- Books
1. Editor in Chief: Gang Liu (2025). Alien Invasive Plants in Agriculture of Shaanxi Province, China. Shaanxi Science and Technology Press, Xi’An
2. Editor in Chief: Gang Liu (2022). Alien Plants in Shaanxi Province, China. Shaanxi Science and Technology Press, Xi’An
3. Editors: Peng, Shaolin; Pun,Wingwah; Zhou, Ting; Zhu, Lirong; Wu, Keke; Ung, Siowai; Lin, Zhenguang; Lam, Waikin; Hong, Pouieng; Kou, Ipcheong; Xu, Heng; Cheong, Kuaitat; Chen, Yufen; Chen, Xiaoya; Chen, Baoming; Kuok, Feilek; Liu, Gang; Liu, Jingang; Liu, Shuchao; Kan, Honpio; Tam, Kuokkuong (2014). VEGETATION OF MACAU (Volume I)
- Published papers
1. Wang, Jia; Chen, Yu; Zhang, Chunling; Song, Xingjiang; Sun, Yingying; Zou, Jiabin; Liu, Gang*. Invasive alien plants with broader niches possess higher invasive potential in China as a result of niche conservatism and effective niche filling, Diversity and Distributions, 2025, 31: e70119
2. Sun, Yingying; Chen, Yu; Zhang, Chun-Ling; Wang, Jia; Song, Xing-Jiang; Song, Yu-Hang; He, Hao-Sen; Liang, Xiao-Qing; Liu, Gang*. Analysis of the current status and future invasion trends of alien invasions on the Qinghai-Tibetan Plateau in the context of climate warming, Ecological Indicators, 2025, 181: 114354 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ecolind.2025.114354
3. 王佳, 李柔柔, 宋兴江, 杨毅哲, 陈丽丽, 陈瑜, 李欣迪, 张献瑞, 张春玲, 刘刚*. 基于气候因子的鬼针草入侵中国过程中的生态位保守性与入侵风险研究, 生态学报, 2025: 45(21), DOI: 10.20103/j.stxb.202401110105
4. Chen, Yu; Song, Xingjiang; Liu, Gang*; Wang, Jia; Zhang, Chunling; Chang, Xiaojian; Zou, Jiabin; Zhu, Zhihong. Unraveling the invasion patterns of Galinsoga quadriradiata in mountain ranges: Insights from human activities, phenotypic and genetic variations. Plant Diversity, 2025, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.pld.2025.05.012
5. Song, Xingjiang; Liu, Gang*; Li, Xindi; Chen, Yu; Wang, Jia; Zhang, Chunling; Ye, Xinping; Zhu, Zhihong. Phylogenetically close alien Asteraceae species with minimal niche overlap are more likely to invade, Plant Diversity, 2025, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.pld.2025.02.005
6. Song, Xingjiang; Li, Xindi; Chen, Yu; Wang, Jia; Zou, Jiabin*; Zhu, Zhihong; Liu, Gang*. Differences in plant responses to nitrogen addition between the central and edge populations of invasive Galinsoga quadriradiata in China, Journal of Plant Research, 2025, 138: 243-251
7. 李欣迪, 刘刚*, 杨毅哲, 陈丽丽, 王伟峰, 刘广振, 宋兴江, 陈瑜, 王佳, 张献瑞, 史岩, 安玉霞, 杜星瑶, 吴明泽. 外来生物入侵防控体系建设研究，生物安全学报，2024, 33(4): 318-326
8. Li, Xindi; Chen, Yu; Zhang, Chunling; Wang, Jia; Song, Xingjiang; Zhang, Xianrui; Zhu, Zhihong; Liu, Gang*. Assessing the climatic niche changes and global invasion risk of Solanum elaeagnifolium in relation to human activities, Science of The Total Environment, 2024, 954: 176723
9. 张春玲, 杨毅哲, 陈丽丽, 陈瑜, 王佳, 李欣迪, 张献瑞, 史岩, 谢军, 武艺凡, 刘刚*. 外来植物节节麦入侵过程中的生态位进化与入侵潜力研究, 中国农学通报, 2024, 40(29): 120-130
10. 张献瑞, 李欣迪, 陈瑜, 张春玲, 王佳, 宋兴江, 宋宇航, 刘刚*. 加拿大一枝黄花入侵中国过程中的气候生态位变化, 应用生态学报, 2024, 35(10): 2707-2714
11. Zhang, Wengang; Song, Xingjiang; Petri, Laís; Liu, Gang*; Chen, Xiaoyan; Liu, Ruiling; Huang, Fangfang; Zou, Jiabin; Zhu, Zhihong. Elevated nitrogen and co-evolution history with competitors shape the invasion process of Galinsoga quadriradiata, Journal of Plant Ecology, 2024,17(4): rtae047
12. Yu Chen, Yi-Zhe Yang, Li-Li Chen, Xing-Jiang Song, Xin-Di Li, Xian-Rui Zhang, Yan Shi, Jia Wang, Ya-Qi Song, Gang Liu*, Analysis of the invasion risk for Lolium multiflorum Lam. based on niche model, Journal of Shaanxi Normal University (Natural Science Edition), 2024, 52(1): 69-77
13. Xing-Jiang Song, Tao Wang, Fang-Xiang Li, Xiao-Jian Chang, Xin-Di Li, Yan Shi, Jia Wang, Gang Liu*, The damage of invasive alien plants Avena fatua and Aegilops tauschii on wheat production in Xi'an, Chinese Agricultural Science Bulletin, 39(36): 112-118
14. Gang Liu*, Ruiling Liu, Benjamin R. Lee, Xingjiang Song, Wengang Zhang, Zhihong Zhu, and Yan Shi. The invasion of Galinsoga quadriradiata into high elevations is shaped by variation in AMF communities, Plants, 2023, 12(18): 3190. https://doi.org/10.3390/plants12183190
15. Xing-Jiang Song, Gang Liu*, Zeng-Qiang Qian, Zhi-Hong Zhu. Niche filling dynamics of Ragweed (Ambrosia artemisiifolia L.) during global invasion, Plants 2023, 12, 1313. https://doi.org/10.3390/plants12061313
16. Xing-Jiang Song, Xiao-Yan Chen, She-Chao Zhang, Na-Xun Zhao, Xian-Min Li, Wen-Gang Zhang, Xin-Ping Ye, Gang Liu*, A study on the invasivestatus of alien plants in the Giant Panda National Park: a case study of Changqing and Taibai Mountain National Nature Reserves in Shaanxi Province. Journal of Shaanxi Normal University (Natural Science Edition), 2023, 51(3): 96-108. DOI: 10.15983/j.cnki.jsnu.2023208
17. Rui-Ling Liu, Wen-Gang Zhang, Benjamin Lee, Gang Liu*, Xing-Jiang Song, Xiao-Yan Chen, Jia-Bin Zou, Fang-Fang Huang, Zhi-Hong Zhu. Rhizosphere and root fungal community of the invasive plant Galinsoga quadriradiata changes along its elevational expansion route, Journal of Plant Ecology, 2022, 16(1): rtac055, https://doi.org/10.1093/jpe/rtac055
18. Ting Wang, Chenglong Guo, Silin Sang, Yiting Liu, Gang Liu, Desheng Qi, Zhihong Zhu*. The temporal stability and maintenance mechanisms of alpine meadow communities under clipping and fertilization, Ecology and Evolution, 2021, DOI: 10.1002/ece3.8128
19. Wengang Zhang, Xiaoyan Chen, Gang Liu*, Ruiling Liu, Xingjiang Song, Zengqiang Qian, Zhihong Zhu, Langjun Cui. Realized niche shift associated with Galinsoga quadriradiata (Asteraceae) invasion in China, Journal of Plant Ecology, 2021, rtab086, https://doi.org/10.1093/jpe/rtab086
20. Xiao-Yan, Wen-Gang Zhang, Rui-Ling Liu, Gang Liu*, Effects of elevational gradients on reproductivity and seed dispersal ability of Galinsoga quadriradiata in mountain ranges. Ecological Science, 2022, 41(3): 44–53
21. Xing-Jiang Song, Wen-Gang Zhang, Xiao-Yan, Rui-Ling Liu, Xin Yao, Jing-Hao Ma, Jia-Ning Wang, Yan Shi, Jun-Jie Ran, Yu-Xia An, Gang Liu*, The composition and distribution status of alien plant species in Shaanxi Province, China., Chinese Journal of Ecology, 2021, 40(12): 3800-3809
22. Inés Ibáñez, Gang Liu, Laís Petri, Sam Schaffer-Morrison, Sheila Schueller. Assessing vulnerability and resistance to plant invasions: a native community perspective, Invasive Plant Science and Management, 2021, 14(2): 64-74 doi: 10.1017/inp.2021.15
23. Rui-Ling Liu, Ying-Bo Yang, Benjamin Lee, Gang Liu*, Wen-Gang Zhang, Xiao-Yan Chen, Xing-Jiang Song, Ju-Qing Kang, Zhi-Hong Zhu. The dispersal-related traits of an invasive plant Galinsoga quadriradiata correlate with elevation during range expansion into mountain ranges, AoB Plants, 2021,13(3): plab008
24. Gang Liu*, Rui-Ling Liu, Wen-Gang Zhang, Ying-Bo Yang, Xiao-Qiong Bi, Ming-Zhu Li, Xiao-Yan Chen, Hua Nie, Zhi-Hong Zhu. Arbuscular mycorrhizal colonization rate of an exotic plant, Galinsoga quadriradiata, in mountain ranges changes with altitude, Mycorrhiza, 2021, 31, 161–171. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00572-020-01009-y
25. Xiong Shi, Gang Liu, Yu-Long Zheng, Comparisons of irradiance utilization efficiency by invasive Chromolaena odorata and its three co-occurring species in one planted understory, Flora, 2020, 271: 151680
26. Wu, Yi; Wei, Wei; Liu, Li; Liu, Gang; Guo, Qi-Qiang; Qian, Zeng-Qiang. The complete chloroplast genomes of the evergreen tree species Cinnamomum camphora and Cinnamomum parthenoxylon (Laurales: Lauraceae), Mitochondrial DNA Part B, 2019, 4(1): 813-814.
27. Zhang, Lulu; Zhu, Zhihong*; Li, Yingnian; Qian, Zengqiang; Liu, Gang; Wang, Xiaoan. Overall grazing tolerance index (Overall GTI) is not an ideal predictor for describing a single-species tolerance to grazing. ECOLOGY AND EVOLUTION, 2019, 9(7): 4087-4102
28. Bi, Xiao-Qiong; Hieno, Ayaka; Otsubo, Kayoko; Kageyama, Koji; Liu, Gang; Li, Ming-Zhu. A multiplex PCR assay for three pathogenic Phytophthora species related to kiwifruit diseases in China. JOURNAL OF GENERAL PLANT PATHOLOGY, 2019, 85(1): 12-22
29. Bi, Xiao-Qiong; Zhao, Si; Wang, Lin; Liu, Gang; Li, Ming-Zhu*. The potential suitable area of Galinsoga parviflora in China in response to climate change. JOURNAL OF SHAANXI NORMAL UNIVERSITY (Natural Science Edition), 2019, 47(2):56-64
30. Yang, Ying-Bo; Liu, Gang*; Shi, Xiong; Zhang, Wen-Gang; Cai, Xin-Wen; Ren, Zhuo-Lu; Yao, Na-Na; Zhu, Zhi-Hong*; Nie, Hua. Where will invasive plants colonize in response to climate change: predicting the invasion of Galinsoga quadriradiata in China. INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH, 2018, 12(6): 929-938
31. Liu, Gang; Yang, Yingbo; Zhu, Zhihong*. Elevated nitrogen allows the weak invasive plant Galinsoga quadriradiatato become more vigorous with respect to inter-specific competition. SCIENTIFIC REPORTS, 2018, 8: 3136
32. Gong, Yanyan; Jia, Xiaoxia; Zhu, Qianqian; Yang, Yingbo; Liu, Gang*. The potential distribution of Ipomoea cairica in China in the context of climate change. JOURNAL OF NORTHWEST A&F UNIVERSITY, 2018, 46(6): 1-9 (Chinese Journal)
33. Wang, Xinyue; Zhou, Zhongshu; Liu, Gang; Qian, Zengqiang. Characterization of the complete chloroplast genome of the invasive weed Galinsoga quadriradiata (Asterales: Asteraceae). CONSERVATION GENETIC RESOURCE, 2018, 10(1): 89-92
34. Alexander, Jake; Lembrechts, Jonas; Cavieres, Lohengrin; Daehler, Curtis; Haider, Sylvia; Kueffer, Christoph; Liu, Gang; McDougall, Keith; Milbau, Ann; Pauchard, Aníbal; Rew, Lisa; Seipel, Tim. Plant invasions into mountains and alpine ecosystems: current status and future challenges, ALPINE BOTANY, 2016, 126(2): 89-103.
35. growth dynamic of Galinsoga quadriradiata Ruiz & Pav. on Qinling-Bashan Mountain. ACTA ECOLOGICA SINICA, 2016, 36(11): 3350-3361 (Chinese Journal)
36. Liu, Gang; Gao, Yang; Huang, Fangfang; Yuan, Mingyue; Peng, Shaolin*. The invasion of coastal areas in south china by Ipomoea cairica may be accelerated by the ecotype being more locally adapted to salt stress, 2016, PLOS ONE, 11(2): e0149262.
37. Liu, Gang; Siemann, Evan; Gao, Yang; Peng, Shaolin*. Nutrient addition amplifies salinity-dependent differences in competitive ability of invasive and native vines, BIOLOGICAL INVASIONS, 2015, 17(12): 3479-3490.
38. Huang, Fangfang; Peng, Shaolin*; Chen, Baoming; Liao, Huixuan; Huang, Qiaoqiao; Lin, Zhenguang; Liu, Gang. Rapid evolution of dispersal-related traits during range expansion of Mikania micrantha H.B.K., 2015, OIKOS, 124(8): 1023-1030.
39. Zhou, Ting; Liu, Shuchao; Feng, Zhili; Liu, Gang; Gan, Qian; Peng, Shaolin*. Use of exotic plants to control Spartina alterniflora invasion and promote mangrove restoration, SCIENTIFIC REPORTS, 2015, 5: 12980.
40. Chang, Xiaoyu; Chen, Baoming*; Liu, Gang; Zhou, Ting; Jia, Xiaorong; Peng, Shaolin*. Effects of climate change on plant population growth rate and community composition change, PLOS ONE, 2015, 10(6): e0126228.
41. Zhou, Ting; Chen, Baoming; Liu, Gang; Huang, Fangfang; Liu, Jingang; Liao, Wenbo; Wang, Yingyong; Ren, Sijie; Chen, Chunquan; Peng, Shaolin*. Biodiversity of Jinggangshan Mountain: the importance of topography and geographical location in supporting higher biodiversity, PLOS ONE, 2015, 10(3): e0120208.
42. Liu, Gang; Huang, Qiao-Qiao; Lin, Zhen-Guang; Huang, Fang-Fang; Liao, Hui-Xuan; Peng, Shao-Lin*. High Tolerance to Salinity and Herbivory Stresses May Explain the Expansion of Ipomoea cairica to Salt Marshes, PLOS ONE, 2012, 7 (11): e48829.
43. Zhu, Jianyun; Mo, Luojian; Ye, Yongchang; Su, Zhiyao*; Lv, Haorong; Liu, Gang; Liu, Songsong. Study on carbon storage of the forest ecosystem in Dongguan. GUANGDONG FORESTRY SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY, 2011, 27 (2): 22-29 (Chinese Journal)
44. Liu, Gang; Ou, Yuduan; Li, Zhenkui; Li, Mengzhao; Ma, Xudong; Su, Zhiyao*. Floristic and ecological analyses of the montane evergreen broadleaved forest in Chebaling National Nature Reserve impacted by a huge ice storm. JOURNAL OF SOUTH CHINA AGRICULTURAL UNIVERSITY, 2010, 31 (2): 82-87 (Chinese Journal)
45. Liu, Gang; Zhu, Jianyun; Ye, Yongchang; Liu, Songsong; Su, Zhiyao*. Organic carbon storage and its distribution in forest litters among forest communities in Dongguan, South China. JOURNAL OFMOUNTA IN SCIENCE, 2010, 128 (11): 69-75 (Chinese Journal)
46. Su, Zhi-Yao*;Liu, Gang; Ou, Yu-Duan; Dai, Zhao-Hui; Li, Zhen-Kui. Storm damage in a montane evergreen broadleaved forest of Chebaling National Nature Reserve, South China. CHINESE JOURNAL OF PLANT ECOLOGY, 2010, 34 (2): 213-222 (Chinese Journal)
47. Ma, Xudong; Zhang, Sujun; Su, Zhiyao*; Ou, Yuduan; Liu, Gang. Community structure in relation to microtopography in a montane evergreen broadleaved forest in Chebaling National Nature Reserve. ACTA ECOLOGICA SINICA, 2010, 30(19): 5151-5160 (Chinese Journal)
48. Ma, Xu-dong; Ou, Yu-duan; Liu, Gang; Li, Meng-zhao; Su, Zhi-yao*. Structure and distribution patterns of dominant populations in an evergreen broadleaved forest in North Guangdong Province. JOURNAL OF SOUTH CHINA AGRICULTURAL UNIVERSITY, 2010, 31 (2): 72-77 (Chinese Journal)
49. Ou, Yuduan; Su, Zhiyao*; Peng, Guixiang; Liu, Gang. Soil microbial functional diversity in a montane evergreen broadleaved forest of Chebaling following the huge ice storm in South China. ACTA ECOLOGICA SINICA, 2009, 29 (11): 6156-6164 (Chinese Journal)