Song, X. & Corlett, R.T. (2021). Do natural enemies mediate conspecific negative distance‐and density‐dependence of trees? A meta‐analysis of exclusion experiments. Oikos. (doi.org/10.1111/oik.08509)
Asefa, M.#, Song, X.#, Cao, M., Lasky, J.R., Yang, J. * (2021). Temporal trait plasticity predicts thegrowth of tropical trees. Journal of Vegetation Science, (doi.org/10.1111/jvs.13056)
Song, X., Cao, M.*, Li, J., Kitching, R.L., Nakamura, A., Laidlaw, M.J., Tang, Y., Sun, Z., Zhang, W., Yang, J. (2021). Different environmental factors drive tree species diversity along elevation gradients in three climatic zones in Yunnan, southern China. Plant Diversity, (doi.org/10.1016/j.pld.2021.04.006)
Song, X.#, Lim, J.Y., J.Y., Yang, J., Luskin, M.S.#* When do Janzen–Connell effects matter? A phylogenetic meta‐analysis of conspecific negative distance and density dependence experiments. Ecology letters, 24: 608–620.
Song, X., Yang, J.*, Cao, M.*, Lin, L., Sun, Z., Wen, H., Swenson, N.G. (2021) Traits mediate a tradeoff in seedling growth response to light and conspecific density in a diverse subtropical forest. Journal of Ecology, 109, 703-713.
Yang, J.#, Song, X.#, Zambrano, J., Chen, Y., Cao, M.*, Deng, X., Zhang, W., Yang, X., Zhang, G., Tang, Y., Swenson, N.G. (2021) Intra-specific variation in tree growth responses to neighborhood composition and seasonal drought in a tropical forest. Journal of Ecology, 109, 26–37.
Yang, J., Song, X., Cao, M., Deng, X., Zhang, W., Yang, X., & Swenson, N. G. (2021). On the modeling of tropical tree growth: the importance of intra-specific trait variation, non-linear functions and phenotypic integration. Annals of Botany, 127(4), 533–542.
Song, X.#, Zhang, W.F.#, Johnson, D.J., Yang, J.*, Asefa, M., Deng, X.B., Yang, X.F., Cao, M. (2020) Conspecific negative density dependence in rainy season enhanced seedling diversity across habitats in a tropical forest. Oecologia, 193, 949–957.
Zhang, Y. B., Wu, H. D., Yang, J., Song, X., Yang, D., He, F., & Zhang, J. L. (2020). Environmental filtering and spatial processes shape the beta diversity of liana communities in a valley savanna in southwest China. Applied Vegetation Science, 23:482–494
Deng, Y., Deng, X., Dong, J., Zhang, W., Hu, T., Nakamura, A., Song, X., Fu, P., & Cao, M. (2020) Detecting Growth Phase Shifts Based on Leaf Trait Variation of a Canopy Dipterocarp Tree Species (Parashorea chinensis). Forests, 11(11), 1145.
Song, X., Cao, M., Kitching R.L., Tang, Y., Sun, Z., Nakamura, A., Laidlaw, M.J., Yang, J.* (2019). Environmental and spatial contributions to seedling and adult tree assembly across tropical, subtropical, and subalpine elevational gradients. Journal of Plant Ecology, 12, 103-112.
Song, X., Hogan, J.A., Lin L.X., Wen, H.D., Cao, M.*, Yang, J.* (2018). Canopy openness and topographic habitat drive tree seedling recruitment after snow damage in an old-growth subtropical forest. Forest Ecology and Management, 429, 493-502.
Song, X., Johnson, D.J. Cao, M., Uma？a, M.N., Deng, X., Yang, X., Zhang, W., Yang, J.* (2018). The strength of density-dependent mortality is contingent on climate and seedling size. Journal of Vegetation Science, 29, 662-670.
Song, X., Hogan, J.A., Brown, C., Cao, M.*, Yang, J.* (2017). Snow damage to the canopy facilitates alien weed invasion in a subtropical montane primary forest in southwestern China. Forest Ecology and Management, 391, 275-282.
Luo, X., Cao, M., Zhang, M., Song, X., Li, J., Nakamura, A., Kitching, R. (2017). Soil seed banks along elevational gradients in tropical, subtropical and subalpine forests in Yunnan Province, southwest China. Plant Diversity, 39, 273-286.
Song, X., Li, J., Zhang, W., Sun, Z., Tang, Y., Cao, M.* (2016). Variant responses of tree seedling to seasonal drought stress along an elevational transect in tropical montane forests. Scientific Reports, 6, 36438.
Song, X., Nakamura, A., Sun, Z., Tang, Y., Cao, M.* (2016). Elevational distribution of adult trees and seedlings in a tropical montane transect, southwest China. Mountain Research and Development, 36, 342-354.
Li, J., Song, X., Cao, M. (2016). Response of tree seedlings to altitudinal gradient and its seasonal variation in Ailao Mountain and Yulong Mountain, Yunnan Province, China.. Chinese Journal of Applied Ecology. 27, 3403-3412.
Zhang, M.*, Song, X. (2015) Responses of soil seed banks in tropical forests to an elevational. Chinese Journal of Ecology, 34,, 2390
