Biology

2004.9-2007.6: School of Life Sciences, Lanzhou University, China; M.S. Botany

2009.9-2012.6: School of Life Sciences, Lanzhou University, China; Ph.D. Mycorrhizal Ecology

2017.9-2018.9: School of Earth Sciences and Environmental Sustainability, Northern Arizona University, USA; Visiting Scholar

Honors & Awards

1. Outstanding Doctoral Dissertation Award of Gansu Province (2014)

2. The First Prize of Natural Science of Gansu Province (5/5, 2016)

Funding

1. Influences of mycorrhizal fungi on the ecosystem multifunctionality of alpine meadows under different nitrogen fertility. 2019.1-2022.12, NSFC No.31870494

2. Arbuscular mycorrhiza-mediated carbon sequestration and its response to different soil nitrogen and phosphorus fertility. 2016.1-2019.12, NSFC No.31570512

3. Influences of fertilization on the community structure and function of AM fungi in an alpine meadow ecosystem. 2014.1-2016.12, NSFC No.31300445

Publications

Researchgatehttps://www.researchgate.net/profile/Yongjun_Liu6

*Corresponding author,# First author

Bahadur A, Jin ZC, Long XL, Jiang SJ, Zhang Q, Pan JB,Liu YJ, Feng HY*(2019) Arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi alter plant interspecific interaction under nitrogen fertilization.European Journal of Soil Biology, 93: 103094.Fulltext

Bahadur A, Jin ZC, Jiang SJ, Chai YX, Zhang Q, Pan JB,Liu YJ, Feng HY*(2019) Arbuscular mycorrhizal spores distribution across different ecosystems of Qinghai Tibetan plateau.Pakistan Journal of Botany, 51: 1481-1492.Fulltext

Mao L, Pan JB, Jiang SJ, Shi GX, Qin MS, Zhao ZG, Zhang Q, An LZ, Feng HY,Liu YJ*(2019) Arbuscular mycorrhizal fungal community recovers faster than plant community in historically disturbed Tibetan grasslands.Soil Biology and Biochemistry, 134: 131-141.Fulltext

Ma BB, Zhou XL, Zhang Q, Qin MS, Hu LG, Yang KN, Xie Z, Ma WB, Chen BB, Feng HY,Liu YJ, Du GZ*, Ma XJ*, Roux XL (2019) How do soil microorganisms respond to N, P and NP additions? Application of the ecological framework of (co-)limitation by multiple resources.Journal of Ecology, 107: 2329-2345.Fulltext

Qin MS, Shi GX, Miranda J-P,Liu YJ, Meng YM, Pan JB, Chai Y, Jiang SJ, Zhou GY, Feng HY, Zhang Q*. (2019) Revegetation differentially influences microbial trophic groups in a Qinghai-Tibetan alpine steppe ecosystem.Journal of Basic Microbiology, 59: 992-1003.Fulltext

Qin MS, Shi GX, Zhang Q, Meng YM,Liu YJ, Pan JB, Jiang SJ, Zhou GY, Feng HY*(2019) Arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi serve as keystone taxa for revegetation on the Tibetan Plateau.Journal of Basic Microbiology, 59: 609-620.Fulltext

Qin MS, Zhang Q, Pan JB, Jiang SJ,Liu YJ, Bahadur A, Peng ZL, Yang Y, Feng HY*(2019) Effect of arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi on soil enzyme activity is coupled with increased plant biomass.European Journal of Soil Science, DOI: 10.1111/ejss.12815.Fulltext

Jiang SJ,Liu YJ*, Luo JJ, Qin MS, Johnson NC, Öpik M, Vasar M, Chai YX, Zhou XL, Mao L, Du GZ, An LZ, Feng HY*(2018) Dynamics of arbuscular mycorrhizal fungal community structure and functioning along a nitrogen enrichment gradient in an alpine meadow ecosystem.New Phytologist, 220: 1222-1235.Fulltext

García de León D*, Davison J, Moora M, Öpik M, Feng HY, Hiiesalu I, Jairus T, Koorem K,Liu YJ, Phosri C, Sepp SK, Vasar M, Zobel M (2018) Anthropogenic disturbance equalizes diversity levels in arbuscular mycorrhizal fungal communities.Global Change Biology, 24: 2649-2659.Fulltext

Chai YX, Jiang SJ, Guo WJ, Qin MS, Pan JB, Bahadur A, Shi GX, Luo JJ, Jin ZC,Liu YJ, Zhang Q, An LZ, Feng HY*(2018) The effect of slope aspect on the phylogenetic structure of arbuscular mycorrhizal fungal communities in an alpine ecosystem.Soil Biology and Biochemistry, 126: 103-113.Fulltext

Jiang SJ, Pan JB, Shi GX, Dorji T, Hopping KA, Klein JA,Liu YJ*, Feng HY*(2018) Identification of root-colonizing AM fungal communities and their responses to short-term climate change and grazing on Tibetan plateau.Symbiosis, 74: 159-166.Fulltext

Shi GX, Yao BQ,Liu YJ, Jiang SJ, Wang WY, Pan JB, Zhao XQ, Feng HY, Zhou HQ*(2017) The phylogenetic structure of AMF communities shifts in response to gradient warming with and without winter grazing on the Qinghai–Tibet Plateau.Applied Soil Ecology, 121: 31-40.Fulltext

Jiang SJ, Shi GX, Mao L, Pan JB, An LZ,Liu YJ*, Feng HY*(2015) Comparison of different PCR primers on detecting arbuscular mycorrhizal communities inside plant roots.Acta Microbiologica Sinica, 55: 916-925.Fulltext

Liu YJ, Johnson NC, Mao L, Shi GX, Jiang SJ, Ma XJ, Du GZ, An LZ*, Feng HY*(2015) Phylogenetic structure of arbuscular mycorrhizal community shifts in response to increasing soil fertility.Soil Biology and Biochemistry, 89: 196-205.Fulltext

Liu YJ#, Mao L#, Li JY, Shi GX, Jiang SJ, Ma XJ, An LZ, Du GZ*, Feng HY*(2015) Resource availability differentially drives community assemblages of plants and their root-associated arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi.Plant and Soil, 386: 341-355.Fulltext

Mao L#,Liu YJ#, Shi GX, Jiang SJ, Cheng G, Li XM, An LZ, Feng HY*(2014) Wheat cultivars form distinctive communities of root-associated arbuscular mycorrhiza in a conventional agroecosystem.Plant and Soil, 374: 949-961.Fulltext

Shi GX#,Liu YJ#, Johnson NC, Olsson P, Mao L, Cheng G, Jiang SJ, An LZ, Du GZ, Feng HY*(2014) Interactive influence of light intensity and soil fertility on root-associated arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi.Plant and Soil, 378: 173-188.Fulltext

Shi GX#,Liu YJ#, Mao L, Jiang SJ, Zhang Q, Cheng G, An LZ, Du GZ, Feng HY*(2014) Relative importance of deterministic and stochastic processes in driving arbuscular mycorrhizal fungal assemblage during the spreading of a toxic plant.PLoS ONE, 9: e95672.Fulltext

Pan JB#,Liu YJ#, He XH, Kang SC, Hou YH, An LZ, Feng HY*(2013) Arbuscular mycorrhizal and dark septate endophytic fungi at 5,500 m on a glacier forefront in the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau, China.Symbiosis, 60: 101-105.Fulltext

Liu YJ, Mao L, He XH, Cheng G, Ma XJ, An LZ, Feng HY*(2012) Rapid change of AM fungal community in a rain-fed wheat field with short-term plastic film mulching practice.Mycorrhiza, 22: 31-39.Fulltext

Liu YJ#, Shi GX#, Mao L#, Cheng G, Jiang SJ, Ma XJ, An LZ*, Du GZ, Johnson NC, Feng HY*(2012) Direct and indirect influences of 8 yr of nitrogen and phosphorus fertilization on Glomeromycota in an alpine meadow ecosystem.New Phytologist, 194: 523-535.Fulltext

Liu YJ, He JX, Shi GX, An LZ, Öpik M, Feng HY*(2011) Diverse communities of arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi inhabit sites with very high altitude in Tibet Plateau.FEMS Microbiology Ecology, 78: 355-365.Fulltext

Wu FS, Dong MX,Liu YJ, Ma XJ, An LZ, Young JPW, Feng HY*(2011) Effects of long-term fertilization on AM fungal community structure and Glomalin-related soil protein in the Loess Plateau of China.Plant and Soil, 342: 233-247.Fulltext

Liu YJ, He L, An LX, Helgason T, Feng HY*(2009) Arbuscular mycorrhizal dynamics in a chronosequence of Caragana korshinskii plantations.FEMS Microbiology Ecology, 67: 81-92.Fulltext

Liu YJ, Feng HY*(2010) Systematic classification and community research techniques of arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi: a review.Chinese Journal of Applied Ecology, 21(6): 1573-1580.Fulltext