Mainly engage in exploring the functional eco-physiological traits and scaling relationships of bryophytes, to explain their adaptive strategies and contributions to the ecosystems.

PUBLICATIONS:

Xin Liu, Zhe Wang, Xiaoming Li, Kathrin Rousk, Weikai Bao*. 2020. High nitrogen resorption efficiency of forest mosses. Annals of Botany. 125: 557–563.

Xin Liu*, Zhe Wang, Xiaoming Li, Weikai Bao*. 2020. Nitrogen and phosphorus translocation of forest floor mosses as affected by a pulse of these nutrients.Journal of Plant Ecology. https://doi.org/10.1093/jpe/rtaa050.

Zhe Wang*, Chunyan Pi, Xiaoming Li, Weikai Bao*. 2019. Elevational patterns of carbon, nitrogen and phosphorus in understory bryophytes on the eastern slope of Gongga Mountain, China. Journal of Plant Ecology. 10.1093/jpe/rtz008

Zhe Wang*, Maaike Y. Bader. 2018. Associations between shoot-level water relations and photosynthetic responses to water and light in 12 moss species. AoB PLANTS. 10: ply034. Editor's Choice.

Zhe Wang, Qihua He, Bin Hu, Xueyong Pang, Weikai Bao*. 2018. Gap thinning improves soil water content, changes the vertical water distribution, and decreases the fluctuation. Canadian Journal of Forest Research. 48: 1042-1048.

Yanqiang Jin, Jing Li, Chenggang Liu, Yuntong Liu, Yiping Zhang, Liqing Sha, Zhe Wang, Qinghai Song, Youxing Lin, Ruiwu Zhou, Aiguo Chen, Peiguang Li, Xuehai Fei, John Grace; Carbohydrate dynamics of three dominant species in a Chinese savanna under precipitation exclusion, Tree Physiology. 38, 1371-1383.

Zhe Wang, Maaike Y. Bader, Xin Liu, Zhangming Zhu, Weikai Bao*. 2017. Comparisons of photosynthesis-related traits of 27 abundant or subordinate bryophyte species in a subalpine old-growth fir forest. Ecology and Evolution. Ecology & Evolution.

Zhe Wang, Xin Liu, Maaike Y. Bader, Defeng Feng, Weikai Bao*. 2017. The ‘plant economic spectrum’ in bryophytes, a comparative study in subalpine forest. American Journal of Botany.104: 261–269.  

Zhe Wang, Xin Liu, Weikai Bao*. 2016. Higher photosynthetic capacity and different functional trait scaling relationships in erect bryophytes compared with prostrate species. Oecologia. 180:359-369.

Zhe Wang, Weikai Bao*, Xiaoli Yan. 2015. Non-structural carbohydrate levels of three co-occurring understory plants and their responses to forest thinning by gap creation in a dense pine plantation. Journal of Forestry Research. 26:391-396.

Xin Liu, Zhe Wang, Weikai Bao*, Xiaoming Li.   2015. Photosynthetic   responses of two pleurocarpous mosses to low-level nitrogen addition: A study   in an old-growth fir forest. Journal of   Bryology. 37:15-22.

Zhe Wang,   Weikai Bao*, Defeng Feng, Honghui Lin. 2014. Functional trait scaling   relationships across thirteen temperate mosses growing in wintertime. Ecological Research. 29: 629-639.

Zhe   Wang, Weikai Bao, Xiaoli Yan and Honghui   Lin. 2014. Responses of non-structural carbohydrate levels of Polytrichastrum formosum and the   co-occurring understory fern Parathelypteris   nipponica to different gap creations by thinning in a dense spruce   plantation. Cryptogamie, Bryologie.   35: 165-172.

GRANT

National Natural Science Funds of China (No. 31600316), “Elevational variations in bryophyte nutrient and photosynthetic traits and their trade-off relationships”, started from 2017, as PI

CONFERENCE & ORAL PRESENTATIONS

Zhe Wang and Maaike Bader. Water relations are coupled with photosynthetic light- and water-response functions across 12 mosses. The XIX International Botanical Congress (2017, Shenzhen, China)

Zhe Wang, Xin Liu, Weikai Bao and Maaike Bader. Functional trait relationships of bryophyte. 46th Annual Meeting of the Ecological Society of Germany, Austria and Switzerland (2016, Marburg, Germany)

Postdoc Scholarship by China Scholarship Council and German Academic Exchange Serice. Sino-German Postdoc Scholarship Program, 2015.