2007年和2012年在中山大学获得理学学士和博士学位，2010-2011年在美国莱斯大学进行联合培养。2012-2014年在中国科学院植物研究所从事博士后合作研究，2014年留所工作。2017年入选“中国科学院青年创新促进会”，2019年获国家自然科学基金委优秀青年基金资助，2020年获“中国生态学学会青年科技奖”，2021年入选“中国科学院青年创新促进会”优秀会员。担任中国植物学会植被生态学专业委员会秘书长、北京生态学学会理事、Journal of Plant Ecology副主编和Soil Biology and Biochemistry、Communications Earth & Environment、《植物生态学报》等期刊编委。在Nature Communications (4篇)、Ecology Letters、Global Change Biology等国际主流刊物上发表论文40余篇。
主要研究方向：
主要从事全球变化与土壤碳循环研究。利用样带调查、室内培养、野外控制实验和数据整合等手段，重点关注微生物驱动的土壤有机碳形成与稳定、转化与分解过程及其对全球变化的响应。
主持及参与的科研项目:
[1] 国家自然科学基金专项项目，青藏高原多年冻土区土壤碳组分：时空格局、形成转化及其对气候变暖的响应机制，2023.01-2027.12，项目负责人，在研
[2] 科技部国家重点研发计划项目，我国冻土生态系统碳氮磷循环过程、机理及演化趋势，2022.11-2027.10，子课题负责人，在研
[3] 中国科学院稳定支持基础研究领域青年团队计划项目，土壤、湿地和植被生态系统碳汇精准核算，2022.07-2027.07，课题负责人，在研
[4] 中国科学院人才项目，中国科学院青年创新促进会优秀会员，2022.01-2024.12，项目负责人，在研
[5] 国家自然科学基金优秀青年科学基金项目，土壤碳动态及其调控机制，2020.01-2022.12，项目负责人，结题
代表性论文：
2024
Wang GQ#, Peng YF#, Chen LY, Abbott BW, Ciais P, Kang LY, Liu Y, Li QL, Peñuelas J, Qin SQ, Smith P, Song YT, Strauss J, Wang J, Wei B, Yu JC, Zhang DY, and Yang YH*, 2024. Enhanced response of soil respiration to experimental warming upon thermokarst formation. Nature Geoscience, 17: 532-538.
Kang LY, Song YT, Mackelprang R, Zhang DY, Qin SQ, Chen LY, Wu LW, Peng YF, and Yang YH*, 2024. Metagenomic insights into microbial community structure and metabolism in alpine permafrost on the Tibetan Plateau. Nature Communications, 15: 5920.
Chen LY, Yang GB, Bai YX, Chang JF, Qin SQ, Liu FT, He M, Song YT, Zhang F, Peñuelas J, Zhu B, Zhou GY, and Yang YH*, 2024. Permafrost carbon cycle and its dynamics on the Tibetan Plateau. SCIENCE CHINA Life Sciences, doi: 10.1007/s11427-023-2601-1.
2023
Hu J, Kang LY, Li ZL, Feng XH, Liang CF, Wu Z, Zhou W, Liu XN, Yang YH, Chen LY*. 2023. Photo-produced aromatic compounds stimulate microbial degradation of dissolved organic carbon in thermokarst lakes. Nature Communications, 14, 3681.
He M, Li QL, Chen LY, Qin SQ, Kuzyakov Y, Liu Y, Zhang DY, Feng XH, Kou D, Wu TH, and Yang YH*, 2023. Priming effect stimulates carbon release from thawed permafrost. Global Change Biology, 29: 4638-4651.
Bai YX, Peng YF, Zhou W, Xie YH, Li QL, Yang GB, Chen LY, Zhu B, and Yang YH*. 2023. SWAMP: A new experiment for simulating permafrost warming and active layer deepening on the Tibetan Plateau. Methods in Ecology and Evolution, 14: 1732-1746.
Kang LY, Chen LY, Li ZL, Wang JJ, Xue K, Deng Y, Delgado-Baquerizo M, Song YT, Zhang DY, Yang GB, Zhou W, Liu XN, Liu FT, and Yang YH*, 2023. Patterns and drivers of prokaryotic communities in thermokarst lake water across the Northern Hemisphere. Global Ecology and Biogeography, 32: 2244-2256.
杨元合*, 张典业, 魏斌, 刘洋, 冯雪徽, 毛超, 徐玮婕, 贺美, 王璐, 郑志虎, 王媛媛, 陈蕾伊, 彭云峰, 2023. 草地群落多样性和生态系统碳氮循环对氮输入的非线性响应及其机制. 植物生态学报, 47: 1-24
2022
Feng XH, Qin SQ, Zhang DY, Chen PD, Hu J, Wang GQ, Liu Y, Wei B, Li QL, Yang YH*, and Chen LY*, 2022. Nitrogen input enhances microbial carbon use efficiency by altering plant-microbe-mineral interactions. Global Change Biology, 28: 4845-4860.
Liu FT, Qin SQ, Fang K, Chen LY, Peng YF, Smith P, and Yang YH*, 2022. Divergent changes in particulate and mineral-associated organic carbon upon permafrost thaw. Nature Communications, 13: 5073.
He M, Fang K, Chen LY, Feng XH, Qin SQ, Kou D, He HB, Liang C, and Yang YH*, 2022. Depth-dependent drivers of soil microbial necromass carbon across Tibetan alpine grasslands. Global Change Biology,28: 936-949.
Wang GQ, Chen LY, Zhang DY, Qin SQ, Peng YF, Yang GB, Wang J, Yu JC, Wei B, Liu Y, Li QL, Kang LY, Wang YY, and Yang YH*, 2022. Divergent trajectory of soil autotrophic and heterotrophic respiration upon permafrost thaw. Environmental Science & Technology, 56: 10483-10493.
Kang LY, Chen LY, Zhang DY, Peng YF, Song YT, Kou D, Deng Y and Yang YH*, 2022. Stochastic processes regulate belowground community assembly in alpine grasslands on the Tibetan Plateau. Environmental Microbiology, 24: 179-194.
Yang YH#, Shi Y#, Sun WJ#, Chang JF#, Zhu JX, Chen LY, Wang X, Guo YP, Zhang HT, Yu LF, Zhao SQ, Xu K, Zhu JL, Shen HH, Wang YY, Peng YF, Zhao X, Wang XP, Hu HF, Chen SP, Huang M, Wen XF, Wang SP, Zhu B, Niu SL, Tang ZY, Liu LL, and Fang JY*, 2022. Terrestrial carbon sinks in China and around the world and their contribution to carbon neutrality. Science China: Life Science, 65: 861-895.
Ma SH, Yu QS, Chen GP, Su HJ, Tang WG, Sun YF, Jiang L, Zhu JL, Chen LY, Zhu B, Fang JY*, 2022. Aboveground net primary productivity mediates the responses of soil respiration to nutrient additions in two tropical montane rainforests, Agricultural and Forest Meteorology, 327: 109200.
2021
Chen LY, Fang K, Wei B, Qin SQ, Feng XH, Hu TY, Ji CJ, and Yang YH*, 2021. Soil carbon persistence governed by plant input and mineral protection at the regional and global scales. Ecology Letters, 24: 1018-1028.
Qin SQ, Kou D, Mao C, Chen YL, Chen LY, and Yang YH*, 2021. Temperature sensitivity of permafrost carbon release mediated by mineral and microbial properties. Science Advances, 7: eabe3596.
Liu FT, Kou D, Chen YL, Xue K, Ernakovich JG, Chen LY, Yang GB, and Yang YH*, 2021. Altered microbial structure and function after thermokarst formation. Global Change Biology, 27: 823-835
Song YT, Chen LY, Kang LY, Yang GB, Qin SQ, Zhang QW, Mao C, Kou D, Fang K, Feng XH, and Yang YH*, 2021. Methanogenic community, CH4 production potential and its determinants in the active layer and permafrost deposits on the Tibetan Plateau. Environmental Science & Technology, 55: 11412-11423.
Fang K, Chen LY, Qin SQ, Zhang QW, Liu XN, Chen PD and Yang YH*, 2021. Mineral and climatic controls over soil organic matter stability across the Tibetan alpine permafrost region. Global Biogeochemical Cycles, 35: e2021GB007118.
Chang RY#, Liu SG, Chen LY, Li N, Bing HJ, Wang T, Chen XP, Li Y, Wang GX#, 2021. Soil organic carbon becomes newer under warming at a permafrost site on the Tibetan Plateau. Soil Biology and Biochemistry. 152:108074.
2020
Mao C, Kou D, Chen LY, Qin SQ, Zhang DY, Peng YF, and Yang YH*, 2020. Permafrost nitrogen status and its determinants on the Tibetan Plateau. Global Change Biology, 26: 5290-5302.
Li F, Peng YF, Chen LY, Yang GB, Abbott BW, Zhang DY, Fang K, Wang GQ, Wang J, Yu JC, Liu L, Zhang QW, Chen KL, Mohammat A, and Yang YH*, 2020. Warming alters surface soil organic matter composition despite unchanged carbon stocks in a Tibetan permafrost ecosystem. Functional Ecology, 34: 911-922.
Liu SS, ZhouLH, Li H, Zhao X, Yang YH, Zhu YK, Hu HF, Chen LY, Zhang PJ, Shen HH*, Fang JY*. 2020. Shrub encroachment decreases soil inorganic carbon stocks in Mongolian grasslands. Journal of Ecology, 108: 678-686.
2019
Chen LY #, Liu L#, Qin SQ, Yang GB, Fang K, Zhu B, Kuzyakov Y, Chen PD, Xu YP, and Yang YH*, 2019. Regulation of priming effect by soil organic matter stability over a broad geographic scale. Nature Communications, 10: 5112.
Qin SQ, Chen LY, Fang K, Zhang QW, Wang J, Liu FT, Yu JC, and Yang YH*, 2019. Temperature sensitivity of SOM decomposition governed by aggregate protection and microbial communities. Science Advances, 5: eaau1218.
Fang K, Qin SQ, Chen LY, Zhang QW, and Yang YH*, 2019. Al/Fe mineral controls on soil organic carbon stock across Tibetan alpine grasslands. Journal of Geophysical Research: Biogeosciences, 124: 247-259.
Liu FT, Kou D, Abbott BW, Mao C, Chen YL, Chen LY, and Yang YH*, 2019. Disentangling the effects of climate, vegetation, soil and related substrate properties on the biodegradability of permafrost-derived dissolved organic carbon. Journal of Geophysical Research: Biogeosciences, 124: 3377-3389.
Li H, Shen HH*, Zhou LH, Zhu YK, Chen LY, Hu HF, Zhang PJ, Fang JY*. 2019. Shrub encroachment increases soil carbon and nitrogen stocks in temperate grasslands in china.Land Degradation and Development, 30: 756-767.
Zhou LH, Shen HH, Chen LY, Li H, Zhang PJ, Zhao X, Liu TY, Liu SS, Xing AJ, Hu HF, Fang JY*. 2019. Ecological consequences of shrub encroachment in the grasslands of northern China. Landscape Ecology, 34: 119-130.
Zhou LH, Shen HH*, Chen LY, Li H, Zhang PJ, Zhao X, Liu TY, Liu SS, Xing AJ, Hu HF, Fang JY. 2019. Species richness and composition of shrub-encroached grasslands in relation to environmental factors in northern China. Journal of Plant Ecology, 12: 56-66.
Zhou LH, Shen HH*, Xu YP, Li H, Chen LY, Wang YH, Zhang PJ, Zhao X, Liu TY, Hu HF, Fang JY*. 2019. Soil organic carbon components in Inner Mongolian shrub-encroached grasslands. Plant and Soil, 442: 199-213.
2018
Chen LY, Liu L, Mao C, Qin SQ, Wang J, Liu FT, Blagodatsky S, Yang GB, Zhang QW, Zhang DY, Yu JC, and Yang YH*, 2018. Nitrogen availability regulates topsoil carbon dynamics after permafrost thaw by altering microbial metabolic efficiency. Nature Communications, 9: 3951.
Liu FT#, Chen LY#, Abbott BW, Xu YP, Yang GB, Kou D, Qin SQ, Strauss J, Wang YH, Zhang BB, and Yang YH*,2018. Reduced quantity and quality of SOM along a thaw sequence on the Tibetan Plateau. Environmental Research Letters,13: 104017.
Liu FT, Chen LY, Zhang BB, Wang GQ, Qin SQ, and Yang YH*, 2018. Ultraviolet radiation rather than inorganic nitrogen increases dissolved organic carbon biodegradability in a typical thermos-erosion gully on the Tibetan Plateau. Science of the Total Environment, 627: 1276-1284.
2017
Ding JZ, Chen LY, Hugelius G, Liu L, Li YN, Qin SQ, Zhang BB, Yang GB, Li F, Fang K, Chen YL, Peng YF, Zhao X, Ji CJ, He HL, Smith P, Fang JY, and Yang YH*, 2017. Decadal soil carbon accumulation across Tibetan permafrost regions. Nature Geoscience, 10: 420-424.
Fang K, Kou D, Wang GQ, Chen LY, Ding JZ, Li F, Yang GB, Qin SQ, Liu L, Zhang QW, and Yang YH*, 2017. Decreased soil cation exchange capacity across northern China’s grasslands over the last three decades. Journal of Geophysical Research: Biogeosciences, 122: 3088-3097.
Li H, Zhang JH, Hu HF, Chen LY, Zhu YK, Shen HH*, Fang JY*. 2017. Shift in soil microbial communities with shrub encroachment in Inner Mongolia grasslands, China. European Journal of Soil Biology, 79: 40-47.
2016
Chen LY, Liang JY, Qin SQ, Liu L, Fang K, Xu YP, Ding JZ, Li F, Luo YQ, and Yang YH*, 2016. Determinants of carbon release from the active layer and permafrost deposits on the Tibetan Plateau. Nature Communications, 7: 13046
Chen LY#, Li P#, and Yang YH*, 2016. Dynamic patterns of nitrogen: phosphorus ratios in forest soils of China under changing environment. Journal of Geophysical Research: Biogeosciences, 121: 2410-2421
Ding JZ, Chen LY, Zhang BB, Liu L, Yang GB, Fang K, Chen YL, Li F, Kou D, Ji CJ, Luo YQ, and Yang YH*, 2016. Linking temperature sensitivity of soil CO2 release to substrate, environmental and microbial properties across alpine ecosystems. Global Biogeochemical Cycles, 30: 1310-1323.
Chen YL, Chen LY, Peng YF, Ding JZ, Li F, Yang GB, Kou D, Liu L, Fang K, Zhang BB, Wang J, and Yang YH*, 2016. Linking microbial C:N:P stoichiometry to microbial community and abiotic factors along a 3500-km grassland transect on the Tibetan Plateau. Global Ecology and Biogeography, 25: 1416-1427.
Ding JZ, Li F, Yang GB, Chen LY, Zhang BB, Liu L, Fang K, Qin SQ, Chen YL, Peng YF, Ji CJ, He HL, Smith P, and Yang YH*, 2016. The permafrost carbon inventory on the Tibetan Plateau: a new evaluation using deep sediment cores. Global Change Biology, 22: 2688-2701.
Li H, Shen HH, Chen LY, Liu TY, Hu HF, Zhao X, Zhou LH, Zhang PJ, Fang JY*. 2016. Effects of shrub encroachment on soil organic carbon in global grasslands.Scientific Reports, 6: 28974.
2015及以前
Chen LY, Smith P, and Yang YH*, 2015. How has soil carbon stock changed over recent decades? Global Change Biology, 21: 3197-3199.
Chen LY, Li H, Zhang PJ, Zhao X, Zhou LH, Liu TY, Hu HF, Bai YF, Shen HH*, Fang JY*. 2015. Climate and native grassland vegetation as drivers of the community structures of shrub-encroached grasslands in Inner Mongolia, China. Landscape Ecology, 30:1627-1641.
Chen LY#, Peng SL#, Yang B. 2015. Predicting alien herb invasion with machine learning models: biogeographical and life-history traits both matter. Biological Invasions, 17: 2187-2198.
Yang YH*, Ji CJ, Chen LY, Ding JZ, Cheng X, and Robinson D. 2015. Edaphic rather than climatic controls over 13C enrichment between soil and vegetation in alpine grasslands on the Tibetan Plateau. Functional Ecology, 29: 839-848.
陈蕾伊, 沈海花, 方精云. 2014. 灌丛化草原: 一种新的植被景观. 自然杂志, 3: 391-396.
Chen LY, Peng SL#, Li J, Lin ZG, Zeng Y. 2013. Competitive control of an exotic mangrove species: restoration of native mangrove forests by altering light availability. Restoration Ecology, 21: 215-223.
Chen LY, Tiu CJ, Peng SL#, Siemann E#. 2013. Conspecific plasticity and invasion: invasive populations of Chinese Tallow (Triadica sebifera) have performance advantage over native populationsonly in low soil salinity. PLoS ONE, 8: e74961.
Chen LY, Peng SL#, Chen BM, Li J, Pang JX. 2009. Effects of Aqueous extracts of 5 mangrove spp. on cabbage germination and hypocotyl growth of Kandelia candel. Allelopathy Journal 23:469-476.
Chen LY and Peng SL#. 2008. Allelopathic potential of mangrove plants (Aricennia marina, Aegiceras coriculata and Bruguiera gymnorrhiza). Allelopathy Journal 22:213-220.
