My research projects focus on improving the understanding of soil-climate interaction and microbial feedbacks:

Research themes
(1) Thermal variation on soil decomposition 

(2) Microbial processes underlying soil decomposition                                                      

(3) Data synthesis and model

(4) Climate adaptation and mitigation

 2022

2021

Jia S, X Liu, W Lin, Y Zheng, J Li, D Hui and J Guo. (2021). Decreased glomalin-related soil protein with nitrogen deposition in a 3-year-old Cunninghamia lanceolata plantation. Journal of Soils and Sediments 22(3): 931-941. (Pubdate: 11-2021) [ download PDF] .

W Dong, A Song, H Yin, X Liu, J Li, F Fan. 2021. Decomposition of microbial necromass is divergent at the individual taxonomic level in soil. Front. Microbiol. doi: 10.3389/fmicb.2021.679793. (Pubdate: 07-2021) [ download PDF] .
C GUO, X Fang, S Wang, J Li & F Chen*. 2021. Navel Orange Fine Root Nutrient Content and Rhizosphere Effects Varied with Tree Ages and Soil Depths in a Hilly Red Soil Region of China, Acta Agriculturae Scandinavica , Section B — Soil & Plant Science, DOI: 10.1080/09064710.2021.1940269. (Pubdate: 07-2021) [download PDF] .

Duan J, M Yuan, S Jian, L Gamage, M Parajuli, E Dzantor, D Hui, P Fay, and J Li*. Soil extracellular oxidases mediated nitrogen fertilization effects on soil organic carbon sequestration in bioenergy croplands. Global Change Biology Bioenergy. Accepted. (Pubdate: ??-2021) [download PDF] .

2020

Jian S, J Li*, G Wang*, L Kluber, C Schadt, J Liang, and M Mayes. Multi-year incubation experiments boost confidence in model projections of long-term soil carbon dynamics. Nature Communications. 11(1): 5864. (Pubdate: 11-2020) [download PDF] .
Yuan M, J Duan, J Li *, Jian SY, Gamage L, ED Dzantor, D Hui and Fay P. 2020. Effects of Nitrogen Fertilization and Bioenergy Crop Species on Central Tendency and Spatial Heterogeneity of Soil Glycosidase Activities. Scientific Reports  10(1): 19681. (Pubdate: 11-2020) [download PDF] .

Li, J, S Jian, C Lane, Y Lu, X He, G Wang, M Mayes, K Dzantor, and D Hui. Effects of nitrogen fertilization and bioenergy crop type on topsoil organic carbon and total nitrogen contents in Middle Tennessee USA. PLOS ONE 15:e0230688

Li, J, S Jian, C Lane, C Guo, Y Lu, Q Deng, M Mayes, K Dzantor, D Hui. Nitrogen fertilization restructured spatial patterns of soil organic carbon and total nitrogen in switchgrass and gamagrass croplands in Tennessee USA. Scientific Reports 8: 1211 .  [download PDF] .

2019

Chen, S., Y. Lu, P. Dash, P. Das, J. Li, K. Capps, H. Majidzadeh, and M. Elliott. 2019. Hurricane pulses: Small watershed exports of dissolved nutrients and organic matter during large storms in the Southeastern USA. Science of the Total Environment 689:232-244.

Yu CL, Q Deng, S Jian, J Li, DE. Dzantor, Hui D. Effects of fly ash application on plant biomass and element accumulations in a meta-analysis. Environmental Pollution 250:137-142.

Liang F, J Li*, S Zhang, H Gao, B Wang, X Shi, S Huang, MG Xu. Two-decade long fertilization induced changes in subsurface soil organic carbon stock vary with indigenous site characteristics. Geoderma 337:853-862. [download PDF] .

2018
Li, J, GS Wang, M Mayes, SD Allison, S Frey, S Zheng, XM Hu, YQ Luo, J Melillo. Reduced carbon use efficiency and increased microbial turnover with soil warming. Global Change Biology. In Press. DOI 10.1111/gcb.14517. [download PDF] .
Li, J. Sampling Soils in a Heterogeneous Research Plot. J. Vis. Exp. (Pending Publication), e58519, In-press (2018). (Pubdate: 09-2018) [download PDF] .
Si HW, XY Wang, L Zhang, L Parnell, B Admed, T LeBoith, T Ansah, L Zhang, J Li, J Ordovas, H Si, D Liu and C Lai. Dietary epicatechin improves survival and delays skeletal muscle degeneration in aged mice. Federation of American Societies for Experimental Biology (FASEB). The FASEB Journal 0:fj.201800554RR. (Pubdate: 08-2018) [download PDF] .
Chen J, YQ Luo, P Palacios, J Cao*, M Dacal, X Zhou, J Li*, J Xia, S Niu, H Yang, S Shelton, W Guo, KJV Groenigen.  Differential responses of cellulase and ligninase activities to warming: implications for soil respiration. Global Change Biology 24: 4816–4826. https://doi.org/10.1111/gcb.14394 . (Pubdate: 07-2018) [download PDF] (*Corresponding author).
Li J, S Jian, J de Koff, C Lane, G Wang, M Mayes, D Hui. 2018. Differential effects of nitrogen fertilization and warming on soil respiration and microbial dynamics in switchgrass croplands. Global Change Biology Bioenergy 10:565-576. (Pubdate: 04-2018) [download PDF].
Dong W, A Song, X Liu, B Yu, B Wang, Y Lu, Y Li, H Yin, J Li*. F Fan*. 2018. Warming differentially altered multidimensional soil legacy induced by past land use history. Scientific Reports   8: 1546. (Pubdate: 01-2018) [download PDF] (*Corresponding author).
2017
Li J, CL Guo, SY Jian, C Yu, Q Deng, ED Dzantor and D Hui. 2018. Nitrogen fertilization elevated spatial heterogeneity of soil microbial biomass carbon and nitrogen in Switchgrass and Gammagrass croplands. Scientific Reports 8:1734. (Pubdate: 12-2017). [download PDF] .
Smith G, A Reginald, D Nandwani, J Li. 2017. Impacts on urbanization: diversity and the symbiotic relationships of rural, urban, and spaces in-between. International Journal of Sustainable Development & World Ecology (TSDW): 1-14.  (Pubdate: 10-2017) [download PDF] .
2016
Jian S, J Li*, J Chen, G Wang, M Mayes, EK Dzantor, D Hui, and Y Luo. 2016. Soil extracellular enzyme activities, soil carbon and nitrogen storage under nitrogen fertilization: a meta-analysis. Soil Biology and Biochemistry 101: 32-43.  (Pubdate: 10-2016) [download PDF] . (IF: 4.152, *Corresponding author)
Chen J, YQ Luo, J Li*, XH Zhou, J Cao*, R Wang*, Y Wang, S, Shelton, Z Jin, L Walker, Z Feng, S Niu, W Feng, S Jian and L Zhou. 2016. Co-stimulation of soil glycosidase activities and soil respiration by nitrogen addition. Global Change Biology 23: 1328-1337. doi: 10.1111/gcb.13402.  (Pubdate: 07-2016) [download PDF] . (IF:8.444, * Corresponding author)
2015
Xie HT, J Li*, B Zhang, L Wang, J Wang, H He, X Zhang. 2015. Long-term manure amendments reduced soil aggregate stability via redistribution of the glomalin-related soil protein in macroaggregates. Scientific Reports, 5: 14687.  (Pubdate: 10-2015) [download PDF] . (IF: 5.578, * Corresponding author)
Xia J, S Niu, P Ciais, IA Janssens, J Chen, C Ammann, A Arain, C Ammann, A Arain, PD Blanken, A Cescatti, D Bonal, N Buchmann, PS Curtis, S Chen, J Dong, LB Flanagan, C Frankenberg, T Georgiadis, CM Gough, D Hui, G Kiely, J Li and 20 others. 2014. Joint control of terrestrial gross primary productivity by plant phenology and physiology. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 112 (9), 2788-2793.  (Pubdate: 03-2015) [download PDF] (IF: 9.674)
Richter, DD, AR Bacon, SA Billings, D Binkley, MBuford, MA Callaham, AE Curry, RL Fimmen, AS Grandy, PR Heine, M Hofmockel, JA Jackson, E Lemaster, J Li, D Markewitz, ML Mobley, MW Morrison, M Strickland, T Waldrop, and CG Wells. 2015. Evolution of Soil, Ecosystem, and Critical Zone Research at the USDA FS Calhoun Experimental Forest. In D. C. Hayes et al. (eds.), USDA Forest Service Experimental Forests and Ranges, DOI 10.1007/978-1-4614-1818-4_18, Springer-Verlag. New York. (Pubdate: xx-2015) [download PDF]
2014
Xie HT, J Li*, P Zhu, P Chang, JK Wang, HB He, XD Zhang.  2014. Long-term manure amendments enhance neutral sugar accumulation in bulk soil and particulate organic matter in a Mollisol. Soil Biology and Biochemistry 78:45–53.  (Pubdate: 11-2014) [download PDF] . (IF: 3.654, * Corresponding author)
Li J, YQ Luo, S Natali, EA Schuur, J Xia, Eva Kowalczyk, YP Wang. 2014. Modeling ecosystem carbon cycle and permafrost thaw under annual and seasonal warming at a tundra site in Alaska. Journal of Geophysical Research: Biogeosciences 119(6): 2013JG002569.  (Pubdate: 06-2014) [download PDF] . (IF: 3.021)
Niu SL, YQ Luo, MC Dietze, TF Keenan, Z Shi, J Li, F S Chapin. 2014. The role of data assimilation in predictive ecology. Ecosphere. Ecosphere 5(5): art65.  (Pubdate: 05-2014) [download PDF]
Zhang XB, LH Wu, N Sun, XS Ding, J Li, BR Wang DC Li.  2014. Soil CO2 and N2O emissions in Maize growing season under different fertilizer regimes in an upland red soil region of South China. Journal of Integrative Agriculture 13(3):604-614.  (Pubdate: 03-2014) [download PDF]
Li J, GS Wang, SD Allison, MA Mayes, YQ Luo. 2014. Soil carbon sensitivity to temperature and carbon use efficiency compared across microbial-ecosystem models of varying complexity. Biogeochemistry 119:67-84.  (Pubdate: 01-2014) [download PDF] (IF: 3.531)
Niu SL, YQ Luo, DJ Li, SH Cao, JY Xia, J Li, M Smith. 2014. Plant growth and mortality under climatic extremes: an overview.  Environmental and Experimental Botany 98(0): 13-19. (Pubdate: 02-2014) [download PDF]  
2013
Meng HQ, MG Xu, JL LV, XH He, J Li, XJ Shi, C Peng, BR Wang, HM Zhang. 2013. Soil pH dynamics and nitrogen transformations under long-term chemical fertilization in four typical Chinese croplands. Journal of Integrative Agriculture. 12(11):2092–2102. (Pubdate: 11-2013) [download PDF]
Li J, SE. Ziegler, CS. Lane, SA Billings.  2013. Legacies of native climate regime govern the responses of boreal soil microbes to litter stoichiometry and temperature. Soil Biology and Biochemistry 66(0): 204-213. (Pubdate: 11-2013) [download PDF] (IF: 3.654)
Li DJ, C Schädel, ML Haddix, EA. Paul, R Conant, J Li, JZ Zhou, YQ Luo, 2013. Differential responses of soil organic carbon fractions to warming: results from an analysis with data assimilation, Soil Biology and Biochemistry, doi:10.1016/j.soilbio.2013.07.008. (Pubdate: 12-2013) [download PDF]
Ziegler, S. E., S. A. Billings, CS. Lane, J Li, ML. Fogel. (2013). Warming alters  routing of labile and slower-turnover carbon through distinct microbial groups in boreal forest organic soils. Soil Biology and Biochemistry 60(0): 23-32. (Pubdate: 05-2013) [download PDF]
2012
Li J, SE. Ziegler, CS. Lane, SA Billings.  2012. Warming-enhanced preferential microbial mineralization of humified boreal soil organic matter: interpretation of soil profiles along a climate transect using laboratory incubation. Journal of Geophysical Research (2012), Volume: 117, Pages: G02008, doi:10.1029/2011JG001769 (Pubdate: 04-2012) [download PDF] (IF: 3.021)
Li J, DD. Richter. 2012. Effects of two-century land use changes on soil iron crystallinity and accumulation in Southeastern Piedmont region, USA, Geoderma 173-174 (2012): 184-191. (Pubdate: 03-2012) [download PDF] (IF: 2.345)
2011
2010
Li J, DD Richter, A Mendoza, PR Heine. 2010. Effects of land-use history on soil spatial heterogeneity of macro- and trace elements in the Southern Piedmont USA, Geoderma 156 (2010): 60-73. (Pubdate: 04-2010) [download PDF] (IF: 2.345)
2009
Li J. 2009. Suggestions to optimize the agricultural nutrient management in China. 2009. SINO-ECO Newsletter 22 (2) 8. (Pubdate: 10-2010) [download PDF]
Zhang ZM, X Yu, S Qian, J Li. (2009). Spatial variability of soil nitrogen and phosphorus of a mixed forest ecosystem in Beijing, China.  Environmental Earth Sciences 60(8): 1783-1792. (Pubdate: 10-2009) [download PDF]  
2008
Li, J, DD Richter, A Mendoza, PR Heine. 2008. Four-decade responses of soil trace elements to an aggrading old-field forest: B, Mn, Zn, Cu and Fe. Ecology 89(10): 2911–2923. (Pubdate: 10-2008) [download PDF]   (IF: 5.175)
2007
2006
Richter DD, HL Allen, J Li, D Markewitz, and J Raikes. 2006. Bioavailability of slowlycycling soil phosphorus: major restructuring of soil P fractions over four decades in an aggrading forest. Oecologia, 150(2), 259-271. (Pubdate: 08-2006) [download PDF]