1. Piao Tiefeng, Liza S. Comita, Jin Guangze and Kim Ji Hong. 2012. Density dependence across multiple life stages in a temperate old-growth forest of northeast China. Oecologia. 172: 207- 217. (IF: 3.41)

2. Liu Zhili, Jin Guangze and Qi Yujiao. 2012. Estimate of leaf area Index in an old-growth mixed broadleaved-Korean pine forest in northeastern China. PLoS ONE. 7(3), e32155. (IF: 4.09)

3. Miquel De Cáceres, Pierre Legendre, Renato Valencia, Cao Min,Li-Wan Chang, George Chuyong, Richard Condit, Hao Zhanqing, Chang-Fu Hsieh, Stephen Hubbell, David Kenfack, Ma Keping, Mi Xiangcheng, Md. Nur Supardi Noor, Abdul Rahman Kassim, Ren Haibao, Sheng-Hsin Su, Sun I-Fang, Duncan Thomas, Ye Wanhui and He Fangliang. 2012. The variation of tree beta diversity across a global network of forest plots. Global Ecology and Biogeography. 21: 1191- 1202. (IF: 7.28)

4. Bai Xuejiao, Simon A. Queenborough, Wang Xugao, Zhang Jian, Buhang Li, Yuan Zuoqiang, Xing Dingliang, Lin Fei, Ye Ji and Hao Zhanqing. 2012. Effects of local biotic neighbors and habitat heterogeneity on tree and shrub seedling survival in an old-growth temperate forest. Oecologia. 170:755- 765. (IF: 3.41)

5. Wang Xugao, Liza S. Comita, Hao Zhanqing*, Stuart J. Davies, Ye Ji, Lin Fei and Yuan Zuoqiang. 2012. Local-scale drivers of tree survival in a temperate forest. PLoS ONE. 7(2):e29469. (IF: 4.09)  

6. Wang miao, Shi Shuai, Lin Fei, Hao Zhanqing, Jiang Ping and Guanhua Dai. 2012. Effects of soil water and nitrogen on growth and photosynthetic response of manchurian ash (Fraxinus mandshurica) seedlings in northeastern China. PLoS ONE. 7(2): e30754. (IF: 4.09)

7. Thorsten Wiegand, Andreas Huth, Stephan Getzin, Wang Xugao, Hao Zhanqing, C. V. Savitri, Gunatilleke and I. A. U. Nimal Gunatilleke. 2012. Testing the independent species’ arrangement assertion made by theories of stochastic geometry of biodiversity. Proceedings of Royal Society B: Biological Sciences. 27: 3312-3320. (IF:5.06)

8. Buhang Li, Hao Zhanqing, Bin Yue, Zhang Jian and Wang miao. 2012. Seed rain dynamics reveals strong dispersal limitation, different reproductive strategies and response to climate in a temperate forest in Northeast China. Journal of Vegetation Science. 23(2): 271-279. (IF: 2.77)

9. Lin Dunmei, Lai Jiangshan, Helene C. Muller-Landau, Mi Xiangcheng and Ma Keping. 2012. Topographic variation in aboveground biomass in a subtropical evergreen broad-leaved forest in China. PLoS ONE. 7(10): e48244. (IF: 3.73)

10. Mi Xiangcheng, Nathan G. Swenson, Renato Valencia, John Kress, David L. Erickson, Álvaro J. Pérez, Ren Haibao, Sheng-Hsin Su, Nimal Gunatilleke, Savi Gunatilleke, Hao Zhanqing, Ye Wanhui, Cao Min, H. S. Suresh, H. S. Dattaraja, R. Sukumar and Ma Keping. 2012. The contribution of rare species to community phylogenetic diversity across a global network of forest plots. American Naturalist. 180(1):E17-E30. (IF: 4.73)

11. Liu Xiaojuan, Nathan G. Swenson, S. Joseph Wright, Liwen Zhang, Kai Song, Yanjun Du, Zhang Jinlong, Mi Xiangcheng, Ren Haibao and Ma Keping. 2012. Covariation in plant functional traits and soil fertility within two species-rich forests. PLoS ONE. 7(4): e34767. (IF: 4.09)

12. Yanjun Du, Mi Xiangcheng, Liu Xiaojuan and Ma Keping. 2012. The effects of ice storm on seed rain and seed limitation in an evergreen broad-leaved forest in east China. Acta Oecologica. 39:87-93. (IF: 1.46)

13. Feng Gang, Zhang Jinlong, Nancai, Rao Mide, Mi Xiangcheng, Ren Haibao and Ma Keping. 2012. Comparison of phylobetadiversity indices based on community data from Gutianshan forest plot. Chinese Science Bulletin. 57(6): 623-630.(IF: 1.09)

14. Luo Zhengrong, Mi Xiangcheng, Chen Xiaorong , Zhenlin Ye and Ding Bingyang .2012. Density dependence is not very prevalent in a heterogeneous subtropical forest. Oikos. 121:1239-1250. (IF: 3.06)

15. Luo Zhengrong, Yu Mingjian, Deliang Chen, Yougui Wu and Ding Bingyang . 2012. Spatial associations of tree species in a subtropical evergreen broad-leaved forest. Journal of Plant Ecology. 5(3): 346-355. (IF: 1.91)

16. Bin Yue, Ye Wanhui, Helene C. Muller-Landau, Wu Linfang, Lian Juyu and Cao Honglin. 2012. Unimodal Tree Size Distributions Possibly Result from Relatively Strong Conservatism in Intermediate Size Classes. PLoS ONE. 7(12): e52596. (IF: 3.73)

17. Zengfeng Wang, Lian Juyu, Guomin Huang, Ye Wanhui, Cao Honglin and Zhangmin Wang. 2012. Genetic groups in the common plant species Castanopsis chinensis and their associations with topographic habitats. Oikos.121: 2044-2051. (IF: 3.06)

18. Niu Hongyu, Li Xiaoyi, Ye Wanhui, Wang ZhengFeng , Cao Honglin and Zhangmin Wang. 2012. Isolation and characterization of 36 polymorphic microsatellite makers in Schima superba (Theaceae). American Journal of Botany. e123–e126. (IF: 2.66)

19. Lan Guoyu, Stephan Getzin, Thorsten Wiegand, Hu Yuehua, Guishui Xie, Zhu Hua and Cao Min. 2012. Spatial Distribution and Interspecific Associations of Tree Species in a Tropical Seasonal Rain Forest of China. PLoS ONE. 7(9):e46074. (IF: 4.09)

20. Lin Luxiang, Lisa S. Comita, Zheng Zheng and Cao Min. 2012. Seasonal differentiation in density-dependent seedling survival in a tropical rainforest. Journal of Ecology.100:905-914. (IF: 5.26)

21. Hu Yuehua, Lan Guoyu, Sha Liqing, Cao Min, Tang Yong, Yide Li and Daping Xu. 2012. Strong neutral spatial effects shape tree species distributions across life stages at multiple scales. PLoS ONE. 7(5): e38247. (IF: 4.09)

22. Tang Yong, Roger L. Kitching and Cao Min. 2012. Lianas as structural parasites: a re-evaluation. Chinese Science Bulletin. 57(4): 307-312. (IF: 1.09)

23. Pei Xing, Qibin Zhang and Patrick J. Baker. 2012. Age and radial growth pattern of four tree species in a subtropical forest of China. Trees. 26:283-290. (IF: 1.44)

24. Yanjun Du, Mi Xiangcheng and Ma Keping. 2012. Comparison of seed rain and seed limitation between community understory and gaps in a subtropical evergreen forest. Acta Oecologica. 1-9. (IF: 1.46)

25. Jiajia Cheng, Mi Xiangcheng, Zhang Jintun and Ma Keping. 2012. Separating the effect of mechanisms shaping species-abundance distributions at multiple scales in a subtropical forest. Oikos. 121:236-244. (IF: 3.39)

26. Bin Yue, Lin Guojun, Buhang Li, Wu Linfang, Shen Yong and Ye Wanhui. 2012. Seedling recruitment patterns in a 20 ha subtropical forest plot: hints for niche-based processes and negative density dependence. European Journal of Forest Research.131(2): 453-461 (IF: 1.942)

27. Lan Guoyu, Zhu Hua and Cao Min. 2012. Tree species diversity of a 20-ha plot in a tropical seasonal rainforest in Xishuangbanna, southwest China. Journal of Forest Research. 17:432–439. (IF: 0.874)

28. Yuan Zuoqiang, Antonio Gazol, Wang Xugao, Xing Dingliang, Lin Fei, Bai Xuejiao, Yuqiang Zhao, Buhang Li and Hao Zhanqing*. 2012. What happens below the canopy? Direct and indirect influences of the dominant species on forest vertical layers. Oikos. 121(7): 1145–1153.  (IF: 3.06)

29. Hu Yuehua, Sha Liqing, F. Guillaume Blanchet, Zhang Jiaolin, Tang Yong, Lan Guoyu and Cao Min. 2012. Dominant species and dispersal limitation regulate tree species distributions in a 20-ha plot in Xishuangbanna, southwest China. Oikos. 952–960. (IF: 3.06)

30. Liu Zhili and Jin Guangze. 2012. Estimation of leaf area index of three forest types in Xiaoxing’an Mountains of northeast China. Chinese Journal of Applied Ecology. 23 (9): 2437-2444. (In Chinese with English Abstract)

31. Lina Xu and Jin Guangze. 2012. Species composition and community structure of a typical mixed broadleaved-Korean pine (Pinus koraiensis) forest plot in Liangshui Nature Reserve, northeast China. Biodiversity Science. 20(4): 470-481. (In Chinese with English Abstract)

32. Baoku Shi, Jin Guangze and Zhaoyang Wang. 2012. Temporal and spatial variability in soil respiration in five temperate forests in Xiaoxing'an Mountains, China. Acta Ecologica Sinica. 32(17):5416- 5428. (In Chinese with English Abstract)

33. Liu Haifeng , Xue Dayuan and Sang Weiguo. 2012. Effect of topographic factors on the relationship between species richness and aboveground biomass in a warm temperate forest. Ecology and Environmental Sciences. 21(8): 1403-1407. (In Chinese with English Abstract)

34. Yubin Xie, Zunping Ma, Qingsong Yang, Xiaofeng Fang, Zhiguo Zhang, Yan Enrongg and Wang Xihua . 2012. Coexistence mechanisms of evergreen and deciduous trees based on topographic factors in Tiantong region, Zhejiang Province, eastern China. Biodiversity Science. 20:159-167. (In Chinese with English Abstract)

35. Yanjun Du and Ma Keping. 2012. Temporal and spatial variation of seedfall in a broad-leaved evergreen forest in Gutianshan Nature Reserve of Zhejiang Province, China. Chinese Journal of Plant Ecology. 36(8):717-728 (In Chinese with English Abstract)

36. Yanjun Du, Ma Keping. 2012. Advancements and prospects in forest seed rain studies. Biodiversity Science. 20:94-107 (In Chinese with English Abstract)

37. Hui Yan, Qian Wu, Jia Ding and Shouren Zhang. 2012. Effects of precipitation and nitrogen addition on photosynthetically eco-physiological characteristics and biomass of four tree seedlings in Gutian Mountian, Zhejiang Province, China. Acta Ecologica Sinica. (Accepted for publication). DOI: 10.5846/stxb201204050477. (In Chinese with English Abstract)

38. Jundi Zhong, Li Xiankun, Shihong Lv, Liu Shengyuan, Maoxin Lu, Yan Chen and Xialan Cheng. 2012. Studies on the stability of different communities in Nonggang karst region of Guangxi. Carsologica Sinica. 31(1): 22. (In Chinese with English Abstract)

39. Huang Yusong, Liu Shengyuan, Richeng Peng and Weibin Xu. 2012. A newly recorded species of Phaius (Orchidaceae) from China. Guihaia. 32(2): 143-145. (In Chinese with English Abstract)

40. Zhang Shusheng , Bao Yixin, Wang Yanni, Fang Pingfu and Bin Ye. 2012. Activity rhythms of black muntjac (Muntiacus crinifron) revealed with infrared camera. Acta Theriologica Sinica. 32 (4): 368- 372. (In Chinese with English Abstract)

41. JunLiu Yan and Zheng Zheng, 2012, Abundance and distribution pattern of tree cavity in tropical forest in Xishuangbanna, Southwest China. Chinese Journal of Ecology 31: 271-275. (In Chinese with English Abstract)

42. Zhang Shusheng , Bao Yixin, Wang Yanni, Ping fu Fang and Bin Ye. 2012. Comparisons of different camera trap placement patterns in monitoring mammal resources in Gutianshan National Nature Reserve. Chinese Journal of Ecology. 31(8):2016- 2022. (In Chinese with English Abstract)

43. Na Zhang, Wang Xihua , Zemei Zheng*, Zunping Ma, Qingsong Yang, Xiaofeng Fang and Yubin Xie. 2012. Spatial heterogeneity of soil properties and its relationships with terrain factors I broad-leaved forest in Tiantong of Zhejiang Province, east China. Chinese Journal of Applied Ecology. 23: 2361-2369. (In Chinese with English Abstract)