Quan, Quan

Member Profile

School of Integrative Plant Science
College of Agriculture and Life Sciences
Cornell University
Email: qq47@cornell.edu

Education
2015.09 - 2019.07 University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Ph.D. in Ecology
2012.09 - 2015.07 Anhui Agricultural University, M.S. in Ecology
2008.09 - 2012.07 Anhui Agricultural University, B.S. in Ecology

Academic appointments
2021.03 - 2023.02 Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Institute of Geographical Sciences and Natural Resources Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences
2019.09 - 2021.02 Research Assistant, Institute of Geographical Sciences and Natural Resources Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences

Research Interests
My research interests focus on understanding how environmental change (e.g. temperature, water and nutrient availability) alters the structure (e.g. plant community composition, species diversity, plant functional traits) and functions (e.g. photosynthesis, respiration, ecosystem stability, biomass production) of terrestrial ecosystems.

Publications
1. Y. Yan, S. Niu, Y. He, S. Wang, L. Song, J. Peng, X. Chen, Q. Quan, C. Meng, Q. Zhou, J. Wang, Changing plant species composition and richness benefit soil carbon sequestration under climate warming. Functional Ecology 36, 2906-2916 (2022).

2. J. L. Peng, F. F. Ma, Q. Quan, X. L. Chen, J. S. Wang, Y. J. Yan, Q. P. Zhou, S. L. Niu, Nitrogen enrichment alters climate sensitivity of biodiversity and productivity differentially and reverses the relationship between them in an alpine meadow. Science of the Total Environment 835, 155418 (2022).

3. J. Peng, F. Ma, D. Tian, Q. Quan, C. Chen, J. Liao, Q. Zhou, S. Niu, Plant C:N ratio predicts community composition changes under N addition in an alpine meadow. Journal of Ecology 00, (2022).

4. Y. L. He, J. S. Wang, D. Tian, Q. Quan, L. Jiang, F. F. Ma, L. Yang, F. Y. Zhang, Q. P. Zhou, S. L. Niu, Long-term drought aggravates instability of alpine grassland productivity to extreme climatic event. Ecology, e3792 (2022).

5. H. Guo, Q. Quan, S. Niu, T. Li, Y. He, Y. Fu, J. Li, J. Wang, R. Zhang, Z. Li, D. Tian, Shifting biomass allocation and light limitation co-regulate the temporal stability of an alpine meadow under eutrophication. Science of The Total Environment, 160411 (2022).

6. F. Zhang, Q. Quan, F. Ma, Q. Zhou, S. Niu, Clipping increases ecosystem carbon sequestration and its sensitivity to precipitation change in an alpine meadow. Plant and Soil 458, 165-174 (2021).

7. Y. J. Yan, Q. Quan, C. Meng, J. S. Wang, D. S. Tian, B. X. Wang, R. Y. Zhang, S. L. Niu, Varying soil respiration under long-term warming and clipping due to shifting carbon allocation toward below-ground. Agricultural and Forest Meteorology 304, 108408 (2021).

8. S. Wang, Q. Quan, C. Meng, W. N. Chen, Y. Q. Luo, S. L. Niu, Experimental warming shifts coupling of carbon and nitrogen cycles in an alpine meadow. J Plant Ecol 14, 541-554 (2021).

9. J. Wang, Q. Quan, W. Chen, D. Tian, P. Ciais, T. W. Crowther, M. C. Mack, B. Poulter, H. Tian, Y. Luo, X. Wen, G. Yu, S. Niu, Increased CO2 emissions surpass reductions of non-CO2 emissions more under higher experimental warming in an alpine meadow. Science of The Total Environment 769, 144559 (2021).

10. J. Wang, Y. Luo, Q. Quan, F. Ma, D. Tian, W. Chen, S. Wang, L. Yang, C. Meng, S. Niu, Effects of warming and clipping on CH4 and N2O fluxes in an alpine meadow. Agricultural and Forest Meteorology 297, 108278 (2021).

11. Q. Quan, F. Zhang, L. Jiang, H. Y. H. Chen, J. Wang, F. Ma, B. Song, S. Niu, High-level rather than low-level warming destabilizes plant community biomass production. Journal of Ecology 109, 1607-1617 (2021).

12. F. Ma, F. Zhang, Q. Quan, J. Wang, W. Chen, B. Wang, Q. Zhou, S. Niu, Alleviation of light limitation increases plant diversity and ecosystem carbon sequestration under nitrogen enrichment in an alpine meadow. Agricultural and Forest Meteorology 298, 108269 (2021).

13. M. Hasi, X. Y. Zhang, G. X. Niu, Y. L. Wang, Q. Q. Geng, Q. Quan, S. P. Chen, X. G. Han, J. H. Huang, Soil moisture, temperature and nitrogen availability interactively regulate carbon exchange in a meadow steppe ecosystem. Agricultural and Forest Meteorology 304, 108389 (2021).

14. Q. Quan, F. Zhang, C. Meng, F. Ma, Q. Zhou, F. Sun, S. Niu, Shifting biomass allocation determines community water use efficiency under climate warming. Environmental Research Letters 15, 094041 (2020).
15. F. Ma, F. Zhang, Q. Quan, B. Song, J. Wang, Q. Zhou, S.
Niu, Common Species Stability and Species Asynchrony Rather than Richness Determine Ecosystem Stability Under Nitrogen Enrichment. Ecosystems 24, 686-698 (2020).

16. F. Ma, B. Song, Q. Quan, F. Zhang, J. Wang, Q. Zhou, S. Niu, Light Competition and Biodiversity Loss Cause Saturation Response of Aboveground Net Primary Productivity to Nitrogen Enrichment. Journal of Geophysical Research: Biogeosciences 125, e2019JG005556 (2020).

17. Z. Li, Z. Zeng, D. Tian, J. Wang, B. Wang, H. Y. H. Chen, Q. Quan, W. Chen, J. Yang, C. Meng, Y. Wang, S. Niu, Global variations and controlling factors of soil nitrogen turnover rate. Earth-Science Reviews 207, 103250 (2020).

18. F. Zhang, Q. Quan, F. Ma, D. Tian, Q. Zhou, S. Niu, Differential responses of ecosystem carbon flux components to experimental precipitation gradient in an alpine meadow. Functional Ecology 33, 889-900 (2019).

19. F. Zhang, Q. Quan, F. Ma, D. Tian, D. L. Hoover, Q. Zhou, S. Niu, When does extreme drought elicit extreme ecological responses. Journal of Ecology 107, 2553-2563 (2019).

20. J. Wang, B. Song, F. Ma, D. Tian, Y. Li, T. Yan, Q. Quan, F. Zhang, Z. Li, B. Wang, Q. Gao, W. Chen, S. Niu, Nitrogen addition reduces soil respiration but increases the relative contribution of heterotrophic component in an alpine meadow. Functional Ecology 33, 2239-2253 (2019).

21. Q. Quan, D. Tian, Y. Luo, F. Zhang, T. W. Crowther, K. Zhu, H. Y. H. Chen, Q. Zhou, S. Niu, Water scaling of ecosystem carbon cycle feedback to climate warming. Science Advances 5, eaav1131 (2019).

22. S. Zheng, H. Bian, Q. Quan, L. Xu, Z. Chen, N. He, Effect of nitrogen and acid deposition on soil respiration in a temperate forest in China. Geoderma 329, 82-90 (2018).

23. Q. Quan, F. Zhang, D. Tian, Q. Zhou, L. Wang, S. Niu, Transpiration Dominates Ecosystem Water-Use Efficiency in Response to Warming in an Alpine Meadow. Journal of Geophysical Research: Biogeosciences 123, 453-462 (2018).

24. F. Ma, B. Song, F. Zhang, Q. Quan, Q. Zhou, S. Niu, Ecosystem Carbon Use Efficiency Is Insensitive to Nitrogen Addition in an Alpine Meadow. Journal of Geophysical Research 123, 2388-2398 (2018).

25. F. Zhang, Q. Quan, B. Song, J. Sun, Y. Chen, Q. Zhou, S. Niu, Net primary productivity and its partitioning in response to precipitation gradient in an alpine meadow. Scientific Reports 7, 15193 (2017).

26. Q. Quan, H. Nianpeng, Z. Zhen, Z. Yunhai, G. Yang, Nitrogen enrichment and grazing accelerate vegetation restoration in degraded grassland patches. Ecological Engineering 75, 172-177 (2015).

27. Q. Quan, C. Wang, N. He, Z. Zhang, X. Wen, H. Su, Q. Wang, J. Xue, Forest type affects the coupled relationships of soil C and N mineralization in the temperate forests of northern China. Scientific Reports 4, 6584 (2014).