Liang Guo

　　 　　

　　Liang Guo, Ph D, Associate Professor

　　E-mail: guoliang2014@nwsuaf.edu.cn

　　Education:

　　2003/09-2007/07 Shandong Agricultural University, Horticulture Science, BS.

　　2007/09-2010/07 Shandong Agricultural University, Horticulture Science, MS.

　　2010/09-2014/01 Kunming Institute of Botany, Chinese Academy of Science, Botany Science, Ph.D.

　　Work Experience:

　　2014/01-2014/03 Research Assistant, World Agroforest Centre

　　2014/03-2018/06 Research Associate, Northwest A&F University, Institute of Soil and Water Conservation, CAS

　　2018/07-       Associate Professor Northwest A&F University, Institute of Soil and Water Conservation, CAS

　　Research Interests:

　　Grassland ecology, global change biology, and plant phenology

　　Teaching Course:

　　Grassland ecology

　　Grants:

　　Project director:

　　(1) Response of grassland productivity on the Loess Plateau to variation in temperature and snow during the dormancy period (41701606), the National Natural Science Foundation of China, 2018/01-2020/12.

　　(2) Management pattern and demonstration of the degraded grasslands in Ningxia-Shaanxi ecotone (2016YFC0500704), the National Key Research Program of China, 2016/07-2020/12.

　　(3) Impacts of climate change on community recovering succession of the degraded grassland on the Loess Plateau (2018T111100), the Project funded by China Postdoctoral Science Foundation, 2018/01-2020/12.

　　(4) Impacts of warming and reduced snow during the dormancy period on grassland productivity of Loess Plateau (2016M590974), the Project funded by China Postdoctoral Science Foundation, 2016/05-2017/11.

　　(5) Variations of jujube phenology and meteorological disasters in the hilly regions of the Loess Plateau- a case study in Jia County (2017JQ3015), the Natural Science Basic Research Plan in Shaanxi Province, 2017/01-2018/12.

　　(6) Impacts of climate warming on apple flowering phenology in Shaanxi, China (Z109021609), the West Light Foundation of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, 2015/01-2017/12.

　　Publications:

　　Refereed journal articles:

　　[1] Liang Guo, Jinghong Wang, Mingjun Li, Lu Liu, Jianchu Xu, Jimin Cheng, Chengcheng Gang, Qiang Yu, Ji Chen, Changhui Peng, Eike Luedeling. Distribution margins as natural laboratories to infer species’ flowering responses to climate warming and implications for frost risk. Agricultural and Forest Meteorology. 2019,268:299-307.

　　[2] Sally E.Koerner, Alan K.Knapp… Liang Guo, et al. (2018) Change in dominance determines herbivore effects on plant biodiversity. Nature Ecology & Evolution, 2:1925-1932.

　　[3] Chao Zhang, Guobin Liu, Zilin Song, Jie Wang, Liang Guo*. Interactions of soil bacteria and fungi with plants during long-term grazing exclusion in semiarid grasslands. Soil Biology and Biochemistry. 2018,124: 47-58.

　　[4] Liang Guo, Ji Chen, Eike Luedeling, Jin-Sheng He, Jimin Cheng, Zhongming Wen, Changhui Peng*. Early-spring?soil?warming?partially?offsets the enhancement of alpine grassland aboveground productivity induced by warmer growing seasons on the Qinghai-Tibetan Plateau. Plant and Soil. 2018, 425: 177-188.

　　[5] Liang Guo, Jimin Cheng*, Eike Luedeling, Sally E. Koerner, Jin-Sheng He, Jianchu Xu, Chengcheng Gang, Wei Li, Ruimin Luo, Changhui Peng*. Critical climate periods for grassland productivity on China’s Loess Plateau. Agricultural and Forest Meteorology. 2017,233:101-109.

　　[6] Liang Guo*, Jianchu Xu, Junhu Dai, Jimin Cheng, Eike Luedeling*. Statistical identification of chilling and heat requirements for apricot flower buds in Beijing, China. Scientia Horticulturae.2015, 195: 138-144.

　　[7] Liang Guo, Junhu Dai, Mingcheng Wang, Jianchu Xu*, Eike Luedeling*. Responses of spring phenology in temperate zone trees to climate warming: a case study of apricot flowering in China. Agricultural and Forest Meteorology. 2015,201: 1-7.

　　[8] Liang Guo, Junhu Dai, Sailesh Ranjitkar, Jianchu Xu, Eike Luedeling. Response of chestnut phenology in China to climate variation and change. Agricultural and Forest Meteorology, 2013, 180: 164-172.

　　[9] Liang Guo, Junhu Dai, Sailesh Ranjitkar, Haiying Yu, Jianchu Xu, Eike Luedeling. Chilling and heat requirements for flowering in temperate fruit trees. International Journal of Biometeorology, 2014, 58(6): 1195-1206.