Associate Professor
Name:
Xiaoming Lu
Title:
Associate Professor
Tel:
Email:
luxiaoming@itpcas.ac.cn
Address:
Building 3, Courtyard 16, Lincui Road, Chaoyang District, Beijing 100101, China
Education and Appointments
Education
Ph.D. Institute of Tibetan Plateau Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences, 2017
M. S. Institute of Tibetan Plateau Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences, 2013
B. S. School of Earth Sciences and Geomatics, East China of University of Technology, 2010
Appointments
Post-Doctoral Fellow, Institute of Tibetan Plateau Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences, 2017–2020


Research Interest
Research Interests: Dendroecology, Ecological processes of alpine treeline/shrublines
Research Fields: Alpine Ecology


Selected Publications

Publications in the recent 5 years (2016-2020) (* corresponding author; # joint first authors; Including books and book chapters)

Part 1: 5 representative publications

1.Lu, X., Liang, E.*, Camarero, J.J., Ellision, A.M., 2020. An unusually high shrubline on the Tibetan Plateau. Ecology, accepted.

2. Lu, X., Liang, E.*, Wang, Y., Babst, F., Camarero, J.J., 2020. Mountain treelines climb slowly despite rapid climate warming. Global Ecology and Biogeography.https://doi.org/10.1111/geb.13214.

3.Lu, X., Huang, R., Wang, Y., Zhang, B., Zhu, H., Camarero, J.J., Liang, E.*, 2020. Spring hydroclimate reconstruction on the south-central Tibetan Plateau inferred from juniper shrub ring since 1605. Geophysical Research Letters 47: e2020GL087707.

4.Lu, X., Liang, E.*, Wang, Y., Babst, F., Leavitt, S.W., Camarero, J.J., 2019. Past the climate optimum: Recruitment is declining at the world’s highest juniper shrublines on the Tibetan Plateau. Ecology 100: e02557.

5.Lu, X., Huang, R., Wang, Y., Dawadi, B., Liang, E.*, Camarero, J.J., 2016. Summer temperature drives radial growth of alpine shrub willows on the northeastern Tibetan Plateau. Arctic Antarctic and Alpine Research 48: 461–468.

Part 2: all other publications (exclude part 1)

1.Fu, T., Liang, E., Lu, X.*, Gao, S., Zhang, L., Zhu, H., Rossi, S., Camarero, J.J., 2020. Tree growth responses and resilience after the 1950-Zayu-Medog earthquake, southeast Tibetan Plateau. Dendrochronologia 62: 125724.

2.Pandey, J., Sigdel, S.R., Lu, X., Salerno, F., Dawadi, B., Liang, E.*, Camarero, J.J., 2020. Early growing-season precipitation drives radial growth of alpine juniper shrubs in the central Himalayas. Geografiska Annaler: Series A, Physical Geography 102: 317–330.

3.Du, Q., Rossi, S., Lu, X., Wang, Y., Zhu, H., Liang, E.*, Camarero, J.J., 2020. Negative growth responses to temperature of sympatric species converge under warming conditions on the southeastern Tibetan Plateau. Trees 34: 395–404.

4.Rai, S., Dawadi, B., Wang, Y., Lu, X., Huang, R., Sigdel, S.R.*, 2020. Growth response of Abies spectabilis to climate along an elevation gradient of the Manang valley in the central Himalayas. Journal of Forestry Research 31: 2245–2254.

5.Wang, Y.*, Lu, X., Zhu, H., Liang, E., 2020. Field survey and research approaches at alpine treelines (in Chinese). Advances in Earth Science 35: 38–51.

6.Lu, X.*, Sigdel, S.R., Dawadi, B., Wang, Y., 2019. Climate response of Salix oritrepha growth along a latitudinal gradient on the northeastern Tibetan Plateau. Dendrobiology 81:14–21.

7.Wang, Y., Case, B., Lu, X., Ellison, A.M., Pecuelas, J., Zhu, H., Liang, E.*, Camarero, J.J., 2019. Fire facilitates warming-induced upward shifts of alpine treelines by altering interspecifc interactions. Trees 33: 1051–1061.

8.Lu, X., Fu, T., Du, Q., Zhang, L., Wang, Y., Liang, E.*, 2019. Tree regeneration after fire and logging in sub-alpine forest on the southeastern Tibetan Plateau (in Chinese). Chinese Science Bulletin 64: 2907–2914.

9.Bayramzadeh, V., Zhu, H.*, Lu, X., Attarod, P., Zhang, H., Li, X., Asad, F., Liang, E., 2018. Temperature variability in Northern Iran during the past 700 years. Science Bulletin 63: 462–464.

10.Zhang, Y.*, Lu, X., Wang, Y., 2018. Research progresses in treeline dynamics and driving forces in the Northern Hemisphere (in Chinese). Chinese Journal of Ecology 37: 3430–3439.

11.Wang, Y., Liang, E.*, Lu, X., Zhu, H., Piao, S., Zhu, L., 2017. Are treelines advancing in response to climate warming on the Tibetan Plateau (in Chinese). Chinese Journal of Nature 39: 1–5.

12.Liang, E.*, Wang, Y., Piao, S., Lu, X., Camarero, J.J., Zhu, H., Zhu, L., Ellison, A.M., Ciais, P., Pecuelas, J., 2016. Species interactions slow warming-induced upward shifts of treelines on the Tibetan Plateau. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of United State of America 113: 4380–4385.

13.Lu, X., Camarero, J.J., Wang, Y., Liang, E.*, Eckstein, D., 2015. Up to 400-year old Rhododendron shrubs on the southeastern Tibetan Plateau: prospects for shrub-based dendrochronology. Boreas 44: 760–768.

14.Wang, Y., Liang, E.*, Ellison, A.M., Lu, X., Camarero, J.J., 2015. Facilitation stabilizes moisture-controlled alpine juniper shrublines in the central Tibetan Plateau. Global and Planetary Change 132: 20–30.

15.Lu, X., Liang, E., 2013. Progresses in dendrochronology of shrubs (in Chinese). Acta Ecologica Sinica 33:1367–1374.

16.Liang, E.*, Lu, X., Ren, P., Li, X., Zhu, L., Eckstein, D., 2012. Annual increments of juniper dwarf shrubs above the tree line on the central Tibetan Plateau: a useful climatic proxy. Annals of Botany 109: 721–728.