Xia, Jianyang

Current address:
Email: jyxia@des.ecnu.edu.cn
Address: School of Ecological and Environmental Sciences, East China Normal University, 500 Dongchuan Rd., Minhang, Shanghai 200241.

Post-doctoral Research Fellow in Yiqi Luo’s Ecolab
Department of Botany and Microbiology
University of Oklahoma
Norman, OK 73019, USA
Email: jxia@ou.edu

Education
2011-Present Post-doctoral Research Associate, University of Oklahoma, USA
2007-2010 Ph.D. in Ecology, Institute of Botany, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China. Dissertation: “Responses of ecosystem carbon cycling to climate warming and nitrogen addition in a temperate steppe of China”
2005-2007 M.S. in Ecology, Institute of Botany, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China
2001-2005 B.S. Horticulture, China Agricultural University, Beijing, China

Honors and Awards
2010: President Award of CAS (Chinese Academy of Sciences), China
2009: Zhuliyuehua Annual Award, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China
2008: P & G China Annual Award, China
2004: First Class Award of XiZhi Education Fund, China Agricultural University, China
2003: First Class Award of XiZhi Education Fund, China Agricultural University, China
2002: First Class Award of Excellent Student, China Agricultural University, China

Proposals
Knowledge Innovation Program of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (Chinese Academy of Sciences): “Impacts of global warming on carbon uptake and release of terrestrial ecosystems: a meta-analysis.” $7640. PI. (2009-2010).

Workshop attended/invited
1. 4th NACP All-Investigators Meeting, Albuquerque, New Mexico, USA. Feb. 04-07.
2. 97th ESA Annual Meeting, Portland, Oregen, USA. Aug 05-10, 2012.
3. Experiment-Model Workshop, Department of Energy, Bethesda, Maryland. USA. Mar. 19-21, 2012.
4. Land Model & Biogeochemistry, Chemistry Climate, Societal Dimensions Working Groups, 27 February - 2 March, 2012, NCAR, Boulder, CO.
5. CyberCommons, an ecological forecasting project, 2nd Annual Symposium, Norman, Oklahoma, USA. Sept. 30, 2011
6. CESM Tutorial, NCAR, Boulder, Colorado, USA. Aug 01-05, 2011.
7. 16th Annual CESM Workshop. Brechkenridge, Colorado, USA. Jun 20-23, 2011.
8. PalEON Kick-off Working Group. Harvard Forest, Petersham, MA, USA. May 11-12, 2011.
9. Joint Land/BGC/Chemistry Working Group Meeting, NCAR, Boulder, Colorado, USA. Mar 15-17, 2011.
10. Workshop on English Scientific Writing funded by New Phytologist Trust in Kunming, Yunnan Province, China, Oct 22-26, 2009.

Publications (You can download them in Google Scholar)

Ahlstom A, Xia J, Almut A, Luo Y, Smith B. 2015. Importance of vegetation dynamics for future terrestrial carbon cycling. Environmental Research Letters (in press)

Jiang L, Yan Y, Hararuk O, Mikle N, Xia J, Shi Z, Tjiputra J, Wu T, Luo Y. 2015. Scale-dependent performance of CMIP5 Earth System Models in simulating terrestrial vegetation carbon. Journal of Climate (in press)

Shi Z, Xu X, Hararuk O, Jiang L, Xia J, Liang J, Li D, Y Luo. 2015. Experimental warming altered rates of carbon processes, allocation storage in a tallgrass prairie: A data assimilation approach. Ecosphere (in press)

Han J, Chen J, Xia J, Li L. 2015. Grazing and watering alter plant phenological processes in a desert steppe community. Plant Ecology (DOI 10.1007/s11258-015-0462-z)

Xia J, Niu S, Ciais P, Janssens I, Chen J, Ammann C, Arain A, Blanken PD, Cescatti A, Bonal D, Buchmann N, Curtis PS, Chen S, Dong J, Flanagan LB, Frankenberg C, Georgiadis T, Gough CM, Hui D, Kiely G, Li J, Lund M, Magliulo V, Marcolla B, Merbold L, Montagnani L, Moors E, Olesen JE, Piao S, Raschi A, Roupsard O, Suyker AE, Urbaniak M, Vaccari FP, Varlagin A, Vesala T, Wilkinson M, Weng E, Wohlfahrt G, Yan L, Luo Y. 2015. Joint control of terrestrial gross primary productivity by plant phenology and physiology. PNAS (In Press)

Liang J, Xia J, Liu L, Wan S. 2014. Response to Smith’s comment on 'Global patterns of the responses of leaf-level photosynthesis and respiration in terrestrial plants to experimental warming'. Journal of Plant Ecology-UK, rtu023

Yan L, Chen S, Lin G, Luo Y, Xia J. 2014. Precipitation regime shift enhanced the rain pulse effect on soil respiration in a semi-arid steppe. PLoS ONE (In press)

Rafique R, Xia J, Hararuk O, Luo Y, Koven C. 2014. Structural analysis of three global land models on carbon cycle simulations using a traceability framework. Biogeoscience Discussions 11, 9979-10014.

Li J, Natali S, Schuur EAG, Xia J, Pak B, Wang YP, Luo Y. 2014. Modeling permafrost thaw and ecosystem carbon cycle under annual and seasonal warming at an Arctic tundra site in Alaska. JGR-Biogeosciences DOI:10.1002/2013JG002569

Hararuk O, Xia J, Luo Y. 2014. Evaluation and improvement of two global land models against soil carbon data using a data assimilation approach. JGR-Biogeosciences. doi: 10.1002/2013JG002535

Xia J, J. Chen, S. Piao, P. Ciais, Y. Luo, and S. Wan. 2014. Terrestrial carbon cycle affected by non-uniform climate warming. Nature Geoscience 7, 173-180

Han G, Luo Y, Li D, Xia J, Xing Q, Yu J. 2014. Ecosystem photosynthesis regulates soil respiration on a diurnal scale with a short-term time lag in a coastal wetland. Soil Biology and Biochemistry (In Press)

Niu S, Luo Y, Li D, Cao S, Xia J, Li J, Smith MD. 2013. Plant growth and mortality under climate extremes: an overview. Environmental and Experimental Botany (In Press)

Wei C, Yu Q, Bai E, Lu X, Li Q, Xia J, Kardol P, Liang W, Wang Z, Han X. 2013. Nitrogen deposition weakens plant-microbe interactions in grassland ecosystems. Global Change Biology (In Press).

Li Q, Bai H, Liang W, Xia J, Wan S, Van De Putten WH. 2013. Nitrogen addition and warming independently influence the belowground micro-food web in a temperate steppe. PLoS ONE (In Press).

Yan L, Luo Y, Sherry RA, Bell JE, Zhou X, Xia J. 2013. Rain use efficiency as affected by climate warming and biofuel harvest: results from a 12-year field experiment. Global Change Biology-Bioenergy, (In Press)

Xia J, Wan S. 2013. Independent effects of warming and nitrogen addition on plant phenology in Inner Mongolian steppe. Annals of Botany (In Press)

Xia J, Luo Y, Wang Y-P, Hararuk O. 2013. Traceable components of modeled carbon storage capacity in terrestrial ecosystem. Global Change Biology DOI: 10.1111/gcb.12172.

Liang J, Xia J, Liu L, Wan S. 2013. Global patterns of the responses of leaf-level photosynthesis and respiration in terrestrial plants to experimental warming. Journal of Plant Ecology-UK doi: 10.1093/jpe/rtt003.

Wang L, Niu S, Good SP, Soderberg K, McCabe MF, Sherry R, Luo Y, Zhou X, Xia J, Caylor KK,. 2013. The effect of warming on grassland evapotranspiration partition using laser-based isotope monitoring techniques. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta (In Press).

Xia J, Niu S, Wang X, Piao S, Yan L, and Wan S. 2013. Ecosystem carbon cycle under changing atmosphere, climate, and land use in Dryland East Asia. In Dryland East Asia: Land Dynamics amid Social and Climate Change (ed. by J. Chen , S. Wan, G. Henebry, J. Qi, G. Gutman, G. Sun, M. Kappas). Higher Education Press and De Gruyter Publishers.

Luo Y, Randerson J, Abramowitz G, Bacour G.C, Blyth EM, Carvalhais N; Ciais P; Dalmonech D; Fisher JB, Fisher RA, Friedlingstein P, Hibbard K, Hoffman F, Huntzinger DN, Jones CD, Lawrence D, Li D, Mahecha M, Niu S, R. Norby, Piao S, Qi X, Peylin P, Prentice C, Riley WJ, Reichstein M, Wang YP, Xia J, Zaehle S, Zhou X. 2012. A Framework of Benchmarking Land Models. Biogeosciences In press (Discussion paper, 9, 1899-1944)

Xia J, Luo Y, Wang Y-P, Weng E, Hararuk O. 2012. A semi-analytical solution to accelerate spin-up of coupled carbon and nitrogen land models to steady states. Geoscientific Model Development, 5, 803-836 (Discussion paper, 5, 803-836).

Han Y, Zhang Z, Wang C, Jiang F, Xu W, Xia J*. 2012. Effects of mowing and nitrogen addition on soil respiration in three patches in an old field in Inner Mongolia. Journal of Plant Ecology-UK, 5(2), 219-228.

Xia J, Wan S. 2012. The effects of warming-shifted plant phenology on ecosystem carbon exchange are regulated by precipitation in a semi-arid grassland. Plos One, 7, e32088.

Bai W, Xia J, Wan S, Zhang W, Li L. 2012. Day and night warming have different effect on root lifespan. Biogeosciences, 9, 375-384.

Wang H, Xia J, Wan S, Li L, Mu Y, Nie L. 2012. Responses of monoterpene emission to warming and nitrogen deposition in a semiarid degraded grassland. Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics, 12, 3809-3819 (Discussion paper: 12, 787-815).

Bai W, Xia J, Zhang N, Zhao C, Wu T, Wan S. 2012. Methods and measurements in belowground ecoloigcal processes. In Methods in Terrestrial Ecosystem Ecology (ed. by J. Chen et al.). China Agriculture University Press.

Xia J, Zhang L, Yan L, Wu D, Chen S, Wan S. 2012. Grassland carbon cycle under global change. In Maintaining mechnisms of grassland ecosystem: results from long-term experiments in Duolun and Xilinhot (ed. by X. Han, L. Li, S. Chen, and Z. Yuan). China Agriculture University Press.

Li Y, H Yang, Xia J, Li L, Wan S. 2011. Effects of increased nitrogen deposition and precipitation on seed and seedling production of Potentilla tanacetifolia in a temperate steppe ecosystem. Plos One, 6, e28601

Zhang N, Xia J, Yu X, Ma K, Wan S. 2011. Soil microbial community changes and their linkages with ecosystem carbon exchange under asymmetrically diurnal warming. Soil Biology & Biochemistry, 43, 2053-2059.

Niu S, Xing, X, Zhang Z, Xia J, Zhou X, Song B, Li L, Wan S. 2011. Water-use efficiency in response to climate change: from leaf to ecosystem in a temperate steppe. Global Change Biology 17: 1073-1082.

Lin D, Xia J, Wan S. 2010. Global response patterns of plant biomass to elevated temperature: a meta-analysis. New Phytologist 187: 188-198.

Xia J, S. Chen and S. Wan. 2010. Impacts of day versus night warming on soil microclimate: results from a steppe-warming experiment. Science of the Total Envrionment 408: 2807-2816.

Niu S, Wu M, Han Y, Xia J, Zhang Z, Yang H, and Wan S. 2010. Nitrogen effects on net ecosystem carbon exchange in a temperate steppe. Global Change Biology 16: 144-155.

Xia J, Han Y, Zhang Z, Zhang Z, and S. Wan. 2009. Effects of diurnal warming on soil respiration are not equal to the summed effects of day and night warming in a temperate steppe. Biogeosciences, 6: 1-10. (Nature Research Highlights: http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v460/n7257/full/460783c.html)

Wan S, Xia J (Co-first author), Liu W, Niu S. 2009. Photosynthetic over-compensation under nocturnal warming enhances grassland carbon sequestration. Ecology. 90: 2700-2710.

Xia J, Niu S, Wan S. 2009. Response of ecosystem carbon exchange to warming and nitrogen addition during two climatologically contrasting growing seasons in a temperate steppe. Global Change Biology 15 (6): 1544-1556.

Xia J and Wan S. 2008. Global response patterns of terrestrial plant species to nitrogen addition. New Phytologist 179: 428-439. (Faculty 1000 Ranking 8.0 as 'must read': http://f1000.com/11041957)

Niu S, Li Z, Xia J, Han Y, Wu M, and Wan S. 2008. Climatic warming changes plant photosynthesis and its temperature dependence in a temperate steppe of northern China. Environmental and Experimental Botany 63: 91-101.

Niu S, Wu M, Han Y, Xia J, Li L, Wan S. 2008. Water-mediated responses of ecosystem carbon fluxes to climatic change in a temperate steppe. New Phytologist 177: 209-219.

Conference Presentations
Xia, J, Luo Y, Wang YP, Niu S, Hararuk S (2013) Traceable components of modeled carbon storage capacity in terrestrial ecosystem. 4th NACP All-Investigators Meeting, Albuquerque, New Mexico, USA. Feb. 06. (Poster)
Hararuk O, Xia J, Luo Y (2013) Evaluation and improvement of two global land models against soil carbon data using a data assimilation approach. 4th NACP All-Investigators Meeting, Albuquerque, New Mexico, USA. Feb. 06. (Poster)
Xia, J, Luo Y, Wang YP, Niu S, Hararuk S (2013) A traceability framework for model intercomparisons. Multi-Scale Synthesis and Terrestrial Biospheric Model Intercomparison Project (MsTMIP) Workshop, Albuquerque, New Mexico, USA. Feb. 08. (Oral)
Xia, J, Luo Y, Wang YP, Niu S, Hararuk S (2013) A new framework for data-model synthesis of terrestrial carbon cycle. Henan University, Kaifeng, Henan Province, China. Jan. 05 (Oral)
Hararuk O, Xia J, Luo Y (2012) Evaluation and improvement of two global land models against soil carbon data using a data assimilation approach. AGU fall meeting, San Francisco, USA (Oral)
Hararuk O, Xia J, Wang YP, Luo Y (2012) Evaluation and improvement of two global land models against soil carbon data using a data assimilation approach. RCN FORECAST New Investigators Conference, MBL, Woods Hole, MA, USA. (Oral)
Luo Y, Xu X, Sherry RA, Niu S, Li D, and Xia J (2012). State transition of US Great Plains prairie under experimental warming. 97th ESA Annual Meeting, Portland, Oregen, USA. August 08, 2012. (Oral)
Xia J, Luo Y, Wang Y, Hararuk O (2012). Tractable components of modeled carbon storage of terrestrial ecosystem. 97th ESA Annual Meeting, Portland, Oregen, USA. August 08, 2012. (Oral)
Wang L, S Niu, Zhou X, Xia J, Luo Y, Good S, Caylor K, McCabe M. 2012. The effect of warming on grassland evapotranspiration partition using laser-based isotope monitoring techniques. Joint Beijing Normal University-Princeton Workshop on Water, Food and Climate Change in China (May 15-15), Beijing, China.
Xia J, Luo Y, Hararuk O, Wang Y (2012). Traceable components of modeled global carbon cycle. U.S. Department of Energy Experiment-Model Workshop, Bethesda, Maryland. USA. Mar. 19-21, 2012. (Oral)
Niu S, Li D, Hararuk O, Yan L, Ali E, Chen X, Xia J, Luo Y (2012) State changes in terrestrial ecosystem carbon cycling after recovering from disturbance. EGU General Assembly 2012, 22-27 April, Vienna, Austria (Oral)
Xia J, Luo Y, Wang Y (2012). Tractable components of modeled carbon storage of terrestrial ecosystem. Boulder, Colorado, USA. Feb. 29-Mar.2, 2012. (Poster)
Hararuk O and Xia J. (2011). Applying a semi-analytical solution to accelerate carbon model spin-up to steady state. Norman, Oklahoma, USA. September 30, 2011. (Poster)
Wang L, S Niu, Zhou X, Xia J, Luo Y, Good S, Caylor K, McCabe M. 2011. The effect of warming on grassland evapotranspiration partition using laser-based isotope monitoring techniques. Oral. The American Geophysical Union (AGU), Fall Meeting, San Francisco.
Xia J, Luo Y, Wang Y, Weng E, Hararuk O (2011). A semi-analytical solution to accelerate spin-up for carbon and nitrogen coupled ecosystem models. Breckenridge, Colorado, USA. June 22, 2011. (Oral)
Wan S, Xia J, Guo J, Han G, Ma K (2010). Responses of temperate steppe to climate warming and N enrichment along a precipitation gradient. Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA. August 2, 2010. (Oral)
Xia J (2010) Understanding the role of plant phenology in ecosystem carbon cycling under climate warming and nitrogen addition in semiarid grassland. Shenyang, Liaoning Province, China. June 11, 2010. (Oral)
Xia J (2010) Meta-analysis in ecology study. Beijing, China. March 19, 2010. (Oral)
Niu S, Wan S, Xia J (2007) Day and night warming differentially affect ecosystem carbon and water fluxes in a temperate steppe. San Jose, USA. August 8, 2007. (Oral)
Wan S, Xia J (2007) Global response patterns of terrestrial plant species to nitrogen addition: A meta-analysis. San Jose, USA. August 8, 2007. (Oral)

Editorial Services
• Editorial boards: Scientific Reports (2014-pres)
• Guest associate editor: Journal of Plant Ecology (2012-14) for a special feature on "Experiment-Model Integration in Terrestrial Ecosystem Study: Current Practices and Future Challenges.

Journal Referee
• Biogeosciences
• Catena
• Chinese Journal of Ecology
• Chinese Science Bulletin
• Earth System Dynamics
• Ecological Applications
• Ecology Letters
• Ecological Modeling
• Ecological Research
• Ecosystems
• Environmental Science and Technology
• Global Change Biology
• Geoderma
• Geoscientific Model Developement
• Geophysical Research Letters
• Journal of Applied Ecology
• Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems (JAMES)
• Journal of Climate
• Journal of Geophysical Research ‒ Biogeosciences
• Journal of Plant Ecology
• Nature Climate Change
• New Phytologist
• Plos ONE
• Scientific Report

Professional Organizations
The Ecological Society of America (ESA), Member (2011-present)