Curriculum Vitae
Name
Research Center of Plant Ecology, Institute of Botany, Chinese Academy of Sciences
Tel: +86 010 62836739
Fax: +86 010 82594676
Email: fenghong@ibcas.ac.cn
or inneryuanzi@yahoo.com
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Academic Education
9/2002 -1/2007
PhD in Ecology, Research Center of Plant Ecology, Institute of Botany,
Chinese Academy of Sciences
Advisor: Prof. Dr Ming Dong
9/1998 - 7/2002
B. Sc in Ecology, College of Life Science, Inner Mongolian University
Advisor: Prof. Dr Yunna Wu
Research interests
 Various aspects of restoration ecology and clonal plant biology, including the effect of
clonal plants with different growth forms (i.e. guerrilla and phalanx) on the structure
and species biodiversity of community, how clonal plants respond to small-scale
heterogeneity in resource supply and in biological and/or physical stresses, trade-off
between sexual reproduction and clonal growth, intra-clonal and inter-clonal
competition and regulation, population genetics and clonal diversity, etc.
 Various aspects of invasive plant biology, including how clonality affects the
invasiveness, the impact of biodiversity on invasion resistance and on range-shifts of
native species due to climate-mediated habitat change, etc.
 Effects of clonal integration on plasticity of clonal plant
 The response modes of clonal plants to global climate change
 Experimental ecology
Scholarships and Awards
2006
2006
2005-2007
2003-2005
2002
2001
1998-2002
1998
Pivot of Merit Student, Chinese Academy of Sciences
Merit Student of Institute of Botany, Chinese Academy of Sciences
Institute Scholarship for Ph.D Student (1st prize)
Institute Scholarship for Master Student (1st prize)
Scholarship for Excellent Graduate Student, Chinese Academy of Sciences
MengYao Scholarship for National Undergraduate (1st prize)
University Scholarship, every term from 1998 to 2002, Inner Mongolian
University
Awards for Excellent Undergraduate Lecturer (2nd prize), Inner Mongolian
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University
Professional society membership and service
Membership: Ecological Society of Beijing, China
Organizing and presiding at the first Forum of Young Ecologist in Beijing
Hobbies & activities
History, literature, table tennis, volleyball, swimming, travel and mountain climbing,
movies,
Publications
Peer-reviewed papers
Published & accepted
1. XX, Liu J, Dong M.2005. Spatial pattern of sandy vegetation and two dominant clonal
semi-shrubs in the Ordos Plateau, Acta Ecologica Sinica 24: 2374-2380 (in Chinese
with an English abstract).
2. XX Liu J, Dong M. 2005. Response of biomass allocation to small-scale variation of
vegetation coverage in dominant clonal semi-shrubs in the Mu Us Sandland. Acta
Ecologica Sinica 25: 3415-3419(in Chinese with an English abstract).
3. Liu J, XX, Dong M, Wang RQ. 2005. Size structure and neighbor pattern of Ulmus
pumila L. population at southern edge of the Otindag sandy land. Journal of Desert
Research. 25:75-80 (in Chinese with an English abstract).
4. Liu J, Liang SC, XX, Wang RQ, Dong M. 2005. Invasive alien plant species in China
regional distribution patterns. Diversity and Distribution 11: 341-347.
5. XX, Yu FH, Ye XH, Dong M. 2006. Clonal integration modifies response of
Hedysarum laeve to local sand burial in Mu Us Sandland. Journal of Plant Ecology 30:
278-285 (in Chinese with an English abstract).
6. XX, Liu J, Yu FH, Dong M. Water integration patterns in two rhizomatous dune
perennials of different clonal fragment size. Flora 202: XX-XX (In press).
7. XX, Yu FH, Ye XH, Dong M. Clonal integration modifies growth and reproduction of
the bunchgrass Cleistogenes squarrosa in nutrient-heterogeneous conditions. Ekologia
(Bratislava) (In press).
8. XX, Yu FH, Liu WS, Krüsi, BO, Cai XH, Schneller JJ, Dong M. Large clones on cliff
faces: expanding by rhizomes through crevices and implications for adaptation. Annals
of Botany (accepted)
9. XX, Ye XH, Yu FH, Dong M. Hedysarum laeve, a guerrilla clonal rhizomateous
semi-shrub, playing a role in the restoration of Mu Us Sandland. Frontiers of Biology in
China-Selected Publications fromChinese Universities. (accepted)
10. Richard Primack and XX. A Search for Ancient Trees in Beijing. Arnoldia (in Press).
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Submitted & finished
11. XX, Yu FH, Dong M. Is the clonal architecture of Halerpestes ruthenica a truly plastic
functional response to light and inutrient availability or not? (Resubmitted to Annals of
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Botany)
12. Liu J, XX, He WM, Zhang SM, Wang RQ, Dong M. Responses to nutrient
heterogeneity and disturbance in the invasive clonal plant Alternanthera philoxeroides
(submitted to Journal of Experimental Botany)
13. Ye XH, XX, Zhu YJ, Dong M. Initiation and rate of clonal growth in dune herbaceous
plants, as affected by nutrient supply. (submitted to Plant Ecology)
14. Wang N, Yu FH, Li PX, XX, Liu JM. Clonal integration affects biomass allocation of
alligator weed invading lawn? (submitted to Journal of Experimental Botany)
15. Liu J, He WM, Zhang SM, XX, Dong M, Wang RQ. The effects of clonal integration on
the photosynthesis of the invasive clonal plant Alternanthera philoxeroides. (finished)
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In preparation
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Book chapter
16. XX. Chapter 4: Molecular ecology of clonal plants. In Dong M, Yu FH (eds), Ecology of
Clonal Plants. Scientific Press, Beijing. (in revision) (in Chinese)
Conference
17. Dong M, Yu FH, He WM, Liu HD, XX. Clonal integration as an evolutionary strategy
for surviving disturbance：Insights from the studies of rhizomatous species in semiarid
sand grasslands. 91st ESA Annual Meeting Symposium: Plant Clonal Growth –
Ecological Implication. .
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