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Education Background
2008- Post-doctoral Research
Associate, University of Oklahoma
2003-2008 Ph.D. in
Ecology
Department of
Ecology, Peking University, China
1999-2003 B.S. in
Environmental Science
Department of Urban and Environmental Sciences, Peking University, China
Awards and Honors
2006-2007
Talimu
Scholarship, Peking University
2005-2006
Linchao
Geographical
Scholarship, Peking University
2004-2005
Excellent
Graduate Award, Peking University
2003-2004
Guanghua Scholarship and
Excellent Graduate Award, Peking University
Research Interests
Global change (increased CO2, climate warming, precipitation
variability, and nitrogen deposition) and grassland ecosystems;
biogeochemical processes in grassland ecosystems, including litter
decomposition, fine root turnover, soil respiration, soil carbon and
nitrogen dynamics.
Peer-Reviewed Publications
1.
Yang YH,
Fang JY, Ma WH, Smith P, Mohammat A, Wang SP, and Wang W, 2009. Soil
carbon stock and its
changes in northern China’s grasslands from 1980s to 2000s. Global
Change Biology (in press)
2.
Yang YH,
Fang JY, Ma WH, Guo DL, and Mohammat A, 2009. Large-scale pattern of
biomass partitioning across China’s grasslands. Global Ecology and
Biogeography,
doi:
10.1111/j.1466-8238.2009.00502.x.
3.
Ma WH, He J-S, Yang YH, Wang XP, Mohammat A, Zeng H, Fang JY,
and
Berhard S, 2009. Environmental factors co-vary with plant
diversity-productivity relationships among Chinese grassland sites.
Global Ecology and Biogeography
(in
press)
4.
Yang YH,
Fang JY, Smith P, Tang YH, Chen AP, Ji CJ, Hu HF, Rao S, Tan K, and He J. Changes in
topsoil carbon stocks in the Tibetan grasslands
between the 1980s and 2004.
Global Change Biology,
15: 2723–2729.
PDF
5.
Yang YH, Fang JY, Ji CJ, and Han WX, 2009. Above-
and belowground biomass allocation in Tibetan grasslands.
Journal of Vegetation Science, 20: 177-184.
PDF
6. Yang YH,
Fang JY, Pan YD, and Ji CJ, 2009. Patterns and controls of aboveground biomass
in Tibetan
grasslands.
Journal of Arid Environments,
73: 91-95.
PDF
7. Yang YH, Fang JY, Ma WH, and Wang W,
2008. Relationship between
variability in aboveground net primary production and precipitation in
global grasslands. Geophysical Research Letters 35, L23710,
doi:10.1029/2008GL035408.
PDF
8. Yang YH,
Fang JY, Tang YH, He JS, Ji CJ, Zheng CY, and Zhu B, 2008. Storage, patterns,
and controls of soil organic carbon in the Tibetan grasslands. Global
Change Biology,
14: 1592-1599.PDF
9. Yang
YH,
Mohammat A, Feng JM, Zhou R, and Fang JY, 2007. Storage, patterns and
environmental controls of soil organic carbon in China.
Biogeochemistry, 84: 131-141.
PDF
10.
Yang YH, Ma WH, Mohammat A, and Fang JY, 2007. Storage,
patterns and controls of soil nitrogen in China. Pedosphere, 17:
776-785.
PDF
11. Ma
WH, Yang YH, He JS, Zeng H, and Fang JY, 2008. Above- and
below-ground biomass in relation to environmental factors in temperate
grasslands, Inner Mongolia. Science in China
Series C-Life Sciences,
51: 263-270.
PDF
12.
Zhou R, Yang YH, and Fang JY, 2007.
Responses of vegetation activity to precipitation variation on the
Tibetan Plateau. Acta Scientiarum Naturalium Universitatis Pekinensis,
43: 771-775.
(In Chinese with English Abstract)PDF
13. Wang T, Yang YH, and Ma WH, 2007. Storage, patterns
and environmental controls of soil phosphorus in China. Acta
Scientiarum Naturalium Universitatis Pekinensis, 44: (In Press, in
Chinese with English Abstract)PDF
14. Yang YH and Piao SL, 2006.
Variations in grassland vegetation cover in relation to climatic factors
on the Tibetan Plateau. Journal of Plant Ecology, 30: 1-8.
(In Chinese with English Abstract)PDF
15. Mohammat
A,
Yang YH,
Guo ZD,
and Fang JY, 2006. Carbon contents and its vertical distribution in
alpine grasslands in Bayinbulak, middle stretch of the Tianshan moutains
of Xinjiang. Journal of Plant Ecology, 30: 545-552.
(In Chinese with English Abstract)PDF
16.
Mohammat A,
Yang YH,
Guo ZD,
and Fang JY, 2006.
Aboveground biomass in grassland of Xinjiang.
Acta Scientiarum Naturalium Universitatis Pekinensis,
42: 521-526.
(In Chinese with English Abstract)PDF
17.
Mohammat A,
Yang YH,
Guo ZD,
Fang JY, Pan BR, and Hu YK, 2006. Relationship between the species
richness and the productivity of alpine steppes in Bayanbulak ,
Xinjiang. Arid Zone Research, 23: 289-294.
(In Chinese with English Abstract)PDF
18. Feng JM, Wang XP, Xu CD,
Yang YH,
and Fang JY, 2006.
Altitudinal patterns of plant species diversity and community structure
on Yulong mountains, Yunnan, China. Journal of Mountain Science,
24: 110-116.
(In Chinese with English Abstract)PDF
19. Yang YH, Rao S, Hu HF, Chen AP, Ji CJ, Zhu B, Zuo WY,
Li XR, Shen HH, Wang ZH, Tang YH, and Fang JY. 2004. Plant species
richness of alpine grasslands in relation to environmental factors and
biomass on the Tibetan Plateau. Biodiversity Science, 12:
200-205. (In Chinese with English Abstract)PDF
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