Bio
My research focuses on understanding the impacts of soil microbial community on carbon cycle under global change, including climate warming, elevated CO2, nitrogen deposition, wildfires, plant invasion, and land use change, using a data-model integration approach. The major approaches I used in my research include:
- Compiling comprehensive datasets for understanding the biogeography of soil microbial community.
- Generating novel microbial datasets using machine learning and deep learning approaches.
- Improving ecosystem and Earth system models by incorporating explicit soil microbial mechanisms.
- Applying the improved ecosystem and Earth system models with explicit soil microbial mechanisms to project carbon cycle under global change and understand the underlying mechanisms.
- Empowering microbial models with -omics data by informing microbe-mediated biogeochemical processes with high-resolution genome information.
Other Publications
- He, L., J. L. M. Rodrigues, M. A. Mayes, C. T. Lai, D. A. Lipson, and X. Xu. 2024. Modeling microbial carbon fluxes and stocks in global soils from 1901 to 2016. Biogeosciences 2023:1-53.
- He, L., N. Viovy, and X. Xu. 2023. Macroecology Differentiation Between Bacteria and Fungi in Topsoil Across the United States. Global Biogeochemical Cycles 37:e2023GB007706.
- Zhao, F., L. He*#, B. Bond-Lamberty, I. A. Janssens, J. Wang, G. Pang, Y. Wu, and X. Xu. 2022. Latitudinal shifts of soil microbial biomass seasonality. PNAS Nexus 1:pgac254. (co-first author & co-corresponding author)
- He, L. 2022. Multi-Scale Modeling of Soil Microbial Control on Terrestrial Carbon Cycle. Ph.D. University of California, Davis, United States -- California.
- He, L., and X. Xu. 2021. Mapping soil microbial residence time at the global scale. Global Change Biology 27:6484-6497.
- He, L., C. T. Lai, M. A. Mayes, S. Murayama, and X. Xu. 2021. Microbial seasonality promotes soil respiratory carbon emission in natural ecosystems: A modeling study. Global Change Biology 27:3035-3051.
- He, L., D. A. Lipson, J. L. Mazza Rodrigues, M. Mayes, R. G. Björk, B. Glaser, P. Thornton, and X. Xu. 2021. Dynamics of Fungal and Bacterial Biomass Carbon in Natural Ecosystems: Site‐Level Applications of the CLM‐Microbe Model. Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems 13:e2020MS002283.
- He, L., J. L. M. Rodrigues, N. A. Soudzilovskaia, M. Barceló, P. A. Olsson, C. Song, L. Tedersoo, F. Yuan, F. Yuan, and D. A. Lipson. 2020. Global biogeography of fungal and bacterial biomass carbon in topsoil. Soil Biology and Biochemistry 151:108024.
- Wang, J., X. Xu, Y. Liu, W. Wang, C. Ren, Y. Guo, J. Wang, N. Wang, L. He*, and F. Zhao. 2024. Unknown bacterial species lead to soil CO2 emission reduction by promoting lactic fermentation in alpine meadow on the Qinghai-Tibetan Plateau. Science of The Total Environment 906:167610. (co-corresponding author)
- Li, D., L. He*, J. Qu, and X. Xu. 2022. Spatial evolution of cultivated land in the Heilongjiang Province in China from 1980 to 2015. Environmental Monitoring and Assessment 194:444. (corresponding author)
- Hu, H., L. He*, H. Ma, J. Wang, Y. Li, J. Wang, Y. Guo, C. Ren, H. Bai, and F. Zhao. 2022. Responses of AM fungal abundance to the drivers of global climate change: A meta-analysis. Science of The Total Environment 805:150362. (co-first author)
- He, L., Z. Hu, Q. Guo, S. Li, W. Bai, and L. Li. 2015. Influence of nitrogen and phosphorus addition on the aboveground biomass in Inner Mongolia temperate steppe, China. Chinese Journal of Applied Ecology 26.