Name: MA Zeqing
Current Appointment: Professor
Education:
2009–2014 Ph.D. in Forest ecology, Institute of Geographic Sciences and Natural Resources Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences
2010–2011 Exchange PhD student, Department of Biogeochemical Processes, Max Planck Institute for Biogeochemistry, Germany
2004–2007 M.S. in Forest ecology, Institute of Geographic Sciences and Natural Resources Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences (with 1st Class Honors)
2000–2004 B.S. in Soil and water conservation, Beijing Forestry University (with 1st Class Honors)
Areas of Specialization:
Root and Mycorrhizal Ecology; Forest Ecosystem Ecology; Plant Physiology, Critical Zone
Society Appointments:
Since 2019 Director, Qianyanzhou Ecological Research Station, Chinese Academy of Sciences
Since 2018 Professor, Institute of Geographic Sciences and Natural Resources Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences
2017-2020 Visiting Scholar, University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) and Princeton University
2007–2017 Assistant professor, Institute of Geographic Sciences and Natural Resources Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences
Representative Publications:
Ma ZQ, Guo DL*, Xu XL, Lu MZ, Bardgett RD, Eissenstat DM, McCormack ML, Hedin LO*. 2018. Evolutionary history resolves global organization of root functional traits. Nature 555,94.
Lu MZ, Bond W, Sheffer E, Cramer M, West A, Allsopp N, February E, Chimphango S, Ma ZQ, Slingsby J, and Hedin L. 2022. Biome boundary maintained by intense belowground resource competition in world’s thinnest-rooted plant community. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 119:e2117514119.
Duan MC, Li L, Ding GG, and Ma ZQ*. 2022. Leading nutrient foraging strategies shaping by root system characteristics along the elevations in rubber (Hevea brasiliensis) plantations. Tree Physiology.
Xing KQ, Zhao MF, Niinemets ü, Niu SL, Tian J, Jiang Y, Chen HYH, White PJ, Guo DL, Ma ZQ*.2021. Relationships between leaf carbon and macronutrients across woody species and forest ecosystems highlight how carbon is allocated to leaf structural function.Frontiers in Plant Science. 12(1030).
McCormack ML*, Guo DL, Iversen CM, Chen WL, Eissenstat DM, Fernandez CW, Li L, Ma CE, Ma ZQ, Poorter H, Reich PB, Zadworny M, Zanne A. 2017. Building a better foundation: improving root-trait measurements to understand and model plant and ecosystem processes. New Phytologist 26(1):27-37.
Li L, Ma ZQ*, Niinemets U, Guo DL*. 2017. Three key sub-leaf modules and the diversity of leaf designs. Frontiers in Plant Science, 8.
Sun K, McCormack, ML, Li L, Ma ZQ, Guo D. 2016. Fast-cycling unit of root turnover in perennial herbaceous plants in a cold temperate ecosystem. Scientific Reports 6: doi:10.1038/srep19698
McCormack ML, E Lavely, Ma ZQ. 2014. Fine-root and mycorrhizal traits help explain ecosystem processes and responses to global change. New Phytologist 204: 455-458. 2014.
Major Research Projects:
1. 2020-2024. Adaptation mechanism of forest plantation ecosystem to global change. The National Key Research and Development Program of China. PI.
2. 2020-2023. Root hydraulic architecture and function among common subtropical trees in China. Program of National Natural Science Foundation of China. PI.
3. 2019-2021. Root biology. Outstanding Young Science Foundation of National Natural Science Foundation. PI.
4. 2019-2023. Complementarity through trait variation (P2). TreeDì-林地-Tree Diversity Interactions: The role of tree-tree interactions in local neighbourhoods in Chinese subtropical forests. Supported by Sino-German International Research Training Group. Co-PI.
Office Address:
Room 218, Building No. B, IGSNRR
An Wai, 11A Datun Road
Chaoyang District, Beijing 100101
People’s Republic of China
Telephone: 86-10-6488-9027
Fax: 86-10-6488-9027
Email: mazq@igsnrr.ac.cn
