1. Qu LR,Wang C*,Manzoni S,Dacal M,Maestre FT,Bai E. Stronger compensatory thermal adaptation of soil microbial respiration with higher substrate availability. The ISME Journal. 2024,18 (1),wrae025.
2. Qu LR,Wang C*,Bai E*. Evaluation of the 18O-H2O incubation method for measurement of soil microbial carbon use efficiency. Soil Biology and Biochemistry. 2020,145: 107802.
3. Wang C#,Qu LR#,Yang LM,Liu DW,Morrissey E,Miao RH,Liu ZP,Wang QK,Fang YT,Bai E*. Large-scale importance of microbial carbon use efficiency and necromass to soil organic carbon. Global Change Biology. 2021,27 (10):2039-2048.
4. Sun LF#,Qu LR#, Moorhead DL,Cui YX,Wanek W,Li SL,Sang CP,Wang C*. Interpreting the differences in microbial carbon and nitrogen use efficiencies estimated by 18O labeling and ecoenzyme stoichiometry. Geoderma. 2024,444: 116856.
5. Wang J,Qu LR,Osterholz H,Qi YL,Zeng XF,Bai E,Wang C*. Effects of DOM chemodiversity on microbial diversity in forest soils on a continental scale. Global Change Biology. 2025,31: e70131.
6. Yu J#,Yang JY#,Qu LR,Huang XY,Liu Y,Jiang P,Wang C*. Soil microbial carbon use efficiency differs between mycorrhizal trees: insights from substrate stoichiometry and microbial networks. ISME Communications. 2025,5 (1):ycae173.
7. Li J,Sang CP,Yang JY,Qu LR,Xia ZW,Sun H,Jiang P,Wang XG,He HB,Wang C*. Stoichiometric imbalance and microbial community regulate microbial elements use efficiencies under nitrogen addition. Soil Biology and Biochemistry. 2021,156: 108207.
8. Sun LF,Li J,Qu LR,Wang X,Sang CP,Wang J,Sun MZ,Wanek W,Moorhead DL,Bai E,Wang C*. Phosphorus limitation reduces microbial nitrogen use efficiency by increasing extracellular enzyme investments. Geoderma. 2023,432: 116416.
9. Wang C*,Wang X,Zhang Y,Morrissey E,Liu Y,Sun LF,Qu LR,Sang CP,Zhang H,Li GC*,Zhang LL,Fang YT. Integrating microbial community properties,biomass and necromass to predict cropland soil organic carbon. ISME Communications. 2023,3 (1):86.