Yongfu Chai

The relationships between leaf economics and hydraulic traits of woody plants depend on water availability

Qiulong Yin, Lei Wang, Maolin Lei et al. · The Science of The Total Environment · 2017 · 99 citations

Water Availability, Hydraulic Traits, Engineering +8

Using phylogeny and functional traits for assessing community assembly along environmental gradients: A deterministic process driven by elevation

Jinshi Xu, Yu Chen, Lixia Zhang et al. · Ecology and Evolution · 2017 · 94 citations · Full text

Patterns of taxonomic, phylogenetic diversity during a long-term succession of forest on the Loess Plateau, China: insights into assembly process

Yongfu Chai, Ming Yue, Xiao Liu et al. · Scientific Reports · 2016 · 79 citations · Full text

Soil Abiotic Properties and Plant Functional Traits Mediate Associations Between Soil Microbial and Plant Communities During a Secondary Forest Succession on the Loess Plateau

Yongfu Chai, Ying Cao, Ming Yue et al. · Frontiers in Microbiology · 2019 · 71 citations · Full text

Plant functional traits suggest a change in novel ecological strategies for dominant species in the stages of forest succession

Yongfu Chai, Ming Yue, Mao Wang et al. · Oecologia · 2015 · 69 citations

Biology, Biodiversity, Engineering +9