1) Yang, J., Song, X.Y., 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, Jounral of Ecology, 109: 26-37.
2) Song, X.Y., Yang, J*., Cao, M*., Lin, L., Sun, Z., Wen, H., Swenson, NG. (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.
3) Yang, J., Song, X.Y., Cao, M., Deng, X., Zhang, W., Yang, X., Swenson, N. G. (2020) On the modeling of tropical tree growth: the importance of intra-specific trait variation, non-linear functions and phenotypic integration, Annals of Botany, doi:10.1093/aob/mcaa085.
4) Song, X.Y., Zhang, W. F., Johnson, D. J., Yang, J*., Mengesha, A., 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.
5) Mengesha Asefa, Calum Brown, Min Cao, Guocheng Zhang, Xiuqin Ci, Liqing Sha, Jie Li, Luxiang Lin, Jie Yang* (2019) Contrasting effects of space and environment on functional and phylogenetic dissimilarity in a tropical forest. Journal of Plant Ecology,12: 314-326.
6) Song, X.Y., Cao, M., Kitching, R.L., Tang, Y., Sun, Z.H., 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.
7) Yang, J., Cao, M., Swenson, G.N*. (2018) Why functional traits do not predict tree demographic rates? Trends in Ecology & Evolution, 33: 326-336.
8) Song, X.Y., Hogan, J.A., L., Lin, H, Wen., 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.
9) Song, X.Y., Johnson, D.J. Cao, M., Uma?a, M.N., Deng, X.B., Yang, X.F., Zhang, W.F., Yang, J.* (2018). The strength of density-dependent mortality is contingent on climate and seedling size. Journal of Vegetation Science. 29: 662-670.
10) Asefa, M., Cao, M., Zhang, G.C., Ci, X.Q., Li, J., Yang, J*. (2017). Environmental filtering structures tree functional traits combination and lineages across space in tropical tree assemblages. Scientific Reports, 17-00166-z.
11) Liu, S., Zhu, H.*, Yang, J.* (2017). A phylogenetic perspective on biogeographical divergence of the flora in Yunnan, Southwestern China. Scientific Reports, Srep4302.
12) Song, X.Y., 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: 275-281.
13) Yang, J., Swenson, N.G., Zhang, G., Ci, X., Cao, M., Sha, L., Li, J., Slik, J.W.F., Lin, L. (2015) Local-scale partitioning of tree functional and phylogenetic beta diversity in a tropical forest, Scientific Reports, 5.
14) Yang, J., Zhang, G., Ci, X., Lu, M., Li, J., Cao, M., Lin, L. (2014) Functional traits of tree species co-vary with environmental niches in two large forest dynamics plots, Journal of Plant Ecology, 7(2): 115-125.
15) Yang, J., Zhang, G., Ci, X., Swenson, N.G., Sha, L., Baskin, C.C., Li, J., Cao, M., Slik, J.W.F., Lin, L. (2014) Functional and phylogenetic assembly in a Chinese tropical tree community across size class, spatial scales and habitats, Functional Ecology, 28: 520-529.
16) Yang, J., Swenson, N.G., Cao, M., Chuyong, G.B., Ewango, C.E.N., Howe, R., Kenfack, D., Thomas, D., Wolf, A., Lin, L. (2013) A phylogenetic perspective on the individual species-area relationship in temperate and tropical tree communities, PLoS One, 8: e63192.