Guo, Hui

Member Profile

Professor
Department of Ecology
Nanjing Agricultural University, China
Email: hui.guo@njau.edu.cn; hg536@cornell.edu

Education
2007 — 2009 UC Santa Barbara，Evolutionary Ecology, Ph.D student
2003 — 2010 Lanzhou University, Population Ecology, Ph.D
1999 — 2003 Xinyang Normal University, Biology, B.A.

Professional Appointments
2020 — Nanjing Agricultural University，Professor
2017 — 2018 UC Riverside，Visiting Scholar
2013 — 2020 Nanjing Agricultural University，Associate professor
2010— 2013 Fudan University，Postdoc

Biography: I received my Ph.D. in Ecology at Lanzhou University, focusing on plant population and community ecology. During my graduate stage, I studied at University of California, Santa Barbara for two years, working with Dr. Susan J. Mazer. I then had a postdoc position at Fudan University, working with Prof. Bo Li, where I began my studies on the invasive species. I then began my faculty position in Nanjing Agricultural University. During 2017-2018, I collaborated with Dr. Jeffrey Diez at University of California, Riverside studying plant biodiversity and species coexistence in red wood forest.

Research: I have very broad research interests in Ecology. Based on long term field experiments, my research aims to detect the effects of global change factors on plant traits, phenology, and community structure in different ecosystems (including grassland, wetland, and farmland, etc.). We also examine the roles of foliar pathogen and soil biota in driving plant community structure and functioning in response to altered environments including warming, nutrient enrichment and altered precipitation. Taking advantage of glasshouse and growth chambers, I conduct common garden experiments to work on ecology of plant invasions as well.

Selected publications
[1] Fuwei Wang, Xuebin Yan, Mengqian Wang, Mengdi Luan, Xiaoyi Wang, Xin Li, Peng Wang, Xianhui Zhou, Guozhen Du, Miaojun Ma, Chenglong Ye, Hui Guo* (2025). Foliar fungal pathogen inhibition increases ecosystem carbon sequestration independently of nitrogen enrichment in a Tibetan alpine meadow. Journal of Ecology. 113 (7): 1636-1646

[2] Xiaoyi Wang, Anne D Bjorkman, Xin Li, Mengdi Luan, Mengqian Wang, Xuebin Yan, Ying Wang, Xianhui Zhou, Miaojun Ma, Hui Guo* (2025) Journal of Plant Ecology, 18(3) rtaf048

[3] Jiapu Li, Xuebin Yan, Pinwei Zhang, Zhonghui Zhuo, Xiaoyi Wang, Kailing Huang, Peng Wang, Xianhui Zhou, Miaojun Ma, Yanwen Zhao*, Hui Guo* (2025). Multiple global change factors alter the scaling of nitrogen to phosphorus in alpine plants. Functional Ecology. 39: 2044–2055

[4] Huiyuan Cheng, Kailing Huang, Mengdi Luan, Zifan Zhang, Xuebin Yan, Hui Guo* (2025) Latitudinal pattern of plant invasion driven by species diversity over phylogenetic distance. Journal of Plant Ecology, 18(6) rtaf098

[5] Kailing Huang, Jonathan R. De Long, Xuebin Yan, Xiaoyi Wang, Chunlong Wang, Yiwei Zhang, Yuanyuan Zhang, Peng Wang, Guozhen Du, Mark van Kleunen, Hui Guo* (2024) Why are graminoid species more dominant? Trait-mediated plant–soil feedbacks shape community composition. Ecology, 105 (6) e4295.

[6] Xuebin Yan, Mayank Kohli, Yue Wen, Xiaoyi Wang, Yuanyuan Zhang, Fei Yang, Xianhui Zhou, Guozhen Du, Shuijin Hu, Hui Guo* (2023) Nitrogen addition and warming modulate the pathogen impact on plant biomass by shifting intraspecific functional traits and reducing species richness. Journal of Ecology, 111(2): 509-524

[7] Yannan Wei, Xin Jing, Fanglong Su, Zhen Li, Fuwei Wang*, Hui Guo* (2022) Does pH matter for ecosystem multifunctionality? An empirical test in a semi-arid grassland on the Loess Plateau. Functional Ecology, 36 (7): 1739-1753

[8] Chenglong Ye, Ying Wang, Xuebin Yan, Hui Guo* （2022） Predominant role of air warming in regulating litter decomposition in a Tibetan alpine meadow: A multi-factor global change experiment. Soil Biology and Biochemistry, 167: 108588.

[9] Xiaoyi Wang, Xuebin Yan, Kailing Huang, Xi Luo, Yuanyuan Zhang, Luyao Zhou, Fei Yang, Xiaohong Xu, Xianhui Zhou, Kechang Niu, Hui Guo* (2022) Nitrogen enrichment and warming shift community functional composition via distinct mechanisms: The role of intraspecific trait variability and species turnover. Functional Ecology, (doi: 10.1111/1365-2435.14012)

[10] Kailing Huang, Paul Kardol, Xuebin Yan, Xi Luo, Hui Guo* （2021） Plant–soil biota interactions explain shifts in plant community composition under global change. Functional Ecology, 35 (12): 2778-2788.

[11] Fei Yang, Zhilong Zhang, Albert Barberan, Yi Yang, Shuijin Hu, Hui Guo*（2021） Nitrogen-induced acidification plays a vital role driving ecosystem functions: Insights from a 6-year nitrogen enrichment experiment in a Tibetan alpine meadow. Soil Biology and Biochemistry, 153: 108107.

[12] Xuebin Yan, Jeffrey Diez, Kailing Huang, Shaopeng Li, Xi Luo, Xinyu Xu, FanglongSu, Lin Jiang, Hui Guo* &Shuijin Hu （2020） Beyond resource limitation: an expanded test of the niche dimension hypothesis for multiple types of niche axes. Oecologia, 193 (3): 689-699.

[13] Hui Guo, Chenglong Ye, Hao Zhang, Shang Pan, Yangguang Ji, Zhen Li, Manqiang Liu, Xianhui Zhou, Guozhen Du, Feng Hu, Shuijin Hu (2017) Long-term nitrogen and phosphorus additions reduced soil microbial respiration but increased microbial temperature sensitivity in a Tibetan alpine meadow. Soil Biology and Biochemistry, 113: 26-34.

[14] Hui Guo, Jacob Weiner, Susan J. Mazer, Zhigang Zhao, Guozhen Du, Bo Li (2012) Reproductive allometry in Pedicularisspecies changes with elevation. Journal of Ecology, 100: 452-458

[15] Hui Guo, Susan J. Mazer, Guozhen Du （2010）Geographic variation in seed mass within and among nine species of Pedicularis (Orobanchaceae): effects of elevation, plant size and seed number per fruit. Journal of Ecology, 98: 1332-1242.