Wetland ecology; Wetland plant functional traits; Wetland ecosystem functioning; Ecological resotration; Ecological modelling

I have broad research interests in 1) plant adaptive strategies, trade-offs and game theory in wetland plants; 2) the cause of wetland biodiversity and distribution patterns; 3) how wetland plants contribute to ecosystem functioning. I apply trait-based approaches in combination with greenhouse experiment, field work and big-data/large scale ecological modelling.

I warmly welcome motivated Master students, PhD students and Postdocs to join my lab. Please feel free to contact me for potential opportunities and positions through email panyingji@iga.ac.cn. If you are looking for an BSc or MSc internship, please have a look at my research page and find a research direction that fits your interest. Before the formal application, a short statement of your background and research interest is encouraged.

2016.09 – 2020.09 PhD in Ecology, Supervised by Prof. Peter M. van Bodegom, Leiden University, the Netherlands        

2013.09 – 2016.07 MSc in Ecology, Supervised by Prof. Liangjun Da, East China Normal University, China

2009.09 – 2013.07 BSc  in Ecology, East China Normal University, China

2022.12 – present     Professor, Northeast Institute of Geography and Agroecology, Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), China

2021.10 – 2023.08    Guest Researcher, Institute of Environmental Sciences (CML), Leiden University, the Netherlands

2021.11 – 2022.11    Associate Professor, College of Life Sciences, Sichuan University, China

2020.09 – 2021.09   Postdoc, Institute of Environmental Sciences (CML), Leiden University, the Netherlands

1.        Pan, Y.*, García-Girón, J. & Iversen, L.L., 2023. Global change and plant-ecosystem functioning in freshwaters. Trends in Plant Science. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tplants.2022.12.013 (Cover paper)

2.        Huang, L., Jin, C., Pan, Y., Zhou, L., Hu, S., Guo, Y., Meng, Y., Song, K., Pang, M., Li, H., Lin, D., Xu, X., Minor, J., Coggins, C., Jim, C. Y., Yan, E., Yang, Y.*, Tang, Z.* & Lindenmayer, D. B.*, 2023. Human activities and species biological traits drive the long-term persistence of old trees in human-dominated landscapes. Nature Plants. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41477-023-01412-1 

3.        Pan, Y.*, Cieraad, E., Armstrong, J., Armstrong, W., Clarkson, B.R., Pedersen, O., Visser, E.J.W., Voesenek, L.A.C.J. & van Bodegom, P.M., 2022. Leading trait dimensions in flood-tolerant plants. Annals of Botany. http://doi.org/10.1093/aob/mcac031 

4.        Pan, Y.*, Cieraad, E., Armstrong, J., Armstrong, W., Clarkson, B.R., Colmer, T.D., Pedersen, O., Visser, E.J.W., Voesenek, L.A.C.J. & van Bodegom, P.M., 2020. Global patterns of the leaf economics spectrum in wetlands. Nature Communications. http://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-020-18354-3

5.        Pan, Y., 2020. General plant strategies and functions in wetlands: Global trait-based analyses. PhD Thesis, Leiden University. ISBN: 978-90-5101-991-2 https://scholarlypublications.universiteitleiden.nl/handle/1887/136753

6.        Pan, Y.*, Cieraad, E., Clarkson, B.R., Colmer, T.D., Pedersen, O., Visser, E.J.W., Voesenek, L.A.C.J. & van Bodegom, P.M., 2020. Drivers of plant traits that allow survival in wetlands. Functional Ecology. http://doi.org/10.1111/1365-2435.13541

7.        Pan, Y.*, Cieraad, E. & van Bodegom, P.M., 2019. Are ecophysiological adaptive traits decoupled from leaf economics traits in wetlands? Functional Ecology. http://doi.org/10.1111/1365-2435.13329

8.        Iversen L.L., García-Girón J. & Pan, Y.*, 2021. Towards linking freshwater plants and ecosystems via functional biogeography. Aquatic Botany. http://doi.org/10.1016/j.aquabot.2021.103454

9.        Pan, Y., Zhang, X., Song, K. & Da, L., 2017. Applying trait-based method to investigate the relationship between macrophyte communities and environmental conditions in a eutrophic freshwater lake, China. Aquatic Botany. http://doi.org/10.1016/j.aquabot.2017.06.002

10.     Gao, Z., Pan, Y., Bodegom, P.M. Van, Cieraad, E., Xing, D., Yang, Y., Xia, T., Luo, X., Song, K., Da, L. & Malkinson, D., 2023. Landscape and Urban Planning Beta diversity of urban spontaneous plants and its drivers in 9 major cities of Yunnan province, China. Landscape and Urban Planning. https://doi:10.1016/j.landurbplan.2023.104741

11.     Xia, X., Pan, Y., Chang, M., Wu, D., Zhang, X., Xia, J., & Song, K, 2022. Consistent temperature-dependent patterns of leaf lifespan across spatial and temporal gradients for deciduous trees in Europe. Science of The Total Environment. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2022.153175

12.     Gao, Z., Song, K., Pan, Y., Malkinson, D., Zhang, X., Jia, B., Xia, T., Guo, X., Liang, H., Huang, S., Da, L., van Bodegom, P.M. & Cieraad, E., 2021. Drivers of spontaneous plant richness patterns in urban green space within a biodiversity hotspot. Urban Forestry & Urban Greening. http://doi.org/10.1016/j.ufug.2021.127098

13.     Long, Y., Yang, X., Cao, Y., Lv, G., Li, Y., Pan, Y., Yan, K. & Liu, Y., 2021. Relationship between soil fungi and seedling density in the vicinity of adult conspecifics in an arid desert forest. Forests. http://doi.org/10.3390/f12010092

14.     Zhang, X., Song, K., Pan, Y., Gao, Z., Pu, F., Lu, J., Shang, K., Da, L. & Cieraad, E., 2020. Responses of leaf traits to low temperature in an evergreen oak at its upper limit. Ecological Research. http://doi.org/10.1111/1440-1703.12157

15.     Cui, Y., Song, K., Guo, X., van Bodegom, P.M., Pan, Y., Tian, Z., Chen, X., Wang, J. & Da, L., 2019. Phylogenetic and functional structures of plant communities along a spatiotemporal urbanization gradient: effects of colonization and extinction. Journal of Vegetation Science. http://doi.org/10.1111/jvs.12724

16.     Song, K., Cui, Y., Zhang, X., Pan, Y., Xu, J., Xu, K. & Da, L., 2017. Enhanced effects of biotic interactions on predicting multispecies spatial distribution of submerged macrophytes after eutrophication. Ecology and Evolution. http://doi.org/10.1111/jvs.12724

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