PI: Prof. SU Guohuan, PhD

Members: Jun XU, Te CAO, Leyi NI, Xiaolin ZHANG, Huan ZHANG, Peiyu ZHANG, Qingchuan CHOU, Lan WANG, Hongxia WANG

Supervisors: Guohuan SU, Jun XU, Te CHAO, Huan ZHANG, Xiaolin ZHANG

Research assistants/postdocs: Kangshun ZHAO, Hong FU, Hanwen ZHANG, Chaochao LV, Tao WANG, Jiayang HE

Project-Based Employees: Xin TANG, Xianghong KONG, Cui ZHONG

Contact Us:

Tel 86-27-68780195

E-mail: suguohuan@ihb.ac.cn

General Introduction:

The Ecosystem Ecology Research Group currently comprises 15 primary members, including 3 doctoral supervisors and 2 master's supervisors. There are 7 research assistants/postdoctoral fellows and 3 project hires. Students have collectively received 17 national scholarships and 11 have been funded for overseas studies. The group has 29 enrolled students, including 7 doctoral students, 10 master's students, and 12 joint training students. The research group has published over 180 SCI papers in leading international journals such as Science, Nature Communications, Global Change Biology, Environment International, and Global Ecology and Biogeography, and has published 3 monographs.

Current research interests:

* Global and regional freshwater aquatic species invasions and biodiversity conservation

* Impacts of global change and multiple environmental stressors on freshwater lake ecosystems

* Relationship between structure and function of food web system and species diversity in aquatic ecosystems

* Aquatic plant physiological ecology and ecological restoration

Recent Representative Publications:

(1)   Su, G., Logez, M., Xu, J., Tao. S., Villéger,S., Brosse, S.(2021). Human impacts on global freshwater fish biodiversity, Science, 371 (6531), 835-838.

(2)   Zhao, K., Gaines, S. D., García Molinos, J., Zhang, M., & Xu, J. (2024). Effect of trade on global aquatic food consumption patterns. Nature Communications, 15(1), 1412.

(3)   Su, G., Mertel, A., Brosse, S., & Calabrese, J. M. (2023). Species invasiveness and community invasibility of North American freshwater fish fauna revealed via trait-based analysis. Nature Communications,14, 2332.

(4)   Xie, J., Wang, T., Zhang, P., Zhang, H., Wang, H., Wang, K., ... & Xu, J. (2024). Effects of multiple stressors on freshwater food webs: Evidence from a mesocosm experiment. Environmental Pollution, 348, 123819.

(5)   Niu, X., Wang, H., Wang, T., Zhang, P., Zhang, H., Wang, H., ... & Xu, J. (2024). The combination of multiple environmental stressors strongly alters microbial community assembly in aquatic ecosystems. Journal of Environmental Management, 350, 119594.

(6)   Fu, H., Xu, J., García Molinos, J., Zhang, H., Wang, H., Zhang, M., ... & Brown, L. E. (2024). Macroinvertebrate and environmental responses to dredging and submerged macrophytes transplantation. Journal of Applied Ecology, 61(5), 1041-1052.

(7)   Yang, Y., Wang, H., Yan, S., Wang, T., Zhang, P., Zhang, H., ... & Xu, J. (2023). Chemodiversity of cyanobacterial toxins driven by future scenarios of climate warming and eutrophication. Environmental Science & Technology, 57(32), 11767-11778.

(8)   Fu, H., Xu, J., Zhang, H., Molinos, J. G., Zhang, M., Klaar, M., & Brown, L. E. (2023). A meta-analysis of environmental responses to freshwater ecosystem restoration in China (1987–2018). Environmental Pollution, 316, 120589.

(9)   Feng, M., Cheng, H., Zhang, P., Wang, K., Wang, T., Zhang, H., ... & Zhang, M. (2023). Stoichiometric stability of aquatic organisms increases with trophic level under warming and eutrophication. Science of The Total Environment, 858, 160106.

(10) Chen, Y., Wang, H., Gong, Y., Zhang, P., Zhang, H., Wang, T., ... & Kong, X. (2023). Benefits of combined environmental DNA and microscopy for diversity monitoring in rotifer community: A mesocosm experiment. Ecological Indicators, 155, 110930.

(11) Wang, T., Zhang, P., Molinos, J. G., Xie, J., Zhang, H., Wang, H., ... & Xu, J. (2023). Interactions between climate warming, herbicides, and eutrophication in the aquatic food web. Journal of Environmental Management, 345, 118753.

(12) Xu, C., Su, G., Zhao, K., Xu, X., Li, Z., Zhang, M., & Xu, J. (2023). Assessing sustainable performance of aquatic species using multiple footprints for comprehensive dietary advice. Journal of Cleaner Production, 422, 138619.

(13) Zhu, K., Zhang, H., Li, H., Zhang, P., Zhang, M., Urrutia‐Cordero, P., & Xu, J. (2023). A size‐based perspective on the decoupling between compositional and functional changes in planktonic communities. Ecosphere, 14(7), e4626.

(14) Zhang, P., Wang, T., Zhang, H., Wang, H., Hilt, S., Shi, P., ... & Xu, J. (2022). Heat waves rather than continuous warming exacerbate impacts of nutrient loading and herbicides on aquatic ecosystems. Environment International, 168, 107478.

(15) Zhao, K., Gaines, S.D., Molinos, J.G., Zhang, M. and Xu, J. (2022). Climate change and fishing are pulling the functional diversity of the world's largest marine fisheries to opposite extremes. Global Ecology and Biogeography. 31(8), 1616-1629.

(16) Su, G., Tedesco, P., Toussaint, A., Villéger, S. & Brosse, S. (2022). Contemporary drivers and historical legacy determine global patterns of freshwater fish functional diversity. Global Ecology and Biogeography 31, 700-713.

(17) Ren, W.J., Wen, Z.H., Cao, Y., Wang, H., Yuan, C.B., Zhang, X.L., Ni, L.Y., Xie, P., Cao, T., Li, K.Y. and Jeppesen, E. (2022). Cascading effects of benthic fish impede reinstatement of clear water conditions in lakes: A mesocosm study. Journal of Environmental Management. 301: 113898.

(18) Zhang, H., Zhang, P., Wang, H., Garcia Molinos, J., Hansson, L.-A., He, L., Xu, J. (2021). Synergistic effects of warming and eutrophication alert zooplankton predator-prey interactions along the benthic-pelagic interface. Global Change Biology, 27(22), 5907-5919.

(19) Wang H., Molinos J G., Heino J., Zhang H., Zhang P., Xu, J. Eutrophication causes invertebrate biodiversity loss and decreases cross-taxon congruence across anthropogenically-disturbed lakes. Environment International, (2021). 153(1), 106494.

(20) Fu, H., Gaüzère, P., Molinos, J. G., Zhang, P., Zhang, H., Zhang, M., ... & Xu, J. (2021). Mitigation of urbanization effects on aquatic ecosystems by synchronous ecological restoration. Water Research, 204, 117587.

(21) Wang, K., Sha, Y., Xu, J., Zhang, T., Hu, W., & Zhu, Z. (2021). Do sympatric transgenic and non-transgenic common carps partition the trophic niche? A whole-lake manipulation study. Science of The Total Environment, 787, 147516.

(22) Zhang, P., Zhang, H., Wang, H., Hilt, S., Li, C., Yu, C., Zhang, M., Xu, J. (2021) Warming alters juvenile carp effects on macrophytes resulting in a shift to turbid conditions in freshwater mesocosms, Journal of Applied Ecology, 00:1-11

(23) Wen, Z.H., Ma, Y.W., Wang, H., Cao, Y., Yuan, C.B., Ren, W.J., Ni, L.Y., Cai, Q.H., Xiao, W., Fu, H., Cao, T. and Zhang, X.L. (2021). Water level regulation for eco-social services under climate change in Erhai Lake over the past 68 years in China. Frontiers in Environmental Science. 9: 697694.

(24) Wang, H., Wen, Z.H., Zhang, Z.H., Zhang, X.L., Fu, H., Cao, Y., Ni, L.Y., Cao, T. and Li, K.Y. (2020). Environmental vs. spatial drivers of submerged macrophyte community assembly in different seasons and water depths in a mesotrophic bay of Erhai Lake, China. Ecological Indicators. 117: 106696.

(25) Su, G., Villéger, S. & Brosse, S. (2020) Morphological sorting of introduced freshwater fish species within and between donor realms. Global Ecology and Biogeography, 29, 803-813.

(26) Xu, J., Wang, T., Molinos, J. G., Li, C., Hu, B., Pan, M., & Zhang, M. (2020). Effects of warming, climate extremes and phosphorus enrichment on the growth, sexual reproduction and propagule carbon and nitrogen stoichiometry of Potamogeton crispus L. Environment international, 137, 105502.

(27) Zhang, P., Kuramae, A., Van Leeuwen, C. H., Velthuis, M., Van Donk, E., Xu, J., & Bakker, E. S. (2020). Interactive effects of rising temperature and nutrient enrichment on aquatic plant growth, stoichiometry, and palatability. Frontiers in Plant Science, 11, 58.

(28) García‐Girón, J., Heino, J., Baastrup‐Spohr, L., Clayton, J., de Winton, M., Feldmann, T., ... & Alahuhta, J. (2020). Elements of lake macrophyte metacommunity structure: Global variation and community‐environment relationships. Limnology and Oceanography, 65(12), 2883-2895.

(29) Xu, J., García M, J Su., G., Matsuzaki, S., Akasaka, M, Zhang, H. Heino, J. (2019) Cross-taxon congruence of multiple diversity facets of freshwater assemblages is determined by large-scale processes across China. Freshwater Biology. 64(8),1492-1503.

(30) Su, G., Villéger, S. & Brosse, S. (2019) Morphological diversity of freshwater fishes differs between realms, but morphologically extreme species are widespread. Global Ecology and Biogeography, 28, 211-221.

(31) He, L., Zhu, T.S., Wu, Y., Li, W., Zhang, H., Zhang, X.L., Cao, T., Ni, L.Y. and Hilt, S. (2019). Littoral slope, water depth and alternative response strategies to light attenuation shape the distribution of submerged macrophytes in a mesotrophic lake. Frontiers in Plant Science. 10: 169.

(32) Zhang, H. , Urrutia‐Cordero, P., He, L., Geng, H., Chaguaceda, F., Xu, J., & Hansson, L. A. (2018). Life‐history traits buffer against heat wave effects on predator–prey dynamics in zooplankton. Global Change Biology, 24(10), 4747-475.

(33) Zhao, K., García Molinos, J., Zhang, H., Zhang, M., Xu, J. (2018）. Contemporary changes in structural dynamics and socioeconomic drivers of inland fishery in China. Science of the Total Environment.648(1). 1527-1535.

(34) Fu, H., Yuan, G., Lou, Q., Dai, T., Xu, J., Cao, T. E., ... & Fang, S. (2018). Functional traits mediated cascading effects of water depth and light availability on temporal stability of a macrophyte species. Ecological Indicators, 89, 168-174.