Achievements

Publications

1.     Yang, Jinyan, Haiyang Zhang, Yiqing Guo, et al. “Globally Mapping the Nitrogen Stable Isotope Ratios of Terrestrial Vegetation From 1984 to 2022.” Earth’s Future 13, no. 12 (2025): e2024EF005836. https://doi.org/10.1029/2024EF005836.

2.     Yang, Jinyan, Yiqing Guo, Christopher J. Owers, et al. “A Framework for Dynamic Assessment of Terrestrial Ecosystem Condition.” Global Ecology and Biogeography 34, no. 10 (2025): e70132. https://doi.org/10.1111/geb.70132.

3.     Liu, Tong, Xiaolong Zhao, Jinyan Yang, Yiqiong Cui, Min Chen, and Zhigao Zeng. “Conservation Priorities for Lizard Biodiversity in the Qinghai-Xizang Plateau Under Climate Change: Current Status and Future Strategies.” Asian Herpetological Research 16, no. 2 (2025): 210–26. https://doi.org/10.3724/ahr.2095-0357.2024.0061.

4.     Guo, Yiqing, Karel Mokany, Shaun R. Levick, Jinyan Yang, and Peyman Moghadam. “Spatioformer: A Geo-Encoded Transformer for Large-Scale Plant Species Richness Prediction.” IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing, 2025, 1–1. https://doi.org/10.1109/TGRS.2025.3534654.

5.     Huang, Ruike, Nan Di, Benye Xi, et al. “Herb Hydraulics: Variation and Correlation for Traits Governing Drought Tolerance and Efficiency of Water Transport.” Science of The Total Environment 907 (January 2024): 168095. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2023.168095.

6.     Huang, Ruike, Ye Wang, Jie Duan, et al. “Robust Hydraulic Traits Correlation in Woody Species despite Large Trait Variation along Natural and Experimental Environmental Gradients.” Functional Ecology 38, no. 8 (2024): 1835–47. https://doi.org/10.1111/1365-2435.14591.

7.     Noh, N. J., A. A. Renchon, J. Knauer, et al. “Reconciling Top‐Down and Bottom‐Up Estimates of Ecosystem Respiration in a Mature Eucalypt Forest.” Journal of Geophysical Research: Biogeosciences 129, no. 10 (2024): e2024JG008064. https://doi.org/10.1029/2024JG008064.

8.     Kumarathunge, Dushan P, Belinda E Medlyn, John E Drake, et al. “Photosynthetic Temperature Responses in Leaves and Canopies: Why Temperature Optima May Disagree at Different Scales.” Tree Physiology, October 17, 2024, tpae135. https://doi.org/10.1093/treephys/tpae135.

9.     Zhang, Haiyang, Jonathan M Plett, Karen L M Catunda, et al. “Rapid Quantification of Biological Nitrogen Fixation Using Optical Spectroscopy.” Journal of Experimental Botany 75, no. 3 (2024): 760–71. https://doi.org/10.1093/jxb/erad426.

10.  Yang, Jinyan, Belinda E. Medlyn, Craig V.M. Barton, et al. “Green-up and Brown-down: Modelling Grassland Foliage Phenology Responses to Soil Moisture Availability.” Agricultural and Forest Meteorology 328 (January 2023): 109252. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.agrformet.2022.109252.

11.  Yang, Jinyan, Lina Teckentrup, Assaf Inbar, et al. “Predicting Sub‐continental Fuel Hazard under Future Climate and Rising Atmospheric CO 2 Concentration.” Journal of Applied Ecology, September 9, 2023, 1365-2664.14486. https://doi.org/10.1111/1365-2664.14486.

12.  Faber, Andreas H, Kevin L Griffin, Mark G Tjoelker, Majken Pagter, Jinyan Yang, and Dan Bruhn. “Consistent Diurnal Pattern of Leaf Respiration in the Light among Contrasting Species and Climates.” New Phytologist 236, no. 1 (2022): 71–85. https://doi.org/10.1111/nph.18330.

13.  Sabot, Manon E.B., Martin G. De Kauwe, Andy J Pitman, et al. “Predicting Resilience through the Lens of Competing Adjustments to Vegetation Function.” Plant, Cell & Environment 45, no. 9 (2022): 0–2. https://doi.org/10.1111/pce.14376.

14.  Mu, Mengyuan, Martin G. De Kauwe, Anna M. Ukkola, et al. “Evaluating a Land Surface Model at a Water-Limited Site: Implications for Land Surface Contributions to Droughts and Heatwaves.” Hydrology and Earth System Sciences 25, no. 1 (2021): 447–71. https://doi.org/10.5194/hess-25-447-2021.

15.  Jacob, Vinod, Haiyang Zhang, Amber C. Churchill, et al. “Warming Reduces Net Carbon Gain and Productivity in Medicago Sativa L. and Festuca Arundinacea.” Agronomy 10, no. 10 (2020): 1601. https://doi.org/10.3390/agronomy10101601.

16.  Jiang, Mingkai, Silvia Caldararu, Haiyang Zhang, et al. “Low Phosphorus Supply Constrains Plant Responses to Elevated CO 2 : A Meta‐analysis.” Global Change Biology 26, no. 10 (2020): 5856–73. https://doi.org/10.1111/gcb.15277.

17.  Jiang, Mingkai, Belinda E. Medlyn, John E. Drake, et al. “The Fate of Carbon in a Mature Forest under Carbon Dioxide Enrichment.” Nature 580, no. 7802 (2020): 227–31. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-020-2128-9.

18.  Yang, Jinyan, Belinda E. Medlyn, Martin G. De Kauwe, et al. “Low Sensitivity of Gross Primary Production to Elevated CO2 in a Mature Eucalypt Woodland.” Biogeosciences 17, no. 2 (2020): 265–79. https://doi.org/10.5194/bg-17-265-2020.

19.  Yang, J, R A Duursma, M G De Kauwe, et al. “Incorporating Non-Stomatal Limitation Improves the Performance of Leaf and Canopy Models at High Vapour Pressure Deficit.” Tree Physiology, October 14, 2019, tpz103. https://doi.org/10.1093/treephys/tpz103.

20.  Yang, J., B. E. Medlyn, M. G. De Kauwe, and R. A. Duursma. “Applying the Concept of Ecohydrological Equilibrium to Predict Steady State Leaf Area Index.” Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems 10, no. 8 (2018): 1740–58. https://doi.org/10.1029/2017MS001169.

21.  Yule, Jeffrey V., Robert J. Fournier, Christopher X. J. Jensen, and Jinyan Yang. “A Review and Synthesis of Late Pleistocene Extinction Modeling: Progress Delayed by Mismatches between Ecological Realism, Interpretation, and Methodological Transparency.” The Quarterly Review of Biology 89, no. 2 (2014): 91–106. https://doi.org/10.1086/676045.

Presentations    

1.     Host – “Reimagining Croplands: Modeling Carbon Storage and Biodiversity Benefits”, MODSIM 2025, AU, 2025.

2.     Host – “Native and modified vegetation”, MODSIM 2023, AU, 2023.

3.     Invited - “Green up and brown down: Modelling grassland foliage phenology responses to soil water availability”, ESA, August 2022, Canada.

4.     “Green up and brown down: Modelling grassland foliage phenology responses to soil water availability”, AGU, December 2020, USA.

5.     "Predicting grassland responses to variable rainfall in Australia" ESA, November, 2019.

6.     “Incorporating non-stomatal limitation improves the ability of models to capture VPD responses”, OAFlux meeting, August 2018, Darwin, AU.

7.     “Appling the ecohydrological equilibrium theory to predict steady-state leaf area index”, AGU, December 2017, New Orleans, USA.

8.     “The modelling stomatal response under high VPD”, OZFLUX meeting, November 2017, WSU.

9.     “The Interaction of LAI and GPP--simulation EucFACE in MAESTRA”, EucFACE Symposium, November 2015, WSU.