List of works by Kai Xue

A buried Neolithic paddy soil reveals loss of microbial functional diversity after modern rice cultivation

Annual Removal of Aboveground Plant Biomass Alters Soil Microbial Responses to Warming

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Correspondence: Reply to 'Analytical flaws in a continental-scale forest soil microbial diversity study'

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Differentiation strategies of soil rare and abundant microbial taxa in response to changing climatic regimes

scientific article published on 27 February 2020

Distinct responses of soil microbial communities to elevated CO2 and O3 in a soybean agro-ecosystem

scientific article (publication date: March 2014)

Effects of substrate addition on soil respiratory carbon release under long-term warming and clipping in a tallgrass prairie

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Environmental selection overturns the decay relationship of soil prokaryotic community over geographic distance across grassland biotas

scientific article published on 24 January 2022

Evaluation of the reproducibility of amplicon sequencing with Illumina MiSeq platform.

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Functional activity and functional gene diversity of a Cu-contaminated soil remediated by aided phytostabilization using compost, dolomitic limestone and a mixed tree stand

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Functional gene differences in soil microbial communities from conventional, low-input, and organic farmlands

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Functional metagenomics of Escherichia coli O157:H7 interactions with spinach indigenous microorganisms during biofilm formation

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Functional structures of soil microbial community relate to contrasting N2O emission patterns from a highly acidified forest

scientific article published on 06 April 2020

Fungal communities respond to long-term CO2 elevation by community reassembly

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GeoChip 4: a functional gene-array-based high-throughput environmental technology for microbial community analysis

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GeoChip profiling of microbial community in response to global changes simulated by soil transplant and cropping.

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Grassland changes and adaptive management on the Qinghai–Tibetan Plateau

scientific article published in 2022

Long-term balanced fertilization increases the soil microbial functional diversity in a phosphorus-limited paddy soil

scientific article published on 31 December 2014

Long-term soil transplant simulating climate change with latitude significantly alters microbial temporal turnover

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Management with willow short rotation coppice increase the functional gene diversity and functional activity of a heavy metal polluted soil.

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Metagenomic reconstruction of nitrogen cycling pathways in a CO 2 -enriched grassland ecosystem

scholarly article by Qichao Tu et al published March 2017 in Soil Biology and Biochemistry

Methylated arsenic species in plants originate from soil microorganisms

scientific article published on 18 November 2011

Microbial Mechanisms Mediating Increased Soil C Storage under Elevated Atmospheric N Deposition.

scientific article published in April 2013

Microbial functional diversity covaries with permafrost thaw-induced environmental heterogeneity in tundra soil

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Microbial functional genes commonly respond to elevated carbon dioxide

scientific article published on 29 August 2020

Microbial mechanisms mediating increased soil C storage under elevated atmospheric N deposition

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Microbial mediation of biogeochemical cycles revealed by simulation of global changes with soil transplant and cropping

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Over 150 years of long-term fertilization alters spatial scaling of microbial biodiversity

scientific article published on 7 April 2015

Phosphorus mediates soil prokaryote distribution pattern along a small-scale elevation gradient in Noijin Kangsang Peak, Tibetan Plateau

scientific article published on 01 June 2019

Phytomanagement Reduces Metal Availability and Microbial Metal Resistance in a Metal Contaminated Soil

scientific article published on 07 August 2020

Plant Community Associates with Rare Rather than Abundant Fungal Taxa in Alpine Grassland Soils

scientific article published in 2023

Planting increases the abundance and structure complexity of soil core functional genes relevant to carbon and nitrogen cycling

scientific article published on 23 September 2015

Polar soils exhibit distinct patterns in microbial diversity and dominant phylotypes

scientific article published in 2022

Power law in species–area relationship overestimates bacterial diversity in grassland soils at larger scales

scientific article published in 2024

Random sampling process leads to overestimation of β-diversity of microbial communities

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Reduced microbial stability in the active layer is associated with carbon loss under alpine permafrost degradation

scientific article published on 15 June 2021

Responses of the functional structure of soil microbial community to livestock grazing in the Tibetan alpine grassland

scientific article published on 27 November 2012

Shifts of tundra bacterial and archaeal communities along a permafrost thaw gradient in Alaska

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Soil microbial community responses to a decade of warming as revealed by comparative metagenomics

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Spatial scaling of forest soil microbial communities across a temperature gradient

scientific article published on 02 September 2018

Stimulation of soil respiration by elevated CO<sub>2</sub> is enhanced under nitrogen limitation in a decade-long grassland study

scientific article published on 14 December 2020

Stochastic assembly leads to alternative communities with distinct functions in a bioreactor microbial community

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Stochasticity, succession, and environmental perturbations in a fluidic ecosystem

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Temperature mediates continental-scale diversity of microbes in forest soils.

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The Diversity and Co-occurrence Patterns of N₂-Fixing Communities in a CO₂-Enriched Grassland Ecosystem

scientific article published on 18 August 2015

The interactive effects of soil transplant into colder regions and cropping on soil microbiology and biogeochemistry

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Trait complementarity between fine roots of Stipa purpurea and their associated arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi along a precipitation gradient in Tibetan alpine steppe

scientific article published on 08 March 2019

Tree diversity and soil chemical properties drive the linkages between soil microbial community and ecosystem functioning

scientific article published in 2021

Tree diversity effects on litter decomposition are mediated by litterfall and microbial processes

scientific article published in 2023

Warming Alters Expressions of Microbial Functional Genes Important to Ecosystem Functioning

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Warming decouples associations between microbial network complexity and ecosystem multifunctionality in alpine grasslands

scientific article published in 2024

Warming enhances old organic carbon decomposition through altering functional microbial communities

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