Publications

2025

Zou, Yibao, Thomas W. Crowther, Gabriel Reuben Smith, Haozhi Ma, Lidong Mo, Lalasia Bialic-Murphy, Peter Potapov, Klementyna A. Gawecka, Chi Xu, Pablo J. Negret, Thomas Lauber, Zhaofei Wu, Dominic Rebindaine, and Constantin M. Zohner. 2025. “Fragmentation increased in over half of global forests from 2000 to 2020.” Science 389: 1151-1156.

Zhang, Lei, Lin Yang, Thomas W. Crowther, Constantin M. Zohner, Sebastian Doetterl, Gerard B. M. Heuvelink, Alexandre M. J. C. Wadoux, A. Xing Zhu, Yue Pu, Feixue Shen, Haozhi Ma, Yibiao Zou, and Chenghu Zhou. 2025. “Mapping Global Distributions, Environmental Controls, and Uncertainties of Apparent Top- and Subsoil Organic Carbon Turnover Times.” Earth System Science Data 17(6):2605-2623.

Chen, Yongzhe, Xiaoming Feng, Yuanyuan Huang, Shunlin Liang, Lijuan Wang, Haozhi Ma, Zhen Gao, Linhai Cheng, Phuping Sucharitakul, Junze Zhang, Jiangzhou Xia, Wenping Yuan, and Bojie Fu. 2025. “Optimal Spatiotemporal Thinning Schemes Combined with Wood Vaulting Could Maximize the Forest Biomass Carbon Sink in China.” Communications Earth & Environment 6(1):366.

2024

Mo, Lidong, Thomas W. Crowther, Daniel S. Maynard, Johan van den Hoogen, Haozhi Ma, Lalasia Bialic-Murphy, Jingjing Liang, Sergio De-Miguel, Gert-Jan Nabuurs, Peter B. Reich, Oliver L. Phillips …, and Constantin M. Zohner. 2024. “The Global Distribution and Drivers of Wood Density and Their Impact on Forest Carbon Stocks.” Nature Ecology & Evolution 2024 8(12): 2195-2212.

Zou, Yibiao, Constantin M. Zohner, Colin Averill, Haozhi Ma, Julian Merder, Miguel Berdugo, Lalasia Bialic-Murphy, Lidong Mo, Philipp Brun, Niklaus E. Zimmermann, Jingjing Liang, Sergio De-Miguel, Gert-Jan Nabuurs, Peter B. Reich, Ulo Niinements, Jonas Dahlgren, Gerald Kändler, Sophia Ratcliffe, Paloma Ruiz-Benito …, and Thomas W. Crowther. 2024. “Positive Feedbacks and Alternative Stable States in Forest Leaf Types.” Nature Communications 15(1):1–15.

Smith, Gabriel Reuben, Carolina Bello, Lalasia Bialic-Murphy, Emily Clark, Camille S. Delavaux, Camille Fournier de Lauriere, Johan van den Hoogen, Thomas Lauber, Haozhi Ma, Daniel S. Maynard, Matthew Mirman, Lidong Mo, Dominic Rebindaine, Josephine Elena Reek, Leland K. Werden, Zhaofei Wu, Gayoung Yang, Qingzhou Zhao, Constantin M. Zohner, and Thomas W. Crowther. 2024. “Ten Simple Rules for Using Large Language Models in Science, Version 1.0” PLOS Computational Biology 20(1):e1011767.

2023

Mo, Lidong, Constantin M. Zohner, Peter B. Reich, Jingjing Liang, Sergio de Miguel, Gert-Jan Nabuurs, Susanne S. Renner, Johan van den Hoogen, Arnan Araza, Martin Herold, Leila Mirzagholi, Haozhi Ma, Colin Averill, Oliver L. Phillips, Javier G. P. Gamarra, Iris Hordijk, Devin Routh, …and Thomas W. Crowther. 2023. “Integrated Global Assessment of the Natural Forest Carbon Potential.” Nature 1–10.

Ma, Haozhi, Thomas W. Crowther, Lidong Mo, Daniel S. Maynard, Susanne S. Renner, Johan van den Hoogen, Yibiao Zou, Jingjing Liang, Sergio De-Miguel, Gert-Jan Nabuurs, Peter B. Reich, Ülo Niinemets, … Constantin M. Zohner. 2023. “The Global Biogeography of Tree Leaf Form and Habit.” Nature Plants 9(11):1795–1809.

Chen, Yongzhe, Xiaoming Feng, Bojie Fu, Haozhi Ma, Constantin M. Zohner, Thomas W. Crowther, Yuanyuan Huang, Xutong Wu, and Fangli Wei. 2023. “Maps with 1 Km Resolution Reveal Increases in Above- and Belowground Forest Biomass Carbon Pools in China over the Past 20 Years.” Earth System Science Data 15(2):897–910.

2022

Maynard, Daniel S., Lalasia Bialic-Murphy, Constantin M. Zohner, Colin Averill, Johan van den Hoogen, Haozhi Ma, Lidong Mo, Gabriel Reuben Smith, Alicia T. R. Acosta, Isabelle Aubin, Erika Berenguer, Coline C. F. Boonman, Jane A. Catford, Bruno E. L. Cerabolini, Arildo S. Dias, Andrés González-Melo, Peter Hietz, Christopher H. Lusk, Akira S. Mori, Ülo Niinemets, Valério D. Pillar, Bruno X. Pinho, Julieta A. Rosell, Frank M. Schurr, Serge N. Sheremetev, Ana Carolina da Silva, Ênio Sosinski, Peter M. van Bodegom, Evan Weiher, Gerhard Bönisch, Jens Kattge, and Thomas W. Crowther. 2022. “Global Relationships in Tree Functional Traits.” Nature Communications 2022 13:1 13(1):1–12.

Chen, Bin J. W., Shuqing N. Teng, Guang Zheng, Lijuan Cui, Shao peng Li, Arie Staal, Jan U. H. Eitel, Thomas W. Crowther, Miguel Berdugo, Lidong Mo, Haozhi Ma, Lalasia Bialic-Murphy, Constantin M. Zohner, Daniel S. Maynard, Colin Averill, Jian Zhang, Qiang He, Jochem B. Evers, Niels P. R. Anten, Hezi Yizhaq, Ilan Stavi, Eli Argaman, Uri Basson, Zhiwei Xu, Ming Juan Zhang, Kechang Niu, Quan Xing Liu, and Chi Xu. 2022. “Inferring Plant–Plant Interactions Using Remote Sensing.” Journal of Ecology 110(10):2268–87.

2021

Ma, Haozhi, Lidong Mo, Thomas W. Crowther, Daniel S. Maynard, Johan van den Hoogen, Benjamin D. Stocker, César Terrer, and Constantin M. Zohner. 2021. “The Global Distribution and Environmental Drivers of Aboveground versus Belowground Plant Biomass.” Nature Ecology and Evolution 5(8):1110–22.

2019

Bastin, Jean-Francois, Emily Clark, Thomas Elliott, Simon Hart, Johan van den Hoogen, Iris Hordijk, Haozhi Ma, Sabiha Majumder, Gabriele Manoli, Julia Maschler, Lidong Mo, Devin Routh, Kailiang Yu, Constantin M. Zohner, and Thomas W. Crowther. 2019. “Understanding Climate Change from a Global Analysis of City Analogues.” Plos One 14(7):e0217592.

Qiu, Yanning, Shuqing N. Teng, Yong Zhang, Joana Santana, Jens Christian Svenning, Luís Reino, Sabastián Abades, Haozhi Ma, Luojun Yang, Yiqian Wu, Zheng Y. X. Huang, and Chi Xu. 2019. “The Resolution-Dependent Role of Landscape Attributes in Shaping Macro-Scale Biodiversity Patterns.” Global Ecology and Biogeography 28(6):767–78.